What knives do you wish you still owned, here are some of mine.

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TFF1 Full belly, newer version belly is less.

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last one for today Tom Ferry engraved radical,
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Winkler belt knife TAD edition. I should have kept it. I don’t see them making any more in the future either. So it’s gone for good unless I pay secondary market price. 😐
 
Spyderco Techno.
Beautifully finished knife, frame and blade.
Couldn’t find anything wrong with it. It’s the only knife I’ve owned that I can say that about. I liked just holding it.
Very appealing shape, opened and closed.

Absolutely sucked as a knife, but still wish I had it.
 
As a teenager in the 1960s, I had a long bayonet dated during WW-I. Also had a USMC fighting knife and a WW-II Garand bayonet. Oh, and a genuine Viet Nam era Air Force Pilots Survival Knife, the longer one, with stone, in a sheath lacking the later metal reinforcement. Each of them cost me less than $5!

They have all been gone for many years now.
 
I regret selling a few of my older ZTs. Some were rare, some are just hard to find now (and worth 2X MSRP).
Let’s see, I really wish I had these back…
0303 (talk about a TANK!), 0900 (+blue, gold versions), my 0550, my 0561 and probably one of my rarest I ever came across….
An 0350CFM390
 
I've posted an answer in a thread asking this same question recently. Too lazy to look for it.

In any event, the answer for me is the MUDD Auto that I traded (even $ at the time) for a bali a few years ago.

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I only regret selling it because the MUDD has appreciated so much more in value than the bali and because it has taken on a legendary (unicorn) status since then and because G&G apparently has no plans to make them again because they're making too much $ making/selling their +$1K Deadlocks.
 
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Tangent to the OP topic: What I wish I'd bought more of (and kept in the freezer!).

I wish I'd taken out a loan and bought up multiples of several (many) knives of the past twenty or thirty years.

First off would be any of the Chris Reeve one-piece hollow handled models. Retailed at ~$200. but today they are in the thousands.

In 2002 I bought a Camillus "Cuds Maxx" (at $125) for an active duty Marine. Today they go for over a grand.

Also in that time frame, I bought several EK daggers as gifts, as the company transitioned from the family business to Blackjack. I was getting them for $50 to $75 then. Today, they are in the $500 range.

And if we could go back far enough: Anything from Warenski, Moran or Loveless, among others, would today be priceless in about any condition.

What production knife will become a cult object in twenty years? Will a pre-owned Randall or CRK be worth holding? What about the Zero Tolerance bayonet? (They made one didn't they?) Who among custom makers will achieve mythical sainthood?

So then, the question is: What or who is the buy-it-and-keep-it for our grandchildren? And I mean, keep it shrink-wraped in the never opened box with the receipt. . . . (.and buy ten)?
 
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