What is your most valued knife?

JPD1998 said:
I've posted this pic in other threads. My mother and father bought me this Case Sharktooth folder as a Christmas present sometime in the mid 1970's. My mother always reminded me how expensive it was. They propably paid full list price for it , which was about $75 back then.

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Don't know why I can't stop looking at this. Gorgeous.
 
Here's my list...

Years ago when my great grandfather died my grandma said i could go through his shop and pick out whatever meant something to me. I picked his edc a case barlow and a sabre monarch he used in his garden.

The first knife ever bought for me by my wife, a crkt m16-14zsf.

Most monetary value is my zt 300.
 
My Mom had this knife made for me a long time ago. A distant relative made it, and it was then hand-engraved by Bob Valade, a family friend.

The handle is a combination of Buffalo horn, ivory, and turquoise.

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It would probably have to be the buffalo horn Rolox i bought from a very good friend 3 months before he committed suicide,or my hand ground XM-18.
 
A frost cuttlery folder with some fancy carving from Alaska. My dad gave it to me in my 20's when he returned from a trip. He died a week later.
 
I don't have any heirloom knives or anything, so:
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It's limited, it has top notch materials, and is one of the best designs out there. So I value it the most. other knives which I love almost as much, if I lose them, I can still find them somewhere else to buy, and for not too much money, so that's what it comes down to.

It is currently my most carried and used knife, though.
 
I am going to have to agree with Noddy, not the most valuable but the most valued knives I have include my Esse 3 because of the simple comfort it affords me. It is small enough I can carry it most places. It is tough and has handled everything thrown at it. My other most valued knives are the Esee Junglas and a HI 18" Sirupate by Tirtha. In all honesty these two don't get a lot of use although I have tested them hard, I find they give me that Linus on Charlie Brown security blanket feeling. Like if I ever ran out of ammo these are the two blades that would defend me and my family.
 
My grandfather gave me a Buck 110 from the 1970's era. Brass body, heavy, impractical to carry without a pouch sheath. It is among my most prized possessions, for sentimental reasons.

In these more modern years, the more important knives to me, those that won't be sold or traded, are those where I interacted with the maker to customize a knife to my specifications. I have yet to sell a truly customized collaboration knife. Most of those were with David Broadwell, John W Smith, and Larry Chew. David, especially, is an amazingly versatile talent (not that John and Larry aren't). David's breadth of skill is stunning. Check out his web site. Pens to knives ... subhilts to modern folders. Tactical to art. Knives and swords. Amazing talent.
 
Chris Reeve Mnandi in snakewood. Its my knife for life. Even though its a bit small it has the original Chris Reeve invented lock blade. This knife is simply professional, can be used with dockers, suit pants, tucks, and any fabric requiring soft interaction with a metal clip and wood. I like the sebenza, but for personal professional use with unique class of wood and design that is also easily acceptable by all knifers and non, the mnandi in any wood with titanium and sharp blade and excellent and smooth open and close action would be the ideal.
 
I'm always jealous of those lucky enough to inherit legacy knives. My old man always carries a folder but will usually break or lose it long before it builds any sentimental character, and my grandads both passed on before I was born.

So, I suppose my most valued knife is the one I carry every day on my keychain. Not for monetary value, but for its practical function: the Victorinox Rambler. Surprised? Me too... but I'd miss it the most if I didn't have it! :)
 
probably not worth much $$$, but a lot of memories to me
a circa 1983 Al Mar (yellow scales) folder, bought in a shop on Fishermen's Wharf Seattle (one of his first outlets?)
carried it constantly for 15 years, travelled all over Alaska with it
a little scuffed up, a little loose in the lock-up, but still a special knife for me
 

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Easy question. It's my CEM 5 blade lobster with a curved jaw, flush cutting cuticle nipper. All my other knives will cut string and cardboard, only my 1952 Italian masterpiece will tackle skin tags and hangnails so that I don't grab them between my teeth and pull until the tear goes all the way to the bone. The tool is no good unless you carry it in your pocket. I saw a Swiss Army knife with 70 tools for $1500. You could adjust your golf cleats and button hook your shoes, but if you had a hangnail, you were SOL. Cuticle nippers are available in drug stores, but they are not very portable. The newer ones come from Pakistan and China and lack the curved jaws as well as the precision alignment of the German and Italian stuff. Box joints are preferable to lap joints. Stainless is preferable to Nickel plate. Curved jaws are preferable to straight jaws. Four sizes (jaw length) are out there. Full, 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8. The longest are about 1/2 " long. The shortest are about 1/4" long. If your finger are raw and bleeding on the ends, look for a decent tool.
 
mine would have to be a Smith and wesson that my dad got for me at a gun show. the blade is marked, HRT Urban titanium camo First production run. i never carry it anymore but I will always keep it around.
 
On a personal, as well as collectible, level I'd have to say my old solid VG10 Fallkniven A1 and my Spyderco Swick concept model (one of only five, and I got it for free from Sal because I pushed and pestered for a knife similar to the SPOT-because I loved THAT knife-but with a wharnie blade).
 
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