What's your (latest) grail?

Despite all the negative comments on Marfione products, I cannot seem to get over the Marfione Anax/Sigil/Matrix (Customized).

Someone, please talk me out of it! :eek:
 
Would love a old school Brend ground Socom ... Would love to get my hands on some of Kirby Lambert's current work .
 
Kohai999 said:
I didn't invent the word "grail". You can call a car a pachyderm, but that doesn't make it an elephant. Relativism doesn't change a definition, it just makes the person using a word incorrectly "wrong".
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The Grail is a mythical object, supposedly a chalice that a Roman soldier used to catch the blood of Christ on the cross. In Arthurian legend, it was supposed to grant eternal life and heal wounds and was found by Percival and Galahad.

It's not a knife, and it's not an elephant. It's a metaphor for something you quest for. How I choose to interpret the parameters of that metaphor are up to me since I started this thread. If it disturbs you, just don't comment or start your own thread. You were the one who complained about my interpretation first and the only thing you've instructed me in is the close-mindedness you have regarding other people's opinions on an obviously gray mythical concept not "set in stone" (Excalibur reference there).

Let's keep the conversation on knives. So many threads get into this petty bickering over semantics.

Spey brings up a good point. What is driving your collection or search for the perfect blade? Is it the perfect slicer for your apples, or a certain steel and shape that'll withstand cutting down cardboard boxes all day? Something you can baton through a redwood with? Or is it a purely a design "Whoa! That COOL looking!" impulse? Put me down for the latter. For the longest time I was looking for a nice slicer, but I also wanted a large solid think blade that would double as a defensive weapon, and the two just don't meet. I think I found my slicer in an Opinel I got, but talk about a boring knife...and no packet clip!
 
The perfect knife FOR ME would

1. Makes me smile every time I look at it
2. Makes me go "whoa!" Evertime I open it
3. Makes me want to reopen it every time I close it.

Notice I did not say how it cuts or how the fit and finish is. Those, to me, should be givens with a quality knife. My struggle lies in the fact I can't seem to find that knife that meets the top 3 but also is good in all the 'givens'. There seems to always be something. So, I keep looking.
 
My grail for about the last year is [finally] on order! Haven't picked the next grail yet but I'm thinking about annoying the owner of a specific Trey Preslar knife till he gives in and sells it to me lol (I like all Treys work but he uses lots of custom materials that can't be exactly repeated so the one I have in my mind as a grail can never be perfectly recreated even if I ordered from him directly).
 
I used to carry a Benchmade mini griptilian for the longest time, but then I discovered the Finn Wolf by Cold Steel. I LOVE Scandi grinds. Here is a review so you can see what I am talking about - Cold Steel Finn Wolf Review. The Finn Wolf, for me, is the perfect mix of lightweight, but with an incredibly authoritative blade. Every time you open it, there is a nice large, "Thwack" and the lockup is solid. I don't think that I will be moving back to my mini grip any time soon.
 
I've got three. Two of them are achievable, with one of them coming in the mail currently (Rockstead Higo) and the other being a Shirogorov 95T.

Them my unachievable is a Stan Wilson NFF. Never in my life will I pay several thousand for a knife so that's out haha
 
A full size Wolfgang Loerchner Folding Dagger for less than $15,000.
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That would be a Holy Grail of Knives at a challenging price point.

Personally I'd love to get a Bob Loveless knife. I'd finance it through personal sacrifice- no junk food etc. for how ever long it took.
 
braillediver said:
That would be a Holy Grail of Knives at a challenging price point.

Personally I'd love to get a Bob Loveless knife. I'd finance it through personal sacrifice- no junk food etc. for how ever long it took.
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1. Getting a grail should never be easy or quick. If the quest is the "thing"....it should be an epic quest.

2. Took me 20 years to get my Loveless....one of the last knives to come out of The Shop before he passed. That was epic!

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Does it have to be one that currently exists? I'd like a ZT 0220 with about 2oz shaved off. I love the look of it (generally true of Anso designs), but 6.2oz is a bit much.

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I've talked myself into knives that heavy before and always regretted it. They just don't get carried.
 
i would suggest a grail is a knife thats no longer in production that you are searching for and trying to attain. it can be a custom or a mass produced knife. but no longer available anew. have to search for it and may possibly be a large sum of money. it could be really cheap too. doesnt matter really. could be discontinued, could be rare, could be whatever. just not a in production currently knife.

but other than that people use it for whatever they want as discussed by many in this thread. but i think the real grail is what i suggest. i had my own production grails that are still being made. but i think the honest truth of a grail is that still. but no one will agree with anyone otherwise, so its really whatever you want.
 
a RAY APPLETON FOLDER...he was a member (as is his son RON) of the AKI - art knife invitational. TODAY, purchased my first RAY APPLETON FOLDER - 1 of 2 the custom knife dealer had. ON THE WAY!!! ecstatic camper!!!
 
There are knives I would gladly want to try or own, but I think I'm too cynical to believe in true love anymore. :)
 
The only knife I remember actually calling a grail (for me) was the 940-1 when it first released. At that time, I had never spent over $110 on a user and saw the -1 as no more than a pipe dream.

I recently picked up a nice Bowie (for me) and decided to design my grail fighting Bowie. She's not complete but I'm having fun at night messing around with it.

I've narrowed down the steel choices to either Unobtainium or Valyrian with Jim Bowie's femur for the scales.

Work in progress
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I keep saving up more money every week looking for that knife that hits all the right places on what I want and the new Andrew Demko seems to be it for a grail which I'm close to saving. But then for that kind of money it is getting into the territory of my other loves dive watches hand guns and rifles which I prefer to put more money into. That grail may stay elusive.
 
OK - so a grail is sth I wish to have but for whatever reason I cannot or will not. If so, my grail knife would be a Shirogorov F95 with Ti and CF inlay handle, the reason being it looks really cool but the price is way out of my comfy zone and the availability of the knife is quite limited.

Have to say my grail knife may change tomorrow (another reason why I do not plan to get it right away).
 
I bought one of my grail knives this past spring. It is a large slim TA Davison slip joint. Been lusting for one of his knives for a long time. Finally fulfilled that desire. Now I want another!
 
Since grails are supposed to be almost unobtainable, then a Large Inkozi Insigno with black micarta inlays fits the description. I missed them when they first came out & I haven't been able to get one since.
 
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