EDC "front line" rotation

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Nyfeguy

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If you are like me, you have a selection of EDC blades that rotate depending on your mood, required tasks, and the area you're operating in. So, what selection of blades make up your "front line?"

Mine are:

Benchmade 9100
Spyderco Endura4 wave
SOG Trident
 
I have a dedicated drawer for my front line; the rest are in storage bags and containers.

Right now, this is my front line rotation:

SOG Flash I
Boker Nano
Kershaw Blur CF
Kershaw Blur BLK
Kershaw Lahar
Kershaw Zing Tanto
Kershaw Skyline
Kershaw Random Task II
Spyderco PM2
ZT 0350
Benchmade 556
Vic Cadet
Vic Tinker
 
You'll typically find me totin' ...

Bud Nealy Aikuchi in blued O-1(my first custom knife made by a well known NEPA local)
Pat Crawford Framelock (a design that is simplistic and works flawlessly)
Case Swayback Jack in chestnut bone with CV blades (an affordable Case/Bose collaboration :thumbup:)
Union Knifeworks bone handled moose (a 100+ year old knife that still works perfect, they don't build 'em like that anymore)
CRKT Ripple (if you've never tried a knife with bearings before this is the one to get, silky smooth, rock solid)

Last but not least...............

Small Sebenza 21 (this is the definition of the cutlers art, a tribute to F&F and obsessive QC)

I also carry a Swamp Rat Howlin' Rat, original RAT Izula and a Newt Livesay Woo... :)
 
For folders I almost always carry an SnG or a Sebenza. I know it's really cliche' but I just can't find anything that beast these two.
For fixed blades, either my Strider SA GG or Boye Basic 3 are typically by my side.
 
My go to larger/med folders in the front line:
Benchmade 581
Benchmade 940
Spyderco Southard
Spyderco Stretch ZDP
ZT 550

My front line smaller folders for when I might be around sheeples:
Spyderco Sage 2
Spyderco Caly 3 CF ZDP
Benchmade 707 Sequel
Benchmade 556 M4

There are a couple others that get carried, but these get 99% of the carry time, sometimes a large and small together.

Soon to come: Spyderco Techno
Want List: ZT 566, ZT 770 CF
 
I really don't switch around my EDC much : Right pocket - Delica ZDP189 -- Gerber Belt Buckle - left pocket a Case SwayBack Jack Damascus == these have been there for years and be there when I go.!
The rest are just a bunch of Safe Queens for everybody to fight over.! Just wish I could be here to see it.!! lol
 
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I recently decided to carry only one EDC for a month at a time. I really wasn't getting to know any of my newer knives at all because I would only carry them for a day before switching to something different. So for the last 3 weeks it has been a Greyman Dua, so far nothing it can't handle and i am really gaining an appreciation for how strong this folder is.

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My current "front line rotation is" (I carry multiple knives)-
*Benchmade 555 mini-grip
*Spyderco Delica 4
*Spyderco dfly
Spyderco ladybug HB/LB1 CE, manbug (always have one of these on my keys)
Kershaw shallot Damascus (always have this one in my back pocket but don't use it for EDC tasks)
Spyderco UKPK (tho ill be giving this knife to my father-in-law at Xmas time)
Schrade small & medium Stockman's.

*the first 3 are the ones that serve as my main use EDC and get switched up almost daily, tho I favor the mini-grip most followed closely by the dfly.
 
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to the office: small Insingo
elsewhere out in public: ZT0550
out in the yard: Esee 3 with TKC scales, or BK3, or both
splitting up kindling: BK9
 
Spyderco Gayle Bradley, Spyderco Dragonfly ZDP, ZT0350, Strider SnG CC, LionSteel SR-1A.

Back burner--SOG Pentagon Elite 1, Cold Steel Recon 1, Kershaw Blur.

Retired: SOG Flash 1, SOG mini X-ray vision, SOG Trident, CRKT M1612Z.
 
stupid phone double posted.
 
My whole "collection" is my front line:

Pohan Leu Bluephin
Lionsteel SR-1D
Boker Federal
Tupper Knives Morph

Other than than I have a custom fixed blade due in December and a custom folder sometime early next year both from Leu.
 
Primary EDC: Hinderer XM-18 3.5" Wharncliffe or Curtiss F3 3.5"
Secondary (Suit & Tie wear): CRK Cocobolo Mnandi
 
Primary EDC: BM 755 MPR
Secondary EDC: XM18 3.5"

Rotation Primary EDC: Strider PT CC
Rotation Secondary EDC: XM24

Retired but occasional EDC: Buck Iceman, Fox Karambit, and IZULA


My friends are telling me I am nuts because I use the snot out of XMs and PT. But to me, they are very very extremely useful TOOL!!!
 
My front line rotation is as follows:

Kershaw Blur
Kershaw Cryo
Buck Vantage Avid
Becker/Ka-bar BK 11
 
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