Can you commit to one knife ?

I don't use my knife daily. Sometimes it will sit in my pocket for a few days, but if it isn't in my pocket I will miss it, and the habit of making sure I have it is like my watch or wallet.I feel naked without it.
 
I have a small number that see more pocket time than others, but there are none that are there almost all the time.

I keep swearing I'm going to get rid of some of my knives, but when I try to figure out which ones should go, I get stressed, and when I get stressed I usually wind up buying another knife LOL
 
I have a decent little collection of (mostly) large, older traditional lockbacks; Case, Schrade USA, Parker Imai-Japan, Camillus NY, Bear & Sons USA, & Puma-Germany.
The Case gets the most carry time, but they ALL are rotated in-and-out of my pocket, from time to time.

Steve
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I don't know if I could get by without one, but sometimes, my Vic classic is enough to get me through my day :o. I work in an office where most knives are not allowed, but I live on a small gentlemans farm. I try to get in as much hiking and fishing as I can. You wouldn't know it to see my big frame ;).

I am 31, just throwing that in there.
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I'm 31 also. And I work in an office. That's why I said I could probably get by without one. That's during the work week. The weekends are a different story. With all of the working around the house and such, some sort of knife is a necessity.
 
I wear a different shirt every day, a different pair of pants everyday, so I can't carry the same knife everyday. Just too many choices for different work to be done.
Harold
 
The one knife I never leave the house with out is the SAK on my keys. I have a mini champ on my car key, a micra that will be replaced with a classic on my wife's spare key, and a classic on her keys. I just picked up a lot of NTSA classics to make up for some of the key rings that needed some sharp key chains. Also I agree with silent on the Farmer almost everyday. I know I can get away with these two but there is something about using a trapper, barlow, soddie, etc. As for a "traditional" knife I also have commitment issues. Can't just carry one, but I can eat just one Lay's. :)
 
I've never been able to commit to just one knife. I think the point that our grandfathers did had a lot to do with less income available.

The best I've done is a hard core of maybe 4 or 5 old favorites that I've always kept close for most of my life. I'll try a new pattern, but always seem to come back after a while to the old standby's.

Oddly enough, with a daily change from one of my couple of standby's, the one knife that is carried in additon to whatever the knife of the day is, is my little Vic classic in the keyring sheath. No matter if I have a stockman, sodbuster, or peanut, or scout/sak, or whatever, the classic is always there. Weird.

Carl.
 
In my mission wallet for many years now ( approx 3 ) has been a small Strider and a Sodbuster. That Case Soddie will get replaced someday by a Kerry Hampton Knuttbuster.

I also carry a small 3" blades fixed bladed...plu a 4th knife , that one gets rotated between an Elishewitz folder and a Remington Baby Bullet Trapper ( 1990 ).
 
I carried a Mike Zcherney zulu for 3 months straight and K. Hampton knutbuster everyday for about 5 months. But all my other knives started calling me and I had to listen. If I was only going to carry one knife, then I would have to only own one knife...and that ain't gonna happen!!!
 
I carried one single slipjoint for about two years several years back. It was a vintage Case 6333 stockman. Since that time I've only made it perhaps four or five months with the same one and they have for the most part (about 99%) of the time been various single blade custom slippies--usually no larger than 3 1/8" closed. I currently rotate between five customs and have others that are strictly for the knife roll.
 
Morning All
The only knife I am never without is my only custom, ordered for me by my family, a custom twist on a wharncliffe trapper by one of the UK's best makers
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However, even that is a lie, I leave it at home when I visit the capital, 'cos I would cry if it got confiscated, even though it is legal to carry.
Often round the house I also have one of these
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Cheap, carbon steel, easy to get razor sharp ( even for an idiot like me), great for doing the really horrible cutting jobs that I can't bring myself to subject my Shing knife to.

I have tried to limit myself to one knife, but I have failed, can you guys please give me absolution for my transgression:D

Take Care
Graham
 
I could.
As the matter of fact I did.
During my Spyderco days, before they made up them stupid upcoming laws over here(no more one hand openers), I carried a Gen 1 Delica/SE in aus 8 and nothing but that Delica. I even had 2 back ups of that knife.
Despite owning another 30+ some other Spydies.
With the upcoming laws I stated wandering again:grumpy:
Now I'm looking for that "one" again.
Victorinox Farmer comes really close at the moment.
 
Just one knife... Wow. I probably could. I just need to stop looking at all the pretty pictures and reviews of them. Remove the temptation. I'm thinking on Jan 1st I'll give it a shot. Carry one knife for a whole year. Which one? Not sure, I got a few on the way and I'll see how they stack up against my favs.
 
As charming it is with well used knifes and even though the historys of one sole knife are inspiring I wont do it. I dont want to comit myself to more rules of how to live my life than nessisarry.
That said I have carryed a Case medium stockman Anthony gave me last year mabye 445 of the mabye 450 days I owned it. But that hasent anything to do with rules I have imposed on myself but rather just the fact its my best knife at the moment for my needs.
Knifes I have carryed before the same way is a Viktorinox Spartan, a schrade improved muskrat, a puma 667 pospector, a gerber folding sportsman 1, a reed gerber lst, and even a calypso jr. All of them seamed to be the best to carry at the times I did and even though I still own them all and they get occaitonaly carryed they dont fit the bill at this moment of life.
Some knifes i realy liked and realy wanted to carry exclusivly edc didnt hit a homerun in real life, they was extraordinary knifes like a delica, a fallkniven U2, a remington 1178 and even my favorit pattern the sodbuster jr.
The sodbuster might as well has been a true EDC of the first category as I consider it perfekt size and handibility but I kind of waiting for my Zulu spear, micarta, KHnutbuster to make that happen. Bottom point is: yes I try to by the perfect edc with my brain, but when it comes to what I realy carry the most its a lot about heart and feelings.

The knife I carryed the most is my EKA 38, that is because it was my first and only folding knife through childhood and teenage years. It was a good knife and havent I been the knifenut I am it would still have been perfekt. It made the greatest inpakt on me and I now own four of them inkluding the old one and also my late brothers example he got at the same time.

Compared to many of you I havent owned or even looked at many slipjoints of higher quality but the experience I have has made me picky about what knife to carry and I will continue slowly on that road.

Bosse
 
Come to think about another thing.
The one knife I would want to commit to as my single pocketknife is my viktorinox electrician knife of alox. My wife gave me one engraved with our weddingdate for a gift when we married. I carryed it ocationally but not often. I thought it was because it was too special and bought another one to carry. I also has a soldier from 02 bought when my first son was born. And I bought another 02 and a 05 for my sons to have from their birth years.
In my opinion this are perfekt built slipjoints of very high quality and especially the electrician has a well suited selection of tools for me. God knows I have wanted and tried to do a alox SAK to my only EDC as my head thinks its a unbeatable knife but my heart dont let me conekt to them. Thats one of the mysterys of life!!!

Bosse
 
Reading your replies, I think a better title would have been, "Is there any knife that you always carry". I don't like the idea of forcing yourself to carry a particular knife when there are others that are calling to you. My chestnut bone peanut is turning into my knife that is always with me regardless of what else, if anything, I'm carrying with it.
 
Hi, Nursie. Is Shing still making knives? Know where to get a hold of him?

And a small sod buster suits me just fine. Cheap and effective.
 
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Apparently, I can. A Victorinox Farmer has been haunting my pocket for almost 3 years. I tried carrying others, but that darn Farmer finds it's way back.
 
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