What is the most unusual knife that you have in your collection??

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We have threads on EDC, favorite knife, and owning only one knife. So what is the most unusual knife you have in your collection?

I guess my most unusual knife would be a heavily custom worked Schrade small lockblade. This knife has beautiful filework and jeweling on the blade, lock spring sides, back, and front, nickel silver bolsters with filework, and ivory scales on the handle. There is a red ruby that is set in each side of the bottom bolster. The only thing that is Schrade in this knife is the blade, and I have no idea why someone would take all the time that was put in this knife and put it into a Schrade.

I will try to post pics of it later.


Anyway, what is yours??
 
Mine would be an 11" Bowie my dad gave to me while back. He got it when he was a kid so it's been around a while.

It has a stag handle with stacked leather near the pommel and guard end of it. The blade says made in Japan on it.

It could use a little love...as of now thats the most unusual knife that I have.
 
A knife made from a crosscut saw blade with a cast metal (square) handle. It was made by a German prisoner of war in a POW camp in Northern Ontario during WWII. They were working at camps deep in the forest, with only rail access, and weren't even trying to escape, so handmade manufacture of knives wasn't a problem.
 
That would have to be my Spyderco serrated (Massad) Ayoob folder, with its' slim, pointy, fully-serrated blade, with the BIG "Spydie-hole hump", that looks like it isn't all the way opened even when it is.

...And then there is my Cold Steel Vaquero Grande (folding saw :D), with its' curvy, fully-serrated 6 inch-long blade, and 13 inch total opened length.

Eventho' these are both "normal production knives", they are the two in my collection that get the strangest looks when people see 'em.:).
 
I forgot about the ULU that my father-in-law made for me a few years ago. It looks pretty cool, and is damn sharp. I believe it was made from a saw blade taken from the old sawmill outside of town, and has a stag handle. I will try to post a pic of it also.
 
I to have an UlU in my collection. It was made by Dennis Dejardin. Fileworked spine and beautiful burl handle with fileworked pins. Comes with leather sheath. It's beautiful piece of work.
 
My italian fruit and melon knife. All Stainless. Has two very ong blades. One plain edge and one saw like. Also has a small fork on one end. I will post a picture later. Probably my least expensive as well.
Ed
 
Maybe this:

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-Michael
 
I have a early 1900's Machete type knife. the knife was made from a bar of steel, with the handle being wood put around a bent portion of the steel. You should see that thing cut though!

I also have an old German hunting knife that my dad brought from Germany when he came over in the 50's. My sister got the real nice one though.
 
My most unusual knife would have to be my recently acquired Spyderco Shabaria PE(#257). :D :D :D


Here is a pic of a Shabaria;

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Originally posted by Ed T
My italian fruit and melon knife. All Stainless. Has two very ong blades. One plain edge and one saw like. Also has a small fork on one end. I will post a picture later. Probably my least expensive as well.
Ed
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I got one of those! My picnic knife, I bought it at Hoffritz! The saw blade is a bread knife, works real well on a roll or a loaf or a bagel.

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My most unusual is probably an African knife, a very thin, soft steel dagger, with a short wooden handle sort of like the Shabaria handle.
 
This little knife my Grandad gave me when I was little, ain't much but it's kinda of neat and lookls like it's about 100 years old, no markings on it at all.

Oh and a Spyderco Civilian that was one of the original ones with aluminum handles and the kryton insert in the clip, got alot of looks when you pulled that wicked looking blade out.

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Benchmark Rolox Viper.

A tremendous pain in the ass to use, but the cool factor is timeless.
 
Why Chefget, that thing is almost, well obscene! I bet Vampire Gerbil is drooling over that one. How 'bout a little more info on it?

I'd say two of my more unusual blades are an old Case Texas Lockhorn made for Cabela's with one serrated blade. The regular Case ones had two plain blades. The other is a Gerber Folding Sportsman with a Vascowear blade. I don't think they made a whole lot of those.

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Gotta be this one. Unfortunately I'm broke and trying to sell it right now, but as soon as I get more money I'll buy another.
 
My strangest knife is something i wear around my neck daily, and use frequently. It is a 10 million year old, razor sharp and serrated fossil Great White Shark tooth from Chile. Hows that for strange.
 
A glazers knife, kinda looks like a camp/Boyscout Knife with a glass cutter instead of a can opener.:confused:

Oh yea and a folding knife made out of a reindeer hoof.:barf:
 
I'm relatively new to knife collecting but I'd consider my Muela - Fury the most unusual knife I own. Saw a pix in a magazine & had to have it!
 
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