EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

maxjeg said:
I participated in one project of a local craftsman. EDC-axe. :)
Yesterday I received this beast.

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It turned out to be not very convenient to fell trees with it. :)

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But it planes perfectly.

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You can chop some chips for my camping mini-stove.
And it is also very fun to chop cucumbers and sausage with it. :)

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I made an EDC-sandwich. 👍

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I wonder if it can handle a pie. 🤔

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Oh, I forgot. Military for scale. 😁

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I would have to say ; you must have Viking blood in you !
 
I figured I'd make it a Wooden Wednesday and got out my Pakkawood Police after deciding to pocket that one, but grabbed the Endura and Delica as well and set them by my chair for fidgeting and admiration when I wasn't otherwise occupied with various tasks today. Later, when the light was right I went for some group pics of my little KC Exclusive family.

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One of the things that really attracted me to these knives and led me to owning three was the juxtaposition of their bright smooth stainless spines and hardware contrasting with their laminated wood scales. IIRC it was our friend abbazaba abbazaba who posted pics highlighting just that some years ago that ending up sending me down the path toward accumulating these three. With those pics in mind...

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Of course the HAP40/SUS410 laminated blades had a lot to do with that too.
 
ChazzyP said:
I figured I'd make it a Wooden Wednesday and got out my Pakkawood Police after deciding to pocket that one, but grabbed the Endura and Delica as well and set them by my chair for fidgeting and admiration when I wasn't otherwise occupied with various tasks today. Later, when the light was right I went for some group pics of my little KC Exclusive family.

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One of the things that really attracted me to these knives and led me to owning three was the juxtaposition of their bright smooth stainless spines and hardware contrasting with their laminated wood scales. IIRC it was our friend abbazaba abbazaba who posted pics highlighting just that some years ago that ending up sending me down the path toward accumulating these three. With those pics in mind...

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Of course the HAP40/SUS410 laminated blades had a lot to do with that too.
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Just beautiful!
 
Psj78 said:
Whats your impressions on it? I was also interested in getting 1, but couldn't find any reviews anywhere on it. Thanks
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I don't quite feel qualified to give a review on it yet as I just got it. That and the bad lockstick has made it so that I can't really carry it and truly enjoy it yet. I'd imagine that the lockstick on this one is an outlier though. Once I fix that though it'll be pretty great. You have to have a love for old school quality folders though as some things have changed in the industry since this thing came out. Mainly the plunge grind. You can see where the edge starts. Not grinding the primary bevel back all the way to the heel was very common back then, so the first half inch of the blade is unsharpened and then transitioning into the sharpened edge. They hadn't quite figured out, industry wide, that grinding the primary bevel all the way to the heel creates a more useable edge length (while remaining strong enough to do anything that you'd want out of a folder), or perhaps it was just a fad, or maybe they did it so that you could use the first bit of the blade as a finger choil (which does work). Whatever their reasoning, it was very common at the time. I've thought that it'd be really cool to get it reground so that the entire edge is useable and sharp.

But yeah, other than that, it has a great balance and weight. I feel like I could twist the knife around my finger like a badapple with a little bit of practice. 😂 The micarta has a nice feel and I'm an absolute sucker for the custom-Emerson look of having the Ti bolsters with the OD green micarta half scales.🍻

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LimpCroissant said:
I don't quite feel qualified to give a review on it yet as I just got it. That and the bad lockstick has made it so that I can't really carry it and truly enjoy it yet. I'd imagine that the lockstick on this one is an outlier though. Once I fix that though it'll be pretty great. You have to have a love for old school quality folders though as some things have changed in the industry since this thing came out. Mainly the plunge grind. You can see where the edge starts. Not grinding the primary bevel back all the way to the heel was very common back then, so the first half inch of the blade is unsharpened and then transitioning into the sharpened edge. They hadn't quite figured out, industry wide, that grinding the primary bevel all the way to the heel creates a more useable edge length (while remaining strong enough to do anything that you'd want out of a folder), or perhaps it was just a fad, or maybe they did it so that you could use the first bit of the blade as a finger choil (which does work). Whatever their reasoning, it was very common at the time. I've thought that it'd be really cool to get it reground so that the entire edge is useable and sharp.

But yeah, other than that, it has a great balance and weight. I feel like I could twist the knife around my finger like a badapple with a little bit of practice. 😂 The micarta has a nice feel and I'm an absolute sucker for the custom-Emerson look of having the Ti bolsters with the OD green micarta half scales.🍻

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If you get sick of it lemme know😬
 
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