For those of you who DO NOT have a Buck as your EDC, what do you carry?

What is my EDC if it is NOT a Buck?

Back in the 1980s, I worked in the oil industry, first in a technical laboratory testing cement formulations and later on out on drilling rigs as a "Mud Man". Back then, for anyone working in a hard hat, the knife to have was a Buck 110 in a belt pouch. That was heavy, hard usage. I ran through several 110s cutting open bags of chemicals and cement, along with other abusive usage.
Later on in life, I worked in health care doing diagnostic imaging with isotopes ("Nuc-Med"). I still carried a Buck 110, sometimes in a belt pouch but more often, just in a pocket. But that was heavy, and I really didn't need that big clip-point blade.
When Leatherman tools arrived on the scene, they were an attractive package of features. But the early models were s bit small and inconvenient to deploy. Finally, they came out with the Wave models and similar versions. I switched to a Lesatherman Wave as my EDC. At one time or another, have I used every tool, except the saw, at work in a major hospital. However, the most important festure to me was the ability to deploy either blade without fumbling to open the tool.
 
Kettleman said:
Those BUCK guys can be a bit rambunctious. I ran with them for several years and always enjoyed it. They are just real passionate about their knives, not unlike the CRK guys and others.
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Buck, CRK, Randall . . .some brand enthusiasts can be very narrowly focused indeed.

But that sort of thing comes up in other spheres of interest too. I have been deeply involved with photography for 40+ years or so. there are many who swear by Canon and just as many who feel that Nikon is THE way to go. Some of the most emotionally involved are the Leica crowd.

However, I had a friend who was a working professional wedding photographer. He first resisted and later embraced the transition into digital imaging. Along the way he switched from one brand and system to some other one as the industry evolved and as is way of working altered to meet the needs of his clients.

We were talking about that one day and he picked up ~ $10,000 worth of Nikon gear by the lens and waved it slightly up and down saying, "To me, this is a tool, just like a hammer."

He had no brand loyalty. The tool had to do the job, or he would get a different one.
 
I think I was transported with this thread out of the Buck forum. Where am I. Lol. If you're in the Buck forum your EDC really is a Buck. It's true. The question should have read what else do you EDC with your Buck. I carry 3-5 knives most of the time and they may include more Buck, a Case, SAK, and a Leatherman. Also, a knife that looks like a key and a really small SAK on my key ring.
 
You guys are fun kind of crazy!
If the 303 stays home: I might be carrying an Olamic/Hinderer/Benxhmade/Spyderco/Bogue/Vero/SOG/CRK/Schrade, or Tinus Stone...
Variety is the spice of life!
 
BuckShack said:
I think I was transported with this thread out of the Buck forum. Where am I. Lol. If you're in the Buck forum your EDC really is a Buck. It's true. The question should have read what else do you EDC with your Buck. I carry 3-5 knives most of the time and they may include more Buck, a Case, SAK, and a Leatherman. Also, a knife that looks like a key and a really small SAK on my key ring.
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If that works for you . . .fine, well and good. . . .you get no cap from me on that.

But to me, it seems like a lot of heavy metal to carry around all day. . . . that is, or could be, a good bit of weight in your belt and in your pockets. . . . by that, I mean for me. I used to have a set of personal use keys in my pocket and a heavy set of work keys clipped to my belt along with a Buck 110 in a pocket. Over the years, I have been simplifying and streamlining what I carry around till now its just a wallet, house/car key sin my pants pocket and a Leatherman Wave in a horizontal belt pouch.

If I need to have more stuff along with me and ready at hand, I use a pistol capable waist pack . . .for glasses, tickets, small water bottle flashlight and snack etc. The CCW sized bag allows for more stowage than the slimmer models that look good to my family. Not cool looking, but then, I haven't been cool for decades now. This rig is usually carried when traveling by air and need all that stuff on my person, not a carry-on bag.
 
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When I’m not carrying a 110 or 119 on my belt, I’ve got a Military, police, or Endura clipped to my right front pocket. Then there are days when all I carry is a Leatherman Wave or Victorinox Swisstool spirit on my belt.
 
I carried a Bucklite for years(until I lost it). I now mostly cary a Kershaw Leek or a Benchamde Taggedout.
 
BuckShack said:
I think I was transported with this thread out of the Buck forum. Where am I. Lol. If you're in the Buck forum your EDC really is a Buck. It's true. The question should have read what else do you EDC with your Buck. I carry 3-5 knives most of the time and they may include more Buck, a Case, SAK, and a Leatherman. Also, a knife that looks like a key and a really small SAK on my key ring.
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Fair enough...mea culpa! I had no idea I was stepping over a line and apparently on toes. Given the thousands of dollars I have spent on Buck knives over the last three months, I feel lucky I wasn't banned from the Buck forum for my transgression.
 
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I carry one either a small GEC or an A.Wright lambs foot along with a small Victorinox. I have not carried a Buck for many years and I haven't bought one since they went to their kind of half hollow grind instead of the flat grind from earlier days. I just find that new style of grinding the edge off putting in the looks department.
 
eveled said:
Lol. From what I saw, nobody thumped you, nobody was intolerant or condescending.

Nobody even bashed your choice. Not even one butterfly joke.

You had to realize posting a question like that in a brand specific sub forum was asking for trouble.

I posted a question about a Chinese Schrade in the Schrade forum and was treated about the same. I made a mistake I owned it without making snide remarks. Or insulting people and I didn’t bring up Nazis.

Looking back some things must have been edited. So I don’t know how ugly it got.
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My edit on #20 is quoted on#21.

I didn't see any attacks either.

Hurt feelings reports are available upon request.
 
Its all good OP, some people take their hobbies a little too seriously, and others are just probably just kidding around with you but it is hard to tell on the interwebs here. Brand loyalty can get a little crazy sometimes... I criticised GEC knives a little while back on here and I was pretty surprised by how fast the lynch mob formed up lol. So dont take it personally, they will get over it.
 
Today I’m carrying a Bradley Knives lockback. It the same size as a 112, but a custom. That means the tang does not stick out, it has integral ss liners/bolsters, mammoth tooth scales, 440C (hard at 60RC kinda like the original 112), one pin to show it can be done w/o cracking the mammoth tooth, fine thin edge. Like a 112 but improved. I’m making dinner with it, buffalo steak, spring asparagus, sweet potatoes and walnut sandy cookies :)
 
I swap out my Buck 301 with either Benchmade Bugout, Case Stockman 6318 pattern, or a Case Bird knife pattern 6247H.
 
For the last year I have carried this lil SAK or a Case minitrapper along side a Buck 112.
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