How many knives can you EDC at once?

Yeah, while my max was 8 I usually only carry two, my heavy-duty in my LHP and my light-duty in my RHP. I have a SOG multitool on my belt all the time, though, so I guess that might count as 3. I do enjoy seeing folks' posts and the wide range of knife selections that people carry. :)
 
All the time: 2, a Spyderco Techno and another larger folder (Sebenza, SMF, etc)

If I'm working, or out of the house I'll usually add a Leatherman Charge TTi to that.

I usually wear jeans so it's not like I have an abundance of pockets. Though lately I've been considering leaving a blade in my car glove box.
 
I usually carry two blades; sometimes three and sometimes only my sak depending on my pocket situation. My normal EDC carry is two folders; ZT 0770CF and Vic SAK Adventurer. Sometimes carry a Spydie Native 5 in place of the ZT and substitute a GEC #42 two blade in a leather slip and a small SAK. Since I got the Northwoods Madison two blade, I may begin to carry it from time to time in a slip. For fun, I sometimes carry a Dozier Personal wharncliffe fixed blade on my belt (horizontal carry). It is more of a add on knife when I take a walk in the woods when I don't want to carry a larger fixed blade.
 
most I ever carried was 3 at one time , I carried two for a good while but I have been carrying one for some time now :cool:
 
Around the house - 2 - a Buck 484 folder and a BK11 - for general cutting chores.

Outside - 4 - a Buck 484 in each front pocket and a dual fixed blades - some combination of Kabar 125x shorties, Kabar 1232s, BK3/4/9, all depending on the task at hand. I'm NEVER without paired fixed blades when working around equipment.

General "go to town" carry, not counting "in vehicle blades" - again 4 minimum, maybe 5, if I slip a BK11 in a hip pocket - paired folders and paired "legal" fixed blades - less than 5.5" blades - No F/S BKs go to town. Slap on my EMS gear belt and the cutting tool quantity goes up - 2 pair of trauma shears and paired seat belt cutters.

Why paired? You never know when you'll need a spare or need to use a left side knife because the right side is restricted and vice versa.

Why 4 extra cutters on the belt? Ever been on a mass casualty call with multiple vehicles/patients to extricate/expose and examine? One can never have enough in some situations.

Trauma shears and knives break.
Trauma shears and knives get dropped into inaccessible foot wells while wearing gloves.
Co-responders break or loose or forget theirs.

When minutes count, seconds are valuable.

Better to look like a walking knife store and have spares, than to be running around like a fool looking for a knife with the newsies running cameras.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Around the house - 2 - a Buck 484 folder and a BK11 - for general cutting chores.

Outside - 4 - a Buck 484 in each front pocket and a dual fixed blades - some combination of Kabar 125x shorties, Kabar 1232s, BK3/4/9, all depending on the task at hand. I'm NEVER without paired fixed blades when working around equipment.

General "go to town" carry, not counting "in vehicle blades" - again 4 minimum, maybe 5, if I slip a BK11 in a hip pocket - paired folders and paired "legal" fixed blades - less than 5.5" blades - No F/S BKs go to town. Slap on my EMS gear belt and the cutting tool quantity goes up - 2 pair of trauma shears and paired seat belt cutters.

Why paired? You never know when you'll need a spare or need to use a left side knife because the right side is restricted and vice versa.

Why 4 extra cutters on the belt? Ever been on a mass casualty call with multiple vehicles/patients to extricate/expose and examine? One can never have enough in some situations.

Trauma shears and knives break.
Trauma shears and knives get dropped into inaccessible foot wells while wearing gloves.
Co-responders break or loose or forget theirs.

When minutes count, seconds are valuable.

Better to look like a walking knife store and have spares, than to be running around like a fool looking for a knife with the newsies running cameras.
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Are you a responder by profession?
 
I work in LE and I routinely carry three or four. Sometimes 4 if I'm wearing a TAC vest. I've got an ESEE 3 on my vest. I carry a nice knife for me in my front vest pocket (Larger Benchmade or Umnumzaan). I carry a smaller knife in my left pants pocket and a Spyderco Delica in my left cargo pocket to loan out to unprepared Officers who don't carry a knife.... after I educate them about their lack of preparation.
The left pants pocket was a do everything knife that would do the dirty stuff that I wouldn't use my nice knife for. Usually a fully serrated Endura
 
I've been on a folder and small fixed blade kick. I like having a little fixed blade I can get really dirty and nasty and clean without breaking down. Lately my m390 Ritter grip and a bark river pocket bravo. But if you look in my bag you'll find a Benchmade small summit and a bark river trail mate, a Leatherman juice on my belt so I do EDC quite a few, although my bag doesn't make it absolutely everywhere i go
 
I don't carry more than two now. At one point on duty, I was carrying three or four, but I got rushed one night after dropping a guy off at a jail, and while putting all the toys back on my belt and into my pockets I somehow missed my benchmade 3550, never to seen again. :mad: So now, two knives, one in the deep pocket, one clipped to the vest no more!!
 
