Is it just me

[wingriderz]

Let's hear from those aboard.I carry a pen knife on my weak side front pocket to do every day light duty chores. A lockblade strong side rear pocket. ( all over the board on make and models) . Lockblade kept for flesh only. I spent alot of time this year looking for a lil less bluker knife than my swiss army camper. Finally found a Case Peanut(white). Can't be happier with the Case. My question is I have found that I have become alot fonder of my EDC pen knives than my lockblades. Don't get me wrong like alot of the lockblades but don't really do alot other than take um in and out of pocket.Any one else favor one carry knife type over the others ?

 

[Goldstar225]

I've had a knife in my pocket since I was six years old (well over 5 decades). I feel even more naked without a knife than I do without a gun. On the job I've carried the same Benchmade 710 for almost 20 years. Utility and defensive tool. Off the clock my current EDC is a Benchmade mini-griptilian with a 2.9" blade. If I need a bigger blade I have them available in the house/truck/boat but only wear them when hunting.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Have carried in one form or another for over 50 years. A Boy Scout knife in high school, in the Army a "demo knife", in the 70s a Swiss Army knife, now a Leatherman or SOG multitool, Buck 110 and a Minimaglite. My "Utility Belt."

 

[PeterJ]

Started carrying a knife about 2 years ago and can't believe how much I use it. Lived this long without one [71 years] but can't leave home without it now.

 

[arjay]

Carried a small SAK for years and switched to a small lock blade when they first came out

 

[ExcitableBoy]

I've had some kind of folding knife on me since 9 yrs old. Every day use, for one thing or another. The current knife is an old Uncle Henry folding hunter carried behind the left hip in a belt pouch. It's unzipped lots of things, including many a game animal up to whitetails.

Don't leave home without it!

 

[30-30remchester]

Like Goldstar. I can only count a couple days in my 63 years that I did not have a folder in my pocket since age six. I however have a hard time liking the newer lock blades. I grew up on classic folders with real handles of ivory, stag or bone. I have collected old knives for many decades and most of my couple hundred are in excess of 80 years old. Classic folders hand built by master craftsmen. I carry many different brands from Case, Remington, Winchester, Honk Falls, New York Knife co, Miller Brothers, ect. Currently I am carrying a bone stag handled serpentine stockman with a long pull main blade with the makers name of "Wards'. These were made for Monkey Wards by Winchester in the 1930's. I know these super fast lock blades are far easier to get into action but every time I pocket one, within a few days it is left on the dresser.

 

[BigBill]

Caution ccw those little knives,

I carry a tiny knife for cutting fruit. I made the mistake of walking through a metal doctor at a state police barracks. The officer went ballastics on me. I said do I look like a terrorist? I'm a big man at 400lbs at the time. I was felling trees and when they didn't fall I put down the saw and push them over. Am I a threat with that little blade?

 

[snubbyfan]

Seems I've always had a knife of some sort with me.
Sometimes in my pocket and sometimes in a belt pouch.
Carried a Leatherman multi tool for a while.
I have a Leatherman Wave that's in bad need of a custom leather belt pouch that matches my boots and belt.

Now I usually carry a CRKT Drifter clipped to my right front pocket.


It's a nice little lock blade.

 

[forindooruseonly]

I carry a knife. It's a spyderco. I use it for everything. Never saw the point of carrying two knives.

 

[Lt JL]

I carry a Benchmade AutoStryker in my weak side front pocket, and a 4" Al Mar backlock in my strong side rear pocket. The Al Mar is for delicate and/or edible jobs. The Stryker is for defending my gun.

 

[kthom]

wingriderz,

I have been allowed to carry a pocket knife from a very very young age. I can get along comfortably without my wallet but not without my knife. Like you, I carry a Case Peanut in my pocket as well as various other larger knives depending on the mood I wake up in. The larger knives change pretty regularly, but the Peanut is always on board. Could not get along without it! I have three or four of them so I can change colors if I wish, but the knife is the same in different dress. And one of mine is also white! And I can get the Peanut out without causing those who are horrified by anyone carrying a knife or a gun to take too much notice. Thankfully here in West Texas, if you don't carry both, most folks wonder what's wrong with you!

I got started carrying two knives when I was in the Army. When others found out I carried a knife, they were always wanting to borrow it. Some of 'em had no clue how to treat a knife, so I carried a cheap one for a loaner that I didn't mind losing and kept my good knife for my own personal use. Shoot, sometimes, I have been known to carry three knives. I sewed a pocket onto the inside of my uniform boot top where I carried one of the early Buck folders. Not so much for protection but for self preservation. The pocket was black and my boots were black and I figured it just might get overlooked if someone locked me up in my own handcuffs and removed my weapons. Thankfully that never happened, but it could have!

