How many knives do you carry daily?

Spyderco ukpk g10 alternates with a BM 710 (strange, I know). If it's the ukpk I carry a kershaw 1993-2 lockback in a belt sheath. And a case med. stockman CV by my wallet. Then there's the SAK classic on keys and swisscard in wallet. But that's just today..
 
2 for me!

I have a vintage Leatherman Supertool that seldom leaves my hip.
My regular front pocket edc is a 3 inch Schrade Old Timer.

Sometimes I switch up the pocket knife for my John Primble Stockman (also 3 blades), or Buck 373 ( oddly also a 3 blade stockman...hmmm I see a pattern here!)
 
4 most of the time . 1-HEST 2-enlan el-o2 3- grampas slip joint 4- SOG pentagon fixed on my mess bag strap.
 
Leatherman Charge Ti with a 154-CM clip blade clipped inside my pocket for about 6 years now. If I want a toothpick or a wine-bottle opener, I also stick one of my several Victorinox pocket knives in a pocket. In the field (wildlife, fisheries biologist), I've been carrying a Busse Hell Razor sheath knife since it was made in 2005 or 2006. The Leatherman is a really well-made durable tool, the Victorinox are proven, easy to sharpen and well-thought-out, and the Busse HR is expensive, but very well designed: good point, multiple choke-up options, digs if needed, can be used as a draw-knife for quickly making tinder, skins, cleans fish, doesn't rust, keeps an edge. -- Lots and lots of good knives out there, but these fit me.
 
1-3. One small knife in my watch pocket or one tiny (Ladybug) in the watch pocket and one small-medium in the front pocket or in my bag. Swiss Army knife always in the bag.
 
I carry five at all times... My 15inch bowie in a dundee sheath, two 8 1/2 inch throwing knives, a butterfly knife and a 4.25inch throwing star all on my belt loop usually, sometimes my throwing axe in place of the bowie.....
 
I usually only need one and carry one.
But lately, i've been carrying two because I wanted to give my new BM emissary some pocket time... But at the same time I feel naked without my main blade (para 2)... So they've both been coming along with me.

My usual EDC's are:
Led Lenser P3 torch
Leatherman Skeletool cx
Spyderco Paramilitary 2
 
A Few...
My EDC Has Changed A Little.

Clipped RFP - Spyderco Chokwe
Clipped LFP - ZT 0301
Change Pocket - Custom SAK
RFP - Deep In My Pocket - Leatherman Squirt P4
And My Streamlight Microstream Goes Almost Everywhere
Wallet In RBP.

I'm Also About To Play Around With This Set Up:
ZT 0301
Kershaw Leek - Or Skyline
Kershaw JYD 1720
Custom SAK/Leatherman Squirt
Flashlight
And Wallet

Really Want To Get A Bigger Multi-Tool.
 
4 to 5
leastherman fuse
CS Spartan
CRKT M16/21 -14sfg (occasionally in left back pocket)
Benchmade Grip / ZT0200 (rotate but BM more often)
CS Urban Pal
 
Usually two, unless I'm carrying some fixed blade, be it on my belt or around my neck. A medium-to-large folder, normally my Manix2, and usually something traditional like a Case Barlow or Old Timer trapper.
 
The vast majority of the time, Two. I'll have one fixed-blade or medium/large folder as a main blade.
Then in addition I'll carry a SAK, mostly for the tools. Recently this role has been filled by a deluxe tinker, because of the pliers...previously it was either a fieldmaster or a climber.


If I'm in a hurry, rushing out the door, etc or am otherwise in a can-only-grab-one-knife scenario, it will be a SAK. Probably my one-hand Trekker.

I don't like carrying more crap than necessary and my usual getup of one main knife plus one SAK provides more than enough knife redundancy for my purposes.
 
Just these three today.

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Typically 2-3...

Leatherman Juice always

And usually 2 others...
Typically a Kershaw folder,
and either a small fixed or another folder...
 
Usually just 1. Most of the time a SAK 80%. I sometimes carry a PM2 with it. Maybe a slip joint if I want to be traditional.
 
I carry 2. A traditional folder, either Case Med stockman or Case sodbuster JR. And either a para2 or zt0550. I have others but some combination of those 4 with 1 traditional and 1 modern folder every day.
 
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