Any Folder to Fixed Blade EDC converts out there?

Living in Texas and Florida converted me. With all the sand and dust storms and such it was just way too easy to gunk up the action of a folder. After destroying a SOG Flash and Trident within a few weeks of each other I decided to go the fixed blade route, and have been a firm believer ever since.
 
I carry both :) Izula and a SAK. If I need pliers I'll throw in my leatherman charge ti. Gets kind of heavy carrying all 3 though.
 
I don't think I'll put away my BM 710 but i will be carrying my IZULA in the morning too. I've only had this little knife for a few hours and I can't put it down. The ESEE3 is already in the gobag.
 
Slowly but surely I'm leaning more towards my Izula as an edc..

I just shove it in my pocket for now, it works but I'm going to either buy another sheath or shave one of my Izula sheaths down a bit for a neck.. Also I'd like to get some chain (like on ceiling fans) so this way paracord won't endanger me from being strangled by a bg.
 
basb said:
I used to carry a Buck 110 on my belt but traded it for an Izula about 6 weeks ago.
Got a kydex sheath for it and works great.
Still love the 110, however the steel is a pain to keep sharp. Receiving a 4 by the end of the week, will try to edc that for a few.


P1000659.JPG
Click to expand...

That is a neat little sheath. Did you make it yourself?
 
Spyder, Ant and Seb, key chain backup, Tek Lok'ed easy on/easy off "beater" and sheeple and food friendly slicer.
dscn0156a.jpg
 
Last edited:
I'm trying to convert over but honestly don't think I ever will COMPLETELY! I've been carrying folders for to long not to!

I have been wearing my new HEST for the last week now trying to figure out how best to carry it, but not having great success yet. I think a pocket style sheath like the one posted above would be a big improvement.

I will probably end up with an Izula at some point just 'cus I think they look handy, and they might carry better. Will have to see!
 
BigDKC said:
I'm trying to convert over but honestly don't think I ever will COMPLETELY! I've been carrying folders for to long not to!

I have been wearing my new HEST for the last week now trying to figure out how best to carry it, but not having great success yet. I think a pocket style sheath like the one posted above would be a big improvement.

I will probably end up with an Izula at some point just 'cus I think they look handy, and they might carry better. Will have to see!
Click to expand...

A Tek-Lok or MALICE clips are the best way to carry the HEST, ESEE-3, or ESEE-4, for EDC, IMO. I personally prefer the MALICE clips, but believe the Tek-Lok would work well, too, as others on here have said.
 
I edc both. I like to neck carry a fixed blade for a backup/hard use type of role but my main user is still a folder clipped in my right front pocket. It's just hard to beat the convenience of one handed use and out of the way carry. So far the Sage1 is my favorite.
 
As nice as some of the small fixed blades are, I just prefer the easy carry and convenience of my folders. But if I had to carry a fixed blade for EDC, it would be my HEST.
 
Anytime I am not in the city, I will have a fixed blade on my belt with a folder.

Lately for conversation in sales etc I have been carrying a tiny anza fixed, micro canadian or my Bruce Culberson necker front pocket, my koster ws&s has been living in my pocket a little as well.

People seem interested in the small fixed blades and no wide eyed looks when my military or large dozier folder comes out.
 
I don't know about the legalities of this but in rural'sville USA, I switched to an Izula in a jimped sheath. It doesn't mind company and just a downward push of the front of this sheath releases a handy little fixed blade - very fast!

775454707_aD5Hr-L.jpg
 
About a year ago I started carrying a SOG seal Pup and now sometimes I carry a TOPS TSK in my waistband. A fixed blade is stronger and easier to deploy than a folder. Soon I will buy a Rc3 and Izula and start carrying those.
 
I EDC an RC3 pretty much everywhere but work (a no-go there). I carry it in the front pants pocket. It's short enough to hide OK. With some pants the handle end (with short piece of paracord attached) shows, but I don't think most people even know what it is.

I don't have an Izula to compare it to, so maybe that's better based upon all who say they EDC the Izula. I've just been so happy with the RC-3 for a couple/3 years now I haven't wanted anything else that would cause me to put it in a drawer.
 
Since I don't have an Izula yet, I do carry a BRKT bravo-necker in a KSF Adirondack Leather Pocket Sheath an have no problems with this type of carry. There is room in the sheath for a multi tool or flashlight depends what I am doing to rides with the knife.

When funds get right I will probable pick up a KSF Izula with the eagle logo on the knife.
 
I suppose it all depends on your local laws... i personally adore my Izula (truly changed my life lol) but its illegal to carry fixed of any size here in the commonwealth, so i carry folder when in public. <--- nothing more than what the rest of the well informed and well versed folks on here will tell u but im bored.
 
Always used to carry inexpensive folders, just recently I decided to pick up an izula to see how i like fixed blades for EDC. (owned it a week now)

I can't say I'm a convert from folder to fixed, but i will say as long as I own this Izula it's gonna be my EDC whether just dropped in my pocket with the sheath or on my belt.
 
Well the last few days I have been wearing the hest horizontally on my belt with the paracord at about 11:00 - 11:30. Actually today is the first day of it at 11:00, I had been wearing it at 1:00 but wasn't happy with the deployment time or method.

I also felt unbalanced a little bit with my CCW pistol right behind it at around 3:00. I am a righty and thought I might carry my fixed blade for left hand draw from my right side "just in case". I didn't really think about how much I use a knife throughout the day and I got tired of juggling back & forth from drawing with the left hand and passing it off to the right hand to use, or drawing with the right hand but having to rotate the knife in my hand to be able to use it. Makes deployment MUCH slower then my one handed folder. Now with it on the left of my body in one quick motion I can draw the knife with my right hand and I'm ready to go. So far not quite as fast as drawing my folder but that will come in time!

It's actually working out pretty well so far. The end of the handle sticks out just a little bit from my body but not too bad, it bothered me at first but over the last couple days I havent paid much attention. Also despite what I thought, the pry bar doesn't poke me either!

Here are a couple more questions: Are these "tek-loc" attatchments big enough to allow them to mount on a double layered gun belt? And will a tek-loc fit on the standard issue Hest sheath? I do think a couple aftermarket sheaths will be in order if I stick with carrying it. One for pocket carry with the clip like Diesel Dog's and maybe another like it but with a belt clip of some type that lets me carry it horizontal like I am now..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top