BIGGER is better, or not??? What say you??

I now carry small mikov fish knife on keychain with 2 inch blade and find it enough for most urban edc tasks,also have small olite flashlight on keychain.
 
VorpelSword said:
I am a rtired urbanite traveling aout with a cane, on buses and via Uber. My EDC is a Leatherman Wave carried horizontally in a belt pouch. Ut rides behind my right hip . . .about where many carry a pistol.

It seems to be the right size for me and what I use it for. Interestingly (to me), the second most useful tool seems to be the file!

If they made a bigger model, I would give it a try, just to see how that would work out.

Years ago I swore by an SAK with a few utility tools , Forty years later I don't recall what model. That was back-up to a Buck 110. Back in the 1980s I worked offshore in the Middle East, and a Buck was THE knife to wear on your belt for anyone working in a hard hat.

But since its intrtoduction in the mid 1990s, and a career change, the Leatherman has replaced them both.
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The do make a larger version of the wave. It’s called the Surge and I carried on one my belt for what seems like 10-15 years before leaving the field for the office.
Absolutely amazing multi tool. I still keep in my office deck and the glove box of my truck.it’s pretty heavy however, like almost a pound, 10-12 ozs or something crazy.
 
I like small knives. My dad used to say, “It’s easier to do a big job with a small knife than to do a small job with a big knife.” In my life I’ve found that to be mostly true. I have blades smaller than this one, but they are “specialty” knives with usable handles. This is pure gimmick and not for me.
 
Great responses!!!!! This would probably get lost with my pocket lint within A week...
 
Couldn't agree with pholder more. To that end my favorite edc is my Cold Steel Voyager XL Plain Edge that I carry on my belt in a holster. However I have very large meat hooks at 6'4" and 300 lbs. and this microscopic knife is just asking to be dropped and/or lost by just about anyone. And I have no problems using my voyager for any task I require. Seems like money better spent elsewhere imo.
 
When our son deployed to Iraq in 2004, I covered the bases by sending him off with a CRK Green Beret.
Seven inches of ,30V; hat was state of the art the time. Due to deep anxiety bon my part, he also packed a Randall #16 Special Fighter. . .. seven inches of 440C.

In his pockets, pack. or just wherever, were a CRKT M21 and a black Leatherman Wave.

Today, I would delete the Radmall for the current spec Green Beret and go with some folder of higher specs other than the CRKT M21. The Wave too would be replaced by a multitool s with functions specific to maintaining an M-4 rifle. Don't think they were available in 2003-'04.

For a Marine in harm's way, nearly the whole spectrum of size applies.

BTW: The young Lt. gently persuaded me NOT to also buy him a Cold Steel battle Katana, "That is just too big dad . . ."
 
VorpelSword said:
When our son deployed to Iraq in 2004, I covered the bases by sending him off with a CRK Green Beret.
Seven inches of ,30V; hat was state of the art the time. Due to deep anxiety bon my part, he also packed a Randall #16 Special Fighter. . .. seven inches of 440C.

In his pockets, pack. or just wherever, were a CRKT M21 and a black Leatherman Wave.

Today, I would delete the Radmall for the current spec Green Beret and go with some folder of higher specs other than the CRKT M21. The Wave too would be replaced by a multitool s with functions specific to maintaining an M-4 rifle. Don't think they were available in 2003-'04.

For a Marine in harm's way, nearly the whole spectrum of size applies.

BTW: The young Lt. gently persuaded me NOT to also buy him a Cold Steel battle Katana, "That is just too big dad . . ."
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Would you buy him the little pill knife in the first post so he could clean his fingernails out with it while on deployment?
 
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