What are your favorite knives currently?

[DOC-CANADA]

Cinci BK-4, BRKT Bravo-1, Izula II & Spyderco Manix.

 

[DerekH]

Cinci BK-4, BRKT Bravo-1, Izula II & Spyderco Manix.

He lives! What are you doing these days Doc? Got any sweet pics for us? Maybe an entry for the latest contest? Or maybe just some of that wisdom in the form of a nice thread showing us some awesomeness? (Hint, hint)

 

[V84mystang]

My EDC is a BK14. I can't decide if the 14 or 16 is my favorite though. I LOVE the feel and balance of the BK16.

Next up for me would be my newfound love of Moras. Just got my third Companion 3 days ago in sandvik sainless.

I see many people liking thier BK5s and BK15s. I've yet to make the move for one of those as I never found the trailing point as aesthetically pleasing, but maybe I'm missing out.

 

[1066vik]

at this point, it's probably a tossup between the 16 & 24
but a new contender arrived yesterday: the ESEE 6HM -- this could be a game changer.

 

[trailbum]

at this point, it's probably a tossup between the 16 & 24
but a new contender arrived yesterday: the ESEE 6HM -- this could be a game changer.

That is a nice one.

 

[Tanker 1/66]

In order Bk4, Esee LS, Bk16

 

[Pàdruig]

Those of you who aren't posting pictures, for shame..... Should be a Golden Rule around here.

I like to think that all my knives are my favorite knives. I like them all! And I have a hell of a time wanting to sell them, and I do so very rarely.

But if I must pick a few favorites for the sake of this discussion, I will have to select the few that 1.) I don't currently leave the house with and 2.) I currently do not venture to the woods without.

I will start with the knives that I have on my person all the time. I am a bit of "Traditionals" enthusiast, so I am usually carrying a few slip joints like the ones pictured below.

There really aren't many cutting tasks at an office job that an old timey folder can't perform adequately but I do have one or both of these guys in a different pocket or on my belt. The SURVIVE! 4.7 I just recently got from @91bravo and I have liked it so much that it has been on my belt every day since I got it.

Now for the woods... The last several times I've been out, beating the bush, I have been favoring the 9, 12, and 14. There isn't really anything that can't get done with those knives, they all perform admirably!

 

[LukeTheSpook]

The first "real" knife I bought was a Becker bk2. Since then I've ran the gamut of what's what. Customs, high end productions, thick, thin, whatever you can think of.

I've purchased hundreds of knives since the BK2 and it doesn't matter. The BK2 is magic.

You can have all the super steels you want, all the new hyped up designs. I've tried them all and while I like some, there's only one BK2. Micarta scales and worn, ugly coating. Love it.

 

[BRL]

BK29 for big tasks.

Wohlwend Bushcrafter and Microbushcrafter for belt knife tasks.

Opinel No6, Great Eastern Cutlery Conductor and STREKs (spear and sheepsfoot), and KA-BAR phat bobs (AUS 8 and D2 versions) for office EDC.

Opinel No8 for my office lunch knife.

Becker kitchen knives for home food prep.

Leatherman Wave for well pretty much everything.

 

[1066vik]

D2 phat bob would be glorious.

 

[BRL]

D2 phat bob would be glorious.

There's a dude that had KA-BAR make some for him. Maybe 1000? It was an SFO. I have one with my Beckerhead number. It's soooo nice. Satin finish on the black micarta scales as well as brass spacers.

Really the only drawback is I'm terrible at sharpening... if this had a good edge, it'd be my one and only.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Winter's comin' and one of my favorite knives for makin' smaller piece of wood outta bigger pieces aka Makin' kindlin' is the BK2 with the native homemade black walnut scales I made from a downed tree in my yard.

There's the tree.

There's the knife with the scales.

 

[1066vik]

There's a dude that had KA-BAR make some for him. Maybe 1000? It was an SFO. I have one with my Beckerhead number. It's soooo nice. Satin finish on the black micarta scales as well as brass spacers.

Really the only drawback is I'm terrible at sharpening... if this had a good edge, it'd be my one and only.

get a guided system - even a lansky -- with diamond stones.
the secret to a good edge is consistency and a strop.

Or - trade it to me and I'll keep it sharp

 

[The Zieg]

Of course I love my BK-15, and I've been tinkering with some seriously deep stippling on the handles (ruined one brown scale, replaced it with black, unstippled and backed with a piece of leather), but as I just got my hands on a limited edition Roselli leuku . . .

Well, you can tell this is going to be getting some belt time around the farm.

Zieg

 

[upnorth]

No picture yet, but out of the lot of them, my favorites are the BK9, Cold Steel Kobun, and Victorinox Fieldmaster.

Nice to see some Kobun love.........Current favorites, jeez, hmmmm. To be honest I have been really into the C.S. Special Forces shovel since last fall. I do a lot of metal detecting and I have one with me virtually all the time. I ended up buying three and keeping one permanently for the car. As for a blade, I have a pile that I rotate through and it's whatever tickles my toenails that day. Same thing for fixed blades, I still have a few buys from last year that I haven't even used yet. I've actually given away a few axes and knives recently.

 

[Charlie_K]

Nice to see some Kobun love

I love it so much I have several, some still new in the box.

.........Current favorites, jeez, hmmmm. To be honest I have been really into the C.S. Special Forces shovel since last fall. I do a lot of metal detecting and I have one with me virtually all the time. I ended up buying three and keeping one permanently for the car. As for a blade, I have a pile that I rotate through and it's whatever tickles my toenails that day. Same thing for fixed blades, I still have a few buys from last year that I haven't even used yet. I've actually given away a few axes and knives recently.

I've got a couple of those too. Once of which I stripped the finish on and gave an OD green paint job to make it look like Russian military surplus.

 

[upnorth]

I love it so much I have several, some still new in the box.



I've got a couple of those too. Once of which I stripped the finish on and gave an OD green paint job to make it look like Russian military surplus.

I sanded the handle down on one and gave it about 3-4 long deep soaks with B.L.O. The others I left factory. All three have para snaked around the handles and black sports tape over it. Small, light, tough, I have used it as a machete in dense brush. And when I stumble onto a homeless camp in the city urban brush I feel like I have serious back up. I wish harm on no one. But I am DEFINITELY going home at the end of the day. I once had 3-4 dogs snapping/barking/ moving in and out of a loose circle around me at the edge of town. If one nailed me I would have parted its hair in a heart beat. The hole that took them for a walk called them off. We had a few words exchanged over the event.

 

[rmitch65]

Favorite; hmm. Guess I'll make it a toss-up between my 12 and my 39. Have to work on some better pics, but here's the '9 for starters.

Can't really tell, but it helped dispose of a good sized piece of a birch tree that got in a fight with an ice storm and lost. The knife though? Barely scuffed the clear coat. i feel like a Jedi when I hold that one. Bet a few of you know what I mean!

 

[DerekH]

"...whatever tickles my toenails..."

I have never heard that particular phrase before. Nicely done.

 

[V84mystang]

Winter's comin' and one of my favorite knives for makin' smaller piece of wood outta bigger pieces aka Makin' kindlin' is the BK2 with the native homemade black walnut scales I made from a downed tree in my yard.

There's the tree.

There's the knife with the scales.

Felled it with one swing from the 2 I see.