Anybody EDC a beater

[Andrew Colglazier]

So I started thinking about this the other day, when I went down to my car from my apartment to cut a piece of skateboard grip tape off that I wanted to use on my flashlight for more traction.

When I got down there, I realized all I had was my EDC's.. a BM minigrip that I really didn't want to use on the rough material, and a Demko rebladed Recon 1.. so I sat there thinking about my options for a while, and finally went upstairs and got my Sanrenmu 710 to cut it (which of course, destroyed the edge). I started thinking about it and I am thinking of getting a dedicated EDC beater, that I can loan out, and do whatever with.

I was thinking maybe a cheapo S&W or one of the cheaper kershaws (storm or something) or a byrd..

anybody else carry a dedicated knife just in case you have a job that will trash the blade? If so, what do you carry?

I preserve my self defense folders from hard use, but any other knife I have on me is fair game for any purpose, from my Spyderco Resilience to my Laconico custom.

It helps if you have the ability to repair/resharpen easily. Then you have less fear of doing irreversible damage to your knives.

Andy

 

[jstrykr74]

I use every knife I have, including some in the $400-$500 range. I do believe a knife is a knife and not a prybar. But if a knife gets dull or scratched, that's what happens to a tool. I've bought several custom knives, and not once have I been told to baby the knife by the maker. Nothing against those who buy production knives, put them in a safe and take them out to fondle them every so often. That's just not me. I get satisfaction by using a tool as it was intended to be used.

 

[mr.trooper]

Yea, I EDC 'cheap' or even 'junk' knives all the time - but by themselves, not as an additional knife to save my "good" knives from actual use.

We here represent the 1% of people who carry knives. The other 99% gets along just fine using a gas station knife for 99% of the same tasks that we use our "high end" knives for.

To most people, a $50 SOG, Gerber, or Kershaw is an EXPENSIVE knife. Most of these people don't even know how to sharpen a blade properly - and yet they seem to be able to open letters, cut packaging tape, open clamshell packages, and cut bits of twine well enough.

 

[Tostig]

Yea, I EDC 'cheap' or even 'junk' knives all the time - but by themselves, not as an additional knife to save my "good" knives from actual use.

We here represent the 1% of people who carry knives. The other 99% gets along just fine using a gas station knife for 99% of the same tasks that we use our "high end" knives for.

To most people, a $50 SOG, Gerber, or Kershaw is an EXPENSIVE knife. Most of these people don't even know how to sharpen a blade properly - and yet they seem to be able to open letters, cut packaging tape, open clamshell packages, and cut bits of twine well enough.

Sir, you hit the nails on the heads. I could not have said it better.

I use whatever knife I'm carrying , I only have two safe queens all the rest get carried and used at some point.

Today's lucky knife is my well used and respected CQC7.

Tostig

 

[kat1]

When going to really abuse a blade like digging into a flat hot tar gravel roof to chip away hard tar or any heavy prying, I use the worse piece of garbage knife being a Buck Strider Tarani, thinnest, weakest liner lock, consistently unlocking under pressure and twisting, nearly lost my fingers on numerous occasions, so now I tighten down pivot all the way to the point you can not close by hand and just start hacking away. When done loosen pivot to close, sharpen on belt sander, it makes a good junker. Bought years ago when first came out for 55.00 so not so bad.