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Your Favorite Knifemaker?

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    Posted: 07 June 2004 at 15:13

Hey guys, what/whom is your favorite knifemaker? RIght now mine is schrade, but that is all the knife experience i have. ALso, which knife that you own holds its edge the longest? My dad's schrade made it through a cow elk before i went so dull it couldnt cut a piece of paper.

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I get my knives made by an old bloke in queensland.He works wonders with the temper on them.I have a good knife by kershaw in the folding type.Keeps a good edge.

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I bought a Buck Vanguard for my father when they first came out back in 1992 (at least that was the first time I had ever seen one).  It holds its edge VERY well, and is very comfortable - you can get a lot of leverage on it for cutting through the sturnum.  Great knife and you can find them anywhere.
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BOKER!! I carry a Boker canoe 4 bladed with me everyday to workwith me.Good for cleaning dirt out from around the grease fittings on a.Paddle wheel scraper, cutting a Jalapeno in half at lunch time and gutting a deer when need be.I like Buck and Case, good knives they are but I like Boker a little more.Solingen steel and they are quality built...Gene

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Ernie Grospitch is my one of my favorites. My "Kansas" bowie is on his site, second one down with my initials RW on the handle. Also have a drop point he made me. www.erniesknives.com   Another favorite is Billy Watson, have one of his drop points. www.watsonknives.com
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Randall knives has always been on my lists of favorites also. Been meaning to get one forever. Was looking at their catalog, had my mind set on the model #1 when I got interested in Ernie's knives. Still gonna get a Randall one day though! One article I read many years ago testifies to their reputation, when the vietnam war was going on, every Green Beret wanted a Randall fighting knife and a Rolex Watch. Figured that must be some knife! www.randallknives.com
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I carry a Benchmade pocket knife. It seems to be a pretty good one. I cut alot of hoses and such at work and it seems to hold an edge better than other ones I have tried.

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I would go custom for sure. Find a maker in your price range that likes to make the kind of knife you want (hunter, skinner, fixed blade, folding). A lot of times you can get a good handmade blade for the same price range as factory (ie 100-200, 200-300, etc) and have a better knife. Also be sure what you want, a blade that holds an edge through a couple of elk, will be a lot harder to sharpen, and not like being used as a pry-bar.

As for my favorite, it is a small fixed blade hunter/skinner that I made esp. for hunting.

Which is another way you can get what you want, read up on knifemaking and do your own. It really isn't that difficult and a lot of fun to boot.

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My carry knife & hunting knife arw made by my hunting buddy

Ed Caffrey a custom knife maker here in Great Falls He is a mastersmith in the american knifemakers ass.

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I would have to say that I love my kit carson.

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 My Brother in law. But for hunting and everyday work I'll stick with my Buck crosslok or my Hen & Rooster.

  Hey I hear that Rod guy does pretty well .

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I prefer the Schrade as well. My favorite is the 152 or Sharpfinger. I've gutted/skinned out about a dozen deer with one and it still holds it's edge. I was disappointed to hear that they are no longer made. They can still be found in some hardware store display cases, but many people must have bought up quantities that they sell on ebay.

 

Gerber is also a fine knife, based on my father in laws folding gut hook model.

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Get a good knife an' you don't have to worry about them makin' more of 'em.  I suspect there ain't no good knifes in Ga.  I think you have to have a decent basketball team for more than a year to provide fertile ground for real knifemakers.  Maybe all that humidity weakens steel so it don't keep an edge, so red soil people have to buy all their huntin' shit at Kmart for lack of a knifesmith worth his salt.

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It all depends on what you are using it for. A knife is a tool, and you have to use the right tool for the job.

 I have lots of favourites, and some knifemakers don't make the particular knife I happen to need. My favorite is the best knife I happen to be utilizing for the job at hand!


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ME

The little Seki City blade skinned 5 dear last week and the big guy disrobed an 1,100 lb moose 3 weeks ago. Greatings from Northern Ontario, Canada. Our all too short big game season is over for the year.

 

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Nice blades carlo

 

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Damn Carlo, damn.
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That bottom pic looks like a twisted damascus...is it ???? either way very nice....I would have to stick with my grandpas schrader that made it through all the islands back in WWII. then my SOG....
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QUEEN CUTLERY COMPANY, TITUSVILLE, PA

c 1918-Present

Founded in 1918, as The Queen City Cutlery Company, it came about as basically a “moonlighting” job of six foreman at the Schatt & Morgan factory after their shift. The name came from the nickname for Titusville. Queen City went on to success. Schatt & Morgan did not. In 1932, Queen City, purchased all assets of Schatt & Morgan and moved into their former facility. Their trademark “Queen Steel”, which is a pseudonym for stainless steel, was first used in 1945, because at the time, stainless steel was not popular. The company name was changed to Queen Cutlery Company in 1947. In 1969, it became a subsidiary of Servotronics, Inc. Today they continue to make both Queen and reproduction Schatt & Morgan knives in a variety of patterns.

 

These are very nicely made knifes! My buddy Digger is from near there in PA. I have one on order, but have not got it yet. We are putting a bunch together to save on shipping.

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