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EDC VI Which knife or knives are you carrying today?
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Now I'm curious. Either of you work with or have access to mokuti? Maybe a ti pivot replacement and a lscf scale?
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New member here.
I been lurking for months, mostly watching the thread
Ranking of Steels in Categories based on Edge Retention cutting 5/8" rope
I am most appreciative for all the great info there.
THANK YOU
Soooooooo
I starts looking at the whats new thread, found the new whacha carrying thread, read a bunch of it but not all and just had to jump in . . .
sure is a lot of big expensive alloy there.
I keep coming up against my ultimate tests for an everyday CITY BOY pocket knife though.
Before I mention that I will say with all humility I am such a newbie up until recently I thought serrated blades were just for show.
yah Im that dumb . . . or was. I might even one day buy a Cold Steel Lucky.
Still though, one of the funniest things I ever saw was a guy trying to cut up a large cardboard box with a serrated tactical knife. That sucker sawed, and sawed and sawed some more and there was paper shreds allllllll over the place.
The little SAK Bantam (see photo and comments bellow) would have been done in a flash (and no mess). Unless the serrated knife guy made an errant pass with Mr. Bantam and found his leg off.
My ultimate tests for an everyday CITY BOY pocket knife is
Drum roll . . .
will it cut up a large corrugated cardboard box and will it cut through medium plastic wire ties without busting a gut (or the edge) ?
I find almost every knife I have to be a sorry _____ (deleted for delicate sensibilities) failure up against those tasks.
Between the back being too thick or the steel so hard it chips (think Spyderco ZDP 186 I still love my Dragonfly though) I keep coming back to the super thin smaller blades to geeeterdun.
So now we come to whats in my pocket. Well the pocket that clips to my work belt any way.
Go ahead . . . have a good laugh . . . I cant blame you one bit.
OK now that is mostly out of the way and you have stopped rolling on the floor.
Three SAKs ? you ask.
Surely your joking. Im not joking and dont call me Shirley.
Being a wannna be hand tool woodworker the large blade in each of the larger knives I reground to single bevel. One right one left. For marking out knifed layout lines (and of course slicing sushi (ha, ha, ha) ).
The little super precise pliers in the one knife I can not live without. Saved my mechanical bacon many a time.
For my work I use BOTH phillips screw drivers depending on the close quarters situation. One end pivoting the other one center pivoting T-handle like.
The Little Bantam single blade SAK is reground basically flat to the edge plus a very shallow secondary bevel. I have no idea the angle. Less than ten degrees per side though. Made me start questioning the usefulness of most knife sharpening jigs. I am wanting an Edge Pro sharpening jig for Christmas. I know it doesnt go that shallow though but shallower than about anything else obviously. I hate hand sharpening though I can get hair whittling. From my wood working I appreciate the precision and economy of movement a jig offers.
For any one who cares the channel lock looking pliers poked through the black pouch is a Knipex pliers wrench. If you dont have one, trust me, you need one. The one in the photo is the smallest they make (125mm) and boy are they proud of them but worth every penny.
The last photo is mostly recent additions to my pockets.
Except the blue SAK ( has the minuscule ball point pen, light and my favorite finger nail file) which is pretty much the last knife I set aside when I empty my pockets.
The Case Swayback is about two days old. DAG NABIT WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET ONE IN CHROME VANADIUM ! ! !! Drives me crazy. Oh well maybe one day I will find an old one.
I wanted to try out the handle and I find about all the good ones have been snatched up. I would have bought a GEC but they just have the single blade talon. I really wanted the two blade jack but in CV (or 1095).
Been trying out the Gerber Artifact to see if it is useful or not. I like it.
The red bone Case (CV) has been on me for weeks. Building up the patina. It seems to like tomatoes better than apples.
I sharpened the blades but did not reprofile and a few days ago tried a medium wire tie.
She said Nah Dude, Nah.
The SAK Bantam would have said That was nothing . . . what else ya got ?
One day a customer asked me to lend him some diagonal cutters so he could cut off some fairly large wire ties on some product packaging. I pulled out my little plastic handled Swiss Army Bantam and he said THAT aint gonna do it ! ! ! I just tried my ninja knife (((what ever a ninja knife is ))) and EVEN THAT wouldnt cut em.
I went pop, pop, pop on those wire ties and his mouth fell open.
I sure can appreciate all the beautiful knives here but I just know that if I had one in my pocket most of my cutting would be done with my old faithfuls.
I will say my Cold Steel Holdout III in CTS-XHP goes after wire ties pretty well if I hold my tung just right.
I been lurking for months, mostly watching the thread
Ranking of Steels in Categories based on Edge Retention cutting 5/8" rope
I am most appreciative for all the great info there.
