I love the one off Dave Budd I bought at the knife fair last year, but it's way too big to carry and use on a daily basis. The one I turn to for peeling spuds, sharpening pencils, cutting twine, eating, removing spelks from my hands, and just about everything else on a daily basis is a very sharp, lemon-wood handled that lives, I hope legally, in a bee stamped press studded sheath on my belt. It couldn't deal with serious making like the DB, but then the DB couldn't trim a tree like the Grunsfors Bruks hunter's axe. There is no 'one' knife, but I'd miss the frenchy most. Now if I had a little folding knife by an inspired master blade smith it would be a different story, but sentimental value matters to me, so I keep my French gift by me. Can familiarity and careful maintenance make a mundane tool as effective as a special one? Never, but in practice it's versatility, familiarity and maintenance for me.