What's the one knife that got away and now you regret it?

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Should have purchased a small Bud Nealy Pesh Kabz knife in the 1990s.
His rare earth magnets and kydex retention system was very innovative.

Just tried navigating to their website. Have learned it has been down a long time.
This model had a variety of scales material from which to choose. All are pretty sweet!

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bannockburn said:
Got another one for you. About this same time as my Van Dyk venture I use to frequent a little cutlery shop that was right across the street from where I worked (convenient to say the least)! Same money dilemma, same wants but can't afford. The objects of my desire this time were both Al Mar knives: a Tanken and a Tanto. Like them both (though I was slightly more inclined to the Tanto); but couldn't afford either of them.

Fast forward some years later and as I'm leaving a gun show I happen to notice two knives of the Tanto variety on display on a table! Not only that they're the Al Mar Tantos I so longingly admired way back when! They're marked as being pre-production models and the price on them is extremely tantalizing (and affordable)! So I picked up the the lower numbered one and went home with my prized Tanto dream finally realized!
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That's a beauty! The difference in quality between that and a Cold Steel version is readily apparent, even to a casual observer.
 
Cold Steel Trail Master. I came close to buying one many times but never have. The prices keep going up and up and up.
 
I passed on a Walter Brend at the NYC knife show in the late 70's I did not want to pay $375.00 at the time, so my partner bought it. I think the last one I saw go at auction went for $3,500.00+
 
I own a Benchmade Ruckus, which was based on the Neil Blackwood Henchman. I once had a chance to buy a Henchman flipper direct from Neil and waited about 30 minutes too long to pull the trigger. I was able to later find a Skirmish, which I also wanted, but regret not piping up sooner when that Henchman was up for sale.
 
hk940 said:
Is he still making knives
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Oh yeah, he's still making knives. Walter and I are friends and he's making as many knives as ever since his collectors and users are world wide. There are two just to the right of me at the moment that were ground a couple of years ago.

His wife has taken up the craft (I have a couple of her knives).

They donated a his and hers set to Knife Rights last year to support the fight and they're donating another pair this year.
 
I sharpened a KA-Bar for a friend of mine years ago, When I handed it to him I told him it was sharp, be careful, he cut himself in less than 30 seconds!
 
I had a Buck Amber bone Trapper that I had Muskratman remove the spey blade, in a hurry thru an airport I had it in my back pocket and ended giving it up to TSA.
 
hso said:
I have the production prototype of it. We tested it here in my woods. It took 12 stitches to close the wound on another guy's fumble that day.
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When I was a small child my Apache medicine man neighbor taught me to let any new-to-me knife "sniff and taste my hand, just like a dog would" before I did anything else with it.
Then the knife would be less likely to bite me later.
I do that in his memory.
Oddly enough, I rarely get cut by any of my knives... .
 
Tied between the Gerber MkII I bought at the PX at Ft. Ord. many years ago when I was stationed there, and and the last (of about 5) Normark Big Swedes that I had. They were very easy to lose.
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My first knife was given to me by my uncle when I was 7 years old, plus/minus. I could only use it initially under his supervision, and he was not tolerant of any handling he thought unsafe. It was a Barlow, similar to the photo below. A few years later I am in the car with my Dad and for some reason I placed the knife on the dashboard, where it promptly slid into the the defroster opening and disappeared forever. We knew where it was, but Dad had no intention or desire to tear apart the car to retrieve it. When I was in my 20s my Dad gave me a replacement Barlow one year at Christmas, and indicated he remembered what happened to the first one. My uncle is gone now and I would like to have that knife, but Dad remembering and replacing it years later takes the sting out of it a little.

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My old Boy Scout knife. Left it at my stepdads and when he passed it was nowhere to be found. Not worth much to everyone else but to me it’s priceless.
 
4570Tom said:
My first knife was given to me by my uncle when I was 7 years old, plus/minus. I could only use it initially under his supervision, and he was not tolerant of any handling he thought unsafe. It was a Barlow, similar to the photo below. A few years later I am in the car with my Dad and for some reason I placed the knife on the dashboard, where it promptly slid into the the defroster opening and disappeared forever. We knew where it was, but Dad had no intention or desire to tear apart the car to retrieve it. When I was in my 20s my Dad gave me a replacement Barlow one year at Christmas, and indicated he remembered what happened to the first one. My uncle is gone now and I would like to have that knife, but Dad remembering and replacing it years later takes the sting out of it a little.

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I had to buy one not that long ago, just because I had one in yesteryear too. Still put it in the pocket fairly regular. They are still cool knives is you ask me. A lot of knife hipsters have new fancy ones too, so we're not alone.
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Not so much got away, but more like
never was
Back during Lynn Thompsons heyday,
they offered a couple of different bladed
wood handle Carbon V butcher type knives
with sheath included. I've always wished
I'd bought a dozen when I had the chance.
I bought a bunch of other Cold Steel
oddities that are probably semi valuable
now, but the utility of them outweighs
any desire to sell them
 
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