Your Favorite Knife for 2016

[GREENJACKET]

My find this year is the Skrama. I think a lot of people have given it a go and the vast majority given it the thumbs up. Good thing too as its a great knife, with impressive performance, ingenious design, and all at a pretty affordable price. Not easily done for a relatively big knife:

 

[Daniel Dorn]

For me, it was 2 knives I picked up this year. 1 being the KAI ZT 0600. Got it used, but it's such a beauty. 2 would be the Bladeforums Traditional knife we picked out, with a spear blade, leather reamer, both on one backspring, with jigged bone handles.

 

[evilgreg]

At the risk of encouraging a horde with torches and pitchforks I have an admisison to make: in a year where I bought a handful of customs and midtechs as well as some very lovable production knives (ZT 0450cfzdp, I'm looking at you), my favorite knife purchase of 2016 has to be this Chinese Sinkevich clone:

It's very well made and it's slightly smaller blade length than the 0454 (3.9" vs 4.1") and also slightly smaller closed. It has a stiff detent and as a result flips better than my 0454 or 0452cf. It's enough smaller to be even better in the pocket, but still large enough to be plenty of knife (pictured here between my 0454 and my 0450cfzdp):

 

[Bradass80]

My favorite this year has been the AL Mar Payara. Brad

 

[marcus52AR]

Like this one? [emoji16]. Sorry the pic doesn't show how well the blue really pops. But I noticed that there is now a red weave cf domino available. Do I really need another Domino? Yesssss.

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Nice spidies and lights! I'm happy with my blue, not a big fan of red so I don't think it would see much pocket time.

 

[Apex10]

Tops Border Crossing. My favorite knife since 2008

 

[bflying]

Wow! Beautiful collection!

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Hey thanks.
Yeah, for some reason I've picked up a fixation on carbon & copper. I've always liked gold and silver. In the last year I started forcing a bit of patina on some of my silver. Then I started playing with a little copper. And I really liked the active "naughty and nice" looks of copper in use. For something that is used often, like a flashlight or knife, you can have the dark colors on the grooves and crevices.....while still having a bit of perfect bright and shiney on smooths or flats. I've been having fun with the little AAA Maratac Cu torch. Let it go from brand new (bright), to multi-colored grunge, then buffed the top surface. It has been my little fiddle worry stone for a few weeks. And the constant color morph has been really fun.

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[recon force]

The real classic, my favorite knife ever:

 

[RamZar]

Easily the Todd Begg Steelcraft Mini Bodega. I just wish that for the price you'd get better steel. My user, about 70% of the time this year, has been the gray one below with blue accents. I'm restricted to 3" blades in my locality.

 

[MAD777]

Easily the Todd Begg Steelcraft Mini Bodega.

Seriously Ramzar? Certainly you're not allowed to post such pictures!
Now I have to throw away all my knives.

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[Ratman79]

^^ I had a Steelcraft series knife-- the Begg Field Marshall-- and it was excellent, but even before I sold it I wished I had purchased the Mini Bodega instead. To me, the MB was just a better knife as far as looks and carry-ability/EDC. It was a bit smaller and more compact. The FM's 4-inch blade was too big to be so thinly ground imo.

I always felt that I was Donovan from Last Crusade when the Templar knight at Petra told him, "You have chosen poorly." Fortunately, I did not shrivel up and disintegrate--I just sold it and bought something I really liked instead.

 

[SevenOfNine]

Oh man that Begg MB is absolutely gorgeous. That's one that I would have to never use though.

 

[harronek]

As I mentioned at the beginning the Delica is my favourite knife of 2016 , and of all the Delicas that I own this one gets carried the most .

Ken

 

[sharp_edge]

At the risk of encouraging a horde with torches and pitchforks I have an admisison to make: in a year where I bought a handful of customs and midtechs as well as some very lovable production knives (ZT 0450cfzdp, I'm looking at you), my favorite knife purchase of 2016 has to be this Chinese Sinkevich clone:

It's very well made and it's slightly smaller blade length than the 0454 (3.9" vs 4.1") and also slightly smaller closed. It has a stiff detent and as a result flips better than my 0454 or 0452cf. It's enough smaller to be even better in the pocket, but still large enough to be plenty of knife (pictured here between my 0454 and my 0450cfzdp):

Not that I am endorsing it but the Chinese fake in this case LOOKS better than the other two.

 

[jaypowell0185]

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[evilgreg]

Not that I am endorsing it but the Chinese fake in this case LOOKS better than the other two.

The clone is actually really well made. It looks great, it's at a nice size, and the detent is perfect. What it's a clone of exactly, I'm not sure (I think it's a Sinkevich custom or SIDIS model, it has the 7-bar+backspacer back) but whatever it is it's really nice.

 

[A-MAC]

Supprisingly enough it was a Boker. The Patriot to be exact.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1454651-Boker-USA-Patriot

 

[threefeathers]

Hinderer Fatty Spanto...

Oh I like this.

 

[BOHAWG]

NIIIICCCEEEE[emoji106]

 

[threefeathers]

But for me this past year these DPX HESTs.