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Carried the Kershaw Leek for like 10 years.
Finally lost it last week.
Ordered a new one with the composite blade.
Has D2 on the cutting edge
I like um.
Single handed operation open and close.
Pretty thin. Doesn't give you a big lump in your pocket.
Doesn't cost 300.00..


dave

I've carried the same LEEK for 7-8 years now. Love the little knife!

Kershaw 3650 - Volt II





GR

Usually a Case Trapper of some variant or Often a kinda almost copy of a Kershaw Gentleman’s folder that they discontinued, copy being a $25 version from Amazon with the brand of “Brother”

I have the Kershaw, but don’t want to lose it.

CRKT Dually

Civivi Crit multi tool.

Buck 112 Automatic

Spyderco Para 3 S110V

A little Case Peanut

Spyderco Dragonfly 2 Lightweight Signature Knife with 2.3" VG-10 Steel Blade and High-Strength Orange FRN Handle - PlainEdge - C28POR2


small but this is legal to carry in seattle.





Seattle bans folders with a blade over 3.5", and all fixed blade knives unless worn openly for work, hiking, or fishing. Or stored in a toolbox.

Piranha Mini Predator

Cutco 2 3/4 lockback knife serrated.

sodbuster. Bench made Infidel OTF. And sometimes a folding box knife.

Nothing wong with a Leek, they are nice little knives.

I carry a benchmade bugout with g10 scales most of the time

Benchmade Mini Griptilian. One of the special runs with 20CV steel and G10 grips. Been a great knife

Tree brand boker

Opinel #6

I rotate several. Some are for dress or special occasions like church and social functions. I do have a Ken Onion like the one in the picture. Started carrying in first grade when I was six. Got Dad’s old 3 blade Case pocketknives. I remembered in 3 rd grade being asked who had a pocketknife that day she selected 3 of us, pulled her trash can in center, and had us pull a chair from the reading circle. Mrs Martin then called for students in row 1 to bring unsharpened pencils to us. The POS pencil sharpeners mounted on the bookcase only ground up your pencils. Very practical and smart lady who I had the honoring of teaching with later in life. Usually carried a Case Trapper in HS and Army Basic. Lost it in the pits and had it returned by DI. He also killed 2 wild turkeys on the firing range while we were policing brass. I was the only redneck who knew how to clean them. Sgt Davidson was a 6’4” black LURP and we got along fine even tho I was a Mississippi Delta boy and he had trained my 2 brothers previously. A great warrior. I carried a Spyderco Delica that my LEO son took off a black. It had a broken tip and molded in clip. I sent in to factory and had it fixed carried for 30 years. Lost when I got Covid and put in ICU, speciality hospitals and nursing home. Got 3 Benchmades, Ontario Rat 1, neck knives and Swiss Army, Browning and Buck. Find a lot in pawn shop and clean up. I also make hunting fixed blade knives from old files and saw blades. I cut stuff. I hunt and fish and cook. I dress my food and have eaten real fast food - deer, ducks, doves, rabbits and squirrel.

OKC Rat and an American made Old Timer 194 OT

Day to day, 3 sort of. For a very long time I've carried a .. well, not always the same one, wore 2 out .. Gerber LST, 2nd to smallest size. Earlier ones had pretty decent steel, current ones I'm not so happy with but WTF it'll cut cardboard and tape thus saving the edge of my other knives for more important things. "Sort of" is a Leatherman Micra with a fairly tiny blade. It cuts fairly well. I've gutted salmon up to 30 pounds with it. Those are "in pocket" knives. Newest addition is a Benchmade Mini Bugout which hangs on the inside of my pocket by its clip. I had a full sized Bugout (still do, but don't EDC with it, it's in a small pack) but it proved too long for pocket carry and dug into me if I bent forward.

Day to day .. if I'm hiking .. I usually add a Cold Steel SRK or Master Hunter depending on which day pack I grab.

A Camillus Stockman my father gave me in 1953. The stag scales are worn smooth, but it still "walks and talks" like a new pocketknife. Razor sharp, too.

L.W.

Usually a Spyderco Para 2, but occasionally a Kershaw Black Gulch

The $10 Basspro version of this with the Chinese version of German AUS-8 Steel.

+ 1,I like them,slim and sharp.

Cold Steel Air Lite today.

Cheap and the 14C28N steel is surprisingly good.
Yeah yeah.. it's chinee.. vote me off the island if you must.

I will up these plus one with +1 more.

