![]() The Buck Titanium was an interesting design with a titanium handle and an overall design reminiscent of the Buck 110 Folding Hunter. ![]() This 7-bladed Congress was all I could find of the knife, but if it’s not the correct model, please let me know. Most of them were traditional slip joint designs typically made in Solingen, Germany. I’m honestly not too familiar with Fight’n Rooster Knives, but I was able to find out that the company was started in the ’70s by Frank Buster. It had an unusual sheath design in that a clip locked it into place. The Clip-Lock from Gerber was a Black Collins design that’s now long discontinued. Like I said, these earlier knives are difficult to find information on, but it also won the American Made Design of the Year in 1985. You still see these vintage Survival Hunters for sale but they tend to go very quickly. ![]() The Survival Hunter is a design by Vaughn Neely, who founded Timberline, and was a beloved knife. (The image is of a skinner version of the knife made by Timberline’s Vaughn Neely. So with that, let’s start with the knife that won the award in 1984 and work our way to the present. From what I could find, the first Overall Knife of the Year award was given to a Fight’n Rooster knife, though I couldn’t pinpoint the model, so I didn’t add it here.Īlso, the show did not have an Overall Knife of the Year winner in 1983. These knives are typically prototypes at the time, but show real craftsmanship, expert designs, beautiful construction, and much more. The winners of this award are voted by attendees of the BLADE Show and a panel of special judges. To better illustrate how new knives are still proving their worth, we thought it’d be interesting to take a look at all the winners of Blade Magazine‘s “Overall Knife of the Year” award since the start. If you actually believe that new knives no longer have much to offer, you have a lot of studying to do.Įvery year manufacturers and designers work hard to bring something new and exciting to the table. With thousands of knives flooding the markets, it might seem like there’s so much overlap out there that all knives start to bleed together.
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