What's Your Type?

No wave
No assist
Prefer spydie holes to thumbstuds, but its not the end of the world.
Don't like Benchmades.

I prefer smaller companies like TSF and SG.
 
Quality is what I look for. My preference for every other characteristic is always changing.
 
Over the years and after quite a few brands and styles. I can safely say it's a linerlock for work most of the time and framelock flippers to play with or office days. Backlocks, axis locks, compression and a few others simply aren't my "thing". Emerson's Wave feature is a definite plus! I use my knives often enough at work that thumb opening is one step too much so the Wave is my preferred method of opening. Framelocks and linerlocks for me all the way. 3" is about the minimum and max at 4.5" for blade length. Weight can be up to 9oz. Emerson knives are my fave on and off work.
 
My type is fighter/SD/tactical 4-6 inch blades, spear/drop point with recurve, partially serrated, finger guard choil not too deep, short 4 inch handle, light weight perfect balance for speed, all business no unnecessary bells and whistles! That is the "wife" type I remain loyal too, few different "mistresses" types that come and go persians, tanto's, bowies, kukris, etc.
 
I love them all, big and small, long and short, fat and skinny, flexible and not so flexible. I love knives like a fat kid loves cake!
 
No wave.
No flipper.
No assist.
No holes. Thumbstuds or thumbdisks only.
Ideally, non-locking. Either slipjoint or Sanrenmu's double ball bearing detent system (latter strongly preferred). If locking, framelock or liner lock.
Must look like a modern folding knife (i.e.: finger grooves on the handles, blade is dead center of, and forms majority of the entire body. Which pretty much rules out all multitools and classic slipjoints).
Blade length must be lesser than, or up to 75mm maximum.
 
Etna said:
...or Sanrenmu's double ball bearing detent system (latter strongly preferred)....
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Those really are slick, aren't they? Just love the feel, even the sound. I'm not much on moderns but if I were, SRM would be very high on my list.
 
My favorites tend to the 2.75-3" range such as the Boker Trance and the Spyderco Delica. Granted, 3" is the limit in my county (a sucky county at that, but I can't move for the foreseeable future). If there was a production model XM-18 in a 3" wharncliffe, I'd carry that.

I also carry one or more SAKs depending on mood: a Rally, a Cadet, sometimes a Midnight Manager or a Tinker, and in jeans I usually carry a 5.11 Journeyman kerambit.

With fixed blades, my tastes vary widely and wildly. Right now I'm jonesing for a BK2 or BK10. I did want a BK16 but it's got the same handle as the 15, which doesn't impress me much. I'm also in a huge Mora phase right now.
 
I like a good quality fixed blade knife that is about 10"-15" long. I have little to no experience in using and am also relatively new to even owning good knives; so, this is just what I'm into. I don't know if it'll change after I get to using knives more. I like it to be thick and heavy duty. Maybe a tiny bit of serrations on the blade. I like it to be full tang with the handle slapped on the side. I don't know too much about handle materials, but I like the canvas micarta on my new Esee 5 so far. I want a blade made with enough carbon to be hard enough not to fold or wear easily on the edge. I also want it to be tough enough not to chip, even microscopically. I don't really care about erosion much, just resistant enough so that it doesn't rust five minutes after it gets wet. It probably doesn't need any chromium for that, though. it needs to be well built and heat treated, and it needs to be a knife that just seems indestructible.
I know I just described a pretty specific knife, but lets just say that my type is anything and everything similar to that.
 
lightweight and simple. Haven't carried my PM2 or 940 in a while. Yellow, Tasman SE is my 'DD' lately.
 
AreBeeBee said:
Those really are slick, aren't they? Just love the feel, even the sound. I'm not much on moderns but if I were, SRM would be very high on my list.
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They are solid, no doubt. But there is a flaw in this design which make it guaranteed to fail after prolonged heavy use.

First off, (at least, in mine), the ball bearings are not secured into their sockets in the liner. In other words, they are free-moving. And these ball bearings are tiny, as in press-the-nib-of-your-pen-onto-a-piece-of-paper-and-the-resulting-dot-is-the-bearing's-size tiny. When dissembling my SRM, a solid knock to the back of the socket was enough to dislodge the bearing. And the design is such that the entire blade is as good as useless if even one of the bearings are lost.

Which brings up point number two: wear. The ball bearings and the blade will never be of equal hardness. Either the bearings slowly wear a narrow groove into the softer blade over time to the point where there exists a sufficient gap for the bearings to fall off on their own. That, or the harder blade gradually flattens the bearings until it becomes flush with its socket.
 
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