After breaking/chipping EDC knives for years trying to gently use them for things they weren't meant for I tried a Leatherman. I've been through a couple of different types but been carrying one for the last 30+ years. I carry it everyday and use it at some point, everyday...
Every guy whipped out their knives!
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When I was AWAC'n, it was common practice to cut off the flight suit flap for the arm "pencil" pocket. Easier to access writing tools I guess.
I had my wife use some of these flaps to make a knife pocket in the lower leg of the "bag". Carried a Spyderco Wayne Goddard model there for years, although if flying today, I'd opt for the ZT assisted opener which is my current daily carry.
Tim
I had my wife use some of these flaps to make a knife pocket in the lower leg of the "bag". Carried a Spyderco Wayne Goddard model there for years, although if flying today, I'd opt for the ZT assisted opener which is my current daily carry.
Tim
I'm another one who carries two knives. A Swiss Army Knife in my pocket. It's a jack of all trades/master of none. It does get used for assorted tasks. I also have a Kershaw Link clipped to my pocket which generally gets the most use. It's a good knife that won't break the bank if I lose it. I actually like Kershaw's Leek a little better, but with me it has bad manners. The Link stays put, but the Leek is always trying to slip away or open up. I don't know just what it is, but the Link has none of that trouble.
Depending on definitions I carry two blades almost daily.
My small switchblade and my P-38.
The P-38 makes a good box opener (among other things).
My small switchblade and my P-38.
The P-38 makes a good box opener (among other things).
STORMINORMAN
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Over the years I have accumulated a number of what I call EDC knives: a couble of Bucks, a Case, an Uncle Henry, Kershaws, SOG and even a Benchmade...
IMHO the absolute BE$T value in a daily carry knife is the LANSKY Responder Combo:
it includes a very fine LANSKY sharpener & their 3.5" Willumsen designed folder in 440C stainless.
Available on e-bay for $24.99! The sharpener alone goes for about $20!
Well constructed and heavy enough for real knife work, inexpensive enough that the thought of losing it (or giving it to a person in need?) never crosses my mind. I'll carry the other much more expensive knives upon occasion, but I have had mine for at LEAST 5 years and have only "lost" it for a period of 3 days when it slipped out unnoticed and fell in between the seat and the transmission tunnel of the SVX.
Cheers!
P.S. Check out Willumsen as a knife designer on the web: there are quite a few of his designs in the $200+ category.
IMHO the absolute BE$T value in a daily carry knife is the LANSKY Responder Combo:
it includes a very fine LANSKY sharpener & their 3.5" Willumsen designed folder in 440C stainless.
Available on e-bay for $24.99! The sharpener alone goes for about $20!
Well constructed and heavy enough for real knife work, inexpensive enough that the thought of losing it (or giving it to a person in need?) never crosses my mind. I'll carry the other much more expensive knives upon occasion, but I have had mine for at LEAST 5 years and have only "lost" it for a period of 3 days when it slipped out unnoticed and fell in between the seat and the transmission tunnel of the SVX.
Cheers!
P.S. Check out Willumsen as a knife designer on the web: there are quite a few of his designs in the $200+ category.
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hyena
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I carry a mighty Buck 525 Gent folding knife with a 1 and 7/8 inch blade. All I need. I hope I don't lose it because they might not still offer it.
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I have 3 of those small adjustable wrench/knife combos, 1 in my briefcase. 1 in my sidebag, 1 in reserve. They come in handy.
I love the Kershaw spring assist opening knives.
I have a Leek, Chive, and 2 Oh So Sweets.
Only an automatic opens easier and faster, and not at all by much!
I have a Leek, Chive, and 2 Oh So Sweets.
Only an automatic opens easier and faster, and not at all by much!
garddogg56
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Yes sir one great knife
keith44spl
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Carrying this'n right now...
Sometimes this one,
Once upon a time, my daughter was working as the bean counter for a local doctors' office.
