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My only blades from left to right.
Victorinox Swiss Army with 1.25 inch blade
Sypderco with 2.125 blade
KaBar Agama with 4.5 inch blade (edc)
KaBar short USMC fighting knife with 4.75 inch blade
blades measured from tip to end of sharpened edge.i
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05-27-2017, 08:14 PM
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The biggest knife I have. Never been used. 17.5" overall. Blade is 12". It has 1 intended purpose. To "assassinate watermelon"! Bob
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05-27-2017, 08:50 PM
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I have 74 knives. If you leave out my Coast Guard Sword and the Kukuri, and half a dozen Daggers that have blade lengths over 14 inches, the longest knife I actually use is a CRKT Sawtooth, overall length 11.75 inches, blade 6.50 inches. But the one that is my go to knife that I use most frequently is my vintage Marbles Ideal Knife, Over all length 10.5 inches, blade 6.25 inches
I have two K-Bars, one new and one Navy K-Bar from WWII but I don't use them, they are just part of my collection.
Now, if you want to talk daggers, this is the United Cutlery Knights Dagger (yes it has a real edge) 16.50 inches overall, 9 inch blade
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05-27-2017, 10:39 PM
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Nothing particularly special. I got this factory-second Cold Steel Recon Tanto, Carbon V blade, either from a gun show or a knife show twentysomething years ago. I can't remember how much it was, but I want to say it was in the neighborhood of $40.
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05-27-2017, 11:27 PM
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Longest blades are all 12" and are cheap Mech-Tec,
they have their place and a WorkSharp knife sharpening belt grinder keeps them really sharp.
The real knives are Kabars I've had for years.
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05-27-2017, 11:50 PM
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1970 Model Nepalese Kukri, as issued to the Gurkhas at the time. My dad brought about ten of these back from one of his numerous trips to Nepal and I eventually ended up with two of them. At the time we were living in New Delhi, India. There were very cheap knock-offs of the kukri being sold in India at the time; believe me, they weren't worth taking home. 
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Come to find out, these knives are still available, and for a very fair price, although not exactly the same $2.00 apiece my dad paid in 1970. A word of warning if you end up with one of these knives: When withdrawing the blade from the sheath, force the blade against the back of the sheath with your off hand as you pull the knife out. If you don't do this carefully, and correctly, at the very least you'll destroy the sheath by cutting through it with the curved blade, or worse, you may slice your fingers! 
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I read about an SAS soldier in Iraq that was an adviser whose team was over run by IS when they ran out of ammo-he had a kukri that was a gift to him, and killed 3 of the charging enemy fighters and severely wounded SEVERAL more of the attackers. The assault was broken, and they were able to break contact safely.
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05-27-2017, 11:52 PM
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have a Kershaw Outcast that is about 16".
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05-28-2017, 12:28 AM
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On the other end of the scale is this little Key Chain Knive, the smallest I have found. The blade is 1" and the handle is 1 " and it actually works.
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05-28-2017, 12:37 AM
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Union Cavalry saber?
Also a Civil War artillery short sword with powder measurement marking stamped in the blade. Maybe for mortars would be my guess.
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05-28-2017, 09:19 AM
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On the other end of the scale is this little Key Chain Knive, the smallest I have found. The blade is 1" and the handle is 1 " and it actually works.
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HA! In my best Crocodile Dundee voice, " that ain't a knoife, THIS is a knoife".......
Mine has brass liners and gen-U-wine artificial mother-O-pearl scales....
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05-28-2017, 09:46 AM
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I have 74 knives.
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Your post got me to thinking about numbers. Just what's stored in the safe amounts to over 60, and those are all legitimate fixed and folders, from Randall to Benchmade to Emerson to Spyderco. Then I've got the knives in various truck bags and my EDC backpack, my two EDC blades, the blades standing in the corner of my office, which include a machete, a Ghurka, a sword cane, and a sword, the military blades in a display case on the wall with my Victory revolver, the blades on my go belt, the blades just sitting in the cars, and the blades that are part of Leatherman like tools, and I guess I'm over 200. Some I own two or three of the same knife, especially Swiss Army knives. It would take me a month to get an accurate count, and even then I know I'd miss a couple . . .
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05-28-2017, 10:21 AM
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Here is my Cuchillo Argentino, a gaucho type knife, length overall 18" It is built around a bayonet blade, the blade is stamped "Modelo Argentino 1909".
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05-28-2017, 10:47 AM
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Wow...... #s would be tough....... like MussMugins.......they are everywhere......cars,truck, ATVs, home,grab and go bags and at the cabin....they've tended to accumulate over the past 24 years (marriage and living in the same home)..
When I was single and moving to bigger and better jobs and "living space" every couple to 5 years ....... guns (long and short) and knives..... were pretty much in the 'grab and go" numbers.... except for the ones with Dad at the "Cabin''.
......quick head count would put fixed blades knives at or over 5 inches at about.......a dozen........ folders?.... guessing about the same......plus a couple of 16"blades/ tools on the RZR.
LOL to think ........I once thought a single Cold Steel SRK and a "Browning" 2" pocket knife was all I needed......somehow I've "accumulated ".. well this thread has made me realize ....Knives...more than I need.....................
As I sit here...................
I recall when I fell off the wagon in the mid-90s; with the purchase of a short 5" Ka-bar ( I though "tactical but useful") for $40......10 years later someone was having a sale/closeout and I got one for each of the boys when they got older.........a friend gave me my first pocket knife with a thumb stud opener....... Wow......to think I'd been using 2 hands to open my pocketknife for 40+ years........
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05-28-2017, 12:31 PM
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Aside from an old machete, my largest blade is a 7.5" on Randall #14 Border Patrol knife
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05-28-2017, 02:30 PM
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Mine has brass liners and gen-U-wine artificial mother-O-pearl scales.... |
That is indeed a "knoife" so do not sell it short! It does not have "gen-U-wine mother-O-pearl artificial scales." Those are nothing less than gen-U-wine abalone artificial side covers. The real abalone that is used on knives is fine sliced shell in a plastic matrix. I leave it to you to reevaluate whether it could be real.
Either way, keep it close at hand in case a sexy blonde needs rescuing from a croc.
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05-28-2017, 09:53 PM
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The best that I can do.
Is my Raymond Thorpe Bowie, shown here with my Ed Brown Special forces.
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05-28-2017, 10:40 PM
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05-29-2017, 01:13 AM
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I just bought a friend a large Bowie for his birthday and of course I had to get one for myself as well, just for those Walter Mitty moments! It's a Hibben Magnum Bowie by United Cutlery. 12 1/2 inch blade 18 1/4 inches overall. I can't afford the expensive knives so this will have to do. The knife I carry all the time has a whopping 3 1/4 inch blade and four screwdriver tips. Much more "real world"!
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05-29-2017, 09:18 AM
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The 7.25" blade is by Solingen. I made the handle many years ago.
My old Daddy said it ain't much for looks but it's hell for strong.
The pistol is Colt's Gold Cup. The holster by David Keith. The mag
pouch and belt by Haugen. 230-Gr. Hydra-Shoks by Federal.
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My thickest piece of steel at 3/4", 21" long and weighs 76 ozs. For what purpose? None that I can think of.
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05-29-2017, 11:58 AM
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My thickest piece of steel at 3/4", 21" long and weighs 76 ozs.
For what purpose?
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05-29-2017, 07:00 PM
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Somewhere there is an ISIS guy drooling all over his keyboard......
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