What knife am I missing from my collection?

I have plenty of Busse's ;) strictly seeking folder options. I'm gonna do the Manix 2 for sure. Seems so wrong not to have one spydie in rotation . The Endura I have is a older version and lives in a hiding spot :) The Delica is the knife that started the craze also. I sold my PM2 because a friend liked it more than I did. Great knife but the Manix just speaks to me more. I sold my Hinder Xm-18 too, great knife but I never fell in love. And yes umnumzaan is in my future at some point. Guess I'll start my saving!!! Lol
 
Are you a steel junky? If you want a Manix I suggest an S110V version or the new Maxamet. The later has some amazing edge holding results so far! Like up with some of the very best edge holding in a knife blade. Very best of custom level and magnitudes above other production knives/steel/heat treat.

I really like the 'super' steels with lots of (vanadium) carbides. The edge holding is great but I really like how they sharpen. For me, it's much easier to sharpen than softer and more simple steels. As long as you don't let it get super dull or need to reprofile it a bunch because that will require more specialized equipment. For keeping those steels sharp ceramic (Sharpmaker in my case) to get it just shaving and then diamond spray on a hard leather strip to get it hair whittling, tree topping sharp.

I see some AXIS locks which is a necessity to a collection. Just got to see a Reate Horizon D CF today. And I'm still completely blown away. So maybe a high end China knife, though I never thought I would say that. The Reate had little design details that just blew me away and is a really well engineered knife. The steel seemed hard and great from what I could tell as well.

Also, a new Cold Steel with the CTS-XHP and the Triad lock. Also never thought I would suggest a cold steel either. But for the price, the Talwar I was gifted (but know the price) seemed like a better deal than most Spyderco and Benchmade and has a great steel that seems to have a great HT and it has one of the strongest locks made. Stupid strong apparently. I've had multiple Ti frame locks and liner locks fail and personally not a huge fan. The AXIS, Compression, and Triad are all really well engineered and something I would really want to have in a bad/SHTF scenario where you may need to abuse your knife. Can't hurt to have a couple laying around IMO.

Have fun!
 
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