What do you think is the most iconic knife?

[Tlov72]

For me, growing up in north Florida during the 70's and 80's it was a Buck 110 or Case trapper in a folder. As far as fixed blades go it was a Kabar or the Rambo knife. I would really like to hear what yours was being that we are from all over the country/world.

 

[MDQBox]

For non-knife nuts it would be the Buck 110. For fellow knife nuts it's the Large Sebenza (IMO).

 

[Doug C]

Bowies are pretty iconic, production or customs.

Doug

 

[Daft Slice 1986]

By iconic do you mean recognizable? If thats the case I think butterfly knives are the easiest to distinguish from other knives to non knife people.

 

[Tlov72]

By iconic do you mean recognizable? If thats the case I think butterfly knives are the easiest to distinguish from other knives to non knife people.

Yes, the most recognizable, or the first one you think of when someone says knife.

 

[sideways]

Hard to narrow it down since lots of knives have become iconic.

French chef's knife/ japanese santoku
Swiss army knife
Leatherman (term used by some for all multitools)
Buck 110/119
Mora
Stiletto
Crocodile dundee knife/ rambo knife
Benchmade 42
Sykes fairbairn dagger
Kabar

 

[BLUEGINGER]

Ok so how about automatic knives? Maybe not out the fronts, but most people know what they are.(switch blades).

 

[Toyz]

For us knife nuts, I think the Large Sebenza (since the late 80's, early 90's).

For non knife people, I think most people remember seeing their Dad, Uncle or Grandfather carry some form of slip joint - but they could not tell you what kind or pattern it was.

Also - most people, nut or not, recognize the swiss army knife.

 

[HardTripper]

Folders: SAK, Stiletto, and Buck 110

Fixed: Cheapy hollow handle compass ball survival knife, Kabar, and any Bowie pattern.

 

[cbach8tw]

Growing in the 70's and 80's it would have to be have to be Swiss Army knives and Buck knives or the Air Force survival knife or Kabar, for customs, it would have to be Chris reeves hollow handle knives from a solid block of steel.

 

[9blades]

For non knife people:

Buck 110
Balisong
Stilleto
Rambo
Sak
Kabar

For knife people:
Sebenza
XM-18
Skyline
Native FRN
Delica
Endura

Those come to mind there's others but......

 

[sticknstring73]

The Buck 110 and 119, Gerber Mark II ( or maybe the Fairbain Sykes Commando knife), and any kind of large bowie with a saw back.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Buck 110, KA-BAR Mk.2, any SAK.

 

[Omega Leather Works]

Buck 110 is to knife as Lab is to Dog.

 

[Smokinape]

Anything other than a "Rambo" knife is incorrect...

Even women and children can recognize the power that is a Rambo knife... LMAO as saying Sebenza, most people who work with knives have never even heard of it...

 

[PA Woodsman]

IMO, the Buck 110 and Ka Bar USMC. Any Randall, as far as customs go.

 

[sodak]

For the US, Bowie knife. SE Asia, khukuri. Northern Europe, Mora. France, Opinel. Rest of the world, SAK.

 

[Ryanol]

110 or SAK

 

[james terrio]

Smatchet!

OK seriously now... I'm with the OP. I think the Buck 110, Case Trapper and various USMC combat knife variants are the most iconic to Americans, whether they're "knife people" or not. Surely, people from other nations/eras would have other ideas about that.

 

[Officer's Match]

For me when I very first started having any interest in a folding knife, the one I wanted (also known as outta' my reach) was a Benchmade that looking back now was probably an AFCK.