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J.Bouldin

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Hey guys, I love my peanut, I have carried it everyday for the last 6 months after it proved to me that I didn't need to carry a mini grip on a daily basis. The peanut and the mini toothpick are my weakness when it comes to pocket knives and I am ok with that. The only problem is that I decided to pick up a wenger evo 88 after seeing it at a local store for a fair price. When I bought the evo I figured it could go in the truck or the tackle box for a spare blade, but for some reason I cant get it out of my pocket. Since a little before Christmas this knife has been with me everyday and has proved itself useful through opening Christmas presents, opening bottles and putting batteries in the kids toys. I feel like I am cheating on my peanut and it knows about it, but the little sak is just so handy. Anyone else have this problem?
 
Hi,

You gotta spread the love around you know. ;) Ain't nothing wrong spending some time with another knife or two.

Dale
 
No way. I'm dedicated to one woman, but there's now way I'm limiting myself to one knife.

- Christian
 
Variety truly is the spice of life!...
 
Sounds like you've developed a rotation of a sort. I'll become obsessed with one knife, then bored by it, and then begin to carry it again. It's just a cycle of a sort I guess. I do it with multiple knives though.
 
Hi,

I know exactly what you are talking about whetrock. I go through the same thing with my knives. I guess it's just the way we do things.

Dale
 
It's okay, Mr, Bouldin, you're not cheating, you're augmenting. Kind of a re-enforcing of the main character.

I love my peanut/peanut's, and it's my main edc in my right hand pocket every single day. I never leave the house without it in that pocket. It cuts many things in the corse of a day.

But...

There is a Victorinox clasic on my keyring, so I literally can't leave the house without it. It too gets used for a lot. The little SD tip gets used on small phillips screws, the scissors snip things that sometimes is better than a knife. I've pulled out splinter from me, and a thorn or two from between the pads on Pearl The Wonder Corgi's paw. It's a very handy little knife to have, and it augments my peanut. But it is the peanut that is my main cutting tool. The classic is an implement and that is it. But my damascus peanut with the amber bone is my precious. It's more than a cutting tool, it's my main pocket knife, it's an object of beauty, it's pocket jewelry. It has class and sou and a charater that the Vic classic will never have. Sometimes a thing can cross over from being just a useful object, to an artifact of value.

Objects are weird like that. I don't know if it's the materials or what, but they do differ. Karen had a nice Glock for a while. It shot good, it was accurate, it was even reliable. But she sold it because she never really liked it. Said it had no character. Her favorite gun? A very old 6 inch barrel Smith and Wesson model 10 that has most of the blue worn off, dings, a chip out of the old wirn smooth walnut grips. It has R.C.M.P. stamped on the backstrap, and her father got it while he was stationed up in Alaska in the early part of the war before they sent his PBY squadron down to the Pacific. Weird? Yes. The Glock was a better gun on paper, but it had no feel to her.

I think it's the same with knives. I've found that some knives have an appeal that is emotional, while others it is strictly utilitarian. You don't get attached to the utilitarian one. It can be replaced easy. The other can't can't.

Go ahead and put the Wenger on your keyring, and the peanut in your pocket. They serve different needs.

Carl.
 
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I think you are struggling with 2 different issues at same time. The first is one of knife loyalty, which can change. And the other is knife utility. I find that once the latter take a hold of you, that's a harder habit to kick.

My solution was to become a 2 tool person: knife of choice in my RFP and a Leatherman Micra in my LFP.

edc-pairing by Pinnah, on Flickr

The key for me has been to put the Micra IN MY POCKET!! I don't carry keys on me if I can help it so putting them on my key ring meant lookin for my keys to use it. Might as well just fetch a proper tool at that point. Worse, who want to use a mini screw driver with a bunch of keys attached?

The Micra (or something like an SAK Classic) disappear in the pocket. So, it's not a noticable weight penalty for me. I also find the Micra better in every way to the SAKs.
 
Thanks guys, feeling a bit better, and Carl, if I had a Damascus peanut it wouldn't leave my pocket either. Hell, I would probably sleep with it under my pillow. Lol
 
Well, it looks like I just solved my own problem. I went out and bought a chestnut peanut in Cv. Yup, that ought to do the trick. Lol
 
When I'm at work, I carry a small traditional I my pocket, and keep a multitool in my bag. When I'm on my time, I like to carry the multitool paired with a pocket fixed blade or a modern folder. Best of both worlds!


The curious thing is that, as far as traditional slipjoints go, my plain old yeller peanut has bumped my nicer slipjoints. I haven't carried the other ones in months - just the yeller peanut.
 
I kind of put myself in a bind, I've been carrying my Chestnut bone CV nut for over a year, I said when I got it I would always carry it, first gift from my daughter. Well this Christmas was my daughters 2nd Christmas and my wife and daughter gave me a Stag Damascus peanut, now I'm carrying both. 1- because I can't go back on my word, & 2 because the Stag Damascus is just plain awesome.

Pete
 
Well of course you're cheating. But there is a solution. Send me the evo and go back to the peanut. that should clear the whole thing up.;)
 
Stich2442 said:
I kind of put myself in a bind, I've been carrying my Chestnut bone CV nut for over a year, I said when I got it I would always carry it, first gift from my daughter. Well this Christmas was my daughters 2nd Christmas and my wife and daughter gave me a Stag Damascus peanut, now I'm carrying both. 1- because I can't go back on my word, & 2 because the Stag Damascus is just plain awesome.

Pete
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2- Yes, that Stag Damascus is just plain awesome, as we've witnessed for a while now via jon_slider's great pictures of his. I'm enjoying your pictures of yours, and am grateful for your thoughtful daughter (and the mother's heart behind her).

1- Keeping one's word is an admirable thing.

.5 - Perhaps have a quiet word with your daughter, your wife, and/or your conscience before this one-knife-per-year-always-carried starts to add up! Heh. Imagine how you will look in your tuxedo giving away your daughter, as you waddle down the aisle with 20+ knives in your pockets? Or sooner than that, what if you fall into the water while fishing when your daughter is in her teens, and you have ump-teen knives weighing you down?

;)

~ P.
 
You guys are funny. If the women in your life are anything like the ones in mine you'll be receiving knives on a fairly regular basis throughout the years. My wife gave me a nice William Henry when I graduated from school. Her and my daughter also gifted me a stag 73 for Father's Day and a S&M ebony jack for my birthday. Then there's the Kerry Hampton KHnutbuster, the knife that was in my pocket on my wedding day and the birth of my daughter (my wife has called dibs on it BTW, to be claimed at a later date). I carry them all, though not at the same time. It's really not all that serious. As cool as they are they're just knives.

Be thankful they're giving you knives and not ties and such. :eek:

- Christian
 
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