What is your ultimate grail knife?

I'm always surprised at these threads when people list various production knives that anyone can simply order.
I remember a WIP thread over several months when Kyle Royer made a one of a kind clamshell Bowie for another member. Something like that would be pretty special.
 
Richard338 said:
I'm always surprised at these threads when people list various production knives that anyone can simply order.
I remember a WIP thread over several months when Kyle Royer made a one of a kind clamshell Bowie for another member. Something like that would be pretty special.
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I agree!

Speaking of Kyle Royer, at Blade Show I got to handle the knives he had on his table, a couple of them had sold for 10K each!! I must say my stomach was in my mouth handling them, but it was worth it!
 
Richard338 said:
I'm always surprised at these threads when people list various production knives that anyone can simply order.
I remember a WIP thread over several months when Kyle Royer made a one of a kind clamshell Bowie for another member. Something like that would be pretty special.
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The word "ultimate" introduces some semantic problems. I don't think there is an "ultimate" knife for me, because the journey is the goal, yadda, yadda, yadda, some Zen knife philosophy nonsense. We've been here, before.

Stepping down from "ultimate", I do have some ideas for a knife which would be very close to being everything I want, but it's built around a (hopefully) unique locking mechanism. I would need time on a milling machine to prototype it, and I would want to have adequate protection of intellectual property rights, before talking too much about it.

The guy didn't ask about any of that though, so I'll have to default to knives that others have built, for now.
 
I think most people have their own interpretation of grail knife. Of course the Chris reeves and the striders and hinderers are nice but if I spent that much money on a knife I’d probably never use it for fear of damage or what not. So a few weeks back I sat down and looked at tons of knives. I liked the inkosi a lot but didn’t want to spend $400+ to have it sit here and look nice. So I got something with similar aspects. I picked out a full titanium (frame,scales), a 20CV steel blade with a working slicer finish. Hinderer designed but ZT produced. And it’s a flipper which I absolutely required. So although it may be a production knife I picked up a ZT 0562ti which I can use and abuse and not worry about it.
 
Shorttime said:
The word "ultimate" introduces some semantic problems. I don't think there is an "ultimate" knife for me, because the journey is the goal, yadda, yadda, yadda, some Zen knife philosophy nonsense. We've been here, before.
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I definitely agree that there is no ultimate knife, but I said “ultimate grail”, so not ultimate in the sense of performance, but ultimate in the sense of the way it looks and feels.
 
A custom Daniel Winkler belt knife... used to see them come up on nordic for about 1100 fairly frequently, but it's been a while... Should ve jumped!

And something Bose... which is way beyond what i could justify spending... i have a child and a mortgage
 
That one that can slice tomatoes paper thin, split 16 in diameter oak with a single swing, stab through 1/4 in armor without damage, pry open car doors, and it never gets dull. Still looking for it.
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Bunker Hill Blades said:
I definitely agree that there is no ultimate knife, but I said “ultimate grail”, so not ultimate in the sense of performance, but ultimate in the sense of the way it looks and feels.
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That's the problem! The getting is more fun than the having, and the "ultimate grail" would satisfy me for about three weeks, before I started looking again.

I guess you could apply some psychology, say that my restless search for a knife that allows me to stop buying knives is a reflection of my own quest for some nameless goal, and you would be uncomfortably close to the truth. As I've gotten more experience in general, I've started to feel like I have a better idea of what to do when life throws me something random, and with that, my knife buying has slowed down drastically. The kinds of knives I buy have changed too.

So, there may be an end to the road, but it will likely have nothing to do with a specific knife.

I should stop thinking so hard.
 
A ZT0777.

Not really a "grail" knife for me but it's the most expensive of the few ZTs remaining that I'd like to buy to complete my ZT collection.

It's not that I don't have the $ to buy one. It's just that I don't want to spend the $ people are asking for them. And it's actually more readily available than the other less costly ZTs that I'm still looking for.
 
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