Fess up. What is your traditional "that" knife?

My wife has two "that knife" candidates: both we received for wedding presents way back when.

One is a Dexter Russel white rubber handled paring knife. The other is a Tramontina "utility" knife -- about a five or six inch blade. Between the two of them, she does most of her cutting in the kitchen. We have a few other paring knives, and by the end of a day, most of them are usually sitting on the sideboard, waiting to be washed, edge checked, and stuck back in the block. Can't have too many sharp little 3-4" paring knives around.

Knife she carries around is her little Vic Classic.

Whatever knife I have in my pocket is my "goto", even if I'm standing in the kitchen. I'm more likely to pull out my pocket knife to cut up fruit, or cheese, or open a package, than anything else.

I never got on board with the one knife experiment. I've done it before, and while I know that it's a valuable thing sometimes, I just didn't want to. I like all my knives, and I like switching sometimes.

Since buying my Peanut and my slimline trapper, they have been the two that I carry most. But I usually also have a Vic Executive under my wallet. Between the three of them, most chores are more than handled.
 
"That knife" is always on my person, so I don't have to holler for it.

I carry a number of knives, one is always on my belt so that it is easier to reach.

It is usually a custom multiblade; Bose, Burke, Davis, Chamblin, Bradshaw.

If I pay that much for a knife, it's d@mned well gonna earn its keep, and I expect top performance. The makers who build these knives do it so that the knives can take anything that a reasonable user can dish out. Seems a shame to put a working knife on welfare, drinking mineral oil and eating Ren Wax at my expense, never doing any work....:D
 
Morablades said:
I'll second that, plus a vic
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Which Vic? I've got a Huntsman - hard to leave it at home sometimes, but nowadays it's a little "overkill" for most of what I do. Some days I get sentimental and carry both. (Stockman and Vic, too.)

thx - cpr
 
I'll have to "fess up" that my go to knife is my old Wenger SI. It's the stand in for my old boy scout knife that dad gave me so many decades ago, and I'm too used to a pattern that gives me a screw driver, awl, can/bottle openers. I don't know how many on the spot repairs I've done with that knife, everything from dropping out the fan in the bathroom ceiling to fixing a problem with a BMW R60 ignition out on the road.

No matter what else may be in my pocket, the Wenger is in it's belt pouch with the Gerber sonic LED light.
 
"That knife" for me is my old Victorinox Pioneer, with well worn red alox scales. Darn near impervious to abuse and has a nice assortment of tools without being bulky. If I could have only one item to take with me were the world ending tomorrow, it'd be that knife.
 
Wenger SI. Used to disassemble furniture when helping people move, on the spot repairs, scrape, pry open paint cans, put batteries in the kids toys. My daughter calls it " Dad's fix-everything-thing.":D
 
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