EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

[Dcdavis]

 

[dadofsix]

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I wish the panels I worked in looked half that good! Very nice

 

[TheFactor]

Part of To the movies to see Avatar and Dinner carry

 

[MadeOnABench]

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[Landshark99]

 

[alliuse]

Date Night Carry

 

[JOELSM]

 

[bigolegator]

Sure does! I find myself planning out a full productive day the night before. I get up, do a few things on the list, and then take a nap.

Sounds eerily familiar

 

[bigolegator]

Thanks my friend! Luckily I'm always fine while I'm out there and can enjoy myself. It doesn't hit until I get home

That’s the Mind over Matter part…and getting older part

 

[bigolegator]

Outside break from getting house ready for Family visits

 

[bigolegator]

Part of To the movies to see Avatar and Dinner carry

How was it…good as the original?

 

[RLB0414]

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Quality and impressive work as always

 

[Wasatch11253]

Dr. Deaths first summit. Another remote desert peak in Utah, is was about 7 degrees F on this one.

Decided to carry these others for weight ballast. Not the Osborne so much but the other two, yes.

Hit up another smaller summit of the Ice Springs eruption circa 1400 AD. Utah's youngest rock.

 

[Ed G]

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2 Beers and a band-aid!! HMMMM.
John

2 beers vs. 1 band-aid = Winning!

 

[Centermass]

These scales almost match my pants today. That’s gotta count for somethin.

 

[Dcdavis]

I wish the panels I worked in looked half that good! Very nice

Thanks man. It really doesn’t take that much longer to do it neat

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Haha. Power is off

Quality and impressive work as always

I appreciate it.

 

[WValtakis]

Sneaky Saturday, an old school Cold Steel Black Talon converted to D/A by the master...Butch Vallotton could stuff a spring in anything

 

[BlindMouse2of3]

Quick run to the store carry. I have to say it's amazing how rude people are around the holidays.

Shout out to David Mary, in it's size range it has quite effectively replaced a white river, tops, esee and a few others as my LH horizontal belt knife.

 

[Edgeoflife]

Tagged out again today

 

[ChazzyP]

I've long been a fan of the Benchmade Griptilian--largely the larges, as it were--while at the same time somewhat incongruously disliking their stock Noryl handles as cheesy and uncomfortable. I've owned a fair number of them and still have several. Along the way I've also acquired numerous sets of Kevin Wilkins scales as I really like them both for their style as well as how they greatly improve the knives' ergos. Kevin stopped making his BMG X2's and X1's some time ago, as his market had dried up, and he's been moving out his stock on hand since. A couple years back I bought a set of flame-ano'd Ti scales to install on a 550 HG in 154CM that I picked up off the Exchange. I liked them quite a bit, though they're a bit more blingy than my taste usually runs, but as time went by I found myself not carrying and using a knife with a blade configurtion and steel that I like an awful lot.



I'd been perusing Kevin's site from time to time, looking at both the knives he had to offer as well as tracking what he had for scales. I had been really taken many years back with a special run of a few sets of red G11 scales he made a had always regretted not picking one up. G11 has a sort of translucence that I find appealing and recently I ran into these G11 Coyotes with a slightly violet-toned bronzed backspacer, flamed screws, a free clip, and a 20% off special. I think he has or had a few sets left and I grabbed one. The Fedex guy dropped the package unprotected on our stoop today in the rain, but J saw it soon enough to save it getting too soaked.

I set about freeing the knife's innards from the existing set of scales straight away. Everything came apart easily and it wasn't too long before I had the new scales installed, though it had been a while since I've put a Griptilian back together and getting the pivot all the way through can be a bit tricky. I had to tweak a little to get the blade centered, but all came out just fine for action and play. I'm pretty pleased with the look and feel of these. The slightly greenish tint and translucence are much more attractive than the usual dead tan look of typical Coyote and the G11 has a nicely softish, grippy feel in hand. I think this one's gonna get considerably more carry now.