Your "COOLEST" Knife?
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Not very valuable, but cool. I am enough of an oddball that I really like the old four bladed scout type knives (Kamp Kings and similar) and I will buy any complete ones that I find for under ten bucks, and I must have 50 of them. In that genre here are two that I think are cool; a MIL-k style made for pharmacists, and a Super Kamp King that includes a "church key." (For those of you old enough to know what a church key is) I also have a Kamp King with a glass cutter blade, a necessary accessory for any good B&E man. 
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These are just two examples I had near to hand. The beauty of OTFs is they only require a quick push of the button to deploy and they perform the same tasks as any common steak knife. I use my high-dollar OTFs when need, wipe the blade before retracting, and they've been going strong for YEARS.
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Jerry in SC
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A single blade trapper by my good friend Reese Bose.
Nice Trapper. I have some of Tony’s that I have been sitting on for many years. Beautiful work by both.
AJ
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I've always wanted a Bose slipjoint. Couldn't find one under a grand at the last Blade show in Atlanta. Exceptional detail and the perfect walk & talk.
Jerry in SC
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They are about as good as it gets. I’ve had other makers knives but none get the fit and detail quite as good.
I met Reese about fifteen years ago at Blade, he’s a great maker and very humble.
Tony had a great eye for old patterns, and bringing them back to life. His roofline jigged KaBar’s were the finest knives he built.
Jerry in SC
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Tony was a national treasure, we will miss his wit and talent.
Major 2
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My rarest these two Winchester 1873 Musket Bayonets.
The wall includes, Ross, Akasaka, Krag 1999, Mauser K98 & Ersatz, Enfield Pattern 1903's and Lee Medford, Berthier, Spanish Mauser, Enfield Mk. 4 's, French M1866 Chassepot, Springfield 1907 & PAL modified for Garand bayonets.
Enfield Mk 4's (4 versions spike) & #9 version from WW2, and a 1817 Bolo. A Confederate Artillery short sword is rare too.
The wall includes, Ross, Akasaka, Krag 1999, Mauser K98 & Ersatz, Enfield Pattern 1903's and Lee Medford, Berthier, Spanish Mauser, Enfield Mk. 4 's, French M1866 Chassepot, Springfield 1907 & PAL modified for Garand bayonets.
Enfield Mk 4's (4 versions spike) & #9 version from WW2, and a 1817 Bolo. A Confederate Artillery short sword is rare too.
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I met Tony once quite a few years ago at a gun shop in southern Indiana. He was there with CASE promoting their TB line of slipjoints that were Tony’s versions of classic slippies. I am thinking probably about 2005, 2006.
There is a funny story around that visit. At least Tony and I got a grin out of it. The CASE guy not so much.
I only got to talk to him for about 5 minutes but he seemed nice a genuinely nice guy. Emphasis on genuine.
Pizza Bob
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I was told by Allen's wife, who I met at the NYC knife show the year this knife was made, that this was the last custom order Elishewitz knife. Going forward he was going to make the knives that he wanted to make and then put them up for sale.
I ordered this knife with carbon fiber scales, gold anodized titanium spacers, titanium bolsters and a Damasteel, Odin's Eye pattern blade.
Adios,
Pizza Bob
Jerry in SC
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Over the years at Blade there were informal get togethers at Tony’s room. Many of the top traditional makers too. It was very cool getting to know them. I was lucky to get invited. We had a lot of fun too…. One year they night before Blade opened, Kerry Hampton had a six blade Tony had made. There was a particular sequence to open it, I wouldn’t touch it
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Fischer
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One I made recently - my own steel.
Not my coolest maybe but in my pockets today-
BKLooney
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Bought this knife new at my old LGS in 1979.
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