Your most impressive knife?

Blues said:
The most impressive knife I own is one built on a dare by Ken Erickson.

One day while we were having one our many phone conversations, Ken was telling me that he was looking for a new challenge and was uncertain as to what to pursue.

I pulled out a vintage Remington catalog and sent him an image of a button lock Norfolk whittler and told him that if it was a challenge he was looking for, this would be it.

I completely forgot about having thrown down the gauntlet and some months later when we hooked up at the Blade Show, he presented me with the knife you see here. Built entirely via his own ingenuity...with no plans, schematics, drawings or blueprints.

To say that I was blown away would be to put it mildly. Ken's true genius was forever revealed by his ability to create this knife from a simple image sent from a catalog. It is beautiful, functional, mechanically perfect and a great representation of the artist who built it.

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My mind is officially blown. I'm flabbergasted! I would kill to have this knife!!!! It's gorgeous and the story... just wow. You and this Ken guy are pretty cool dudes, I gotta say. Yes sir indeed, that is an extremely impressive knife. Blows all mine out of the water! Thank you for taking the time to post and share that amazing story. Simply wow!
 
Rassenti Druid
Framelock. Integral. S90V. Over the past 10 years, it's been used to score/cut sheetrock, cut/strip wire, cut/whittle wood trim, etc.
I've never had to disassemble it, just rinsed and blown out with canned air.
Zero blade play, lockup hasn't moved since I got it, flicks open, drops shut (which I admit, not too keen of). The pivot screw has never loosened, no loctite.
I've stropped the edge from time to time, that's about it.
It wasn't cheap, on par with other customs of the time, but it is superlative.
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NeverEnuff said:
All a matter of perspective.

WE, Reate, Bestech, Kansept all do some pretty mind blowing stuff for a cost below anything even remotely close to something even generic and basic, but made in USA.

For instance, my WE Highfin is a lot more impressive to me than my Tactile Rockwall. Pretty sure the Highfin was $100 less too. Also, I don't use my knives. So impressive to me is all about design aesthetics and the smoothness of the action.
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You don't use your knives?

So, you are Trolling?

Deliberately trying to create a divide.

You can be Pro-Chinese made if you want.

You can be Anti-American made if you want.

However, do not promote the former by attacking latter.

Your science will lose: you won't know anything about any knife until you use each many, many times.
 
Delgadonine said:
You don't use your knives?

So, you are Trolling?

Deliberately trying to create a divide.

You can be Pro-Chinese made if you want.

You can be Anti-American made if you want.

However, do not promote the former by attacking latter.

Your science will lose: you won't know anything about any knife until you use each many, many times.
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Not at all. My most impressive knife was from what I think is a German company (unless I'm mistaken there), so I'm confused by your response here. I just offered up a couple of examples as to why one might select something that is impressive to them and showing that, as far as I'm concerned there's no reason or choice that's off limits, i just wanted to see the knives and hear the reasons without filter. Again it's all in perspective. No opinion is wrong, they're just opinions based solely on taste. Not sure why you're trying to make this something its not. I'm not anti American made, not even in the slightest. Also I didn't attack anything. You may want to reread things without whatever evil voice or intent your applying to me and my words. It isn't there. I own many USA made knives as well. I just find a better value for money in the high end Chinese stuff sometimes. Clearly not all the time though...
 
NeverEnuff said:
For whatever reason...

Maybe it's Chinese, but built better than anything USA made you've ever handled.
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How do you know which American made knives I've handled? More importantly, used!? There are more knife makers in the USA that I could ever get to know or would even become aware of. My apologies to them!

I believe your opening statement has serious flaws and you are falling through the cracks of your own making.

Use a knife.
Understand it.
Talk about.

Posts, threads, topics that follow these three easy steps meet less division and opposition.
 
NeverEnuff said:
Not at all. My most impressive knife was from what I think is a German company (unless I'm mistaken there), so I'm confused by your response here. I just offered up a couple of examples as to why one might select something that is impressive to them and showing that, as far as I'm concerned there's no reason or choice that's off limits, i just wanted to see the knives and hear the reasons without filter. Again it's all in perspective. No opinion is wrong, they're just opinions based solely on taste. Not sure why you're trying to make this something its not. I'm not anti American made, not even in the slightest. Also I didn't attack anything. You may want to reread things without whatever evil voice or intent your applying to me and my words. It isn't there. I own many USA made knives as well. I just find a better value for money in the high end Chinese stuff sometimes. Clearly not all the time though...
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Boker Plus line is made in China, not Germany. Just or clarity.

NeverEnuff said:
All a matter of perspective.
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Indeed.
 
Delgadonine said:
How do you know which American made knives I've handled? More importantly, used!? There are more knife makers in the USA that I could ever get to know or would even become aware of. My apologies to them!

I believe your opening statement has serious flaws and you are falling through the cracks of your own making.

Use a knife.
Understand it.
Talk about.

Posts, threads, topics that follow these three easy steps meet less division and opposition.
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Sorry but I made no statements. I only posed a query. I clearly said maybe this, or maybe that, whatever the case I want to know. That's not a statement about anything by any definition of the term. I'm really not sure where the heck you're coming from with all of this, but you're simply and entirely wrong here. But no worries I can solve that. A simple blocking and voila... gone is the bad guy.
 
unwisefool said:
Like you don't use ANY knives whatsoever, or just don't use specific knives you bought to collect/display/ whatever?
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To be complete, I rarely use any pocket knife. I don't need to. The only knives I use on any frequent basis are kitchen knives. I carry a knife everyday, because I like the idea of having one on me. But I almost never need one. I keep a box cutter at work. A knife in my car. And have about 50 knives I alternate carrying. I think I maybe use one of all those once every 6 months.
 
NeverEnuff said:
Interesting, but means nothing to me because I'm not a racist.
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You seem to be very careful to parse your words and then defend yourself against perceived criticisms offered by others.

Yet, you throw out racism as the purpose for someone's correcting an error, and making a simple statement of fact.

If, in fact, the individual you wrongly chided did not like that line of knives, there would be several other reasons beyond racism that could account for such.

This thread is closed, and I suggest you tread carefully in future...both with the threads you open, and your assumptions about the intentions of others.
 
I'm going to reopen the thread since D DMG wanted to explore the general topic further with the proviso that we leave geopolitical discussion out of it.

So, let's do it, and please make an effort to not make me regret rethinking the closure.

Thanks.
 
In addition to the K2, I picked up a Magnacut Sebenza. Plain because I like the titanium and the simplicity but also because I feel like I could put it down somewhere and hundreds of years later, someone could pick it up and start using it like no time had passed.


That whittler that Blues has is amazing and the story of how it came to be is even more awesome.
 
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