Anyone just decide to edc one knife

The goal has always been to find "the one". I think I have the latest contestant in the Queen #49 Cattle King. I bought the Queen City variant at the Queen open house because I was impressed with the worked liners. I never expected to carry it much, as I have never really gotten along with stockmen. I've always really wanted to like the stockman, but just haven't been able to bond with one. Now I can't put the cattle king down and just today I went on KSF and ordered a D2 version. I'm really hoping that this pattern sticks and I can stop looking for the next best thing and settle into a collection that makes a bit more sense than mine does now.
 
I carried a green first version Bucklite for at least 15 years daily and it was my only knife during that time. Used it for hunting, fishing, camping, hiking......anything you could use a knife for. No telling how much game that thing processed. It came up missing, I went several years with an old timer stockman, but i only carried it when I was going hunting or fishing, not daily. About 2012, I found a 1988, well worn Bucklite at a flea market that was similar to my old one and found this website researching it and it's been all downhill from there. I'm don't consider myself a collector, just searching for the perfect knife and in the process I now have a huge collection. The way it goes, I come up with a really nice knife to be the one, then decide it is too nice to carry and it goes into the "non collection". lol And in the "non collection" I probably have a dozen of the old Bucklites but can't seem to make that my only carried knife for some reason.
But as of right now, it's a peanut in a pocket and a Buck 110 on a sheath.
 
I spent my working life as a Linesman. I carried a Buck 110 in a sheath on my tool belt for years. Cut insulator off of wire everyday and tons of other hard use. I also kept an old whetstone on me and sharpened that old Buck almost every morning. The blade and the whetstone got much smaller over the years but both worked fine for over 20 years.
 
EDC? As in Every Day Carry? I don't think I can do it. All though I have a primary that I carry six days out of the week, I have a pearl handled serpentine that slips into my pocket on Sundays and special occasions. And once in a while I get the itch to carry something different. Never lasts very long though, the primary is usually back in my pocket the next day.

This knife has gotten the lion's share of pocket time since 2014.

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kamagong said:
EDC? As in Every Day Carry? I don't think I can do it. All though I have a primary that I carry six days out of the week, I have a pearl handled serpentine that slips into my pocket on Sundays and special occasions. And once in a while I get the itch to carry something different. Never lasts very long though, the primary is usually back in my pocket the next day.

This knife has gotten the lion's share of pocket time since 2014.

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Very nice!
 
I've been trying to go this route, but I'm having trouble finding "The One". There always ends up being something about the knife that bugs me to the point of getting rid of it and moving on to something else.
 
I am a 1 user knife carrier. I always have this sowbelly with me for any need. I occassionally carry another more fancy knife, usually to show others, or to take pictures.

 
There has been a couple of times in my life I tried, really tried , to be like my old man and be a one knife guy. Failed every time!!!

I finally came to the conclusion, and was at peace with it, that I am one of the afflicted and obsessed knife knuts. Some people are born with a gene that makes them an alcoholic, some people obsessively collect stamps, or coins, or beer cans or matchbooks. I happen to collect/accumulate pocket knives. I do, as a by product, enjoy the fact that I have a modest collection of actually usable cutting tools that have a place in everyday life. That 1907 coin ain't gonna open my mail.

It took me a long time to just accept that I am never going to carry just one knife. Only when I got older, I realized why the old man never collected a number of knives. He just wasn't really "into" them. He was one of those old school guys from the depression era that knew he needed a cutting tool, but since he had one, he was all set and didn't need another one. Dad went through is life with that little Case peanut because it cut what he wanted and didn't take up a lot of room in the pocket. Dad wasn't a knife guy.

But I am, so I have a number of knives that I rotate and carry. I may have a SAK one day, a Sardinian resolza in the pocket the next day, with an Opinel tossed into the mix somewhere. A Remington peanut and Boker 240 are there as well.

I love picking out my pocket knife of the day every morning!:)

Carl, the afflicted and obsessed knife knut.
 
Sayoc01 said:
Looked at Carl's post on Frank H barlow & how worn it was! I have a stockman given to me that had all the blades sharpened to small blades.Owner had passed away they were all still sharp.So I got to wondering if any of "us"traditional lovers could limit ourselves to just "one" pocketknife .I've kept tabs on Carl posting & see where he has given most of his knives away.Don't know if I could! I no longer buy...don't need ,desire or want any more. I must admit I'm tempted to try .I do know NOT buying has saved me a lot of money. Sooo,guys that like me, have "numerous"pocketknives custom & factory ...look at them could you get by with just one?? Anyone want to try??
Jim
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Here is my tendency, which is a convenient metaphor for the dynamic that has dominated several significant areas of my life: I want to have just one knife, but I get the idea that I need to have one for regular use and then one for special occasions. Coordinating that pair has been difficult, because I still haven't quite found the perfect pair, and then every so often I get the itch to just buy one or several new knives to try stuff out. So I end up with a handful of knives and welling anxiety because, while I like all of them, I only really want one or two of them. So I sell most or all of them and try again. I just received a GEC half congress that, once sharpened, I'll carry for a while. And I'll probably keep one of the 77 barlows that I get from this upcoming run, and just unload everything else. Eventually I'll get a little miffed that they aren't stainless, and then who knows what will happen.
 
