What knives would you include on an all-time landmark/watershed knife list?

[SanLuisObispo]

What knives would you include on an all-time landmark/watershed knife list? Knives along the lines of:

• KA-BAR USMC Combat Knife
• Buck 110 Folder
• JRM Barlow Knife
• Case Trapper

Thanks much.

 

[USMCPOP]

- A Mora knife. They currently make around 3 million blades per year.

- Collins machete of some sort. At one point they were making around 3.5 million per year.

 

[fishface5]

I think that the Benchmade Griptilian and Spyderco Paramilitary 2, while not as old or iconic as the others listed, deserve recognition as really redefining excellence in working folders.

 

[Random Dan]

SAK Soldier

Bob Loveless drop point hunter

Randall (not sure which model)

Spyderco C01 Worker

 

[CuttnStuff]

Benchmade AFCK
Chris Reeve Sebenza

These blew my mind when I first saw them in magazines. Had to have both of them. I think these both had a huge influence on modern folders.

 

[MolokaiRider]

Mora Companion Robust or 2000
Buck 110
Tramontina machete
Becker BK9
Spyderco Delica
Benchmade Griptillian
SAK
Cold Steel Recon 1

 

[goldie]

One of the old puma folders like the Emporer or Prince,or wood handled models,game warden,,maybe their White Hunter model,too.

 

[not2sharp]

Cold steel tanto
Randall model 1
Buck 110
Buses Steel Heart

n2s

 

[Ruari]

Cold Steel Recon Tanto
Ka Bar 1217/USMC
SOG CISO bowie
Randall Model 1
Sykes-Fairbairn
Ek Commando

Buck 110
SAK
Cold Steel Voyager
Spyderco Endura

 

[SanLuisObispo]

• Opinel Knife

• Svord Peasant Knife

 

[Eli Chaps]

When you say landmark/watershed I think of knives that forever altered or made a huge impact on the knife industry overall. Not super cool knives.

Any such list that doesn't include the Spyderco C01 Worker would be terribly incomplete.

Barlow should also be added.

Maybe Kephart.

Surely the 110 belongs there.

I'd say Bowie but that's such a controversial subject that I'll let others sort that out.

Chris Reeves.

Whatever the first flipper was.

Spydero Maxamet (although it may have issues, it proved what a factory could do if they are dedicated)

 

[abcdef]

Smatchet. Maybe.

 

[USMCPOP]

I wonder how many Boy Scout pocket knives were made over the years? Or the Army equivalent with the metal scales.

 

[wackafew]

Marbles Ideal and woodcraft

 

[gamma_nyc]

Buck 110
Sebenza
Spyderco Shaman
Emerson CQC-7
Benchmade balisong
Microtech Scarab
Randall model 7
Kabar USMC
Cold Steel Master Tanto
Hinderer xm-18/24
Leatherman
Swiss Army Knives

 

[jideta]

SAK
Jimmy Lile Rambo 1
Spyderco Clipit
Al Mar SERE
Buck 110

 

[sabre cat]

Victorinox Soldier/Pioneer, Spartan, and Cadet.

Spyderco Endura, Delica, PM2

Buck 110, 112, Stockman, fixed blade.

Military ‘Demo’ knife.

 

[sabre cat]

The big question is this, if you could only place one knife from each manufacturer, what would you place on the list?

For me, Buck’s would be the 110.
For Victorinox, it must be the Alox Soldier/Pioneer.

 

[byjiminy]

When you asked “of all time” I wondered, how did it begin?

Stone core and flake from Lokalalei, Kenya, about 2.3 million years old
Image Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/stone-tools/early-stone-age-tools

 

[SanLuisObispo]

When you say landmark/watershed I think of knives that forever altered or made a huge impact on the knife industry overall. Not super cool knives.

Any such list that doesn't include the Spyderco C01 Worker would be terribly incomplete.

Barlow should also be added.

Maybe Kephart.

Surely the 110 belongs there.

I'd say Bowie but that's such a controversial subject that I'll let others sort that out.

Chris Reeves.

Whatever the first flipper was.

Spydero Maxamet (although it may have issues, it proved what a factory could do if they are dedicated)

Thanks. As you note, I meant knives that have had a huge impact. Not merely cool knives.

I included the Barlow (by the John Russell Cutlery Co., no less) on the the first posting.