THANK YOU
Soooooooo
I starts looking at the whats new thread, found the new whacha carrying thread, read a bunch of it but not all and just had to jump in . . .
sure is a lot of big expensive alloy there.
I keep coming up against my ultimate tests for an everyday CITY BOY pocket knife though.
Before I mention that I will say with all humility I am such a newbie up until recently I thought serrated blades were just for show.
yah Im that dumb . . . or was. I might even one day buy a Cold Steel Lucky.
Still though, one of the funniest things I ever saw was a guy trying to cut up a large cardboard box with a serrated tactical knife. That sucker sawed, and sawed and sawed some more and there was paper shreds allllllll over the place.
The little SAK Bantam (see photo and comments bellow) would have been done in a flash (and no mess). Unless the serrated knife guy made an errant pass with Mr. Bantam and found his leg off.
My ultimate tests for an everyday CITY BOY pocket knife is
Drum roll . . .
will it cut up a large corrugated cardboard box and will it cut through medium plastic wire ties without busting a gut (or the edge) ?
I find almost every knife I have to be a sorry _____ (deleted for delicate sensibilities) failure up against those tasks.
Between the back being too thick or the steel so hard it chips (think Spyderco ZDP 186 I still love my Dragonfly though) I keep coming back to the super thin smaller blades to geeeterdun.
So now we come to whats in my pocket. Well the pocket that clips to my work belt any way.
Go ahead . . . have a good laugh . . . I cant blame you one bit.
OK now that is mostly out of the way and you have stopped rolling on the floor.
Three SAKs ? you ask.
Surely your joking. Im not joking and dont call me Shirley.
Being a wannna be hand tool woodworker the large blade in each of the larger knives I reground to single bevel. One right one left. For marking out knifed layout lines (and of course slicing sushi (ha, ha, ha) ).
The little super precise pliers in the one knife I can not live without. Saved my mechanical bacon many a time.
For my work I use BOTH phillips screw drivers depending on the close quarters situation. One end pivoting the other one center pivoting T-handle like.
The Little Bantam single blade SAK is reground basically flat to the edge plus a very shallow secondary bevel. I have no idea the angle. Less than ten degrees per side though. Made me start questioning the usefulness of most knife sharpening jigs. I am wanting an Edge Pro sharpening jig for Christmas. I know it doesnt go that shallow though but shallower than about anything else obviously. I hate hand sharpening though I can get hair whittling. From my wood working I appreciate the precision and economy of movement a jig offers.
For any one who cares the channel lock looking pliers poked through the black pouch is a Knipex pliers wrench. If you dont have one, trust me, you need one. The one in the photo is the smallest they make (125mm) and boy are they proud of them but worth every penny.
The last photo is mostly recent additions to my pockets.
Except the blue SAK ( has the minuscule ball point pen, light and my favorite finger nail file) which is pretty much the last knife I set aside when I empty my pockets.
The Case Swayback is about two days old. DAG NABIT WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET ONE IN CHROME VANADIUM ! ! !! Drives me crazy. Oh well maybe one day I will find an old one.
I wanted to try out the handle and I find about all the good ones have been snatched up. I would have bought a GEC but they just have the single blade talon. I really wanted the two blade jack but in CV (or 1095).
Been trying out the Gerber Artifact to see if it is useful or not. I like it.
The red bone Case (CV) has been on me for weeks. Building up the patina. It seems to like tomatoes better than apples.
I sharpened the blades but did not reprofile and a few days ago tried a medium wire tie.
She said Nah Dude, Nah.
The SAK Bantam would have said That was nothing . . . what else ya got ?
One day a customer asked me to lend him some diagonal cutters so he could cut off some fairly large wire ties on some product packaging. I pulled out my little plastic handled Swiss Army Bantam and he said THAT aint gonna do it ! ! ! I just tried my ninja knife (((what ever a ninja knife is ))) and EVEN THAT wouldnt cut em.
I went pop, pop, pop on those wire ties and his mouth fell open.
I sure can appreciate all the beautiful knives here but I just know that if I had one in my pocket most of my cutting would be done with my old faithfuls.
I will say my Cold Steel Holdout III in CTS-XHP goes after wire ties pretty well if I hold my tung just right.
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Why thank you wwells20, you flatter me. :redface:
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Overall, how have you like the knife? How is the edge retention, chipping/rolling etc. I'm at a three way cross roads with that knife. I absolutely love the design. I'm leery to buy another Benchmade, with my less than stellar experience with them, and I am especially leery of buying another S30V knife. Every knife I've had with that steel has had chipping and/or edge retention problems.
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I've had no rolling, chipping or edge retention issues thus far.
I like this model BM very much.
It's built with the stoutness of an Adamas.
Super beefy pivot, stop pin and omega springs.
Yet mine is soooo silky smooth.
No blade play at all, but pull the axis lock back and the blade just drops out.......awesome.
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