There Can Be Only One (Traditional knives, please)

JohnDF said:
Okay, here's the deal...
The Kurgan is coming to confiscate all your knives and you only have time to hide one knife. That will be the only knife you have from this day forward. Which knife from your current collection do you choose to save?
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Hmm, I should consider I might need to behead another Immortal. So without my WWII Kai Gunto, Cold Steel machete, repro model 1796 Spanish Cavalry sword, or some sort of heavy shovel, I'm going to have to go with this one:

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It's a hefty one. Special edition, sterling silver fitted, high carbon steel leuku by Heimo Roselli. I've done some chopping, splitting, food prep, and carving with it. I love this thing!

Zieg
 
btb01 said:
Dang it! You beat me to the joke (except mine was going to be a GEC #46 Whaler, hollowed out -- never mind how -- to conceal several of my favorite knives). Yours certainly makes more sense, you know, realistically speaking. :D
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Your idea is definitely funnier, but I found it important to be realistic in this exercise :)

To answer the question though, it's a really tough one. My tan jigged bone #15 TC sheepfoot may be my favorite knife overall, but I have a blue #79 & a gifted #92 that would give it a run for its money.

Oh, I forgot about my Lionsteel Doms, and other TCs, and other #92s....

Never mind. I failed this challenge.
 
In the shadows a lone hillbilly patiently waits...watching....waiting....after the kurgen has taken all blades before him and as the kurgen comes to that which he believes is the last, he launches into the inevitable monologue. The hillbilly knows its time, his father taught him how to walk silently under a shagbark hickory to take even the watchful tattletail bushytails unawares, he has stood up and frightened the whitetail only 5 yards away, satisfied in the knowledge he COULD have taken him. This blathering bafoon has no chance, no idea of the danger. Until the arm that swings a 22 ounce framing hammer day in and day out, swings the razor sharp tramotina machete. PING! Poor kurgen, lost his head, after all there can only be one! Now the hillbillies knife collection is complete! Muuwha ha ha ha !
Seriously theatrics aside, as much as I like a folder be hard to give up the 119, but a good solid 4 inch lockback would be the ticket I think. However I don't have one at the moment. I must correct this deficiencyo_O
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
In the shadows a lone hillbilly patiently waits...watching....waiting....after the kurgen has taken all blades before him and as the kurgen comes to that which he believes is the last, he launches into the inevitable monologue. The hillbilly knows its time, his father taught him how to walk silently under a shagbark hickory to take even the watchful tattletail bushytails unawares, he has stood up and frightened the whitetail only 5 yards away, satisfied in the knowledge he COULD have taken him. This blathering bafoon has no chance, no idea of the danger. Until the arm that swings a 22 ounce framing hammer day in and day out, swings the razor sharp tramotina machete. PING! Poor kurgen, lost his head, after all there can only be one! Now the hillbillies knife collection is complete! Muuwha ha ha ha !
Seriously theatrics aside, as much as I like a folder be hard to give up the 119, but a good solid 4 inch lockback would be the ticket I think. However I don't have one at the moment. I must correct this deficiencyo_O
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And I gotta get a 119!
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
In the shadows a lone hillbilly patiently waits...watching....waiting....after the kurgen has taken all blades before him and as the kurgen comes to that which he believes is the last, he launches into the inevitable monologue. The hillbilly knows its time, his father taught him how to walk silently under a shagbark hickory to take even the watchful tattletail bushytails unawares, he has stood up and frightened the whitetail only 5 yards away, satisfied in the knowledge he COULD have taken him. This blathering bafoon has no chance, no idea of the danger. Until the arm that swings a 22 ounce framing hammer day in and day out, swings the razor sharp tramotina machete. PING! Poor kurgen, lost his head, after all there can only be one! Now the hillbillies knife collection is complete! Muuwha ha ha ha !
Seriously theatrics aside, as much as I like a folder be hard to give up the 119, but a good solid 4 inch lockback would be the ticket I think. However I don't have one at the moment. I must correct this deficiencyo_O
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That's some machete. I've never seen one anywhere near razor sharp.
 
kamagong said:
That's some machete. I've never seen one anywhere near razor sharp.
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Tramotina uses good steel, then I thin the bevel a bit with a file, then progressively finer diamond stones..I can shave hair from my arm with most of the blade. I'm the guy that other people ask to sharpen things for them. The last 3-4 inches of the tip of a machete should remain blunt as your cutting brush low it will constantly be hitting the dirt. Plus you can use it to dig with in a pinch.
 
meako said:
Oh hang on...
I always thought when Ramirez says "there can be only one! " he was talking about his ability to act as as any nationality using only one accent.....
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Yeah a Frenchman plays a Scot and a Scot plays a Spaniard. Guess back in the 80's as long as it was "foreign" sounding it didn't mattero_O
 
kamagong said:
That's some machete. I've never seen one anywhere near razor sharp.
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My marbles / imicasa machetes sure aren't, not all the way up anyways.
They came dang near razor sharp and are still about as sharp up till the last 5 inches or so, I keep the sweet spot a bit blunt for the dirty work they see.

Btw a machete is not a knife so I'd say based on the OP's wording I think those would still be hanging in the garage.
As would the axes and hatchets...ect.
 
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