What is the most recent knife you bought?

Driving back from Piedmont, AL to pick up silver lab puppy #4 for wife, I stopped at a Bi-Mart to look for a replacement to Cabela's multi-tool that I needed to "Pay It Forward" during the trip (BIL wanted me to pick up a portable Milwaukee band saw and multi-tool was added to close the deal) and found a new S&W knife at 20% off sale on $21 marked price.

It's S&W Velocite spring assisted folder (1122573) - https://store.smith-wesson.com/tact...te-spring-assisted-folding-knife/1122573.html

It was lighter than Extreme Ops (7Cr17MoV) wife "borrowed forever" and handled well, especially the spring assisted opening produced pleasant "click" lock open. Scheming wife will like the Velocite to perhaps get my EO folder back, I bought 2. When I presented "her" Velocite to my wife, she liked it immediately. When I suggested if I could get the EO back, it was a firm "Hell no". :oops:

One of our lightest EDC pocket knifes. This clip point pocket knife is built with a heavily textured grip and a spring-assisted opening mechanism for a smooth open every time. Solid, sturdy, and an extremely light composition make this knife the perfect addition for an on-the-go carry.
  • Blade Length: 3.38"
  • Overall Length: 7.87"
  • Weight: 0.18lb
  • Blade Material: 8Cr13MoV Stainless Steel
  • Handle Material: Textured Polymer
  • Other Features: Spring assisted opening, Finger flipper, Tip-down pocket clip
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For those curious, here's the puppy #4 I picked up:

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Technically this is not the last knife I bought, since I bought it in April 2019 and it just showed up today, and also it really stretches the definition of 'knife.' It's a knife in the Crocodile Dundee sense. This is the Carothers Performance Knives K18, a collaboration between Nathan Carothers and Dan Keffeler for a chopping competition knife to dominate the short-lived History Channel Show "Knife or Death."

Blade is 18.5" of Delta-protocol heat treat CPM3V, 2.5" wide, 0.2" thick, double-edged with a thicker edge (22 dps) on the front for blowing through blocks of ice, cinder blocks, and heavy crates and a finer edge on the back (18 dps) for slicing through ratchet straps or hanging pig carcasses. Overall it's 28.6" long, and the handle is OD green Tero-tuf over black canvas micarta with a 303 stainless pommel.

Also in the picture is the knife I had in my pocket when I opened it, the GiantMouse ACE Riv, which is... more petite.

This is what came out of the UPS box. What came out of my mouth when I opened it was mostly unintelligible gibberish that might have meant something like "Now that's a knife."

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LiveLife said:
Wow, a long time ... were there communication during the wait?
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Nathan does small batch preorders, there were probably 100 swords ordered. There were some delays, but it was originally supposed to take about a year. Took two, but no regrets, because the pre-order price was $1,175, but the ones getting sold now are all north of $2,000.

It's actually the only pre-order he's had where he ended up being behind.
 
Fillet knife? I understood that laguiole was not a brand or company, but a style of knife popular in France. It's a very attractive specimen all the same.
 
460Shooter said:
Seems like a drop point, sheep’s foot combo to me

It’s all belly and I like that.
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I’ve got a strange one coming that is like a combo drop point sheepsfoot. It’s the Fox Knives Baby Core with M390. I like strange blade shapes and smallish knives. I saw Rike is coming out with a ridiculously small flipper, world's smallest I think. It looks super nifty.
 
I buy Mora knives every year as I give them out as Christmas gifts so just recently bought 3 now for Christmas.
 
And that's the yes and no aspect (or no and yes, depending) of it. The cutlers in the town made it famous (like Sheffield and Solingen and therefore the name worth protecting) over time and the company known as Forge De Laguiole, Laguiole en Aubrac, and others like the laguiole Le Fidele at Thiers grew out of it. Trademark and counterfeit battles are inevitable with others wanting to profit from the legacy.

