Hard user EDC

Eazy_tom

Eazy_tom

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I'm looking for a new EDC, something with a three to three and a half inch blade.
I will be using it for opening mail and packages, food preparation, carving sticks, et cetera.
I've been looking at the BenchMade 520, and 940 but have also considered others. I'm willing to spend up to about $130.
Thanks in advance guys.

Edit-I totally meant to say 940, as I already have a 930...
 
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The 930 is a great edc and is perfectly suited towards the tasks you have outlined.

But since you changed it to 940 I'm sorry I cant help you because I dont have the knife. It is on my list but I don not have it.
 
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Eazy_tom said:
Huh?


Yeah I'm nearly 100% sure that I'm going to get a 930, I just wanted some other opinions.
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Okies,

Emerson Mini Commander
Emerson Mini CQC-7
Emerson Commander
Emerson CQC
Benchmade 710 D2
Benchmade 930
ZT 0200
ZT MUDD
ZT 0300

Etc
 
Any 3-3.5" knife you buy from the following companies can easily do the tasks you've named:

Spyderco
Benchmade
Kershaw
Zero Tolerance
Emerson
Cold Steel
Many more

It's really just a matter of your personal preferences or style. The list is just too long.
 
Kaizen1 said:
Any 3-3.5" knife you buy from the following companies can easily do the tasks you've named:

Spyderco
Benchmade
Kershaw
Zero Tolerance
Emerson
Cold Steel
Many more

It's really just a matter of your personal preferences or style. The list is just too long.
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:D More eloquent than what I was trying to say.
 
Kaizen1 said:
Any 3-3.5" knife you buy from the following companies can easily do the tasks you've named:

Spyderco
Benchmade
Kershaw
Zero Tolerance
Emerson
Cold Steel
Many more

It's really just a matter of your personal preferences or style. The list is just too long.
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I was hoping this thread would be more of a comparison between the 520 and 940. I know most knives will be able to handle the task I have stated.
 
I was wondering what the 930 was. Okay, both knives should be fine for the tasks that you've listed. Here's my comparison:

940: Slimmer, lighter.
520: Heavier, wider, better ergos (for me). I'd consider this to be the tougher of the two knives.

Personally I like the 520. I just like its looks and ergos more. Both are very nice knives that should take everything you throw at them and ask for more.
 
Kaizen1 said:
I was wondering what the 930 was. Okay, both knives should be fine for the tasks that you've listed. Here's my comparison:

940: Slimmer, lighter.
520: Heavier, wider, better ergos (for me). I'd consider this to be the tougher of the two knives.

Personally I like the 520. I just like its looks and ergos more. Both are very nice knives that should take everything you throw at them and ask for more.
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The 930 is the Benchmade kulgera.
Looks like I'll be getting the 940, and then maybe a 520 in the near future haha.
 
Yeah, the 940 is definitely an easier one to carry on a daily basis, as it's slimmer, lighter, and doesn't have those super-grip, pants-eating scales. For general EDC, the 940 would easily be my choice (well, 941 for my tastes, but close enough).

If I were going for "hard use", I'd go with the 520. It's a MUCH heftier knife than either the 940 or the 930, and it feels (to me) a lot more secure in the hand for rough use than those other models. You definitely ought to get one someday, and I think you'll find it'll serve a different purpose than the 940.
 
For the 'hard' use you have described get a Boker Trance for $25
The other $105 from the 130?
Take your wife out for a meal....
 
To be honest, I can't think of a knife that can't do the jobs you've described. I think that the knives to avoid would be the shorter list for such hard use.
 
Hard use knife. "I will be using it for opening mail and packages, food preparation, carving sticks, et cetera."

That's not a justifiable list of hard use tasks. It really looks like you want a hard use styled knife for regular utility work, edc stuff.

That describes about everything the actual daily user does with about any knife, from one blade SAK to Sebenza. So your basic decision is to pick the toughest looking knife from your list of choices - and it will do fine.

As long as the knife has styling that communicates the image you want, just about any will do.

If you decide you really want a hard use knife, I'm sure Strider, Hinderer, Kershaw ZT, Extrema Ratio, Emerson, etc, could fit the bill. I have a Benchmade CQC7, it's a little lighter built than them, but that was the essence of hard use in the late '80's. They will all pry open frozen car doors, chip mortar from adobe block walls for sniper holes, or allow batoning without immediate failure. Those are the kind of hard use, almost stupid things they are built for.

Don't let what you want to get confused by what you'll really do with it.
 
tirod3 said:
Hard use knife. "I will be using it for opening mail and packages, food preparation, carving sticks, et cetera."

That's not a justifiable list of hard use tasks. It really looks like you want a hard use styled knife for regular utility work, edc stuff.

That describes about everything the actual daily user does with about any knife, from one blade SAK to Sebenza. So your basic decision is to pick the toughest looking knife from your list of choices - and it will do fine.

As long as the knife has styling that communicates the image you want, just about any will do.

If you decide you really want a hard use knife, I'm sure Strider, Hinderer, Kershaw ZT, Extrema Ratio, Emerson, etc, could fit the bill. I have a Benchmade CQC7, it's a little lighter built than them, but that was the essence of hard use in the late '80's. They will all pry open frozen car doors, chip mortar from adobe block walls for sniper holes, or allow batoning without immediate failure. Those are the kind of hard use, almost stupid things they are built for.

Don't let what you want to get confused by what you'll really do with it.
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Ha! yeah my Emerson Mini CQC-7 was touted as being able to go through a car bonnet... ive been tempted :D
 
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