can't seem to change my edc habits

hardheart

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I have a couple nice slipjoints and saks, but I can't not take a locking folder with a clip for edc. Too quick and easy to draw/replace. Can't leave behind my leatherman either; can't not have pliers handy just in case.

If I have to dress nice, I carry a handmade slippie in the slacks. I don't have the multitool when I'm running, but that's about it for variety.

anyone else scared of change:eek:
 
Yeah I've got a drawer full of nice traditional slippies, and I used to rotate them pretty regularly. However over time I've come to pretty much exclusively carry the SAK Tinker. Whenever I carry a regular slippie now, I'm always missing the phillips screwdriver, tweezers or toothpick within an hour. I use the toothpick as a tiny finger and I've come to rely on it.

I still rotate my one hand locking folders, but the Tinker has driven the traditional slippies out of the rotation.

My leatherman is never further away than my truck.
 
I'm with you HH, as there is no way I'm going to stop carrying the large single bladed locking folder I carry. I will rotate it for another, but I'll ALWAYS have one on me. I finally put the Case Gunstock back in my pocket today and I think it will be a long, very long time before I change up again! Why fix it when it ain't broke?!?!:D
 
I try to carry good looking traditional knives like a buck 110 but when Im using my knives, I find that they are not half as convenient as the modern tactical folders with one hand opening, pocket clips or framelocks. For example, When Im holding the end of a rope or some thing that needs to be cut, Its draw, flick, cut, close and put back. For a 110, It's fumble around in my pocket, pull it out while hand gets stuck on the rim of the pocket, yank it open with my teeth and wince a bit at at the pain, cut with it, close it on my leg and return it to my pocket. Tacticals have spoiled me.
 
What 3wolves said!

I have quite a few really nice slip-joint knives which I fondle occasionally, but the one-handed convenience of a liner-lock or frame-lock folder keeps my slip-joints squirreled away.
 
I try to carry just my Vic Farmer once in a while, but the convenience of the clipped locking folder is overwhelming:)
 
I too suffer from this affliction. I started like most having/using and collecting slipjoints and saks. As time and knives evolved I went the route of a locking folder with clip. Simply put, it's to convienent not to use it the most. I still carry either a nice slippie/sak in the front left with my lockblade in the front right and my Leatherman on my belt. Practicality wins most of the time.
 
I started out carrying a traditional slippie, but then after a year or so I began to carry the modern tacticool folders. Over the past couple of years, I have been bying and selling so many of those modern folders because I could never find one I got really attached to, I just bought them on their rating and because they were the newest, sharpest, and strongest out there. I am starting to go traditional again and have found I like them much better. Even though I have to give up some convenience, I still prefer them over modern folders. I never really need to cut anything in a hurry, and it helps me stay patient. So to answer your original question, no change is common for me. I forsee carrying many different patterns in my future......and the future looks good!
 
For a 110, It's fumble around in my pocket, pull it out while hand gets stuck on the rim of the pocket, yank it open with my teeth and wince a bit at at the pain, cut with it, close it on my leg and return it to my pocket. Tacticals have spoiled me.
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Boy, you are spoiled:D:D:D. My 110 is my "one hand opener". Just grab the top of the blade just behind the nail nickand "flick" down. Then to close just press the lock and close by pressing back of the blade against leg. Done.

I've done this for years with no trouble. And, I think most of the people around here that I've seen with heavy handled folders, LB7, 112, little cheapy cabelas, have used the same technique. And for that matter, I'll bet I can open the 110 just as fast as most people do with a tactical!

I've heard it called the "biker flip", trucker flip, miner flip, whatever it is. It works.

Sam
 
The only change I'm avoiding is not EDCing a knife...

But right now I'm still getting accustomed to my Emerson CQC-14 Snubby, so I'm carrying a knife that I know I like along, my CF ZDP Caly3. I normally don't carry 2 folders. What does always stay consistent is my flashlight and multitool, the folders change regularly.
 
After many years, I've found EDCs that work for me.
So they're the ones I carry.

(BTW, they're a Benchmade 530 and a Spyderco Endura ZDP-189 fully serrated.)
 
I edc'd an endura for quite a while but all my tactical knives have been displaced by of all things a peanut and a dang sodbuster, both the jr and the full size. I'd have never thought i'd give up hooky dooky steel and pocket clip,one hand open close for a grandpa knife but i did. might be because i'm a grandpa. or just old.
 
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