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The knife I EDC must have a pocket clip, open 1 handed and lock open. A Spyderco Native has worked for the last 10 years.


mike r

To the Kid's question, the one in the center is a Schatt and Morgan, the two outside are GEC.

Same here. Used to carry a Buck Stockman I bought while in the Army but it would wear holes in my pockets and the blades didn't lock. It still gets used a lot but mostly it stays on my reloading bench and opens boxes of bullets. Carried a Gerber mini lockback on a key ring for many years but it wasn't big enough for anything but opening envelopes.

Now I carry a Kershaw Skyline with 3" blade and pocket clip that flips open with one finger assist and is big enough to do most chores. It's not a fighter by any means but it is big enough to hurt someone if things ever came to that. Also carry a tiny little Swiss Army knife but mostly for the tweezers and toothpick.

Usually this Stockman or one nearly like it.

Constant companions in my working days for the Sheriff's Dept. Gerber folder and early Guardian.





What I carry daily now. Case Razor edge and Camulis Blaze assisted opening




My Sunday go to meeting Knife. Case small Trapper

Case med stockman.

Boker three blade

I have the same problem with my Leatherman Charge Ti.....



I've lost two of them but wouldn't think of leaving home without it. Use it constantly. Always feeling my pocket to make sure it's there, that and the damn phone.




Keep this in another pocket during feeding season. Net wrap slicer.

Usually a Kershaw Leek or a US made Buck 722. If I don't want some quick opening folder clipped to my pocket it's a Case trapper or a very slim, very sharp German folder my wife bought me.

More than once my wife has been heard to ask (in a disdainful tone of voice) "What kind of man doesn't have a knife in his pocket?"

My grandfather, who gave me my first pocket knife on my 6th birthday felt a man should never leave the house without his watch, a belt for his pants, and a knife in his pocket.

Sometimes I carry others, but those are the most frequent. I'm an accumulator, not a collector.

Some more of my traditional carbon steel folders.
I started out with Schrades.



Nowdays it's convex edged Jack knives.
S&M and a smaller GEC



Another S&M with two blades...and the nicest one in my humble collection...Northwoods Indian River Jack.

Sweet knives Sir.

I cringe every time when someone uses the words 'nuts' and 'knife' in the same sentence.

Yep, nice stash there Charlie....

Schrades, Case, Buck, Gerber etc. Carry different ones all the time. Don't forget Opinel.

I have been wiring a couple fo vehicles over the past few days and have been using this, Early Robeson Pocketeze.

I don't know if it fits the category, but I have carried a Buck 112 Ranger on my belt nearly everyday since 1973.

Tried carrying an expensive high end knife as an EDC at work...big mistake. Even with CPM 3V, working around the dirt and cutting things like cardboard and Geo-Tex fabric ate that thing up in no time. Now, i carrry a box cutter at work.

For leisure or recreation it depends on what use might be required. The Skeletool is hella useful but definitely bulkier. The SAK has the tweezers and scissors which get used more than one would think. Having said all that, probably my fave 'gentleman's knife' for light duty and all around comfort carry is the GEC Beer Scout. Love that thing.

Bottom two are an ENZO with CF scales and D2 Scandi and a Gerber I've had forever (can't even remember the model name--mini-Gator?).

yes it counts.




Dave

Nice.




Travis