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Knife thread, fixed blades, folders let’s see them.

1 by INVICTVS138
Here are some of mine - all of them are users, no safe queens.
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Best knife for the money, IMHO is the humble $20 MORA. I stash them all over - both carbon and stainless.

I most often have a folder on me but the ESEE IZULA is a fixed blade small enough to be comfortable horizontally mounted on a belt.

About half of my knives come with lousy sheaths so I use the opportunity to make new ones.
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5 by BearPaws
I have a knife that may have belonged to my maternal grandfather. The memories are fuzzy, but it may have been a kit of some sort. Maybe some of you who are more knowledgeable can decipher the markings, but I think I see an "Othello" under the figure, and a word I think might be German for steel, followed by "ROSTFREI." I haven't been able to make out the markings on the other side, and might try with some India Ink or similar fluid and better light.

It appears to be of German manufacture ("rostfrei" is, if I'm not mistaken, the German analogy to "stainless"). The scabbard does NOT appear to have been original to the knife, but I've always known them to be together.
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Eventually I'll figure out this signature thing and decide what I want to put here.

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7 by FrontSight
For me, there's only on knife that matters. If I lost this today, I'd have a replacement on order before the sun went down. I use it every day, and I use most of the tools on it every day. It is perfect for my daily needs in every way. The only flaw it has is that its just a little fatter than I would prefer. But since it gets the job done so well, I happily live with it.
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8 by wings
The last time we had one of these threads, I was reminded that Tinker Pearce is a member, if not terribly active here, and also makes custom knives and swords. I decided to look up what he'd been up to. That was an expensive mistake, in the traditional manner of our expensive mistakes. Which is to say I regret nothing.

The single-edged blade is one of his Scagel style custom jobs. I am a terrible sucker for a recurve blade. 5160 is a spring steel, very few carbides, doesn't retain an edge particularly well - but it's very easy to sharpen and among the toughest alloys out there. This is a very thick blade with a convex grind, and has proven very effective as a meat slicer as well as chopper.

The double-edged blade might be one of his, too. I'm not certain, since it doesn't have a maker's mark. I bought it for $20 at a SFF con in the Pacific NW in the mid-90s, and I still regret not picking up a much-nicer stiletto from the same smith. The sheath that came with it is pretty basic, but it looks a lot like some of the more recent examples posted on his website. It's definitely earlier work -the blade point isn't all that symmetrical and the crosspiece isn't either - but then again, I haven't done as good a job maintaining it as it deserves, either. I've had it a quarter century and it was my primary defensive arm for half of that.

The Hunter is there just because this is a gun forum, and it matches the others pretty nicely.
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11 by tonguengroover
Here's the last three blades I've boughten. All around 4 inches or so. That seems to be my feel good size.

The True was at ACE Hardware and a spur of the moment buy. It stays on my range bag/pack.
Next one up is from Garret Wade. They always send me offerings since I buy some gardening tools from them. It has no makers mark, don't know what steel it is but it's as heavy gauge as the SOG Seal Pup above it and very sharp. Has an odd shaped blade. I carry the Garret Wade one as a dress up blade. It just looks sophisticated.
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12 by wings
tonguengroover wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:53 pm That double edged one is nice too. Could it be a throwing knife? Hows the balance?
I've better options for that, but the one time I tried throwing it, I was pleasantly surprised. I was more interested in terminal effect than in-flight ballistics, mind.

I enjoy these threads in general - in part, it's neat just to see which ones people choose to showcase. Sig, I love your style.

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18 by sig230
tonguengroover wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:48 pm Anyone out there have an auto knife? Flip auto or OTF?
I've been wanting one for a long time but cannot get myself to spend 3-400 or a thousand dollars for a good one.
Here is my Y2K example from Whiskers Allen. It is a scale release with no button to open.
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21 by INVICTVS138
FrontSight wrote:My daughter found an old Buck 110 in a sheath. I cleaned it up to nearly new condition, and added it to my collection. I was always a fan of the 110, but never bought one.
I have one. It’s far too heavy and bulky for what you get. Buck has more modern offerings; like the bantam series are much better IMHO. For the weight of a 110 you can be in Fixed blade territory. Plus the clip point and hollow grind aren’t all that great either.
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24 by tonguengroover
sig230 wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:58 pm One of my favorite James Luman knives:

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You have magnificent cutlery sig.

So when we were just young punks like under 12 the Mexican families I hung with went to the border town of Nogales.
There was a huge 4 ft fence. Hehe.
We would hunt down switchblade.
The stiletto knife was a prize find.
They were badly made. Maybe worked a month.
That and ,M-80's
Good ole days.
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