Your "COOLEST" Knife?

[Golddollar]

I was able to take a knife making workshop with my son while he is on a break from active duty A/F. We used a leaf spring from the original suspension on my 1956 chevy two door hardtop and the wood is from a piece of museum quality snakewood I bought for custom single action grips. We got to hand forge the blades with 3# hammers, grind the blade to shape and shape and install the scales. Not necessarily my prettiest but my most special due to the circumstances and it has already done one der and a turkey.

That is so cool about how you made that knife. Many years ago, my maternal grandfather took a leaf spring from a car and made a tool on a long handle that mom would refer to as a cultivator. The tool head had two prongs on one side and a straight edge on the other. It was basically a digging tool that I had never seen anywhere else, at least back in my childhood. When I was growing up and was charged with digging out a a space for expanding the concrete driveway, the straight edge became the proper tool for digging out a nice flat bottom in the space for pouring the new concrete in. I sometimes wonder what happened to that tool.

Blacksmiths - the original recyclers.

 

[Marshwheeling]

The lousy photo notwithstanding, this one has to be my coolest knife. Carothers Performance Knives DEK1. These knives are a little hard to come by. He sells them online in batches of 10 or 15, and they get snapped up pretty quickly, so bagging one involves some luck.
The handle is outstanding, very well thought out to be comfortable in just about any grip you might use.

 

[pmosley]

First year, 1975 Case Shark tooth knife I bought new in box from an older co-worker.

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[deadin]

Don't know which one is "cooler".

The Kershaw E.T. or one of the knives my Father made about 100 years ago when he was working at the Potlatch Lumber Mill in Coeur d'Alene Idaho using scrap sawblades.

 

[garddogg56]

My Benchmade 4300 automatic

 

[vp146b4]

Camillus KaBar given to me by my good friend, a Marine, who carried it on Guadalcanal, where he fought and earned the Navy Cross. Next to one of my 03' Springfields similar to one he carried on the Guadalcanal

 

[chrishayes]

Little older thread but...

Last knife out of my shop before closing several yrs ago. A San Mai blade using pattern welded steel as the outer layers, a hard layer for the blade. Wood is Thai ironwood that I ordered from Thailand 10 yrs ago (it had to dry didn't it?).

 

[AJ]

My not be "cool" , but believe it is a "Theater Made Knife". It was given to me by a friend His Father-In-Law, who was a WW II Vet had it. No stories to go with it. Believe it is made from a Ka-Bar.

 

[PauldL]

Busse Combat Fusion Battle Saw (Battle Mistress with Teeth)

 

[DCWilson]

A Nepali’s Kuhkri manufactured in the mid 1800s


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The kukri is my favorite edged tool. I have both a house and a yard kukri. The yard tool gets continuous use in vegetation management. I usually don’t have to chop or slash things indoors, so the house kukri is mostly ornamental.

But yeah: way cool.

 

[65-2x2]

"Cool" referring to a knife could cover a lot of territory. My "cool" knives are from WWII. If I could only have one fixed blade knife it would be one of these two: Cattaraugus 225 Q or Case 337 6" Q. (they are the same except the leather grip style) These knives are heavy and heavy duty. The blade is stout enough to serve as a light hatchet. The thick blade of 1095 carbon steel takes and holds an edge well. The military had them made in attempt to make them "soldier resistant" and put a thick solid steel pommel on them, knowing that the troops would misuse them as a hammer.

If you can tell in my photo, the center section of the top knife looks to be gouged out. It is, and was done that way, at the factory, to improve grip; when they are nice and smooth, they have been sanded down.

Of course, on eBay, every knife ever used by a service man is a "fighting knife." A description that galls me. They would fight much more ingrown toenails, K-rations and tent stakes than enemy troops. If you can find a nice example of the Cattaraugus for under a hundred bucks, or the Case for under $150.00, pick one up, it may be the best fixed blade you will ever own.

 

[paul s]

#5 Randall Korean War vintage , Gifted to a special friend years ago and recently reunited after his passing

 

[kwd]

Here’s a Randall knife I ordered in 2003, at this time it was only a 3 year wait. I received it in 2006 at which was my first year I hunted elk in Montana, so I had it engraved with my name and elk hunt 2006, I also special ordered the sheath from Sullivan in alligator.

 

[kwd]

Sorry picture did not go so trying again.

 

[holo]

 

[steelslaver]

Predator pattern Damascus blade, fossil walrus ivory handle, file worked and browned guard with blade breaker, fire worked stainless fittings. I all aligns with stainless pins and comes apart by removing skull crusher. I have a sheath for it with rattlesnake inlay.
This is my best work of art so far

 

[steelslaver]

These 3 come in close

 

[SSGRock]

A few of my knives. Confederate D-Guard, Bayonet and Entrenching Tool, Buck Master Lunch Box Knife.

 

[jbtrucker]

I have several and unable to decide except maybe a couple of cheap ones is cooler than the other .

 

[jasonfreeland]

I've posted this one in another thread, but I think it's my coolest. It's a 9.5" damascene blade, made in Wazirabad Pakistan. The importer is an author I enjoy reading, Michael Z Williamson. Sort of a mini gladius form, I like it.