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For me it has to be the serrated Chaparral - it does basically everything I need from a knife day in day out.

What's yours?

My favorite release this year is the Bodacious. I prefer designs without finger choil or thumb ramp. The Bodacious has a narrower handle (spine-to-edge direction) than the Caribbean and fits my hand better.

I've been wanting to try out serrated CruWear for a long while. The Temp Sprint was basically an SE CruWear mule with handle and sheath included. Not a huge fixed blade guy but if you told me I could never buy another fixed blade knife I'd be completely content to have the Temp SE. Knife feels amazing in hand, the SE pattern is excellent and very reminiscent of the Caribbean, it's big enough to take on bigger tasks but isn't ridiculously large to be toting around on your hip. All in all my favorite of '24

The Cruwear Temperance fixed blade is my favorite new model from 2024.

Military 2

Favourite Spyderco - Military 2
Favourite knife - Jackwolf Midnight Jack

Chaparral SE. ‘Nuff said.

Without a doubt the Bodacious, and that's saying a lot because this has been a big year for knife purchases for me.



Honorable mentions are:
Military 2 SE
Chief Salt MagnaCut SE
Chaparral SE
Microtech Ultratech ZBT S/E (shhh, this one's a secret)

MG2

Easy. Military 2.

Knife of the decade for me at a minimum.

I knew this would be an amazing upgrade to the Military 1 a long time ago.

Dragonfly. Carried a k390 dragonfly nearly every day.

For me it's that terrible, let's discontinue it and make it go away serrated K390 LeafJumper, fantastic knife!

I did not expect it at all, but it's a toss-up between the Roadie XL and Swayback.
Both are different from what I'm used too, meaning pretty tall blades. The small size of the Roadie XL allows for easier maneuvrability when I used it on small pieces at the workshop. The Swayback is similar but the total length limits the applications a bit, it ties because the grind is sublime.

benja-man wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 31, 2024 1:09 am

For me it has to be the serrated Chaparral - it does basically everything I need from a knife day in day out.

What's yours?

Same here. It has greatly slowed my knife purchases since getting it

For me, 2024 is the Year of the Manix.

The Crucarta Manix was the only knife I had for over a month after moving. It did a lot of work during that time and solidified a return to the hobby for me. I needed a knife quickly and my old dealer back home suggested it for everything I’d be doing, despite my reservations about it not being stainless. It held up just fine in the Maine coastal air. I did keep it lightly oiled and always wiped it down. Even now, the only patina is on the scales.

After the movers finally brought our stuff, I started rotating through what remained of my collection that peaked around 2015. Most of what I had remaining were Natives and Chaparrals. Prior to the Crucarta Manix, I’d slowly started collecting again after selling off 50 or so Spydercos back in 2018. It started slowly when I realized in summer 2023 that a business trip took me near Rivers Edge Cutlery, which I visited and left with a SpyOpera. This was followed by a Thanksgiving vacation in Nashville that year and a visit to Smoky Mountain Knife Works, where I left with a SPY27 Native lightweight. This was followed by a Native Chief Lightweight in January 2024 (I’d handled the G-10 Chief in both stores and was told a lightweight was on the horizon). Things went dormant again after that…

…until the Crucarta Manix. Since then, I’ve gotten the Roadie XL, Native Chief Salt, G-10 Bug, G-10 SPY27 UKPK and finally the Manix Salt just after Christmas. I even started posting on this forum again for the first time in years.

With the Crucarta Manix doing heavy lifting for a month as my only knife of any kind, and the year ending with the Manix Salt in my pocket, 2024 is the Year of the Manix.

Spyderco: Police4 PD1 Sprint

Overall: Emerson Mini Elvia

Stretch 2XL Salt was easily my most carried and enjoyed model of the year. Pictured here next to last year's knife of the year the Salt 2 wharnie.

The Mall Ninja Magnacut Para2

Serrated Chaparral

Another vote for this baby. I basically take it everywhere with me now. It does everything that’s needed. It’s actually an upgrade to the PE version which was a surprise to me.