While a trademark is a protected symbol of a company or organization identified with it it isn't whether the organization/s exists or not (although court trademark rulings can establish the right to the symbol and establish the identity of the holder). That's an important distinction since you can attempt to register a symbol that is close to any existing symbol widely associated with a well recognized organization as long as you don't copy it too closely or intrude into the business field they're known in. That previously existing organization is the town in the one case and the company associated with the name in the other. While the EU supported Forge De Laguiole's claim that their trademark was infringed and that their right wasn't just a highly localized protection, but limited in "the protection granted to Forge de Laguiole on the basis of its business name solely covers the business activities it actually pursued". Flip the coin (or the knife in this case) and the existence of the company, with or without trademark is established by the court giving them standing. In the other, any use by counterfeiters of the distinctive style and markings is being fought by the town to stop others with no affiliation from profiting.

The English Sheffield and the German Solingin aren't just the towns and the cutlers, but also protected under trademarks (widely stolen by counterfeiters in China and Pakistan).

The Chinese and Pakistani counterfeiters aren't anything more than the intellectual property thieves we recognize. They don't respect trademarks, patents, or any sort of intellectual property and counterfeit every symbol or design. Defending a trademark, or patent, infringement against knockoffs is as old as counterfeiting.
 
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Knife Center coughed up 5 knives for just over a C-note. SAK with nail nipper $20, Kershaw Zipit $10, Rat 1 $20, Dozier D2 folder $32, and Kershaw epistle $20. The nail clip 580 isn't as thin as a classic, but has the same tools plus a slick little grooming aid. All are expected to earn their keep and not attract attention.
 
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but at $35 it is at best assembled in Arkansas, but the blade came from Pakistan. I really expect that the knife came into the country fully assembled from Pakistan. I've followed the Pakistanis patterned steel trade for several years and am disappointed by the American sellers claiming to have made them to deceive customers. I've encountered several of these folks at local gun shows (they can't show their faces at a knife show and get away with it). You can't purchase a good American damascus blank blade delivered for that price.

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I attended a local gun show in SW MO last year, the "damascus" knife vendor had rented dozens of tables with all sorts of variety and most were $85 up. It was IMHO beyond stupid the number of tables they rented and during the time I was there the leaf flo gutter people had more traffic. Next gun show they weren't nearly as abundant and for the most part the show was far better off.

Cheap Paki damascus is cheap because scrap steel hammer welded for a distinct finish produced mostly by acid etching. There's no real quality control and when you start checking grind lines at tips and the lack of strong shank to attach scales you discover it's actually worse than Chinese.

Damascus as a look attracts a lot of attention but so do Gold Invicta watches.
 
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I bought two Spyderco Civilians, from an authorized dealer. The Civilian has been in the line-up a long time, but I know that nothing lasts forever, so, as I have done with other Spyderco models I really liked, I added spares. Another reason is that I am not getting any younger, and my right shoulder/arm/wrist/hand are not nearly what they once were. The Civilian is suited to techniques that a not-so-strong arm hand and arm can accomplish.

Notably, I used to carry a pair of Spyderco Civilians, concealed, while working police patrol. One was clipped in a front pocket, and one was clipped into the top of the trauma plate pocket of my concealed body armor, for high-centerline access. One one clipped into the trousers’ pocket was covered by my duty holster, so the shank of the holster rubbed much of the finish from the pocket clip. No collectibles, in this case. Early after the turn of the century, I started attending some blade training, with the result that I started preferring other blades, for defense, more-suited to thrusting. Well, I have not given-up on a straight-line-thrusting “primary” blade, but I recognize that a weakened arm/hand may be more likely to result in a lost weapon, during a struggle. (I have retired from LEO-ing

So, this recent addition means not just having a pair and a spare, but a pair and a spare pair. ;) Not that I will resume carrying them in pairs, anymore, but this should be a lifetime supply, as a hedge against potential discontinuation.
 
Stretch in K390, wanted to see what this straight spine was all about... has been in use since I got it about 3 weeks ago :D

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