EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

Putting together a Tuxedo lift. There is my Demko in there somewhere :)

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Connor_MacLeod said:
Glad to see someone talking about the PF818. Its lines really speak to me, and I find myself carrying mine over other blades an order of magnitude higher priced. My one gripe with it is that I wish the clip was deeper carry, but this is a minor gripe - it’s still great.
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Thanks! Yeah, it was the breakout model for Petrified Fish in the west, not their first but the first to really take off. Years later, it remains one of the best values in a budget knife. Petrified Fish does one of the better heat treatments on Chinese D2. Mine was actually tested. I think it was around 60 HRC and cut-testing results were near the top for all Chinese D2 tested. Not bad for a $30 knife!

So it's hard to complain but you're right. It isn't perfect. My main issue with the clip is that they don't use flush-fitting screws so they protrude a little into the clip space. To be fair, this was a more widespread issue when the 818 was first released and I still see new models like that from a variety of companies. (It's also an issue with companies making aftermarket deep-carry clips for Spyderco.) Beyond that, I did a little ergonomic softening on the G10 scales but I do that to lots of knives. I don't know if current variants have upgraded to ceramic bearings like a lot of PF's other knives but my release-day 818 came with steel bearings. There were okay but I did upgrade to Skiff bearings.

BTW, David Chen also designed the PF838. It's a bigger knife with a thicker blade in another fun grind. Here is an older pic of mine with a cup of coffee.

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