What details makes your favorite knife your favorite?

I really like the modified warncliffe blade.It has enough point to use the tip section as a pen knife,its like a drop point,but like a warncliffe,too.
So in a single blader,hands down it's the one I like & again,for a single blade,it may just be the best all around.
I have had a few, from different makers & dream of one from another.
I even had a lockback version,and put another on order,too.
Now the reason ,that you'll always see me buying & checking out & occasionally carrying & using other slipjoint patterns,can be reasoned in this statement I hear a wise man say every now & then,"I never met a knife I didn't like"

It really is hard in our modern day knife world to just carry & use one knife,like our grand & great grandfathers did,but IMO,the modified warncliffe slipjoint is the best all rounder,slim,big enough & a blade that does it all,pluckable,too
-Vince
 
Stockmans for me are #1. I like carbon over stainless, but stainless has it's place. Blade crinks and the way they lay in is important as well as swedges.On a stockman I prefer squared ends over rounded as far as looks go and bone, wood ,and stag, not necessarily in that order.
Did I mention trappers and Muskrats and............................................
 
I've had different favorites for different times and stages of my life.

I think a great deal of it is what I'm doing, and where I am. But all my favorites have been a pretty narrow range; either mediium to small stockmans like the Buck 301 and 303, or moderate size single blade knives like small sodbusters and number 7 or 8 Opinels. For the most part.

Not every knife pattern has a draw for me. There's some I've never tried and never will because for some reason the pattern just doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't even seen to matter if its carbon or stanless, or synthetic handles like on my Buck's, or an organic material like wood or stag. If the knife doesn't 'speak' to me, I'll never pick it up and try it.

For the past few months because of problems with my hand, my two edc knives have exlusively been a lockblade sodbuster with wood handles, and a smaller lockblade Buck squire. Both easy for older hands with arthritic problems to pull open on a cold damp day. They have become my recent favorites. Easy gets to be a good thing when you get older.
 
For me, I think it's the feel of the knife in your hand you get with a well-made knife. It feels right--likethe people who made it gave a damn. You just don't get it with a cheapy knock-off knife.
 
I sometimes (depending on where I'm going) carry a SOG X-42, BUT--I always carry my Queen amber bone teardrop linerlock in D2.
a) it's the most beautiful bone I own
b) perfect size, weight and feel in the hand and pocket
c) locking for serious work
d) it is sharper than sharp! (thanks to knifenut1013)
 
I've been carrying a Case #54 warncliffe trapper and a Case peanut for quite a while now. They are the only knives I leave out. The peanut was a gift from my wife and kids for fathers day, the trapper just feels right. So why give up a good thing?
The key for me is that my knives must be American made and two bladed.And when a gift from family it only makes life better.
God Bless
Tracy
 
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