Cant recall first knife ever. Probably a Schrade or some cheap flea market “fire fighter” chinese made one.
Upgraded to SOG then Cold Steel.
Was with a CRKT for a bit.
Now its all about Benchmade for me. If the Phaeton 4600 was a bit beefier, more stout and longer, it would be the perfect knife ever. Now i edc a Bushcrafter and an Altitude. Looking at getting a custom sheath where the Altitude is piggybacked onto the Bushcrafter along with a firesteel.
Purchased a Wicked Edge WE130. I used to think factory sharp was the best sharpening a knife could get. Boy was i wrong. If i strop a knife to a mirror polish, i can split a hair, in half, the long way. That mirror polish is unrealitsic to have for your edc knife though. But i do wonder how a knife like that would skin. Hopefully ill find out on my first ever hunt next year.
Absolutely. Lost my first one for a few months so I already bought a second. One stays in the safe and only goes on hunts now, the other I carry daily.
EDC: benchmade 940-1 98% of the 365, and the days that it gets left in my jean pocket, because it is so light, and ends up in the wash... I carry my spyderco pm2.
For hunting it is a benchmade steep county my wife bought me with my initials one one side and an elk on the other.
No doubt it is the Benchmade Osborne 940 in S90V. Always get the S90V not the S30V. Have a good edge put on it with some wet stones and it will run forever. Best steel in any knife I have had.
My hunting knife is a Phil Wilson Southfork in K390. I’ve used a number of others for hunting (bark river, buck, benchmade, spyderco) and they all have stayed at home since I got that Phil Wilson. For EDC I carry two knives, Chris Reeves small Inkosi and Fiddleback Forge Bushboot.