theocguy85 said:
A recent turn of events in my life requires me to wear a suit way more often than I like. (I hate suits!
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I have been carrying a 6" Ti-Lite lately, but that just does not work in a suit pocket. What is a good all-purpose (including SD) knife that is small/thin enough for suit carry?
You wear a suit to work and you need an SD knife? Lemme guess; you've just been hired by either the FBI or the Mob
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Seriously though, I'm a lawyer, and have had to figure out how to satisfy my knife knut urges in a revoltingly conservative law firm environment (I've since gone in house and work in a much more pleasant business casual tech firm environment). I should preface this by stating that SD was not part of my mission requirements. 6'2", 250 lbs, buzzcut, and I lived and worked in a very safe area (downtown Montreal); the odds of me ever having to use a knife for SD were vanishingly small.
For several years my edc was a SAK, first a Vic Super Tinker and when that one slipped out of my pants pocket in a taxi late one night, a Vic Rucksack. I later supplemented this with a Leatherman Micra. It was a great combination for an office environment from a practical point of view, and extremely sheeple-friendly to boot. I carried the SAK in my front left pants pocket and the Micra on my keychain in the front right pants pocket.
After I discovered modern clip-on one-hand opening folders, I started clipping them into the left inside pocket on my suit jacket. I did this with a Gerber Paraframe I.
As for using them, I basically just casually took them out, opened them in a calm, non-threatening manner, used them very matter-of-factly, and put them away with no fuss. I never had any problems with any of my co-workers. In fact, my neighbours usually borrowed my knives when they had boxes to open.
I toyed for a long time with the idea of keeping a Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger on my desk as a letter opener, but ultimately decided against it.
I think that discretion is key to co-existing with sheeple in an office environment. Keep your knives out of sight, open them slowly, use them as if what you're doing is the most normal, natural thing in the world, and put them away without ado when done. And carry knives that are appropriate for your environment. So long as you've got a non-over-the-top, obviously tactical-looking knife, you shouldn't have any trouble. OTOH, carrying a Dork Ops Ultimate Bin Laden Eviscerator stashed under your jacket might get you noticed unfavourably.
These days, I don't usually wear a suit jacket to work, so the loadout is now the Rucksack in the front left pants pocket, with a Spyderco Ladybug and a Leatherman Squirt S4 on my keychain in the front right pants pocket. I also keep a Gerber MultiPlier Sport 400 and a Spyderco Endura FRN in an outside pocket on my laptop backpack.
The Endura FRN is nice, light, large, decent steel (VG-10), is dark-coloured and reasonably discreet, and has a low M4ll N1nj4 factor. It, or one of its smaller cousins (the Delica, p'raps) would be pretty good for a suit pocket knife, I'd think.
