Your Favorite Pocketknife

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Queen Copperhead with custom thinned out grind. It's the knife I always come back to in the end. Thin, slicey, really nice gentle pull, looks incredible, cuts like a laser.
Nice looking knife. Who did the regrind?

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Gee brother, have mercy! That's like picking your favorite kid! It will require a ponder....

LOL no kidding, for many here this sort of question literally brings on a minor level of anxiety! :D

For me it's tough to pick but the 77 sheepfoot Barlow is the one I'd have to pick. The yellow Peanut is very close behind.
 
I'm primary a scout pattern collector, with a particular love for Camillus scouts. My most consistent favorite lately has been the C4 saw scout. It's what I grab when I have no idea which knife to grab. The C4 is pretty much all bases covered. It has a main blade with plenty of belly, a small straight edge sheepsfoot blade for careful work, phillips and flathead screwdrivers, a wood saw, and the always needed bottle cap lifter. The Delrin covers mean that I never have to worry about hurting it too much, and the bail keeps the C4 tethered to my belt when outdoors. It's like having a good swiss army knife, but with upgraded aesthetics and ergonomics.

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I'm primary a scout pattern collector, with a particular love for Camillus scouts. My most consistent favorite lately has been the C4 saw scout. It's what I grab when I have no idea which knife to grab. The C4 is pretty much all based covered. It has a main blade with plenty of belly, a small straight edge sheepsfoot blade for careful work, phillips and flathead screwdrivers, a wood saw, and the always needed bottle cap lifter. The Delrin covers mean that I never have to worry about hurting it too much, and the bail keeps the C4 tethered to my belt when outdoors. It's like having a good swiss army knife, but with upgraded aesthetics and ergonomics.

Nice! That's basically a fancy Vic Farmer!
 
I'm primary a scout pattern collector,...
Scout patterns are my favorite. Of those the old Wengers from the Sportsman Series are top tier for me. This one has special BF meaning for me, and it'll be in my possession until I die.

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Nice! That's basically a fancy Vic Farmer!

The Wenger SI, Farmer, and Pioneer were the knives I carried for years, before really focusing on scouts. The Farmer is an awesome knife, but not as traditional looking as I wanted. So I started searching for traditionals with Farmer-like levels of utility. That's when I found the various Camillus-manufactured saw scouts. It's been a love affair ever since. The C4 isn't nearly as compact as the Farmer, but it does have a much more comfortable grip.
 
Yes that C4 you have is a beauty. I find a saw to be far more useful that I originally thought it would be when I was gifted this Farmer about 3 years ago from our very own "jone" here on BF (I still love this Farmer jone!). It's cut branches, PVC pipe, drywall, etc and does it with ease. VERY handy and surprisingly efficient at cutting fast.

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Of all the knives I have had this one would be my favorite..
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I'm mighty partial to my Case peanut. Disappears in the pocket and when it comes to cutting, it punches WAY above its weight.



-- Mark

I do believe that Peanut of yours is the star of this forum :thumbup:

I know it's grown up right before our eyes as we've seen it age over 6+ years and it's looking fantastic! Thanks for sharing and keep the pics coming :D
 
This is , as someone said earlier , like picking your favorite Kid .
Today it is this older Taylors Eye Witness .
Tomorrow it may very well be this Eye Witness :
But then again : Maybe one of these


It just depends on what I may be doing or where I am going .


Harry
 
I've been racking my brain trying to come up with an honest answer. No matter which knife I choose I feel like I'm not giving some of my others a fair shake. Many of them have been my favorite pocketknife at one time or another and they will be my favorites again in the future.

I guess if I could only keep one knife it would be this Queen Railsplitter. I became attracted to the pattern very early in my knife collecting venture. So attracted to it that I chose it as my username on the forum. Since then Queen has replaced the Spey blade on the three blade versions with a nice Drop Point (or Pen) blade and they also started making them with a D2 steel option. Now they are even pinning the shields which wasn't the case just a couple of years ago. What more could a Railsplitter fan ask?

So I suppose this knife has the best qualifications to achieve "favorite pocketknife" status. But some of my other knives deserve it too.



 
I'm primary a scout pattern collector, with a particular love for Camillus scouts. My most consistent favorite lately has been the C4 saw scout. It's what I grab when I have no idea which knife to grab. The C4 is pretty much all based covered. It has a main blade with plenty of belly, a small straight edge sheepsfoot blade for careful work, phillips and flathead screwdrivers, a wood saw, and the always needed bottle cap lifter. The Delrin covers mean that I never have to worry about hurting it too much, and the bail keeps the C4 tethered to my belt when outdoors. It's like having a good swiss army knife, but with upgraded aesthetics and ergonomics.

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I'm not really a scout fan (I prefer my SAKs), but I'm digging that one. I might have to track one down some day.
 
Western 854 utility. part sentimental, it's the first pocket knife i bought. Dad carried a scharde walden hawkbill in his tool box and used it a lot, so i thought that it would be the knife to have for hard use. turns out i was right. carries easy in the pocket. can be opened in the cold even with mittens on. ( try that with your sak, sodbuster, stockman...) mostly it dose what a knife is supposed to do which is cut stuff. I've never found another knife that cuts as many ways as well as the hawkbill/pruner. i keep saying that I've carried this knife off and on ( mostly on) for 30+ years' but as i think on it it's closer to 45. HAWKBILL/PRUNERS ARE THE TOPS! yes you can clean fish,birds and other small game with one. food prep, carving,spreading butter, cutting wild roses for the mrs. when out fishing, it just dont do well at mumbly peg:)
 
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This was hard to do, since I enjoy all my knives for various reasons, some more for one reason or another, but none really stand out at first thought...

But I guess my favorite would have to be my Case Circle C bluegrass bone peanut... Simply because after almost 9 years, I still have it, still carry it, and still use it. It's survived a few knife purges, and my swings from traditional to modern knives, and back again. Was even still carried for a couple years where 99% of what I had and used was modern designs.

To stay on that long in my rotating and evolving preferences, I gotta say it must be my favorite. :)

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Production: Case-Bose Tribal Spear with ebony scales.
Custom: Dennis Bradley riff on a Buck 112 with mammoth tooth scales.
 
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