Your Dream Knife?

Dawsonknives

Dawsonknives

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Hello Bladeform Fans!

We all know you love your knives, otherwise you wouldn't be here. So we wanted to ask a very important question, If you could create your dream knife, what would it be? Knives of all forms, sizes and colors, the only limit here is your imagination!
 
Lightsaber...

I had to. :)

As far as folders go, I would have to say a camp knife made by Tony Bose with CPM154 blades/tools, stag scales with a bail, and a cool lanyard. Spear point blade with a swedge and long pull. Average camp knife size, implements. All I'll really use is the cap lifter and the blade, but I'd like to have a punch, a can opener, a bottle opener, a secondary blade and a main spear blade. Maybe a sheepsfoot secondary.

No, the horseman's knife. Definitely the horseman's knife. Gus shared some pics of one he wants. I have no use for a horsemans knife but the pattern is one of my favorites.
 
My Northwoods Willamette Whittler (blue camel) in a good stainless and with a clip rather than wharnie. Or indeed the BF 2015 knife with good QC, on paper it was so perfect (I had bad luck with mine).
 
To an extent, I have mine. I grew up in the 80's. My favorite movie of all time was the first Rambo...First Blood. I loved that knife. Well I could never afford a Lyle knife. However, I found Martin Knives in Texas that does a knife that is so close, and of such good quality that I now have one. It's the MCE2. So I guess I have my dream knife.
 
I've already got mine too. Ever since I became a knife enthusiast I wanted Case and Tony Bose to make a nice three blade Stockman collaboration knife. The 2015 Case/Bose Cattle Knife came along and that was all she wrote. It's virtually everything I ever wanted. The only thing I wanted that it doesn't have is a Spear main blade but I've totally gotten used to the Clip blade. I don't know if my imagination is vivid enough to come up with a better idea but it would be something very similar.

One thing that has caught my interest in the last 18 months or so is a handle material that is new to me. The first time I saw a knife with handles made out of a Pine Cone I was blown away by how nice it looked. I first saw these on a custom maker's table at a knife show in January 2015. Now I see that Bark River offers some fixed blades with these unusual but very attractive handles. I don't think they are for everybody But I sure do like the way they look. I could warm up to a slip joint with these covers real quick.
 
Take the GEC 77 NF Barlow spear + coping from last year. Change it to a jack with two regular-length nickel silver bolsters, brass liners, jigged bone, and stainless steel blades and backsprings. Long pull on the spear. Polished blades. No blade etch. Sunk or nearly sunk joints. Federal shield with no logo. That's my dream knife.
 
I would love a calf roper in mammoth. And one of every 15 sheepsfoot while I'm being greedy.:D
 
Since this forum is for both traditional folders & fixed blades I'll show one of each.

This bowie is nigh perfect IMO.

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On a slightly more practical note, this ivory covered folder by Jerry Halfrich gave me a bad case of the wants the first time I saw it. Still does.

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kamagong said:
Since this forum is for both traditional folders & fixed blades I'll show one of each.

This bowie is nigh perfect IMO.

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On a slightly more practical note, this ivory covered folder by Jerry Halfrich gave me a bad case of the wants the first time I saw it. Still does.

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I generally dislike the look of damascus blades, but that one of is nice.
 
This old Hoffritz Serp Pen. Just under 3.5" single spring, sunk-joints.

I'd like to find a custom maker who could do me this knife, perhaps not with the sabre grind (does help nest the blades though) and longpull. Light toffee colour jigged bone of Butterscotch micarta or Greenbone or or?

If GEC did the Conductor with Tip bolsters or a proper sized stainless Norfolk, even shadow, well.....:D:cool:

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5 inch closed 2 blade equal end Sunfish/Elephant Toenail.
Steel liners and bolsters, color case hardened. Brass or bronze pins. Carbon steel blades and back springs, springs gun blued or browned. Satin blades, so as not to be fingerprint and smudge magnets.
Wood covers, either walnut, tigerstripe maple, or cherry.
Oh, classic long pull on the blades, no easy open notch.
 
I think I have mine. It's a GEC 14 with antique yellow jiggled bone handles, it my dream knife. Or at lest until I see something else I like better... Not much if anything I would change on it.
 
afishhunter said:
5 inch closed 2 blade equal end Sunfish/Elephant Toenail.
Steel liners and bolsters, color case hardened. Brass or bronze pins. Carbon steel blades and back springs, springs gun blued or browned. Satin blades, so as not to be fingerprint and smudge magnets.
Wood covers, either walnut, tigerstripe maple, or cherry.
Oh, classic long pull on the blades, no easy open notch.
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What attracts you to the sunfish?


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irona said:
What attracts you to the sunfish?


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I have one of the large Rough Rider Sunfish.
I like the way it fits the hand, it is designed for heavy duty cutting jobs (no battoning, I don't baton any knife) despite its size it vanishes in the pocket - no "pocket print" if you will. It just clicks all the right boxes for me.

Also, the fact that it is not all that common of a pattern for EDC and "not everyone and their brother, sister, cousin, etc. carrys or has one "just like it" is also a plus.
 
afishhunter said:
I have one of the large Rough Rider Sunfish.
I like the way it fits the hand, it is designed for heavy duty cutting jobs (no battoning, I don't baton any knife) despite its size it vanishes in the pocket - no "pocket print" if you will. It just clicks all the right boxes for me.

Also, the fact that it is not all that common of a pattern for EDC and "not everyone and their brother, sister, cousin, etc. carrys or has one "just like it" is also a plus.
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I've never tried one or seen one in person, but they've interested me as kind of an oddball twist from the usual traits of most traditional patterns


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Try the Rough Rider, or one of the Frost versions. I think the Rough Rider "Zombie Nick" version can still be had at a couple places online. (Zombie Nick is a sleeveboard, though, not an equal end)
The Sunfish is an old pattern, suprisingly versitile.
I tried the small ones, didn't care for it.
 
I don't know what my dream knife is but...
I would spend a couple days in Ken Erickson's workshop talking to him about knives, patterns, tastes and so on.
Then I'll let him choose and build.
I don't know what knife would come out of his hands. I do know, however, that it would be my dream knife.

Fausto
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