What are your Top 5 Knife Brands?

I wonder how much the choices equel the avaliable money to buy knifes. Choices are limited to how much abuse your wallet can handle.
 
I primarily use outdoor knives. So don't expect some fancy folding or Rambo knives.. or something like that. :)

Those knives literally put food on the table.

Custom/handmade knives
Dulo Knives
Skookum Bush Tool Company
Heiko Haess, German-born Swedish knife maker and wilderness guide
Mark Hill Knives
Ilkka Seikku, Finnish blacksmith and wilderness guide

Most knife makers/designers I've dealt with don't know how to design/build a high performance wilderness-survival/bushcraft knife for professional use properly because they don't possess adequate knowledge about wilderness living skills. My Top 5 guys certainly do, they have the science & art of knife making down (which is also not that common) and they're a pleasure to deal with.

Honorable mention
Carter Cutlery
Rob Evans, a knife maker from the UK.

Production knives
Fallkniven, great knives as well as customer support
Victorinox, sensible priced, Swiss made, quality folding knives, great customer support
MyParang, authentic hand made Malaysian made goloks and parangs
Lionsteel, don't like all of their knives but I do like their craftsmanship and engineering
Fiddleback Forge, I do like some of their production knives, they're a little bit on the expensive side though

Since Mora took a huge dump on its own legacy by climbing in bed with stolen valor & phony survivalist David Canterbury, I'm pretty much done with them.
 
Wealthy knife guys can't count!

RamZar said:
So many and in no particular order: LionSteel, ZT, WH, CRK, Hinderer (I waver), Stride (I waver), CKF, Spyderco (mostly Golden, Taichung, Maniago), Benchmade (I waver), Fantoni, Viper, Fox, ER, Hogue, Guardian Tactical, Kizer, Reate, Todd Begg (mostly Steelcraft), MicroTech, ProTech, Olamic, Opinel, Victorinox, Shirogorov, Spartan.
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Further evidence:

Mo2 said:
top quality - no particular order

Reate
Rike
We Knives
ZT
Spyderco
microtech
hoback
hinderer
strider (cant forget this guy lied to make it into the buisness, but quality knives)
Chris Reeves

good knives but quality concerns ... yes, even benchmade has massive quality issues.
Kizer
benchmade

brands i stay far away from after experiencing junk knives.
boker
crkt
cold steel
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and finally....

Hevy Devy said:
I primarily use outdoor knives. So don't expect some fancy folding or Rambo knives.. or something like that. :)

Those knives literally put food on the table.

Custom/handmade knives
Dulo Knives
Skookum Bush Tool Company
Heiko Haess, German-born Swedish knife maker and wilderness guide
Mark Hill Knives
Ilkka Seikku, Finnish blacksmith and wilderness guide

Most knife makers/designers I've dealt with don't know how to design/build a high performance wilderness-survival/bushcraft knife for professional use properly because they don't possess adequate knowledge about wilderness living skills. My Top 5 guys certainly do, they have the science & art of knife making down (which is also not that common) and they're a pleasure to deal with.

Honorable mention
Carter Cutlery
Rob Evans, a knife maker from the UK.

Production knives
Fallkniven, great knives as well as customer support
Victorinox, sensible priced, Swiss made, quality folding knives, great customer support
MyParang, authentic hand made Malaysian made goloks and parangs
Lionsteel, don't like all of their knives but I do like their craftsmanship and engineering
Fiddleback Forge, I do like some of their production knives, they're a little bit on the expensive side though

Since Mora took a huge dump on its own legacy by climbing in bed with stolen valor & phony survivalist David Canterbury, I'm pretty much done with them.
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I rest my case.

Has the jury reached a verdict? :)

Hint: Top FIVE
 
My top 5 (multiple folders for each):
Hinderer
ZT
Spyderco
Benchmade
Cold Steel

Have had only one knife for each of CRK, Reate, and Kizer. They are all great but my sample size is too small to rank them.
 
Busse
Spyderco
ZT
Dozier
Emerson

The brands that I continue to buy over and over again. Spyderco and Busse really dominate my collection.
 
Total 12 with the two "Honorable Mentions". But I was just joking. That's what the :) was supposed to indicate. :D

Hevy Devy said:
Count again....

Top 5 Custom/handmade knife manufacturers
Top 5 Production knife manufacturers
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In no particular order: Helle, Arno Bernard, Moki, Case, Boker (trad. lockbacks).
 
Just getting started but so far for me:
1. ) Zero Tolerance
2. ) Chris Reeve
3. ) Spyderco
4. ) Fallkniven
5. ) ESEE
 
The question that I have floating in my brain is this, "How many people own what they have listed as their top five?"

If it is a top five wish list, then my list would be quite a bit different. Benchmade would still be in the running though. I like their Axis Lock.

However, they are on my sh## list right now because the Ritter Griptilian is being discontinued. That was on my birthday list for next year. So was the Mini-Stryker. I also had my eye on the HK 14715 and/or 14716. Maybe the heavens are telling me that I have enough knives.:D

Anyhow, back to the top five list....
 
sabre cat said:
The question that I have floating in my brain is this, "How many people own what they have listed as their top five?"

If it is a top five wish list, then my list would be quite a bit different. Benchmade would still be in the running though. I like their Axis Lock.

However, they are on my sh## list right now because the Ritter Griptilian is being discontinued. That was on my birthday list for next year. So was the Mini-Stryker. I also had my eye on the HK 14715 and/or 14716. Maybe the heavens are telling me that I have enough knives.:D

Anyhow, back to the top five list....
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I only have a benchmade and my Leatherman so I can't even say a top 5. But hey they were all made within 10 miles or so from me.
 
Dddrees said:
All I can do is go with what I know and since I only have a few it would be in no particular order.

Andre Thorburn
Rockstead
William Henry
CRK
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If you only have a few it looks like you made a "few" nice picks!


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sabre cat said:
The question that I have floating in my brain is this, "How many people own what they have listed as their top five?"

If it is a top five wish list, then my list would be quite a bit different. Benchmade would still be in the running though. I like their Axis Lock.

However, they are on my sh## list right now because the Ritter Griptilian is being discontinued. That was on my birthday list for next year. So was the Mini-Stryker. I also had my eye on the HK 14715 and/or 14716. Maybe the heavens are telling me that I have enough knives.:D

Anyhow, back to the top five list....
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I own everything on my list.
 
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