What is your most expensive user slippie?

[bakerg2g]

I use these custom slip joints more than anything..
Once you start using them it's hard to go back.. Also
carry some classic slip joints as well.. Good luck!



Jason

 

[Slider817]

Never spent more than $100 on a slipjont, I need to save up for Custom Bushcraft fixed blades and Chris Reeve folders

 

[Spardoug]

I have only carried slipjoints that are worth under 100$. If I had extra money kicken around for a knife fund I would buy a really expensive slipjoint. My sub 100$ knives get a lot of use and end up like toothpicks when im done. A beautiful knife is a bone handle that is worn down smooth and a blade that says honest. I know one day ill own a custom.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Ray Cover small Drop Point with Snakewood scales

 

[Noddy]

Cover Sr. wharncliffe, Ingram sodbuster

 

[toppygray82]

Been carrying a tony bose Custom backpocket .


This knife ask you to be used.


What a knife.


Wish Tony was still taking orders.



I havr several safequeens but this one is sacrilegious not to use it.

 

[Jolipapa]

I wish I could get a $1000+ knife (and I have 2 or 3 in mind) but I would have to sell all the others and I love them too much for that!

Something like that :

or that :

or maybe this one?

 

[pmew]

Difficult to answer really; I had a custom made to my specs a couple of years ago for $230 which I used briefly before I realised that I actually didn't like it and so have shelved it.

Most of my users are production knives that have most likely lost value with use but there may be an exception or two, one of which being my GEC 252212 in dead skunk acrylic, 1 of 28 unserialised. It was (I think) £70 new from a UK sort-of-dealer who I don't think realised what it was, and even though I have used it a lot and carry it often I'm sure its probably worth more on the secondary market regardless of the patina, scratches and sharpening that has been done to it -

- when new



- with use



- to me it's priceless - it has the Ulster Rugby colours



Paul

 

[meako]

That'd be 'KOOKABURRA'
the 98 Texas Camp Knife
Paul -I didnt know there was a supporter base in the Hebrides for Grafton Wombats rugby league club.:thumbup:

 

[meako]

Hang on a sec
Spear blade?

 

[Jsega51]

Been carrying a tony bose Custom backpocket .

You've been the king of bringing threads back from the dead lately......



Anywho, I carry a Davison that I designed almost all of the time with a few others sprinkled in here and there. This one though gets 90% of the pocket attention. As it was pointed out by J. Oeser 5 years ago now, I find that this one shows very little signs of wear. At least it doesn't show it in pictures. The bolster and backspring are covered in swirl marks and scratches, the blade has them as well but they're really only visible in the hand.

 

[deltaboy]

My Case Red Bone Barlow it was 115 bucks when the wife got it for me in 2006.

 

[jc57]

Most expensive that I regularly carry would be a GEC Powderhorn Jack. I bought it used on the Exchange here.

 

[AJ in PA]

My most expensive carry is a Sheepsfoot Charlow that I bought on the secondary market (Yikes!)
A very special feeling to have in hand and to use, and to me, well worth the cost

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Since this thread's been resurrected here's a pic of my snake wood Cover...

 

[Bigfattyt]

I carried for a few years, used and sharpened an XL Guns took custom from Japan. OESER. $900 plus range for that one.

It castrated calves just fine!

 

[chuko]

This one by Jim Dunlap, built for me to carry. Love it in my pocket.
Charles

 

[mitch4ging]

A Northwoods Willamette Whittler in stag (180-ish?). An anniversary present from my wife, hadn't stopped carrying it since I got it in March. Before that, a case canoe.

 

[oldmanrunning]

A GEC #38 un-X-ld Split back whittler in red jig bone a little over $150 after taxes.

 

[kenspen]

Northwoods Presidential in mammoth - carried and used regularly.