Just received my new skinner a couple days ago. Matches my "Big 7" hunting knife. Camel bone with black liners, Nickel pins and guard with D-2 tool steel, Courtesy of Mr Stephen Lynn. I will post pics of both together soon. Lets see some pics of your favorites. Here is his site if you would like to check out some of his models. www.slynnknives.com

This is my current favorite made by bodork. Frank

Knife I made last spring for Turkey season. Probably my favorite knife so far and will be the one I carry for deer season.

A couple I made for my bear guides. I like simple and full tang personally but all designs have their merits and I love seeing everyone's go to knives.

I’ve got a new (to me) knife that I picked up as a Find, and I don’t know if I should Go-To it or not….

It’s a Lillehammer Olympics commemorative… Not sure if it was a limited edition or not, but it was evidently an important knife in the history of the company that made it.

Seems ridiculous to just leave it in the box. Not sure if I should try to sell it to a collector, trade it off, or just let it become the Go-To knife I’ve never had… I’m as much Norwegian as anything else, so it feels like it oughtta have some mojo to it Just Because…

Any ideas out there?

They are much prettier than my Havalon.

I take two. The Buck Vanguard and the Victorinox Hunter XT. I really don't need to use the gutting blade on the XT, but I bring it along anyway.

Joe

Best from Left to right 1. Bodork 2. D2 Custom 3. Knife set from Vintage Works this i carry other 2 always in a small pack !!!

Here's a few I have

GF, that's a Helle, made in Norway, if I'm correct. Have a look at ragweedforge.com. I know nothing of collector values, but in my experience, they're very decent knives.

Actually, a Brusletto... Upgraded version/predecessor of the Bruslettokniven. Brusletto sells the current version for around $80, so it's basically a better knife than I'd ever buy for myself... unless it's worth more because of the Lillehammer logo on it...

I got this mora when I was twelve. It's gone through a pile of critters since.

My new favorite. A copy of the Schrade Sharpfinger but longer. Knife is 8" with a heavy 3.75" D2 tool steel blade.

I'm always a sucker for a good Loveless-style drop point.

GF, use it. A knife like that shouldn't be left in a box. My opinion of course. Frank

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Gorman " canadian belt knife" (by far the handiest I have ever used)

Mora

the Buck folding hunter for the last 47yrs.

the Canadian Belt knife

I like big and here is 10" of hand forged blade with a mammoths tooth on the north end. All medal parts are hand made and the ivory is checkered. The clip is as sharp as the blade and sheaf adds to the knife art by Darcy Ellis of BC.

These have done most of the knife chores for years. The Buck Red insert Protege has skinned and dressed a lot of deer. It is an inexpensive knife that sharpens easy for stainless and keeps an edge. It fits in the hand nice. The other two get forced into duty when sharpening touch up is not practical.

Light my fire "Fireknife". Best $25 I've ever spent!

My dragon hunting knife. Lol

All I carry is my old LB-7 Schrade lock back . Never owned a fancy custom knife!

I've carried these two more than a few miles. If I can't get it done with these and maybe my pack axe it ain't worth doin.

A sharp one!

Not the best camp knife. Not much to look at. But inside a deer this little Izula II is perfect for field dressing a whitetail.

I wear this as a neck knife and then have a belt knife like my Benchmade Activator. D2 steel - takes a mediocre edge and holds it forever. But if you take the time with a diamond hone it does hold a great edge for a long time.

Or this old Brusletto laminated blade I set in a stag handle. This one has been around the block. This one cost me about $25 in components in the early 80's and is one I keep coming back to. I pat myself on the back as I have never been able to make as good a sheath ever again (this is pigskin).

That Canadian Belt knife Andy Man has pictured is the most easy to handle and functional knife I have ever used. Excellent for field dressing deer. It lays in your hand right side up and upside down. I have (2) G.L.Herter knives shaped just like that. I have been using one of them since 1972 (the other was my Dad's). Skeet

A 1970's-1980's, German made, Puma 4 Star is by far the best I've found. After 100's of gutting jobs, I've never found a finer "hunting" knife. Albeit, people typically don't need a "hunting" knife, because what they really need and want is a gutting knife. For that reason, most people buy a knife that is too long with too pointed of a tip, for the typical gutting job. The "old" German Puma 4 Star's from the 1970's and 1980's are the best gutting knives ever made. For this reason, they still demand $200 plus, despite being upwards of 40 years old.

Usually one of these

This is about half of my knives in total. I am a sucker for stag handles. I want a stag handled Buck Vanguard 692 so bad it hurts. I am not big on Silver Stag knives (although the dagger pictured is one) but I wouldn't mind a Silver Stag Boar Sword. A couple to point out here are: 1)Buck quickfire bottom left my favorite EDC it is cheap enough not to sweat using or loosing. 2)Schrade Squire IV small stag lock blade bottom center,it was the first knife gifted to me by my parents for the first straight A's report card when I was about 6 or 7years old. 3)Buck 110 top right worn out, my father's knife my mother bought him the at the same shop the same day as my Schrade back in the 80's.

Skeets; mine was a hand me down from my mother She used it all of the time ,always thought kinda odd looking

When she passed I decided to use it; Suprise; The best darn knife I ever used

gets ultra sharp, stays sharp and just handles so nicely, one would have to try it to know how much better it is over anything else. I have a high dollar puma and Randall, and as far as utility they don't match it

I've been packing this one around for a couple months now and really like it. Cable Damascus with red wood and wenge scales.

I do carry a bigger camp knife when bear hunting the Big woods also. Usually this Randall model 14

Forgot a skinner made by a local

I carry a Russell Belt knife and a Swiss Army Hunter.

