GASP! non-balisong Daily Carry??

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What do you guys carry thats still a folder but isnt a balisong? I have a Camillus tactical folder that I bought for $15 at the NYS Fair that has held up for 3 years.
 
Standard carry is two Emerson Commanders, one for right hand and one for left hand.
Also a MT UDT for the everyday cutting tasks, and of course two leatherman's, Supertool and Micra.
I don't always carry my bali-song's
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Be well!/Jonas aka 2Sharp

"Who want fulfillment? -denial lasts forever"
Total Emerson knives freak!!! Usual Suspect wanna-be...

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by 2Sharp:
Standard carry is two Emerson Commanders, one for right hand and one for left hand.</font>
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You got it my Swedish Brother, right and left Emerson Commanders, there is some deviation from that with a Waved CQC-7 or a Waved SOCFK Tanto, but that's more or less the every day Rig for me as well.

(We're not "Usual Wannabe's" for nothing, are we Jonas?)

I got into a HUGE argument with a friend of mine that is a Police Officer in another County. He said he busted someone for carrying a Bali and I was like, "What for?"

Well, my Bud said that he was walking along, not doing anything particularly wrong, but looked like a "dirtbag." Uhmmmkaay...

Anyways, the Dude had a pipe on him (you know the kind, for funnyweed) and a Bali.

Uhhmmkaaay...so, then I did the thing that usually ends badly...I asked him what he would have done had he only had the Bali?

"Locked his ass up for a concealed, deadly weapon."

I asked him where in the Criminal Digest, which they all carry, where the Bali was listed in there.

He assured me that it was and I assured him that his Sgt., also a close friend, gave me a copy and it was not in there.

The moral of the story is, don't carry a BaliSong concealed or not concealed in the State of Maryland.

It does not matter if "BaliSong a/k/a Butterfly Knife" is in the books or not now, it was not then, that was about 5 years ago.

What matters is, perception.

It really is a helluva thing too, because as Chuck G. has so painfully written about, the laws regarding BaliSongs are simply hogwash anyway, it takes skill, alot of time and dedication, to learn how to open one fast enough to be of any real use offensively or defensively.

That is dedication, time and skill that crackheads and simpletons just don't involve themselves with or try to cultivate.

It's sad, the knife is strong and safe, and of course, it has that wonderful ability to simply pound on someone if need be without cutting/thrusting them. Another legal mess...


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"You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar." ~Jeff Cooper
And the same goes for a knife...
And, I'm a Usual Suspect.
Some of my Knives and other neat things
 
Well, When I am not carying my 42, I have a Smith and Wesson S.W.A.T. linerlock (by Taylor?) or a CRKT Komodo 4 tanto fixedblade.

Nothing that I would shed too many tears over if I had to use/abuse/throw/ditch.
 
I carry twin spyderco knives ,legal but as fast as a switchblade to open and made in seki japan

TJ
 
Aside from the BM 42 which I am rarely without, BM's 910 has replaced my Buck 110.

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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition,
but certainty is a ridiculous one.
 
While on a jazz tour in Europe in '96, by bro picked me up a good ol' swiss army knife in Switzerland (who'da thunk it!). It has a stainless body and is as good as the day I got it. I also pack a leatherman micra for self-defense
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~Dave

"One in the hand is worth two in the sheath"
 
My current ED pocket knife:

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...and either a Benchmade 710HS or Darrel Ralph large Apogee.
 
I always have a Spyderco "Q" clipped to the band of my baseball cap.

I usually wear a 6" thrower in a B-X neck sheath.

Then I have either a BM 710 Axis, or a CRKT Crawford/Kasper........... depending on what kind of mood I'm in.

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Clay
www.balisongxtreme.com
Because......
getting 'em open
is half the fun!
 
A CRKT M16 goes everywhere but school with me. It's a great little knife, but the AUS-6 doesn't keep an edge too well.
 
My leatherman wave... I used a dremel to countersink some holes in the knife blades so I could add thumb studs for better one-handed opening. My one beef with the wave is this: stock, the blades are narrow, so the holes they provide aren't enough to open, at least not without injury. Part of my thumb hangs over the edge, when I try to use the little holes they have, and when I push on the hole to grip, and open the knife, I lose whatever part of my thumb is hanging past the edge.

Other than that, either an emerson CQC-7 that I made hardwood handle scales for, or an EDI Genesis I
 
A Buck Crosslock which I hope to be replaced by a BM 710, 730, or a Kershaw Random Task.

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Cameron

"And shepards we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, so we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be, En Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti"
A few of my balisongs
My ClubPhoto albums
 
Phil Boguszewski. BG-42 blade. I love it. A California cop would probably try to say it is a gravity knife, but I carry it anyway. It has a thumb stud, so I should be OK.

Folks, this thing opens faster than a balisong. Only downside is the thin, flat handle.
 
Sometimes I carry my Mel Pardue BM3500(Non-Auto). I stopped when everyone seemed to be just as afraid of it as my bali. Oh well thats the sheeple.

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I have a sword in my pocket!
 
These days I can usually be found carrying all three of these:
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and any one of these:
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along with one of these two when I'm at home:
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A good Bali makes me feel cozy at home.
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Eric - Usual Suspect
"The best toys are the ones that you can put an eye out with."

[This message has been edited by Eric Blair (edited 05-11-2001).]
 
My my my...

Don't you ever worry that the coroners will one day show up and the cause of your death will be listed as a very large sneeze, adn that the fact you're lying on the floor in ribbons was incidental?
 
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