Hard to beat Kershaw clips. I carried a scallion but went to the smaller Chive for EDC. All American made Ken Onion designs. I never liked knives buried deep in my front pocket and went to smaller Case knives that could fit in the coin pocket. I evolved into smaller clip carries and won't look back. I like being able to open a knife with one hand even if wearing leather gloves. Convenient.
I lost a blue chive and can't find another in blue. I got a replacement in silver as a Christmas gift from my daughter and didn't feel guilty about asking for one at that price.

Benchmade mini bugout

Rat2 D2

I got you beat. This has been my EDC knife since the early 1980s. Hardly a day goes by when I don't use it for something. When it gets dull, it sharpens razor sharp again with ease.

Gerber lockblade:

It's not a tiny knife (2.5" blade). It just looks tiny next to that giant moth.

Butter

Kershaw Chill

kershaw tanto blur

Kershaw Blur Tanto. Superb knife.

Zero Tolerance 462.

Much like optics I buy very high quality USA made when possible.

OP knife has a poor blade profile with no belly but I guess it would be an OK letter opener.

Right now a Spyderco Native, sometimes a Benchmade Bugout First Production Run.

All winter long it has been this Civivi Baby Banter. Love the little thing. Wish it wasn't Chinese.

Cold steel recon 1 for a few years now.

Kershaw blur. I was a fan of the blackout but I don't think they make them anymore

You're turning into a condescending prick. Just like Buzz.

Are y'all buds?

I have a bunch and depending on my mood and where I'm carrying it could be one of at least a dozen. But if forced to pick one it would be the Hogue Deka.

https://smkw.com/hogue-deka-tumble-clip-blk-g10

We were in Boston last summer and I chose to bring this one in case I had to "lose" it. They are about the best cheap knife I've used. And I thought I was going to lose it. We were in line to see the USS Constitution. I didn't think about a metal detector there, but it set it off. I pulled it out and gave it to the Sailor working security. He looked it over and said, "That's not a knife". Keep it in your pocket and have a good day.


https://smkw.com/kabar-dozier-folding-hunter-black

Benchmade Mel Pardue 154CM steel. I don’t love the steel or the blade profile but it’s good enough and the knife has some sentimental value.

Victorinox Officer's Model Swiss army knife.

Benchmade Mel Osbourne Reverse Tanto is my current EDC.

I have others I carry for special purposes, such as hunting. Mostly Axis Lock Benchmades.

Buck 110 auto

Did you just know start reading my posts?

While I try and avoid them, they just pop up in a relevant thread now and then.

Don't turn into a Buzz.

Adimanti Neformat 02. A buddy sent it to me as a birthday present. Never been a big knife guy but I love this thing. Im sure it’s Chinesium but shows made by Ganzo. Keeps a good edge. I carried a Buck Prince for years.

Buck 845 Vantage Force
Schrade Slyte
Kershaw Leek
Case Sod Buster
Kershaw Chive

All reasonably priced USA made knives of decent quality. Here, as it is with scopes, it is easy to avoid crap made in communist China. The Schrade and the Kershaws open like butter. I like the part serrated part non on the Buck. The Slyte is thinner than the Kershaws. I wish it had a sharper point, but am pleased with it. The Sod Buster I have for sentimental reasons.

Old school Gerber.

This Buck automatic.

Spyderco Endura&Delica serrated wharncliffes here. Also have a combo edge Endura...that I've broken the clip off for the second time.(Cmon payday!). Have my old Ats55 steel endura from 199something the clips gone and won in pistol match for having the ugliest gun on the line. A 4 inch Satin Nickel taurus 66 with pretty Brazilian wood grips but absolutely the most horrid yellow/tan icky satin nickel in the history of the world. I cherish it because that's back when I was sane mostly.

Mines a Kershaw Chill. My son gave it to me years ago. After using it a while, I liked it so much I bought a couple of spares, because I easily loose pocketknives.

Bench made Osborne.

That's quite an EDC knife. How do you carry it?

something different every day. So many to choose from. Today it was this Spyderco Autonomy 2 auto

Spiderco Tenacious, Benchmade Osborne Auto, Benchmade Casbah, microtech socom elite, and microtech ultratech T/E are in rotation. All plain edge.

For several years, a Steel Will Cutjack Amazon link

It lays flat and flips out easily, unlocks and folds up easily. The clip has held up really well, better than several brands. The D2 blade has been great.

