What is your latest knife purchase?

Ontario RAT 2
CRKT Folts Minimalist Wharncliffe
Buck Paklite 143 is the most recent of the three.

The CRKT and Buck I was able to get locally, so I couldn't not do it.
 
Spyderco Gayle Bradley. Was holding the knife upright to inspect the edge, and without using my brain, depressed the linerlock and the blade flipped down and kissed my thumb knuckle, the thumb actuating the linerlock obviously. Very clean cut, took about 30 seconds for the first drop of blood to appear. No worries, lesson learned and I must say, the action is very smooth as my knuckle can attest. :p
 
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just finishing the polish on new seb.

NOW its sushi sharp.
 
My Sebenza 25. It's making me want to trade my 0550 for something else. I'm really liking this knife.
 
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Two Benchmade balisongs, a 51 and a 62 on the way. As a kid, starting at age 9, I lived in Batangas where my father was the manager of the first oil refinery built in the Philippines by Caltex oil company. The refinery was still under construction when we arrived in July 1953.

Batangas is the area of the Philippines where the Balisong is and was made though I have seen posts of an advertisement for German made similar knives from pre WWII and have read that the French or Spanish may have made similar designs pre 20th century. The modern Balisong as widely adopted seems to have started it's spread from the Batangas Philippines made version however.
 
I got an early Viet Nam period Utica Cutlery Co MK2. It "early" (May 1961 to April 1962) because of the natural brown color and the 9 rivets. The change from 9 rivets to 7 rivets was a change order dated 11/20/1961. The change order from natural brown or oxblood to black was dated 10/1/1961. The amendment to Utica's contract was 4/11/1962. This info is all courtesy of a post by Mr. Frank Trzaska on knifeforum a while back.

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