First Generation EDC?

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Manix07

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I've been edc'ing my 910 Stryker, which I understand to be from the first generation within this folder lineage (ats-34, balisong in butterfly). Despite the age of this knife, I'm amazed that I've never had issue with its lock-up or overall durability and I do put it to good use fairly regularly.

On this point, I'd like to ask how many of you still edc the first generation of a particular folder and how do you find it holds up? When makers come out with newer models, with upgraded features and steels its easy to be lured into purchasing them (I am very guilty of this myself) but I've realized that these tools are meant to last and that older models seem to carry their weight quite well even against some of the great ideas coming out in the cutlery world these days.
 
I still have a spyderco native in GIN-1 that still works great. The pivot is still smooth, the lock up is still tight and there is no play in the blade. I did eventually buy a new native PE with the s30v blade and have been very happy with the purchase. In reality the only reason I rarely use my first native is the fact that it's mostly serrated which is a pain to sharpen. It still holds a good edge and the spyderco serrations cut the fiberous stuff great. The original native served me well and I still use it once in a while. The fact that I still have it must mean something because I've given away a lot of knives to people that never realized how handy a knife can be. I'm hopeful I've converted at least a few newbies into becoming knifeknuts like myself.
 
I don't EDC it, but I usually take my first generation Buck 110 with me when I go camping. My parents gave it to me for my birthday sometime in the late '60's.

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When they were new on the market, I bought a Cold Steel Shinobu (however it is spelled) and a Gerber Bolt-Action. I carry these every so often and still find them satisfying EDC knives.

Still, knives have evolved and carrying these older knives reminds me why I prefer newer designs like the BM 710. That, and I'm still asking why no-one ever made, say, an aluminum handled version of the Bolt-Action.
 
Manix07, I have exactly that same knife and EDC it also. Aside from when I lost it for a few months, I still carry mine every day. I wish I remember when I bought it, I bought it at a gun show but can't remember exactly when.
 
I have a benchmade AFCK that I bought around 1994 at Seattle Cutlery in the Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle. I don't EDC it now, but I did for quite a while. I still consider it a great, great design. It's a fairly large folder, with 4" blade, but it weighs just under 4 ounces. I like light weight knives, and it's still unusual to find a knife that large and that light. Opening is extremely smooth.

I'd still take it over 99% of knives that are out there now, except that now I like tip-up carry. It is tip-down only, and is not really well enough detented for tip up. It definitely was ahead of its time.
 
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