Your most impressive knife?

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19-3ben said:
My most impressive knife has nothing to do with looks, or geography or anything else. It’s entirely in the utility of it.

My Good Knife Co, Michigan Utility Knives as designed by @bikerector are my most impressive. I have one built by @David Mary and another by @JK Knives. They are impressive to me because I have used them in bushcrafting, wood processing, food prep, general household chores, yard/landscaping etc… and the design just plain works. Amazingly versatile design.

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This is a great looking knife!!!
 
\My least impressive knife:

Sometimes you don't ant to be known for the knife you wear. Back in the 1990s, I had the rare opportunity to go with a friend trap alligators in south Louisiana. He told me to bring a "good sharp knife". I had no idea what to expect except that I we would be in the deep swamp land around Morgan City. I knew that I would stand out as either a Yankee (from Michigan), a Texan (my license plates) or as eCollege Boy". I decided that I didn't need to look like I'd just maxed out my Gold Card at LL Bean. So I went to Kroger and got a four inch kitchen knife from Old Henry. St6raight, carbon steel, riveted wood handle and all. Found a scuffed old purse at Goodwill and cut it up to make a Sheth. Looked like I'd had it for thirty years. Met some folks who, today, could be on "Swamp People" (seriously). They did notice me for being a a Yankee-College-Boy-Living-In-Texas . . .but no one took any notice of my knife.
 
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The thought of this mastodon walking around a bizillion years ago appeals to me.IMG_3325.jpeg
What I lack in photo skills, I make up for with boring stories.
When new, I was showing it to several guys at a party. A young lady set on me with accusations of poaching, ivory smuggling, cruelty to animals, enslaving indigneous people and sneakiness in general.
A dedicated Karen never lets facts interfere with a proper meltdown.
 
NeverEnuff said:
Most, but this one is my most recent and haven't gotten around to it. The Sebenza I just hate so much I don't want record of me owning it yet. I made a major mistake getting the Micarta inlay version and have since learned that I deeply loathe micarta, both in look and feel. I've got a replacement scale on order that I'm praying I'll like, but they guy apparently takes months to do it so I'm waiting patiently. But for you I'll snap one today off the two together for size. I think the Boker is a bit smaller if I recall.

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I agree that these micarta versions can’t match the awesome looks of a plain Jane titanium 21/31. For some reason they are more expensive and Easier to find. At least in my experience. But when I do finally get a CRK, I’d like it to be a Large, plain Jane drop point.
 
tony281sc2 said:
Lol hey now I didn’t say “awful”… but the bottom 2 in that pic are better looking IMO
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I can't disagree...everyone likes what they like. I do like the way they feel in hand quite a bit. And I never had any with inlays (or MagnaCut) previously.
 
Blues said:
The most impressive knife I own is one built on a dare by Ken Erickson.

One day while we were having one of 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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I knew people were wrong for hating the Ferrum Forge Buc's blade profile!
 
VorpelSword said:
\My least impressive knife:

Sometimes you don't ant to be known for the knife you wear. Back in the 1990s, I had the rare opportunity to go with a friend trap alligators in south Louisiana. He told me to bring a "good sharp knife". I had no idea what to expect except that I we would be in the deep swamp land around Morgan City. I knew that I would stand out as either a Yankee (from Michigan), a Texan (my license plates) or as eCollege Boy". I decided that I didn't need to look like I'd just maxed out my Gold Card at LL Bean. So I went to Kroger and got a four inch kitchen knife from Old Henry. St6raight, carbon steel, riveted wood handle and all. Found a scuffed old purse at Goodwill and cut it up to make a Sheth. Looked like I'd had it for thirty years. Met some folks who, today, could be on "Swamp People". They did notice me for being a a Yankee college boy living in Texas . . .but no one took any noticve of my knife.
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when I was reading this, just for a second I thought you were going to say you showed up with a knife in a purse.
 
I have several that I like for different reasons:

The ZT0308 - Black Micarta - USAMadeBlades (an upgrade to the famous Gibbs knife...)
The Spyderco Magnitude (possibly the most expensive production knife they every made)...
The WinterBladeCo Factor - Magnetic Lock (B2)...
The ZT0452CF - USAMadeBlades - Some beautiful anodizing...
and The We Chimera - Crazy and beautiful1

https://imgur.com/a/Q8Sz9JW

All of these have amazing action and are beautiful to me!
 
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