Knives? Show them here!

[cas]

Nov 7, 2024 17:35:49 GMT -5 squawberryman said:

If a number of knives equates to a level of foolishness, I'll stay out of this.

I'm trying to come to terms with it. For many years I'd buy a relatively "expensive" knife, keep it a few years, then sell it when I bought another. But the search for "this will be the one" continues. But I'm coming to terms with having too many. For a while I found new reasons/excuses. "This one is for muzzle loading, this one is for turkey hunting, with one is for woods bummin'" etc etc. But I've even gone past that. If I have all these hunting rifles (or handguns) and keep buying them, so many so that even brining 3-4 with me every year, it can be 5, 10, 15 years before they ever go hunting again... why should knives be a problem? (being cheaper and taking up less space) Just have a rotation there as well.

I'm referring to fixed blades knives, I've already embraced it for folding knives. ("this one works better with these pants")

[45MAN]

THINKING BACK ON A LIFETIME OF KNIFE PURCHASES A COUPLE OR SO WERE PURPOSE DRIVEN ALL THE TOO MANY REST WERE "want" DRIVEN

[bula]

My G'Pa got me into blades at an early age. I've been a bad influence on nieces, nephews and the next gen of the great nieces and nephews. My older Sis and wife have more than a few non-kitchen knives now too. A nephew recently told me of White River Knives, and one of his to his niece. The damage is done, sigh, LOL ! MidwayUSA gets some of the blame too. Also Field n Stream in Erie. They had a Whiter River Small Game, so got to handle and drool on. But by then I knew which handle and alloy I wanted and held off, also more interested(at the moment) with their Hunter knife, big brother to the Small Game. The proved unavailable in configuration I wanted. So backorder placed with MidwayUSA. So I've been checking MidwayUSA daily to see if backorder status lifted and then make the mistake of scrolling around..and they know my wants by know.. and the Small Game in alloy and handle wanted pops up available ! Click ! Was placed in my hands by UPS folks yesterday. Apparently, there is a level of sharp beyond what I knew. Fit and finish top notch. I LIKE IT. Now await the Hunter version. 

[harveylogan]

Harvey Draper was my neighbor in the early 70’s.
The folder (circa ~1978) was built for my dad,,, that I inherited in 1982,,, the same year Harvey died in an experimental plane crash.
The “Paragon” fixed blade, was most likely from the early 1970’s. The brass end cap considered a “upgrade”.

[bearskinner]

These 2 have been my “users” for 30 or so years as in the field knives. The blades are quite a bit smaller than new due to years of sharpening.

[James]

Keith knife made by Harvey Draper`s son Bart....Knives by John Nelson Cooper

[kevshell]

These aren't custom but they are better than gas station knives. Both Benchmade. So far they are my favorite folders. The wood scaled knife is the smaller Mini Crooked River S30v. Great size and reminds me of a Buck Hunter but I can get this one scary sharp. The other is their full size Adamas with Cruwear blade. I've eyeballed this for a while and "needed" a knife because I flew and could not carry one in a carry on bag therefore I used this as an excuse. I like this one a lot too. It's big but very ergonomic. I've never owned a knife with this steel but I've heard great things.

[kevshell]

This is a nice set I had made by Charles May. Technically there's a 4th knife that's a duplicate of the larger one. These are S30v steel. Really like these as well.

[squawberryman]

Anything Benchmade.

[junebug]

Nov 11, 2024 23:04:46 GMT -5 kevshell said:

This is a nice set I had made by Charles May. Technically there's a 4th knife that's a duplicate of the larger one. These are S30v steel. Really like these as well.

Beautiful set of knives! My eye is constantly drawn to the lower knife, Love that knife!!!

[needsmostuff]

Some more drawers.

Big folders.




Small folders.

[Big Bore]

Nov 11, 2024 23:04:46 GMT -5 kevshell said:

This is a nice set I had made by Charles May. Technically there's a 4th knife that's a duplicate of the larger one. These are S30v steel. Really like these as well.

Those are gorgeous.  Is that Cocobolo?

[kevshell]

Nov 12, 2024 10:40:55 GMT -5 Big Bore said:

Nov 11, 2024 23:04:46 GMT -5 kevshell said:

This is a nice set I had made by Charles May. Technically there's a 4th knife that's a duplicate of the larger one. These are S30v steel. Really like these as well.

Those are gorgeous.  Is that Cocobolo?

Desert ironwood. I had him use that along with black liners and mosaic pins.

[pete]

How about some trappers, my favorite folder pattern. 

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[kings6]

Snakewood by Kim


Musk ox by Kim


Musk ox, ivory and buffalo by Kim


Bighorn by Kim


Dall Sheep by Kim


Ivory by Kim


A set of ivory, cape buffalo and snakewood by Kim. They are setting on a badger that though it could out run the Idaho badger slayer, Sixshot! Silly badger!