Everyones favorite knife

I used to go through about a folder every 2 months ... then about 5 years ago, I plunked the change down for a Chris Reeve small Sebenza ... http://www.chrisreeve.com/sebenza.htm ... every once in a while I'll glance at a new design, but I've stayed faithful ;)

Fixed ... I roll my own from ATS-34 bar stock ... here is my current favorite:
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Folder for EDC is the CRKT M16-00KE.

Fixed, most useful has been a little Kabar skinner with guthook.
Fixed nicest but not used yet is my present from my husband...see attached pic.
 

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Got a blue zillion folders, but seem to carry the same ol' Sebenza and Emerson Commander every day. My favorite fixed blade for campsite chores is my McCann Puffin Magnum. I love that knife. :)
 
A gerber folding knife, my bro handed down to me. 2 weeks later he wanted it back. NOOOO WAY, its mine.

ive been pretty happy with gerber, I think ill stick with em.
 
Current daily carry is a CRKT KISS with the paritally serrated Wharncliffe blade. Small, discrete and it handles all of the cutting chores I routinely encounter. Used to carry a CRKT M16-03 carbon fiber, but I screwed around and left it laying in a pile of papers and my wife threw it out by mistake. I paid $30 for an $80 knife and it got thrown out!!!!!! :mad:

When I feel like carrying something different it's either a CRKT Mirage with the clip removed or a Cold Steel Voyager XL with a fully serrated Tanto blade. The Cold Steel is 12" long when open, but it fits my hand great and is surprisingly easy to carry. It is also the only knife I own that has drawn blood, one was a small cut on my finger, the other was a 1" cut under my eye that required 12 stitches (the last one was on the top of my bottom eyelid). It was a b'day gift from my wife....lol.


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This is about as "Off-Topic" as I have ever strayed ... but has anyone else checked out Kelsey's webpage (url in the signature in the previous post)? In addition to the products that he carries ... which include Browning knives ... there ... I got back on topic ;) he has some REALLY well written articles there ... I just read a couple and was impressed enough to comment. Great Job! I especially like the response to PETA ... I think that too many of us haven't really thought about the best way to respond to that part of the population that has never left their urban environment and therefore doesn't understand the beauty of the hunting experience.

Thanks Kelsey ...

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Hmmmm. . . . maybe the moderator should participate in the thread, huh?

My fav folder is my Spyderco Native III. I had an original Native that was my first Spydie, and I loved it dearly, but I left it in my wife's car one night and it happened to be the night some kid ripped off her stereo and my pocket knife. Last year a good friend had a new Native III sent to me, and let me tell ya, they've only improved the thing. I loved my old one, but this holds an edge better (better steel) is much more comfortable to use, and the clip is about a hundred times better (frankly, the old style clip was an annoyance at times.)

Fixed blade? Alan Folts "Mantis." It's not really a utilitarian knife, but I use a folder for most of that anyway. It's very good at what it's designed to do, which is hide out almost anywhere on your person, weigh next to nothing, and yet give a very good poking/slicing blade with a hand-filling, secure, ergonomic grip.
 
Fixed- i still pack Kabar USMC
Folding- I like kershaw, currently carrying a Blackout but i had a Whirlwind. I liked the clip pointed Whirlwind better.
 
I've got fancier folders, but my Gerber EZ out has dressed out my last 3 or 4 deer with no muss, no fuss. I'm sure the Beretta or Spyderco would work well too.

Kershaw makes some light, inexpensive fixed blade knives with great ergonomics and nonskid grip. The skinner works like a dream.
 
My folder is a Emerson CQC-7B.

Belt knife is a Randall #1. Compressed leather washer handle, Nickel silver buttcap with leather thong.
 
I alternate between a CRKT M16 and a CRKT Ryan 7 as the knife that's ALWAYS in my pocket. I've also always got a leatherman wave in my car.
 
my favorate knifes are definatly benchmade but i carry a gerber carbon fiber with an ats34 ser. blade. i love to carry this model because its pretty thin and im able to easily slide my hand in and out of the pocket with it in there. i like em so much i just got another one today for backup. they retail for $100 and i got it off ebay for $40. you really should try one of these gems if you can find them, theyre discontinued.
 
Never liked my SOG Flash. I like my ACFK, black 4". Very easy to slip in the front pocket, slim yet grippy. However now a PM9 lives in that pocket by itself, so I'm down to carrying a Sodbuster Jr. in my back pocket.
 
Folder - usually either a Microtech full sized Socom or Amphibian.

Fixed - Randall Model 15 w/5.5" carbon steel blade. In town, AG Russell Sting integral.
 
Folder: CRK Small Sebenza

Fixed: Don't really have a favorite. I do like my Kathleen Tomey Day Hiker, but I haven't carried it enough to determine if I "really" like it.

The Sebenza has ruined me on any folder short of "pretty" slipjoints. I was at Smoky Mtn Knifeworks this weekend and I barely looked at any knives. I ended up buying a Gerber pocket steel and a jar of pickled okra.

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My latest addition and current favorite is the "Rattweiler" from Swamp Rat Knife Works www.swampratknifeworks.com

It sports a 7 1/2 X 1/4 inch blade of SR 101 high carbon steel, black crinkle finish, OD green micarta grips, a skullcrusher pommel and a lanyard hole (mandatory, IMO). It came with a cordura sheath with kydex stiffener and was $200 - it is one outstanding bladefor the money!! I would HIGHLY recommend it to all!

I also have a Cold Steel Recon Scout that I have used for years - it has a 7 1/2 X 5/16 inch blade of carbon V steel. It is one tough mother and will hold an edge that will not only shave, but will put a rug burn on your forearm! It can be had for around the $100 - 120 range.

I have never had a problem with rust or corrosion on a carbon steel blade here in the midwest U.S. climate; they sharpen much easier than stainless and will take a sharper, finer edge, IMO.

If I were headed to Panama or a similar climate, I might opt for Chris Reeves' Green Beret knife - it is made of his own blend of steel called "crucible steel" which is a type of stainless; if I were going to take a carbon steel blade to the subtropics or tropics, I'd take a small tin of thick grease (not oil, it's too thin) and keep a thin coat of it on the blade to ward off corrosion and not worry about it.
 
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