How about your 10 all-time favorite knives? 5 you already own and 5 you're sure to own one day?

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The title says it all.

Your 10 favorite knives -- 5 you already own, and 5 you're sure to own one day. If you've pretty much got everything you want, then your top 10 from your existing collection. Thanks.
 
Already own:
  1. Buck General 120
  2. Microtech Halo VI
  3. Hogue EXA01
  4. Buck 110
  5. Victorinox Swiss Army Hiker
Plan to own one day:
  1. Case Bowie
  2. Cold Steel Magnum Tanto II
  3. Glock Field Knife FM 81
  4. Case Trapper
  5. Benchmade Infidel
 
Own:
Buck 119
Opinel # 3
USMC fighting knife
Benchmade Barrage
Dozier Small Personal

^^^ How did SAK officer model miss top 5? Sentiment I guess....

Want:
Randall SS Model 7 (it's shipping in January)
A.G. Russell sting
Case carbon steel full sized trapper
Buck stockman
A good kukri
 
Own(ed): Benchmade 730 Ares, Spyerco Delica, Eight Dollar Mountain Foundary Smatchet, Cold Steel Safe Keeper I, Benchmade 42 Balisong.

Want: Spyderco Endura Wharnecliffe, Benchmade Griptilian Tanto, Benchmade Morpho Balisong, ESEE Junglas, Cold Steel OSS
 
Have: Esee Nessmuk, Beretta Seki City Harpoon, Becker BK-16, Klaas Kissing Crane Anniversary red bone whittler, Kershaw Trooper (Hattori), Gerber folding sportsman III
Want: Hogue Ritter RSK, SAK red alox pioneer, Giant Mouse Ace Grand, White River Ursus 45, Graham spear point hunter.
 
Have: Becker BK2, Buck 105, 110, 119, 124, Case XX USMC fighting knife and many more The only thing I want is a Randell Smithsonian Bowie
 
Sorry, tried to answer but I cannot narrow it down to my 5 favorite knives :(

My most recent 2 are a Helle Harding Puuko and a Jeo-Tec #29 bushcraft knife with ancient olivewood handle:

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I wanted a working EDC knife that I didn't have to worry about dinging up. The blade is 4.92 inches MOVA-58 stainless (.2" thick) and is likely OEM'd in quantity (China ?) as I have seen similar blades from other companies. I was intrigued by the ancient olivewood handle and I think it is purty. The knife is assembled by Jeo-Tec in Spain and retailed for $125 on Amazon.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B085WB23QT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 
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C5C1E8A4-B0CD-4007-A73D-2945BDD9AD0A.jpeg 442123A5-0DDC-4BE5-A4C3-BE18C1960E96.jpeg 5F96594B-0544-47EF-9DF9-A22513AAEFC0.jpeg I have been into guns since the early 1950’s but only recently became interested in knives when a friend gave me some collectible knives. My knowledge of what’s collectible, values and what will appeal to me is limited so don’t take me as some knife guru.

These four are knives I own.

A Gladstone Marble’s #45 “Ideal” made between 1923 and 1936.
Three Puukko types
Brusletto from Norway, 6"
Lissakki Jarvenpaa from Finland, 5-3/4"
Haugrud from Norway, 4"

I’ve been doing a lot of research and a Buck 119 and 103 look like winners and I really like the puukko types from Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Much research and shopping as I form my taste in knives.
 
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Gerber Magnum. Christmas gift when I was about 15. Carried it a long time.

Woods knife. A trade with a dear friend years ago.

An old SAK Tinker. My first “real” pocket knife. My mom bought it for me at the knife store at Ala Moana mall.

Spyderco Delica. Used all day. Every day.

The Classic Sebenza. Just an extraordinary knife. 5EC0515A-8E42-4D0F-862A-8A0745C4622D.jpeg

James Crowell Bowie. My first handmade knife.

A Trench dagger my dad brought home from WWII.

A Lile Sly II. Picked it up from Jimmy at the Market Hall gun show.

A Randall #1. ‘Cause it’s the iconic Randall.

A well worn Air Force jet pilot knife. Carried that on my SWAT gear for about 15 years. 645FC6CA-6623-49EC-B0F9-D31C85968A62.jpeg

I’ve been blessed in the world of knives, way more than I need or deserve.

(Actually, I’ve just been blessed all around most of my life)

I really had to try and come up with “favorites”. Some are favorites because of the story or the memory they have for me.
 
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Owned:
  1. Case Bowie
  2. Cold Steel Outdoorsman
  3. Cold Steel Recon 1
  4. Cold Steel Gunsite
  5. Cold Steel Espada

Want:
  1. Cold Steel Sisu
  2. Cold Steel Espada (nice one)
  3. Cold Steel Colossus
  4. Essee Cleaver
  5. Bill Bagman Helles Belle bowie
 
Danwin22 said:
...Much research and shopping as I form my taste in knives.
Click to expand...

That's very interesting. I've done that for years -- decades really, when it comes to firearms. I finally hit a point, where I felt I had all the guns I really desired. I'll still buy some if the right deal presents itself -- something I can't walk away from, but the days of coveting firearms I wanted to own, rather than actually enjoying the ones I do own is at an end (it didn't happen until I hit triple digits), and I like that feeling a lot.

Though my knife collection is actually older than my gun collection, it's minuscule and shallow in comparison. I'm focusing on the "foundational knives" -- much as I did with firearms, years ago. There's about 15-20 that I would like to add to my collection. It's this process of searching and discovery that's refining my own tastes in knives. It's amazing how some knives stay on the list until purchased (e.g. Buck 110), while other might last a week on the list (e.g. Cold Steel Chaos.)
 
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