YOUR favorite folding knife company and why?

Benchmade, the AXIS lock is as good as it gets. They offer a good veriety of high quality steels and costomer service is excellent at good prices.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
CC, OOO Order of the Osage refers to a group of friends here on BF that have a pen made of Osage Orange from some donated wood from one member to another who then made the pens for certain members and in appreciation we have it in our siglines.

If you cut a lot of boxes look at some of the powder metallurgy used by Benchmade, Spyderco and ZT, if you can find a Boye Prophet with his Dendritic steel that stuff cuts cardboard and hemp rope forever before needing a touch up.

A lot of HCS although they may rust easily till you get a patina on it are easy to take to a razors edge and quick to sharpen but usually require frequent touchups. The harder super steels although they hold an edge longer are usually much harder to sharpen. I like the S35VN and S30V that a lot of manufacturers are using but you can't beat a good 1095 steel with a good heat treat for all around utility, durability and ease of sharpening.
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Interesting that you mention David Boye. I have a collection of his early Carbide Crystal folders with black linen micarta scales, Prophets and others decorated with wings, mountains and sunrises. Incredible cutters and, as you say, infrequent
touch-ups.
Boye Knives is rarely mentioned on this forum; I guess that makes it my favorite UNDISCOVERED knife company.
 
tuckerone1 said:
Chris Reeve and then Spyderco followed by Zero Tolerance. All are great companies with elevated levels of manufacturing capabilities coupled with solid customer/ after sales service protocol.
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There is no right answer, but if there was, this would be it.
 
Chris reeves.

I use my knife and use it often, so they get dirty. Chris reeve is about the only knife (that I like) that allows me to clean and dissamble my own knife without messing up any warranty.
Plus they're made very very well.
Could use better sharpening out of box, luckily I know how to sharpen.
 
Benchmade, Victorinox, Cold Steel. I've moved almost everything else along to get more of those.
 
1) Schrade, so many good memories, plus their 93Ot and 233 are still my favourite knives;
2) Queen, still make all the old school patterns I love. Shame that QC seems to have slipped in recent years;
3) Emerson, best hard use knives. No nonsense functional designs that just work.
 
Microtech. Beautiful designs. They just need to get their act together on the customer service/warranty end.
 
In no particular order:

CRK (Mnandi's are exquisite knives)
Emerson Customs (smoothest opener I have ever had)
Benchmade
Spyderco (Ritter mini-Grips are awesome)
Northwoods (slipjoint)
 
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