EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

K.O.D. said:
Despite my disdain for titanium I've always like the look of those. Maybe I'll eventually get one, but I've heard they aren't very "fidgety" which is a prerequisite for my collection. Hence I've yet to buy one. I much prefer thumb holes to studs.
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Look at my video - I cleaned, lubed, and tuned mine to flick open and reverse flick easily. Using Slick'em All grease from OCD-4EDC and it's even better than in the video now. I do the same with most of my other CRK users, if I'm going to carry them.

 
So, I was thinking Throwback Thursday and went to the three-tiered box where my Al Mar Eagle HD is stored, but somehow got into the next drawer up and grabbed that knife's polar opposite, the more recent iteration of the Benchmade Adamas with its CruWear blade. I guess this could be a Thick Thursday instead. I'd been interested in an Adamas for a long time, though I'd failed to pull the trigger as I was indecisive every time one came up for sale here. I'm glad I held off, as I really like the improvements made. Being all blacked out, save for its Graphite Grey blade, this one could be considered stealth, save for the fact that it's bulky enough to trip over if left in one's path.

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Among the upgrades made to this model, including the switch to CruWear, was some effort to lighten what's one heavy-duty, tank of a folder by a bit of handle thinning and the enlargement of the handle holes. (Thinner Thursday, maybe?) An interesting feature of that is the holes in the liners are even larger than those in handle scales. I tried to capture that in a few pics, but the knife's dark palette proved to make that basically impossible on another gray day in the outdoor environment I had chosen.

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One more note--the 6.625 oz Adamas weighs in at over double 3.25 oz Eagle HD I left for another day this morning.
 
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DocJekl said:
Look at my video - I cleaned, lubed, and tuned mine to flick open and reverse flick easily. Using Slick'em All grease from OCD-4EDC and it's even better than in the video now. I do the same with most of my other CRK users, if I'm going to carry them.

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My approach to my 9 large CRKs is very similar and they're all eminently flickable save for my drawer queen, pre-Idaho Bocote Sebenza, which I've never had apart nor really carried. The rest are all users to one degree or another. I really don't like grease in my knives and habitually disassemble them, clean out all the lube, polish all interior surfaces that affect the action, and reassemble with W10 NanoOil. That goes for both washered and BB knives, though a few that I've deemed to have sufficiently free action from the git-go have been left alone (for now).
 
ChazzyP said:
My approach to my 9 large CRKs is very similar and they're all eminently flickable save for my drawer queen, pre-Idaho Bocote Sebenza, which I've never had apart nor really carried. The rest are all users to one degree or another. I really don't like grease in my knives and habitually disassemble them, clean out all the lube, polish all interior surfaces that affect the action, and reassemble with W10 NanoOil. That goes for both washered and BB knives, though a few that I've deemed to have sufficiently free action from the git-go have been left alone (for now).
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I do lap the washers on a strop with DBK diamond spray. The OCD-4-EDC grease idea came from watching them service a CRK with it and got a good action. With it, I don't have to lube it as often as I might with NanoOil, but it's not nearly as sluggish as with the CRK fluorinated grease...
 
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