Do you EDC you own knives or....

For many of the reasons already mentioned, I carry TWO of my own everyday. A Mosaic EBK I with jigged bone, and a Progression II folder with G10 scales. I always carry/use a new design for a while prior to offering it for sale. Nothing rankles me more than to listen to a knifemaker at a show saying "This is the best elk knife ever created!" when I know that the individual has never shot a elk, much less used one of his knives on one. How can a maker make a claim like that without ever having used their own product in the situation?

I have also discovered over the years that one of the best ways to sell a knife is to carry it. I've probably sold more knives off my belt, than all the shows combined.
Prior to my last tour of duty in the Middle East before I retired, I built myself a damascus Progression I with full Ti scales and carried it for the deployment. Once I returned home, I continued to carry that folder, until at a show an individual asked to see the folder I was carrying....I told them the story and they immediatly offered to buy the knife, at first I told them no, that it way "MY" knife, and it wasn't for sale....then they offered my 3X what I would have otherwise sold a similar piece for..... SOLD! I can always make another....some day. :)

I think its important for an individual to carry one of their own knives....if your not confident enough in your own work to carry one, how can you expect others to be?
 
I use a my own fixed drop point blade Damascus 4'' Convex with an Ironwood handle and two 3/16 pin and single 1/4 mosaic pin in the middle as my EDC. I also carry a Kershaw scallion or CRKT Furcrum on me at all times.
I always use my own EDC knife if I am eating steak in a restaurant, wife has actually expects me too now. Just something about using a sharp knife made by me. It is sense of great pride when you tell someone you make knives and you can hand them one of your knives.
 
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I carry a Benchmade or a Gerber folder as my EDC, and if I lose it I won't be happy but neither will I weep and gnash my teeth at the monetary loss. Lately I've been REALLY happy with my Leatherman Skeletool CX, which has an excellent blade of 154 CM.
 
I knew it was going to be simple, and that I should have already known what it meant!:mad: Thx!:)
 
I feel you can talk about your knives all you want and even listening to other people rave
about your knives isn't like carrying them yourself, after all others raving about my knives may very well be self serving. You yourself need to know what they will and won't
do.
Ken
 
Ditto what Ed said!!

I make myself a new knife every few months to carry and use.i always end up selling it with in a couple months though..,gives me reason to always have one of my current knives on me :)

my most recent:

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Chuck Gedraitis Knives said:
I can't afford to carry one of my own.
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Come on now Chuck. They don't ALL have to be made with pearl and damascus with hours of filework on them. :D:D I made a simple framelock that I carry. This thing has gone through hell and still stands up to a beating. I use it for cutting everything. It also makes a good corrugated box staple puller.
 
I give mine hell. I pry with it. I scrape glue and paint with it. Hmmm staples I have to try that. I use it cooking.
 
I enjoy carrying and using my own. Having my own on the belt is an easy way to show, tell and sell.
 
I carry my own. What better way to find any improvements that may need to be made then carrying and using on a daily basis.
Scott
 
Ed Caffrey said:
For many of the reasons already mentioned, I carry TWO of my own everyday. A Mosaic EBK I with jigged bone, and a Progression II folder with G10 scales. I always carry/use a new design for a while prior to offering it for sale. Nothing rankles me more than to listen to a knifemaker at a show saying "This is the best elk knife ever created!" when I know that the individual has never shot a elk, much less used one of his knives on one. How can a maker make a claim like that without ever having used their own product in the situation?

I have also discovered over the years that one of the best ways to sell a knife is to carry it. I've probably sold more knives off my belt, than all the shows combined.
Prior to my last tour of duty in the Middle East before I retired, I built myself a damascus Progression I with full Ti scales and carried it for the deployment. Once I returned home, I continued to carry that folder, until at a show an individual asked to see the folder I was carrying....I told them the story and they immediatly offered to buy the knife, at first I told them no, that it way "MY" knife, and it wasn't for sale....then they offered my 3X what I would have otherwise sold a similar piece for..... SOLD! I can always make another....some day. :)

I think its important for an individual to carry one of their own knives....if your not confident enough in your own work to carry one, how can you expect others to be?
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well said Ed... I do edc production slipjoints but all my sheath knives are ones that I made...

Mark
 
For about twenty years I carried a BSA Eagle Scout knife that my son gave to me. The blade was down to about half its original width.
Last year I started carrying a gents folder that I made. It is modified 605 mini ,liner lock that I pimped out with exhibition MOP scales,gold plated screws,embossed gold thumb stubs set with 1/4 carat diamonds (each side), and 1/4 carat diamonds set in gold bezels in the scales. I carry and use it daily. The other day I was cutting open something and a friend remarked, " I can't believe you are actually cutting something with that knife!".
Stacy
 
I also carry my own knives. I feel that how can i expect others to carry my knives if i don't. also it's great advertisement, most of the times My tattoo gets the conversation started. like o whats that tattoo mean and i tell them about it and there like wow you make knives. and I'm like yep here is one i made :rolleyes:;).
 
I carry my own, a little 6" OAL D2 straight blade that I carry in a leather horizontal sheath on my right front side. Hardly know it is there, but it is always there.
 
I carry my dads old timer that he carried for as long as I can remeber prior to passing.
Its just one of those things.
 
+1 To advertising and product testing.

How do you know if your knives are good enough to carry everyday, if you don't carry one everyday? Several large leaps in my ergonomics understanding were due to carrying my knives everyday.

I do carry a Queen swing guard for those times I take my EDC fixed blade off and forget it. When I get the nerve to take another crack at a folder, I may replace it.
 
I carry a $10 small Gerber frame-lock folder on a daily basis; a nice stag handled Puma lockback folder to church on Sunday; and a bowie I made if I'm going into the woods.
 
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