What is your grail knife and do you own it?

Deino said:
This is my grail knife. It's a rather inexpensive custom, but it carry a dream from its maker, which has my respect it and consider this is my grail.
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Info please!!!
 
Walter Brend #2 but I don't own one as they cost so much. I'd be willing to take one though if someone was going to donate to my Brend #2 donation cause. 😀
 
Matt Behnke said:
Nice, I like the patina finish you did on that, and glad to see you were able to get those bolsters chamfered out nicely. Hope you get some good work out of it!
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You should be proud of this knife. Its not easy to make such a big blade by hand on belts and keep the lines relatively straight and parallel. You succeded where another maker with quite a few more years of experience failed.

Bit better pictures. The stainless bolsters provide a nice third contrast with the tang steel and elk grips. The Caswells solution will tone bright freshly polished stainless down a little and make it look like it has had a decade or so to mellow. If youve ever tried to polish a scratch out of an older stainless knife you know what I mean.

The knifes so big my crappy cell phone camera makes it look curved.

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Dont own it but would like a AD20 MG with the slot in 20cv or other stainless. Will get one someday but not going to pay over the price you can get one from Anderw Demko.
 
Kragnut said:
You should be proud of this knife. Its not easy to make such a big blade by hand on belts and keep the lines relatively straight and parallel. You succeded where another maker with quite a few more years of experience failed.

Bit better pictures. The stainless bolsters provide a nice third contrast with the tang steel and elk grips. The Caswells solution will tone bright freshly polished stainless down a little and make it look like it has had a decade or so to mellow. If youve ever tried to polish a scratch out of an older stainless knife you know what I mean.

The knifes so big my crappy cell phone camera makes it look curved.

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I appreciate that feedback! I never heard of that Caswell stuff before, but will have to keep it in mind. Glad you're happy with the knife, and let me know if you ever need anything!
 
I have been in pursuit of a knife for about 18 years, with on and off again periods of actively trying to find it. It is a Small CRK Pheasant Tail Sebenza. Unfortunately, a lot of other people also want one of these.

I do not own it. (Yet.)

I first saw it in high school, at a long-gone shop, who had a few locations in local malls. They sold a lot of big names (Spyderco, Benchmade, Kershaw, CRK, Microtech (manuals), William Henry, and more). I saw this knife in the case and it caught my eye. I knew very little of knives then, but I totally loved it. Well, this company sold all of their knives at and often above MSRP. Needless to say, they didn't move a lot of merchandise, and eventually went out of business. When they went out of business, they started selling everything (including CRK) for deep discounts, and I decided to buy this knife (mind you, I was in high school, so this was a huge purchase for me.) Sadly, I went to the location closest to my house and it was already sold. I went to the other locations and they were sold there as well.

Since then, I have bought a lot of CRKs (I bought my first, a Small Classic wood inlay, not too long after failing to get the Pheasant Tail), and I carry a CRK every day. However, my desire to own and carry one of these has persisted, no other knife has ever fully satisfied that desire, and at different points in time I've actively worked on finding one. At one point, I expanded my interest to a large given the rarity of this design, but I almost always carry a small in my pocket.

One day the stars will align and I will have a Small (ideally lightly used) CRK Pheasant Tail Seb in my pocket!

This is not my picture, and it is a large (instead of a small), but I think this illustrates why I like it so much as it is just beautiful.
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I wish I could insert a photo but I'm afraid I don't have the skill with the computer at this time but I've had two Henckel Mushrat knives in life and used them up. Cleaning small game. I've been trying to find another one for over 20 years and today I got it done. I found one on eBay and won it. It's not new (not been honed) but in good condition according to the photo. All these knives with photos are beautiful and I'm sure there very good knives. I'm proud of the Henckel.
 
Just joined the knife community over the summer and I can spend all day reading posts and looking at pics of awesome knives. At this stage in my journey, I've only purchased production knives. I have a few grails with the Rockstead Higo at the top. But know as I get into the world of customs that could change quickly.

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chanvic said:
Just joined the knife community over the summer and I can spend all day reading posts and looking at pics of awesome knives. At this stage in my journey, I've only purchased production knives. I have a few grails with the Rockstead Higo at the top. But know as I get into the world of customs that could change quickly.

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I should add that I don't own any of the grails on my list. Just pics of them. 😄
 
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