How to make the perfect EDC knife...

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Take a Benchmade 556 Mini Griptilian, replace the jimping with spyderco type jimping, ship it razor sharp instead of super dull, fix the Axis lock rattle, mill out the liners, smooth the handle where the pocket clip meets it, and make it a SOG type deep carry clip. win?

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Get a Wilkens kit for it, send it to STR for one of his Ti low-rider clips & voila...

Actually, I'm pretty partial to my lg. reg. Sebenza with fluted CF scale, but my Spyderco PPT (With standard low-rider clip) isn't too shabby, either & actually less expensive than the Seb &/or the Wilkens Grip.
 
Only knife I ever received dull out of the box was a Spyderco Delica. That being said, Spyderco sharpened it up for me nice and sent it back. The BM556 is perfect just the way it is,imho. I picked up an UKPK FRN from Spyderco a week ago, and it hasn't left my pocket since then! I find that the Delica/Mini-Grip/Leek sized handles work best for EDC, and I find the mini grip to fit my hand perfectly, and have never had an issue deploying from the pocket any knife except a Byrd Meadowlark. Eh, to each his own.
 
I agree with the Wilkins Grips. I have 2 myself (Lg. Pale Green G10, and small Ti). I do however wish that they were a tiny bit thinner - particularly the large.

And I wouldn't imagine it being too difficult to get a Sog/William Henry type of deep carry clip on the Wilkins kit. You'd just need to drill/tap some holes in the backspacer and custom fab the clip of course. That'd be pretty cool if someone pulled it off.
 
I'd disagree with you on that.

All of the above, but give it a hole and a full-height flat grind, change the steel to ZDP or M4, give it wooden handle scales and a finger choil, pop blade length up a hair above 3 inches.
 
Good suggestions - just get rid of those bulbous Griptilian handles. :thumbup:
 
Depeding on my mood my perfect EDC knife is Benchmade 940, Spyderko UKPK, Spyderco Urban... That just depends on my mood. To get perfect EDC... Takes Spyderco Caly 3, make it light weight with S30V version, wait, they already made it: UK penknife :D So far that has been closest for perfect EDC. Even with perfect EDC I'd rotate knives.

However I got today Benchmade Doug Ritter Mini-Grip via trade. I find handles to be quite good. Construction is solid and it really could be another perfect EDC knife, even its fully black.
 
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cziv said:
You were just pushing Rifts (AGAIN) in the noisy stop pin thread dude. How many Rifts have you got or owned? Or, is one Rift all that it takes? :D
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Yeah I have tried to refrain myself from pushing it but every once in a while I just have to tell someone. :o

I have 6 of them but only use 2 of them and 1 gets the majority of carry. I have a black, a multicolored, a carbon fiber, and 3 of the M4 blade versions. I only use the multicolored and one of the M4 versions which is my main EDC. I don't need all of them but have picked them up over time when a good deal comes along. I hope to be using knives long enough that the extra M4 knives will get some use down the road.
 
wongKI said:
I'd disagree with you on that.

All of the above, but give it a hole and a full-height flat grind, change the steel to ZDP or M4, give it wooden handle scales and a finger choil, pop blade length up a hair above 3 inches.
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Full flat grind would be good too, but those blade steels would send the price out of my league. And 3" is my legal blade limit :/
 
I have a number of customs just sitting since I got an M4 Ritter Grip and added the Wilkins Grip. It is just perfect for me
 
Take a waved full flat grind Delica and put an Axis lock on it. G-10 slabs. Steel would be S30V because that's the best I own.
 
Actually, by now I think we'd better start listing features, rather than "modified best knives" that make a perfect EDC.

For me it's an easy-to-operate ambi lock, with an ergonomic handle of any material, preference being wood or micarta. Blade between 2.5 to 3.5 inches long, with a finger choil if above 3 inches. Thin grind is a must-max of 3 mm blade thickness.

A hole opener is nice but not necessary.
 
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