How does one handle a..."GENT'S" knife?

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What if something ...crude...needs cutting? Carry a SAK for using?
I admit that for sharpening nibs, pencils, and peeling grapes, they are indispensible.

BUT.....what if yer some macho honcho who just likes a certain GENT'S knife, but ya KNOW ya shouldn't?

BLADE SCRATCHES! Aiyeeee!

:confused: :eek: :o
 
Don't know if it qualifies as a "gents" knife, but I carry a Buck Prince everyday since I had to start wearing a tie. In that time I have used it for everything that I used to use my Benchmade 710 cm for. Light cutting, heavy rope cutting, prying out staples, whittling, to stricking a spark off of a firesteel, and more. It has been dropped a few times and the blade shows some use, but I keep it shaving sharp, and I think the nicks and scratches give it some character. I miss the BM to some degree, but mostly only for it's ease of opening and closing. The buck is more sheeple friendly also.
Mike
 
If I am carrying a knife then I plan on using it. scratching up the blade on a user doesn't bother me. A gent's knife is just a small, somewhat fancy to very fancy knife. I will use it for whatever it is capable of doing.
 
I'm the same as Keith on this. Whatever I'm carrying will be used, if required. If I'm at a suit & tie thing, I will always carry my SAK plus one other, usually something like my Buck Rush, CRKT/Elishewitz E-lock or equivalent smaller folder. I don't go to these types of things that often, though - several times per year at the most. Most of my folders are purchased with the intent of using, so whatever I have at time for whatever needs to be cut, scraped, whatever :)

- gord
 
I wouldn't carry it if I weren't prepared to use it. I'm going to a wedding reception tomorrow. Dinner, dance, suit and tie... the whole 9 yards. I'll have my Leatherman Wave on my belt if it can fit under my suit jacket discretely, and I'll have my Kershaw Rainbow Leek somewhere about my person. For me, gent's knives aren't just for show, they're for looking good while being used.

Chris
 
chrisbrogden said:
I wouldn't carry it if I weren't prepared to use it. I'm going to a wedding reception tomorrow. Dinner, dance, suit and tie... the whole 9 yards. I'll have my Leatherman Wave on my belt if it can fit under my suit jacket discretely, and I'll have my Kershaw Rainbow Leek somewhere about my person. For me, gent's knives aren't just for show, they're for looking good while being used.

Chris
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you know if you don't bring your Wave you're going to need it. I find that weddings are one time that a multitool comes in very handy because nobody else is carrying all the things they normally do (smaller purses), and because people are wearing clothes they might not normally. (stuck zippers, stray threads, etc.)
 
SlimWhitman said:
you know if you don't bring your Wave you're going to need it. I find that weddings are one time that a multitool comes in very handy because nobody else is carrying all the things they normally do (smaller purses), and because people are wearing clothes they might not normally. (stuck zippers, stray threads, etc.)
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That's so true. The one time I left home without a spare set of keys in my backpack was of course the one time I forgot my main keys at a friend's place.

I work in the camera retail industry, and several friends of mine are wedding photographers. I'm not into wedding photography myself, but I've come along to give them a hand on occasion. It was surprising just how insanely useful a multitool was. Once you start carrying one, it's hard to leave home without it.

I have to buy a suit today for the reception tonight, so I'll see about getting a jacket that lets me wear my Wave without making it too obvious.

Chris
 
>"If I am carrying a knife then I plan on using it. scratching up the blade on a user doesn't bother me. A gent's knife is just a small, somewhat fancy to very fancy knife. I will use it for whatever it is capable of doing."

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Couldn't have said it better my own self. For me, it's a Buck 526 when it's dress-up time.
 
The last time I was at a wedding for my aunt, the groom (a part time pastor at the church) stopped their car in the upper parking lot of the church to use his multi-tool to cut off the big coffee cans we'd attached to his car with heavy twine:(. At least he kept the coke cans on until he got another block or two away:P.
 
Oh yeah? Well I just ordered a MCusta ......ALL DAMASCUS....folder with the protective SILK pouch and am thus joining the elite club.

Wonder if it'll pick zits like a Wm. Henry?

:D
 
I think a gents knife is more defined by who uses it and for what than the knife IMO.

If you are a gentleman and carry an Emerson SARK or a Busse Swamp Rat and use it to trim back your fingernails and cuticles along with opening mail that sounds like a gents knife to me.

But the term really means light duty folder to most.

All of my knives are gents knives because I'm a gent and I carry them and use them all individually at one time or another.
 
SlimWhitman said:
you know if you don't bring your Wave you're going to need it. I find that weddings are one time that a multitool comes in very handy because nobody else is carrying all the things they normally do (smaller purses), and because people are wearing clothes they might not normally. (stuck zippers, stray threads, etc.)
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Before I hurt my elbow and played in the local symphony, I'd usually leave the knives at home on concert days and instead carry my Leatherman Micra in my fiddle case.

It was wonderful for cutting those stray strings on dresses and the like and on more than one occassion I used it to do some last minute violin repairs and one of our oboists even used it to cut a new reed about an hour before show time.
 
I have a few nice and small knives..... William Henry, Case Pearl Canoe.... a custom something...... etc. I don't use them hard, mostly, because when I carry them hard use situation don't come up. Then again, I'm sure I would deny or refuse when asked if someone could borrow or use, or have me use my knife for a tough job.
 
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