EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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Mainly this one today, the Harnds Assassin. :)

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Harnds doesn't get discussed much here (just a couple threads), and on the big river site they always pop up alongside clone brands; consequently, I'd largely ignored them. But this design caught my eye, so I did some research and AFAICT they don't make clones. :thumbsup:

Apart from being oddly girthy (you could shave the G10 down by 50% and the liners down by 10-20% and turn this 3.9 oz. knife into something as sleek as it looks), this is the nicest $40 modern folder I've ever handled. It's a great example of a knife "genre" that I like, where a flipper enables the blade to vanish almost entirely into the handle (ZT 0450 and 0452, Metamorph, Exarch, Feist, etc.).

A this price point I expect compromises, but even the thickness appears to just be the result of a design choice (perhaps to create a more hand-filling handle, as befits a working knife). Rounded interior liner edges, milled and contoured G10, Sandvik 14C28N steel, milled-out liners, bearings, classy hardware, coated everywhere, a milled "landing pad" under the flipper, a nested mounting point for the pocket clip -- and flawless drop-shut action with no play, straight out of the box. For $40. :eek::D
 
My hand hovered over two light, medium-sized knives next to each other in the drawer this morning as I wanted something to slip into the pocket of my workout pants. The Giant Mouse GM3 will have to wait 'til another day as I chose this Gerry McGinnis-designed Monterey Bay Knives Sprocket instead. Maybe I was influenced by seeing @TenShun705 's very nice MBK Old Guard yesterday and maybe I just wanted something a little more hand-filling to continue on and clip into the pocket of my Carharrt's after showering and setting about a few tasks in the house, yard, woodshed, and shop.

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