Knives you will never sell

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I had this Randall Model 1 custom made years ago with a 6" stainless steel blade, nickel silver double hilt, black Micarta handle, and my name engraved on the blade.

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My Dad's Marbles hunting knife is one that I will never part with either. This one stays in the family.

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Another one I would never sell would be my Morseth Boot knife which I bought many years ago from a knife collector who was selling off part of his collection. I had always wanted a Morseth and this was a great way to get one. Definitely a keeper.

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Randall Made Model 11 Alaskan Skinner kit knife (before they added the "K" designation to kit knives) assembled by Ted Dowell when he was still at FSU (circa 1966-7). Not long after this was made he moved to OR and became a full-time knifemaker. IMG_20181201_231909287.jpg
 
I got all my Dad and Granddad's knives.
Heck - I don't plan on selling any of my own knives, much less any of those!!


I also don't see selling my THR anniversary knife under any circumstances. It is just a show piece, but I am so glad to have it. Kind of a physical talisman of the good vibes and info I have gotten from this place over the years.
 
I own one knife that would qualify as too sentimental to sell. It's the Kabar that was issued to me at my first billet as a Navy Diver. Kept it when I transferred to !st class dive school then it went with me to my next ship. It "followed me home" when I got out. I'm missing the original sheath and the salt water took it's toll on the leather handle,( didn't do the blade a lot of good either.. :uhoh:) but I redid the handle, cleaned the metal and made a leather sheath. I keep it in a drawer but, now and then, I'll take it out and try to remember "back when..."
 
I really don't have any that I would sell , they will be passed on for someone else to sell .
 
upload_2018-12-2_11-15-26.png These two will stay in the family....The one on the left, Dad made in the 70's. 440 SS with laminated Formica handle. The birchbark laminated handled one was made in the sixties, I believe, out of a file.
 
my dads ww-2 kabar and a stuart smith custom made knife from south Africa that I got from a tracker in a trade on a African hunting trip. my dad gave me his ww-2 kabar when I was a young man and thought it was way to big to carry, but after his passing I started to carry it hunting and field dressing animals with it. those two knivies are here to stay ontill I pass and then each of my two sons will have one of them.
 

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Nothing so exotic as a Randall or Morseth but here is what I bought for my wedding present to myself 4 years ago.

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I'll never sell the Fighter that I made that rcmodel bought back for me. Other than that I really don't want to sell my Strider SnG or the Gerber I got for my 10th work anniversary. That would have been 1989.

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My Buck 105 like Armored Farmers my dad gave me I believe in the 8th grade (1979), my dads old Marbles hunting knife, and dads Case pocket knife. and of course all my case knives.

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Well exciting it aint, but I have a Buck 119 my wife bought for me and sent to me while she was deployed to Kosovo with her reserve unit. She asked if I wanted anything and I said sure a cool knife. So she went to he PX or AFES (or whatever it is) and bought me a knife I could get at Wal Mart. Still she got it for me so forever it stays. FWIW she did later send me a couple of locally made knives.
 
Two that I can think of are a Victorinox Tinker with an embossed BSA flouer de lis, it was a Christmas gift from my father when I became a Boy Scout. Retired from rotation in my pocket after 2 decades. And the Puma White Hunter that he carried while overseas in the early 70s.

The 19 was his as well.
 

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i have a knife from a indiana jones movie given to from steven spielberg, it is signed by him and harrison ford and gorge lucas. my dads friend worked in movies and got it for my birthday in 2008 when the last movie came out. see if u now what movie its from.
 

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