RBid said:
Are you a responder by profession?
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Volunteer Fire Fighter/EMT/Rescue&Recovery Diver for 24 years. In Texas, this means we do the training and do the job for free, no benefits. Some VFDs in Texas have slowly migrated to paying a token $3 to $6 per call for "gas reimbursement". Averaged 200 plus calls per while working 50+ hour work week, with a second PT job.

Carried Fire, EMS and Dive equipment 24/7, plus emergency access gear - still carry bolt cutters, a hacksaw, an axe and 8# sledge in every vehicle, even though I had to "retire" due to due a 12 inch gastric hernia.

ETA: In addition to my EDC knives, every vehicle has a BK3 for prying, a BK2 for use as a poor man's jaws-of-life and a BK9, well, because I like BK9s.
 
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So here's the three I had on me today.

L-R

Rick Marchand custom button necker,
CRKT John Williams Shizuka Noh Ken (back pocket), and a Benchmade Lerch Cali legal auto (front right pocket).
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zzyzzogeton said:
Volunteer Fire Fighter/EMT/Rescue&Recovery Diver for 24 years. In Texas, this means we do the training and do the job for free, no benefits. Some VFDs in Texas have slowly migrated to paying a token $3 to $6 per call for "gas reimbursement". Averaged 200 plus calls per while working 50+ hour work week, with a second PT job.

Carried Fire, EMS and Dive equipment 24/7, plus emergency access gear - still carry bolt cutters, a hacksaw, an axe and 8# sledge in every vehicle, even though I had to "retire" due to due a 12 inch gastric hernia.

ETA: In addition to my EDC knives, every vehicle has a BK3 for prying, a BK2 for use as a poor man's jaws-of-life and a BK9, well, because I like BK9s.
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Thank you for what you do, sir.
 
RBid said:
Thank you for what you do, sir.
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Thank you. Almost all of us do/did it for our communities.

When you live in the boonies, if you and your neighbors don't do it, no one else will. I'd still be doing it at 60+ if it weren't for the combined effects of bad shoulder from rolling down a hill during a brush fire, bad L5/S1 disk from twisting while dragging fully charged fire hoses and the hernia from being stupid and lifting too heavy a stretcher too soon after colon cancer surgery and chemo.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Why paired? You never know when you'll need a spare or need to use a left side knife because the right side is restricted and vice versa.
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Best advice ever.

I pair folders in front pockets and two fixed on the belt. 99% of the time its these:

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I'll swap out the 0121 for a bigger fixed blade depending on mood or situation.

In my EDC bag I have a SAK, a multi tool, and 7 back-ups :D
 
I only ever carry one knife on my person. At the moment it's a PM2. But I carry a sling type bag over one shoulder that's rarely more than a dozen steps away. That bag contains enough armament to get me 5-10 years in most states :-).

Mike
 
Blues Bender said:
Why would you need 8 knives?:confused:
I don't know how I'd explain myself if I were pulled over by cops, that looks pretty sketchy...

This is the biggest I'll go on a given day, with the addition to a Leatherman on my belt...
And even then, I feel sketchy carrying a Bali even though the law states nothing about them in Il.

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That Olamic Wayfarer is awesome!

I do carry 2 knives every now and then, but usually only 1.
 
Usually at least 3 - I multi tool, 1 lock back for general cutting and 1 to 3 whittlers sometimes, all depends on what I am carving that day, and I am always carving something.
 
I usually carry a fancier one or self defense one in my right pocket. Carry a beefier one in my left pocket for hard work. Usually a cold steel recon 1. Leatherman surge on my belt. Sometimes a large fixed blade on my belt(depends on what I'm doing). And always a neck knife of some sort. Right now a tops msk lots of times a Mora.
 
Normal carry is only one. The most I have ever carried is 3,IIRC. Recently, I carried two and kinda liked that. If you count what is stored on the bike and stashed in the back if the car, the number goes up.
 
At any given time, Ill have my keychain SAK, leatherman c2 juice multitool, primary Edc blade in my back pocket (usually a 3inch utility-oriented folder), and finally a folding kerambit tucked away IWB for SD purposes.

I try never to leave the house with less.
 
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