does anybody keep a small utility knife at their desk?

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Sometimes I'm at my desk at home and find that I need to cut something, and I don't always carry a folder with me when I'm sitting around the house. It occurred to me that I could have a small fixed blade at my desk for tasks like this, similar to how people have letter openers. A letter opener is usually a dull instrument and you just drop it in your pencil cup with your pencils, you wouldn't do this with a good fixed blade knife. So I was wondering how I could rig up a sheath to go in my pencil cup or attach to the side of it. I may try to mock up a few things with cardboard and tape.
 
a real desk knife has to be hidden from view or chained solid (same principle as public ballpens.) my (planned) desk knife is mainly for display but i still haven't figured a way to secure it from others but freely acessible by me.
 
I carry a Blur so I don't need a desk knife. But I do keep four folders and two fixed blades in my truck which is more like my office than my desk.
 
No. Not a single person on this forum keeps a utility knife at their desk.
 
I've been looking at one of the Case desk knives for this, nice wharncliff blade and leather sheath.
 
I made a letter opener looking knife out of a scrap of 01 that i used to keep at my work desk.

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Considering I always have a pocket knife clipped to me... no. Even now, lounging in my PJs, I have a Spyderco CPM M4 Military clipped in my waistband.

However, considering my desk is where I store my knives, I guess you could say I keep about 20 utility knives at my desk.... :cool:
 
I keep all of my beaters within hand's reach on my desk. of course I do a lot of tinkering and whatnot at my desk as it also doubles as my indoor work bench
 
bdmicarta said:
Sometimes I'm at my desk at home and find that I need to cut something, and I don't always carry a folder with me when I'm sitting around the house. It occurred to me that I could have a small fixed blade at my desk for tasks like this, similar to how people have letter openers. A letter opener is usually a dull instrument and you just drop it in your pencil cup with your pencils, you wouldn't do this with a good fixed blade knife. So I was wondering how I could rig up a sheath to go in my pencil cup or attach to the side of it. I may try to mock up a few things with cardboard and tape.
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Well farkel me for breakfast! Did I really read that? A knife-knut who doesn't carry a knife in his own house? Shirley, you jest!

Forget the desk knife. Buy at least an SAK for around the house carry.
 
My right hand desk drawer has two Fiskars scissors, one large, one small.

My left hand desk drawer has a
Boker Mini-Resurrrection
Mil-Tac folder
Spyderco Chinook III
Spyderco Military
Boker Plus Titan Drop
Boker Plus (Nealy) Kwaito
Spyderco UKPK
Spyderco Shabaria (original)
Spyderco Shabaria (latest)
Hogue green G-mascus drop point 4"
Mission MPF-1 drop point plain edge
Daniel Fairly Kiridashi
Spyderco Centofante 2
(Douk Douk) L'Ecureuil (squirrel) large slipjoint carbon spearpoint

Couple of impact weapons if I need to smash a container open.
Big drawer of the hutch next to the desk has a whole mess of at least 50 folders and fixed I need to reorganize.

So which do I use? I rotate them, always try to mix them up so the envelopes and boxes never know what hit them. :p
 
I do keep a small desk on my utility knife, (sorry, I couldn't resist) when I had a desk job, teachin' and writin' operations and troubleshootin' manuals, I kept an old Christy Slide knife in my desk drawer, it was the kinda knife no one would steal even if it was wrapped in a $20 bill.
 
I like to leave a Buck Paklite Caper sitting on my desk. Super thin and flat so it takes up next to no room, and that Buck 420hc takes a nice edge. Great little knife for opening letters, clipping coupons, and breaking down cardboard. While a wharncliffe blade might do better for these tasks, it gets the job done.
 
My folder storage box is under my desk. There are 299 knives in there, but no utility knives. :)
 
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