She asked me what she could get the three doctors for Christmas gifts...
I suggested a Doctor Knife of course.
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Sometimes this one,
Once upon a time, my daughter was working as the bean counter for a local doctors' office.
She asked me what she could get the three doctors for Christmas gifts...
I suggested a Doctor Knife of course.
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31FordA
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I've been carrying a Kershaw Blur clipped to my left pocket for almost 20 years. A few years back the clip got bent, so I sent it back to Kershaw for repair. They replaced the clip, put a new spring in and sharpened the blade, and they didn't charge me a dime. While my knife was being fixed I carried one of my spare Blur's.
At the Oaks, Pa gun show there is a guy who sells TSA confiscated knives for $5. The knives are dumped in large piles on tables. My friends and I managed to find five Blur's, and some other Kershaw's in the pile, bought them all. Best deal at a gun show in a long time.
At the Oaks, Pa gun show there is a guy who sells TSA confiscated knives for $5. The knives are dumped in large piles on tables. My friends and I managed to find five Blur's, and some other Kershaw's in the pile, bought them all. Best deal at a gun show in a long time.
Given me by my grand dad.
Jack Flash
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The earlier comment about using a knife to open an envelope being a sure way to make it dull had me laughing.
If I was reluctant to use my knife to cut paper, what WOULD I ever cut with it?
If I was reluctant to use my knife to cut paper, what WOULD I ever cut with it?
Ray
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I carry a CRKT M 21 -14 SFG spear point half serrated blade.
Feel naked without it, but I carry it IWB, not in the front pocket, too many prying eyes nowadays.
Regards, Ray
Feel naked without it, but I carry it IWB, not in the front pocket, too many prying eyes nowadays.
Regards, Ray
kamloops67
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CelticSire
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Not me, but my oldest daughter. (Of course, I carry a knife daily, sometimes more than one. Two tours in Iraq, my constant companions were a Randall Model 18 and a USMC bayonet. The CSM asked why I was carrying a bayonet, and I said, "Well, Sergeant Major, it doesn't jam, I don't have to reload it, and having seen our perimeter from the air, if they ever get serious, we're screwed.) Back to my daughter. When she graduated from Texas Tech with her Mechanical Engineering degree, for a graduation present I bout her a Case XX Stockman with a red bone handle (Tech colors are red and black.) She carries it daily, and the men she works with are always a bit surprised when she produces it anytime somebody asks, "Anybody have a knife?"
Below are the knives that most often go with me where ever I go. One of the two Leathermans is carried more often than the Benchmade South Fork folder (one of several Benchmades that may get occassionally used).
Both of the Leathermans are among the smallest, most spartan, and easiest carried of Leatherman tools (other than their "keychain" options). Both have blades that can be opened without unfolding the tools. Both have pliers, screw driver bits' and are overall quite thin. The larger one is called a Skeletool and the smallest the Juice. The Juice was discontinued for quite a while, but now some models are back in production. The larger skeletool has a pocket clip, but usually just ends up dropped into my left front pocket.
What is that wallet please?
The first knife I ever owned was a cheap, no name pocketknife I got for selling GRIT! Newspapers. the first day I had it I took it to school and my teacher confiscated it.
I bought a Bucklite Model 422 in the PX on Fort Carson in the late 90s (possibly 1995). I carried it in the Magazine Pouch on my LBE for several years until someone stole it. I never replaced it until I found this one on Ebay either right before or right after I retired.
I carry it more often than any other knife I own
I bought a Bucklite Model 422 in the PX on Fort Carson in the late 90s (possibly 1995). I carried it in the Magazine Pouch on my LBE for several years until someone stole it. I never replaced it until I found this one on Ebay either right before or right after I retired.
I carry it more often than any other knife I own
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Flattop5
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Your Buck:
Real bone handles??
I have 4 or 5 Buck pocket knives, but only one has real bone handles (a limited edition). The rest have Black plastic handles.
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