What brand makes up the largest part of your traditional knife collection?

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The Fort

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Here’s how mine currently stacks up! The biggest slice of the pie would be Case. Second would be GEC. Third would be Buck. Fourth would be a tie between Queen and Schrade. Fifth would be Boker. And finally, bringing up the rear are a Bulldog, and an Eye Brand. How do yours compare? Pictures are welcomed. Here are my Case knives. They make up over 1/3 of my total collection. D31A8A47-EAF2-423E-BC48-654E38B7EBC8.jpeg6F982C37-581A-4294-8B88-A4639D4C456D.jpeg
 
Good stuff, Lance. I have more Case knives than any other brand, then Queen, then GEC. That's just what I know off the top of my head. I would have to take a full inventory to know which brand comes in fourth but I'm guessing it's A.G. Russell or Buck.
 
I have more Queen (and knives made by Queen) knives than any other brand.
2nd is Case
3rd is Buck
With a few from Camillus, Utica, Canal Street, GEC, Boker, US Schrade, Taylor Schrade, Buck Creek, and Rough Rider
 
Good question! Not sure as I'm not one for listing and cataloguing things, kind of thing I shie away from..;)

But guessing: GEC, CASE, Queen /Schatt, RR, SAK, Opinel, Böker. Then 'others' from around the world would take up significant % too, this includes customs.
 
Case, Buck, GEC, Queen, and a broad mixture of other brands.

Sample of a few Case knives
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Sample of a few GEC knives
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Probably Kutmaster/Utica. Old ones used to be plentiful at our local flea market, and I used to stop at the factory store every year until they closed the store. Camillus is what I used to buy new, and they might be my second biggest brand.
 
More than twice as many Rough Riders as Victorinox, and Case isn't far behind the SAKs. RRs make up more than 20% of my knives, but less than 25%.

If I lump RR, Colt, and Marbles together (and I think a good argument could be made for doing so), that would account for about 30% of my knives.

I probably wouldn't be welcome at the GEC Rendezvous, but I'm waiting for news about the Rough Rider Roundup! :rolleyes::D

- GT
 
All of mine are GEC's that I've bought new starting in early 2015 with the Northfield #78 American Jack.

At this point, I probably have 25 or so (with most all being Northfields).

I do try to keep it to 5 or 6 new knives (a year) so it stays a hobby.

I've always kept a pocket knife on my desk at work, and as of January 1st 2015 anything with a lock back and/or one handed opening suddenly became an assault weapon and could no longer be used, carried etc etc etc (or even left in your car for that matter).

That's how I discovered GEC pocket knives. :)
 
Rough Rider followed by Schrade (lumping all the various Schrade brands together), Buck, Case, Böker, Cold Steel (Eland and Kudu) and some singles of Colt, Opinel, Robeson, Szco, Sarge, Western, names I can't make out, and No Names ...

Fixed Blades would be Buck, "Mossy Oak", Mora, and Western.
 
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