I just don't understand how a guy gets by without a knife. My wife didn't understand about a knife except for work in the kitchen. But she was always wanting to use mine for something. So I got her a few knives ... a peanut for her pocket, another small keychain knife for her purse, and eventually a nice small to medium sized locking folder with a clip. She began to carry it in her hip pocket, and now she gets frantic if she forgets it. She was helping a couple other ladies with a project the other day and something needed cutting. She whipped out her folder and quickly sliced it, folded it up, and stowed it away. When she looked up, both ladies were looking at her with their mouths open and their eyes big. They couldn't believe she was carrying such a knife, or any knife for that matter. She just told them that hers was a small one and that they oughta see the one I carry! She kinda enjoyed the reaction of the other ladies. Knives ain't just for men, you guys. Get your wife a nice little knife and show her how to use it. If she'll carry it for a while and remember she's got it, it will become indispensible for her. A knife doesn't have to be big in size to be a big help!

 

[jlrhiner]

Caution ccw those little knives,

I carry a tiny knife for cutting fruit. I made the mistake of walking through a metal doctor at a state police barracks. The officer went ballastics on me. I said do I look like a terrorist? I'm a big man at 400lbs at the time. I was felling trees and when they didn't fall I put down the saw and push them over. Am I a threat with that little blade?

Your a threat with a marshmallow

 

[Onomea]

The SAK Waiter is a handy, small, thin, little pocket knife. A near full-sized SAK blade, a bottle/can opener screwdriver, corkscrew, tooth pick and tweezers. Under $15. A steal.

I have a couple of bigger SAKs, Camper and Champ, plus the tiny keychain knife, but the Waiter is what gets carried the most. (Serious cutting, though, food or wood or weeds, etc., needs a bigger blade.)

 

[fat tom]

My EDC is a Spyderco "Dragonfly" with a half-serrated blade. I also got tired of carrying a heavy lockblade. It's small,but most capable of inflicting serious injury should the need arise. Hopefully,it will continue to be used only for menial every day necessities.
f.t.

 

[chief38]

Here is my EDC. It's a made in USA Marbles 2001 Gladstone Large Stockman 1 of 50 commemorative made in their custom shop. I own more knives than I care to count, but 98% of the time this is the one I EDC. It is shaving sharp and I like the old style pocket Knife. I also like having a choice of 3 blades - I use them for different tasks and sharpen them different ways.

Once in a blue moon I'll carry my Kershaw Leek but that is rare. Nothing wrong with it but I usually don't like "advertising" a knife and the clip tends to do that. Yea I could drop it in my pocket too, but much prefer the Marbles.

 

[2152hq]

I have a stupidly simple, flat and cheap single blade stainless folding knife that I bought at a GS. A box of reject knives from one of those kiosk jewelry engraving places I guess.
They all had some name or inscription on one side, some mispelled or screwed up in the machine engraving process.
50 cents a piece so I bought a couple. All sorts of styles. I found a couple non- imports!
I belt sanded the 'Happy Faters Day' off the side and have carried and used it every day ever since ,,probably been about 20yrs now.

Opens boxes, strips elec wire, picks slivers out of my skin, sharpens pencils, even pulls stubborn cases out of a shotgun or 22 occasionally.
Even used it to final trim a SxS hook shim while at the range recently after shooting the gun in.
I even sharpen it once in a while.

It won't make much of a weapon in a bar fight, but that's what 25autos are for.
Light weight, no bulk and always handy,,just what a pocket knife should be.
If I ever loose it, I still have the other one I bought at the time to put into service.

 

[SailDesign]

Always a small folder in my weak-side back pocket (currently an SLB from AlMar) and a fixed-blade on my strong-side hip - currently a Mora Eldris in a Badger Creek sheath.

My more normal fixed blade is Roselli's Grandmother's Knife. Both the Roselli and the Mora have blades shorter than 3" making them RI legal. They aren't for defence, just for utility. Old boat-shop habit.

 

[Bugkiller99]

I remember a day in school. Apparently there were concerns about a fight or brawl, must have been pretty serious. Authorities came in and told everyone if anyone had a knife, to pull it out and put it on their desk.

EVERY boy pulled out some kind of pocket knife.

Not carried as a weapon. It was tool. You got in the morning, grabbed your books, bubble gum and pocket knife.

Oh, and at that time, only the gum was against the rules.

 

[AZretired]

I generally carry just one pocket knife; a SAK or a Case Stockman usually. If I'm out woods walking, I'll carry a SAK Hiker or Farmer along with the stockman. I gave up on the "tactical" folders several years ago.