EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

Got the 0762 with me along with a Benchmade today. The 943BK is a work in progress. Yesterday, I swapped the aluminum scales and backspacer to some leftover G10 scales from another project from last weekend. The scales are from 940-1501. Today, I scrounged around my knife parts drawer and found some blue anodized titanium barrel spacers and some scale screws. Right now the 943 is still a mishmash of screws with half the knife being blue titanium and black oxide. I put in an order for a blue anodized titanium pivot set and thumbstuds. Should have the 943 finished up in another month or so.

 
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Still the F95.

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I finally bought a Wicked Edge 130 to upgrade my venerable Hapstone V7. I bought this one second hand for a great price, and it came with a bunch of extra stones plus strops. I sharpened up my Shiro F95 this evening, going from 200 to 800 grit then stropped lightly by hand with 4 micron CBN on leather. It's super sharp now with ridiculous bite. The WE worked splendidly. I love you don't have to move the knife at all once it's clamped in, and that I can do alternate passes so easily and at a consistent angle.
 
A couple weeks back I carried my KW Exclusive 551-1702 Grip and commented that I should finally get around to ordering a black oxide clip from BMK as I don't care much for the glossy black-painted variety that comes stock on that knife and others as they chip easily and look even worse with time and use. Benchmade is still great about sending out complimentary clips, I called in the next day, and they sent one along. I had forgotten about it by the time I checked the mail before leaving for Vermont and was pleasantly surprised to find it waiting at my PO for me. I grabbed the knife on the way out of town to add to the several I brought along, installed the clip last night after we settled in, and carried it this morning setting up our outdoor stuff and getting the Ranger uncovered and fired up for the season.

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I'd carried my PJ SHF back on Tuesday and seeing Ajack60 Ajack60 's post yesterday about coming late to acquiring his Harsey and what a great work knife it is got me to include my two in the bag o'knives that I brought North with me. I came to mine late too and getting my Northwest Coast Edition first led almost directly to picking up my work-user PJ off the Exchange when I realized what great knives these are indeed. We headed out mid-afternoon today to grocery shop and pick up a few things for our stay a couple towns over and I took the opportunity to change up for lighter carry and pocketed my prettier version. I got these pics under the light on the deck as the sun was dropping below the hill and what's now a heavy rain set in.

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Sorry for the long post, but getting pics to upload and anything posted comes hard with no internet and weak signal up here and I figure I might as well get my money's worth.
 
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