I carry a larger fixed-blade for heavy work and a folder with a finer edge for more precise cutting.

I have a fixed blade Buck knife given to me in the early 70's. It's been with me on every hunt I've been on.

Proud to say I'm still using the fixed blade Western bone handle Mom and Dad got me for Christmas a 35 years ago! In a moment of weakness back in the 90's I bought a Benchmade with a saw blade thinking it would be "better", but that got relegated to a junk drawer and me and the Western are still hunting buddies. I think I'd be lost and give up hunting without it..

Those old Westerns are good knives.

I generally carry my Swiss army knife and a Buck Skinner (so I'm an optimist). The Buck General and Pathfinder are in my pack. I think the newest of these was acquired about 1970. Sure I've got others but these seem to always go along with me.

Buck folding hunter (110) since 1970's

+1 with Eric. I have one so old that it doesn't say "110", and "Buck" is readable with the blade pointed down.

-Joe

Got one at Menards for $3 and have been using it for years. The Blade is Honzo Steel and the handle is made from the jaw bone of a 27 point super buck.... 2 more payments and it will be all mine :)

After watching a friend who shoots maybe a hundred caribou a year take five apart with a cheap fish knife I am convinced that it is not the instrument it is the musician...the more I shoot different equipment the more I believe that when it come to bows too...I have lots of knives but I am fully aware I could get by with a couple or even one...come to think of it my guide friends can skin just about anything with a 6 dollar paring knife, and they complain the blades are a bit too long

DDave

I have a similar Bodork that a few others have posted here. I like it so much that I really don't knife shop any more.

hayestrx250r , thats a Bimbo Knife aint it ? Sheep hoirn handle i believe ? saw his at KyTradFest, have bought two of his knives already, Love 'em !

Sure are some pretty and useful knives in this thread. Thanks for all the great pics. Now. I sure would like to use anything on a deer today.

"After watching a friend who shoots maybe a hundred caribou a year take five apart with a cheap fish knife I am convinced that it is not the instrument it is the musician...the more I shoot different equipment the more I believe that when it come to bows too...I have lots of knives but I am fully aware I could get by with a couple or even one...come to think of it my guide friends can skin just about anything with a 6 dollar paring knife, and they complain the blades are a bit too long DDave "

My wife and I raise some meat animals so we do a fair amount butchering. Most of it is done with cheap kitchen knives.

I like a nice knife as much as anybody and I even make knives. But, I think the most important things are knowing how to sharpen a knife and how to use one.

I love my good old S.K. Olsen. I have used it exclusively since 1970 and never had a problem with it. It sharpens easy and hold an edge. Jim :)

From looking at the pictures there appears to be plenty of stainless and plenty of carbon knives. I've been in the market for a new fixed blade and the Canadian Belt knife caught my attention. You can purchase stainless or carbon; what do folks prefer?

The BEST hunting knife... is the one that YOU decide is best for you!

I carry one of these 60s Pumas bowhunting each year.

I carry this titanium Buck folder rifle hunting in the salt marshes of MD (top of picture).

There are hard plain carbon steel blades and soft...same with stainless.

Hardness of a finished blade is primarily a function of the heat treating that has been applied...provides the alloy has enough carbon in it to be hardened.

A plain high carbon steel blade immediately after quench (hardening) is so hard that it can shatter like glass. Tempering is the process that softens it enough to be useful (not shatter). During tempering, the hardness can be drawn back as much or as little as desired depending on the blades intended use.

Point is that stainless blades aren't always "harder" to sharpen and they don't necessarily hold an edge better.

Many commercial blades (including stainless) feel and bend like they're pretty soft.

I suspect that they do this for ease of machining, though there are other reasons to make/use a soft blade. Final dimensioning (grinding) is usually done after heat treating to avoid warping and decarburization. Really hard blades eat up grinding belts and take longer to grind...i.e., they'll cost more to make.

Makers of quality blades sometimes will state the hardness of the blade on the Rockwell scale. I say sometimes because there are plenty of good bladesmiths who do their own heat treating and may not test their blade in that way.

Carbon steel blades (non-stainless) are making something of a come back...did they ever really get unpopular?

The bushcraft and "survival" crowds like them because you can throw sparks off them with a piece of flint or quartz...you can use them to make a fire.

I make my own knives and I use non-stainless high carbon steels because I know how to work with them. I've tested them and they throw fine sparks, however, I have ferro rods, flint strikers, Bick lighters, matches and I can even use a bow drill so I don't normally beat on my blades with rocks. LOL

I have the stainless in the canadian belt knife- sharpens fine and holds an edge great

Beat skinning knofe I have, by a mile

Mora clipper heavy duty

Depends upon what I am 'hunting'........

This is a bit more practical............

I use a Buck 110, go through one every couple of years. I don't wear them out I loose them working around the place...lol. It's a good knife and cheap enough I don't get upset when they go missing.

I've always wanted a Randall...just because I've always wanted one. Probably get one someday but it will be reserved for hunting only, no fencing or general chores.

My current favorites.

I cant figure how to post from my camera but this is the Big 7. Mine has the bone handle,D2 steel but has nickel guard and pins instead of brass.

Here is the skinner I also have but with bone,nickel combo to match the big 7. It also has a shorter guard as suggested By Mr. Lynn for a knife that will actually be used rather than displayed. I have been a Knife nut for a long time and Stephen Lynn has more than impressed me with the quality of the knives I have gotten from him. I might be looking into having him make me one of those Canadian belt knives soon also.

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