favorite knife?

obedriverleather said:
I have 2 favorites, 1st is my F1 the first fallkniven i bought and the first sheath i made for one, and the 2nd is the KFU Willow Camp i recently received from Chris, i have had 2 people want to buy it already, it is just a spectacular knife, the pics do not do this knife justice. Thanks again Chris for the knife and for using a great piece of Cocobolo. Sorry for the crappy pictures, the knives deserve better.
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thats some great leather work! i just picked up an H1 from a guy we both know, gonna have to get with ya on a sheath for it some time.
 
I can't really say. I just have too many even though I sold quite a few lately to fund a new grinder. Right now I'm making myself a little deer hunting knife based on a Schrade Sharpfinger. I'm a big fan on Loveless style hunting knives since they seem to work so well at just about everything within reason.

The two knives I have right now in my hunting bag are a Buck 110 and a Cutco Orange handled serrated blade hunting knife. I hate the hangle geometry, but that serrated blade is a workhorse. As of this year, it has field dressed 6 deer without sharpening. This includes gutting and opening the brisket up to the throat. It has also done a good amount skinning of those 6 also.

I know it's a shame, but I have some nice customs in my safe now including a Bushfinger and a Core Slim Tasker. :( I'm a bad, bad boy but I just can't bring myself to use 'em! But I'm working on it :)

I've retired a few production knives including a Case Orange Handled Blackhorn and a Case Arapahoe.
 
For the last year and a half, I've carried a larger Mora knife I picked up for $15 somewhere. I Shaped the handle a bit and fire-blackened the handle in a fire I

started from a coal I carried OVER A MILE in a piece of chagga for my first serious solo. I've used it daily since then, and its performed well, even when I batonned

with it. The design is OK and I like the price, but I carry it for the memories. Even when I own the knives I'm saving up for and stop carrying that one, it will still be a

special knife to me.
 
Ironwood666 said:
For the last year and a half, I've carried a larger Mora knife I picked up for $15 somewhere. I Shaped the handle a bit and fire-blackened the handle in a fire I

started from a coal I carried OVER A MILE in a piece of chagga for my first serious solo. I've used it daily since then, and its performed well, even when I batonned

with it. The design is OK and I like the price, but I carry it for the memories. Even when I own the knives I'm saving up for and stop carrying that one, it will still be a

special knife to me.
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Much like you I am very fond of my moras. I currently have 8. I use them all the time and often use them as a base line to judge my custom knives by. It's sad sometimes when a $200+ custom cant perform as well as a $15 mora.

That being said my "favorite knife" changes quite a bit. My current favorite is a ML that I picked up from a friend a cpl days ago.
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Have to agree w/ mrn8, right now my ESEE-5 seems to be the one that heads out the door with me when Sally T and I go to visit Mother Nature . . . . but I have a sneaky feeling this will change the first part of next week when one of KFU's very special models finds it way to southwest Ohio . . . . :thumbup: :D :D
Daym, is it Monday yet ??? ??? ???
Be safe.
 
i have an updated answer. i have been taking Tackett's knife into the woods with me throughout hunting season. really liking it.

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Update : . . . . :thumbup:
Folks, the ESEE-5 has been "retired" to the camping bag of "JUSTINCASE" items . . . . and replaced with one of KFU's very own Kephart's that is now and will be forever the "grab & go" when we have to get . . . . :D :D
And on a side note, one of these days, Sally T and I are gonna have to sit down and start learning how to post pictures on here . . . ;)
Be safe.
 
JUST1MOR said:
Update : . . . . :thumbup:
Folks, the ESEE-5 has been "retired" to the camping bag of "JUSTINCASE" items . . . .
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A good place for that one...just in case you need to field dress a Bradley or something...

Don't take that wrong, I have a few RCs/ESEEs myself. Just never saw me humping the 5 around unless I was in an anarchic urban h#ll...
 
Sadly my favorite go to large knife lately is a Cold Steel Trail Master that I got in a trade and had meant to sell. I don't really care for the handle or the sheath, I'm not the world's biggest Lynn Thompson fan (due to the hype), and the hype of their videos simply annoys me to indescribable levels. But with the edge geometry, blade profile, mass, weight distribution, and un-coated blade it cuts through briers and saplings better than any other big knife I have...even longer heavier ones, and doesn't have the flex of machetes that really annoys me, and is shorter. My goal is to some day be able to afford to have one of my friends make a blade with the same shape blade, which I love the shape, (I am a mountain man after all, a Bowie is a requirement to be one :) ) but a different handle material and a different sheath. Pricing this has been depressing...so I just quietly carry the trail master on long treks in deeper woods to do the heavy work, and pair it up with a smaller knife for the photography.
 
Hmm...I think I would go with one of my mora knives honestly. Not pretty, not cool, but they can do anything I ask a knife to do.
 
mistwalker said:
A good place for that one... just in case you need to field dress a Bradley or something...
Don't take that wrong, I have a few RCs/ESEEs myself. Just never saw me humping the 5 around unless I was in an anarchic urban h#ll...
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Mist, point taken . . . and with a chuckle as well . . . :)
Growing up and into my later years, I could never find a small bladed knife that would have a larger handle. Nor could I afford to have someone make a 2"-4" knife with a larger handle. The only ones with larger handles that I could ever find which seemed to fit my hands had blades anywere from 5" to 7", & I just adapted to making them work for just about anything I needed them to do, especially since I grew up on a very isolated 300 acre farm with a lot of daily uses for a knife. You quickly learn to make do with what you have to work with when it is needed.
Funny you mention the Trail Master . . . about 10 years ago, we cound not find our "turkey" knife for Thanksgiving. Sally suggested using one of my knives, so I grabbed my Trail Master . . . . seemed like a good idea at the time & it worked great (see, adapted once again). But being a "gun" guy & not a "knife" guy, I had no idea what a patina was, nor what caused it. All I know is my Trail Master now had this bluish, greenish, goldish, blackish weird pattern all of the blade and no amount of scrubbing, wiping, nor oil would take it off . . . . and it has just got more defined over the years . . . . :D :D
Be safe.
 
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Don't feel too bad about retiring it. Jeff Randall thinks its a pointless knife, but it sells, so they keep making it. I have a Becker Bk2 and it would be what I'd grab if the world went nuts and I wasn't sure I could get another blade anytime soon. But I prefer a thinner ffg blade.

I might have to pick up a Fallkniven sometime in this coming year. Also hoping to get a TN Hunter at some point too. Love that design, Chris!
 
wow this thread is true knife porn :) thanks for starting it Chris!

where I live and spend my time large fixed blades are impractical;
I have carried and used small ones like a BHK Patch or a AGRussell Woodswalker with pleasure and good effect but I usually carry and use folders (don't frown please :) )
I love the blade geometry of the kershaw skyline, very practical and utilitarian with enough thickness I don't have to worry about breaking the tip off (I actually bent it, dropping it from chest height on tile, but it sharpened out nicely)
but if there was only one folder left in the world for me I'd stick with my Opinel #8 Carbone
(and I will probably be getting myself an EKA model of some sorts before long)
 
Ive always liked the trailmaster, wonder how it would work with no bolster....hmmm
 
KFU said:
Ive always liked the trailmaster, wonder how it would work with no bolster....hmmm
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I have a friend that re-handled one with desert iron wood with heavy contours and minus the guard, and it's not bad at all. Mine has a modified guard, guy I got it from removed the upper guard. I'm loving the absence of the upper guard, but if I had a custom made I do think I'd want somewhat of an integral lower guard.
 
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