For the clip knife, having a clip to be carried top of pocket or the belt it's a Kershaw link lately. Spyderco, Benchmade & Cold Steel have served.

For the actual pocket knife, a simple 2 plus blade utility tool that lays in the bottom of my pocket there have many, including Case, Boker German Eye, Hen & Rooster, mirroring my Dad or grandpa I've carried most of them. After discovering the Victorinox brand of Swiss army knives I never looked back. I keep a backup or 2. Not gonna be without.

Kershaw 3560 Ember with the clip removed.

The wife carries a Spyderco III Lady Bug

I'm a knife guy and have a bunch that I rotate around for edc on a whim. Today was a Microtech LUDT auto...

I've got two RAT 1's and a Rat 2. All in D2. They aren't going anywhere.

RAT 2 or a Leek. Both excellent

Very cool. 👍

I had never heard of Mictotech. I looked them up. You have good taste in knives!

That's nice.

Lately, a spyderco silverax. But I've got 8 or 9 others in rotation, several benchmades, a few Kershaw, Rat2, NA skaha. Just depends on what I'm doing.

A couple of favorites of mine, Boker W.C. Davis Hunter II's, the lockback in burgundy linen micarta and S30V, the slipjoint in green canvas micarts and N690. I also carry some older slipjoints, typically cattle knives or scout knives, sometimes copperheads.

This four blade cattle knife is a favorite of mine too.

Just a little lock-back Buck that surprisingly doesn't get lost despite the camo.

Gerber Steadfast

It's not too big. I just use the provided pocket clip.

Benchmade Barrage.

On my belt everyday is a Buck Lite lock blade knife I bought in 1985. Still carried in the original canvas belt pouch that came with it. Can't believe I never lost it. Use it to gut deer, and otherwise just keep it on my belt for when I need a moderately heavy spined knife for something.

In my pocket is a old small 2 bladed Imperial for normal everyday things like cutting strings, boxes open, etc. Also use that pocket knife to cut the scent sacks off of deer as I like to remove them first thing before gutting, and always do it with a separate knife than what I use for gutting.

ZT 0450

Ontario Rat1 or a Cold Steel neck knife

Kershaw Zero Tolerance...

A yellow Case Trapper for day to day stuff.

A Cold Steel Slockmaster if I’m hunting, fishing or doing stuff around the ranch.

Most lately,

Kershaw Federalist.. slim usa made slipjoint.

Or a hogue deka, hogue doug ritter mini-rsk, or a bugout.

Usually have a SOG Flash in my jacket. Case Trapper in my Wranglers.
Leatherman Wave or Surge on my belt.
Jeff

Benchmade CLA. It's a plain edge and I like the auto action.
I wouldn't mind it being a combo edge though.

My edc on the ocean is is a vikki. (Victorinox 4in serrated rope cutter)

Leatherman Surge

Havalon Redi

https://www.havalon.com/havalon-redi

In the pocket rotation
GEC Hawbaker trapper
Eye brand single blade trapper
USA Schrade single blade liner lock trapper
Case Damascus muskrat
Case trapper
All high carbon

Sheath rotation
Ingram
Dozier
Crotts
Winston
Clark
Barrier
3 Crosses
Esee
Most D2 or high carbon
All under 7”.

Stinger XL from Off Grid Knives. Fairly big knife, 4" blade, but pretty flat in the pocket. I really like it. Been carrying it for a couple years or so.

https://www.offgridknives.com/stinger-xl-coyote-with-154cm/

I had one of those, my son talked me out of it. Nice knife!

Benchmade mini-bugout. I also carry a Kershaw Chill from time to time.

I like the Ka-Bar Dozier D2. Under $40 and I won’t cry too much if I lose it.

Spyderco is in the rotation too.

Usually a William Henry T12CF.

Griptillian

Under $30 on Amazon

I carried a Leatherman Wave for many years. When I retired, I no longer needed a big heavy thing like that. I ended up with a little Buck 363, 2" blade. It's not high dollar by any means but it does take a decent edge. It's too small for real work but for my use, it does the job. It came as a set with a larger 365. I carry that one when I'm doing things that might require a larger knife. It has a belt clip and slips right into a back pocket. It's easy to forget it's there and it's been through the wash dozens of times. It handles water very well.

363 2"


365 Rival II 3 1/8"

In my pocket, it's either a Spyderco PM2 in S30V, or a Buck 112 Slim.

For woodswalking I prefer a fixed blade on my belt, an ESEE 3 gets the nod.