EDC cycling through your collection

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CHNeal said:
This thread is of interest to me as I fear I am about to embark on a journey that will require such decisions.
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Man your one knife thing was inspiring... Interested to see where your collection is headed.
Bob Denman said:
I usually will buy a knife with EDC usage in mind...
But I ALSO buy knives for specific purposes.
It might be for outdoor work...
It might be something that I find interesting...
or just pretty...
or simply because I find it interesting.

So I have a pile of knives that I carry on an every day basis; and some that stay closer to home.

But there's no doubt: I've fallen down the Rabbit Hole!
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After seeing your posts for a while I think your hole broke out to the other side of the world! 🤣
 
I carry a CRK everyday along with another knife. I'm getting to where I'm carrying the same two knives for more than a week at a time. Typically, when I look through the posts here of what other folks are carrying, I'll be inspired to choose my next knife to carry.
For me, I like having the option to choose from a variety of different blades. This is what I've been carrying this week.

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I go through cycles. I have a knife I can consider an EDC for a period, then I carry random knives until the next EDC identifies itself. My preference (for several years), of course, is 3 knives when I can - modern folder, traditional folder, and fixed blade - so if none of them are EDCs, it's chaos (though more interesting for people looking at the various what are you carrying threads).

My choices have been stable enough that I'm inclined to sell off some of the excess; but not wanting to deal with PayPal makes that more difficult.
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It's been these three since I got the Iron Pup last May...before that, the Reate K2 was locked into my rfp. The trad has been that Buck 501 since DLT released it (the red burlap BOTM from 12/20 took over for a few months), and that fixed has been my regular carry since I got it from the maker.
I switch one, or all, out occasionally; but it only takes a couple days before these three are back in their usual places
 
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gazz98 said:
sgt1372 sgt1372 You might as well get 5 more knives so you hit the 1 per day per year club. As for leap years, carry your favorite twice in the same year. :D
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I actually am planning to downsize a bit. Just been too lazy/distracted to get around doing it yet. 🤷‍♂️

In the meantime, I just keep buying more knives. What'ch ya going to do? LOL! ;)
 
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I'm retired and wear cargo pants , so I carry from the four food groups...
I have 7- 2 layer Vic's I change daily .
Modern folder.. CRK mostly my 21 or Classic MM.
Small traditional
Fixed blade, Horsewright Coyote 6 days and BRK Mini Canadian 1 day a week.
 
I personally have a difficult time with rotations. I either feel the duration is too short or too chaotic for me. I have done weekly or monthly carries and they either go really well or really poorly.

Recently I have only wanted to carry my Para 3. It just works for me and my life and the simplicity of just picking it up and going for the day has been great. I'm sure my mind will change again one day but since this is my second time back on this knife and just being totally captured by it, it really just made me take a pause with my collection. I also recently said I wouldn't sell my knives again but I think I'll be culling ones that just don't get picked up or used enough.

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This is something I struggle with, honestly. I have so many excellent knives, each of which could function perfectly as the only knife I own for the rest of my life, that I find myself struggling some days, and so weeks will go by where I just carry the same few knives over and over again, and have several other knives I enjoy in my day bag at the office. "Entirely too many times" certainly isn't a bad problem to have, but it does mean that a lot of knives that are excellent, can sit around for months before I get around to carrying them. Like others, I'll get a new knife in, and then that knife gets carried for a couple of weeks before replacing it with something else. If the new arrival has the misfortune of showing up a day or two before another knife, that may be all it gets carried before the NEW new knife gets top spot.

It's a good thing these things don't go bad, I tell you what!
 
Gary W. Graley said:
A flashlight is handy too

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I wholeheartedly agree. Both a knife and a flashlight are two things a person would think are unneeded in this enlightened (ha) age. A person is led to believe it is much easier to march across the yard, into the house, walk across the wife's spotlessly clean kitchen floor with muddy boots, and rummage through the junk drawer looking for the utility knife and flashlight and then go back outside, only to find the darned batteries are flat and the blades are totally blunt in the utility knife.

Or just carry the darned things in my pocket. I use my little Olight all the time, saves me hundreds of miles a year.
 
Indeed and the tiny one in that photo is about the smallest one I’ve ever owned and in a pitch black room it is enough to light the way
And it fits into my fifth pocket of my jeans
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I carry 1 edc at a time. Unless I'm hunting. Then I have 2-3 in my pack. 1 folder in my pocket. 1-3 in my sxs and 1 in the truck(permanent fixture.). with my daily carry I rotate them every 2 days. Tho my Para 3s are in the rotation more frequently and a few just stay in the case and look good 👍
 
Gary W. Graley said:
So my ‘plan’ is to put them in order and take and carry just one for that day and the next morning put that one at the end of the selection and take the next one in line.
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I do almost exactly that and it works well. I say almost exactly that because I would carry a knife for 2 or 3 days and then go to the next one. Occasionally I would rearrange the order. Even though I liked the knife that I was carrying at any given time, I also looked forward to the next one in the order. When I rearranged the order I would usually try to mix up the variety a little bit such as a satin blade then a DLC blade then a satin blade... Or I would mix up the lock types, or the blade shapes, or scale colors, or whatever.
 
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