What is your favorite style knife ?

My favs:

1) Big bowies.
2) Medium-sized bowies.
3) Mini-bowies.
4) Huters. :p

Roger
 
I think this thread is just a ploy to let people know what you want for the KITH.......I hear ya Mark, not sure if thats what your gonna get, but I hear ya. :D (Still waiting for my special handle material to come back.) :eek:

Oh yeah, I like them big bowies too!!! :D
Something nice to fend off all those 2x4 attacks.
Mace
 
Mine of course :D
and others also but it has to be sharp for sure :D

L6steel said:
anything you guys make, from hawks to friction folders.
It amazes me the diversity of things the artisans can make with their hands and minds here!!!
Michael
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Mike,, My mind gives me a head ache :D
 
I always prefered small to medium size hunters and that is pretty much what I thought I would always be making. Events have swayed me into survival / camp knives (something I never dreamed I'd ever be making) and now am becoming fond of them too. You never know.

RL
 
I love kukhuris. For more every day kinds of knives, though, I like dropped/spear point blades. Like kwaikens and hamidachi's, too, but I can't stand most of the crap people are calling "tantos" today.
For me, profile is everything. I don't see any excuse for a knife not being beautiful in some way.

- Chris
 
My newest one!

Actually, I really like my HI Seax. Full size, strong, fits my hand and feels lively. Interesting shape too.
 
I like sharp fightin' kinda knives.

I like knives with blades longer than the handle.

I like ugly, crooked, sharp fightin' kinda knives with blades longer than their simple wrapped handle.

Yep, I like a Villainvomit special. :footinmou

I also like big assed d guard sword type knives. Done any more on that thing MW?

VV
Clark
 
To look at:

Guardless, coffin handled bowies
Scottish Dirks
8" to 9" bladed damascus bowies

To use regularly:

4" to 5" drop point hunters, hidden tand with a fairly prominent palm swell in the handle.

I really like the looks of Ray Richards smaller knives, for looking at and for using (his big knives look good, too).

Todd
 
I don't think I have any particular favorite. Long clip points are my favorite bladeshape but for the most part I like any knife thats made well and cuts well. I'm not a real fan of anything too modern or too far out there (extrema ratio folders etc.), I like to stick with fairly traditional patterns but modern materials are cool. I guess for the most part I just like knives :D
 
I'm with razorback (Scott) drop point fixed blades are good usable knives. I do like antler handles, but don't realy enjoy working with that stuff. :barf:

Joe Foster
 
Mace, You are correct that this was an alterior motive thread. It wasnt for my benefit actually. I'm trying to get someone that I wont mention as he hasnt responded yet, to list his preferance.


VV havent had time to work on the bigass D-guard yet. That's the next thing to finish after a project that I'm still working on.
 
RogerP said:
My favs:

1) Big bowies.
2) Medium-sized bowies.
3) Mini-bowies.
4) Huters. :p

Roger
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I think its spelled "Hooters" And we all like em but they're not knives :p
 
I'm sure sorry I'm not on your list Mark! :D

But here's what I like anyway. When I was a kid it was big folders; the bigger and the more blades the better. But for the last 30 years it's been fighters of all types - boot knives, chute knives, Big Bear looking double edged fighters, fancy daggers, push daggers. All the Price/Will & Finke SF bowies. I like traditional Japanese aikuchi tanto and of course, yari and to some lesser extent, naginata. But a fine, fileworked custom knife of any kind trips all my triggers... I like em with a thin, very sharp edge and a mirror finish over a working one any day. Fixed blades over folders.

I guess it goes without saying, this is kind of a list of everything I want to make! ;)

But there are certain makers whose work never fails to blow me away; Scagel, Raymond Richard, Lloyd Hale (fixed blades), Rik Palm, Todd Begg.
 
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