I'm kind of half and half with the mods on this one. Like Gary, I have a single knife that I always carry, an olive green vic cadet. But in addition, I nearly always have another knife on me, something more collectable, with pride of ownership a step above the utilitarian cadet.

But like Frank, when younger I carried a single lockback drop point for over 10 years, followed by about a 3 year stint with another single blade. Then I discovered multi-blades in a big way, as my income went up drastically. Now I have too many "pretties" to only carry the same one all the time.

THIS:
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EQUALS UTILITY AND PLEASURE!!
 
I have a well-worn Case 63032 amber bone medium stockman that I modified the clip and sheepfoot blades on. It has seen much use, and appears to be a "Pocketworn" Case by its look! It finds its way into my pocket more than any of the other knives I own. It's not the "fanciest" or even the nicest knife I own, but it is, in all probability, the most useful! I also have a Buck 500 that I carry in a leather belt pouch for heavier work around our place in the country, but it is only used sometimes. There's a lot to be said for the good ol' medium stockman!

Ron
 
I have never stuck to just one knife. In a way I tend to carry a knife until it gets dull and then rotate though my collection. Back in February I started carrying two knives. I carry my CRK Inkosi and something else. For the last few days it has been my Blue Camel Bone GEC #25. The second knife changes around as the mood strikes me. Even then I normally open the mail at my desk and on my desk is currently six different knives which will get used for opening said mail. Normally the desk has only a couple of knives for mail but they have been adding up as they want their turn in my pocket.

If I had to live with just one knife to be used for anything and everything, I don't think it would be one of my traditional folders. But if I could have two the second one might be. I just have too many really nice knives to limit things to just a couple.
 
kamagong said:
EDC? As in Every Day Carry? I don't think I can do it. All though I have a primary that I carry six days out of the week, I have a pearl handled serpentine that slips into my pocket on Sundays and special occasions. And once in a while I get the itch to carry something different. Never lasts very long though, the primary is usually back in my pocket the next day.

This knife has gotten the lion's share of pocket time since 2014.

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Gorgeous stag on that one!


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I have at times carried just one knife for a year or two. For the last few years, however, more discretionary income and knife-knuttiness converged so nowadays I generally rotate through several current favorites. :)
 
Up until four years ago I carried only one, if any . Most of the time it wa a utitily knife. Started with the idea of a nice pocket knife for my 40th. Thanks to the Internet , I found this place and discovered GEC . I find myself carrying two at a time. The idea of one knife really appeals to me but I'm not ready yet .
 
I have never EDC more than one knife at a time. For a while it was a GEC model 73. I then discovered the model 83 from GEC and this the only knife have been carrying since.
 
Are we talking about EDC one knife each day OR one knife at a time throughout the day?

Either way, I can't.

Like others have said - I have tried, but can't. I guess I'm a knife nut...

On a normal day, I carry 3:
SAK (usually a Super Tinkerer)
larger traditional (Trapper, Soddie, etc.) on my belt
medium to large (3-4" blade) modern folder clipped in my back pocket

I'm not a collector, but I have several knives that serve duty in this rotation.
I feel it's a lot like the way my wife chooses which shoes to wear that day - whatever looks good and feels good that day.
 
Sometimes I carry just one knife in a day... But most days I get home and switch out the knife I've been carrying for another. I usually don't carry more than 2 different knives in a day... except weekdays and weekends when I usually carry a third knife after dinner.
 
When I first started seriously looking at knives, or obsessively I should say, it was customs. I had bought a Case 63032 that I carried for several years occasionally pocketing a new purchase. I think my collecting was more, as some of you guys said, looking for my Grail knife. I had a short love affair for modern folders, and found a passion for hunting for old folders. I still look in antique shops and flea markets for oldies. These days I pretty much only carry one. I've always been a stockman fan, and in 2013 I found a GEC 81 and I'm calling it my Grail knife. Took a little bit getting used to it in my pocket but I find the 4 inch to be more rugged than the medium stockman. The steel liners probably help. Once in a while if I have to get dressed up I'll put a medium Case stockman or a Copperlock or a GEC 83 in my pocket.





 
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