I can't get my Dalton Companion to stop popping open in my pocket.

TMG> I used to carry a lot(average was 8, I've carried 12+ if you count keychains).... slimmed down to 4 over the last couple weeks.
I used to be able to use all of my carry.

I used my SS PE Dragonfly ONLY on thursday, even though I also had my SE endura... thats right, only *2* on me all day.

Current carry?
*Spyderco FB05 Temp on left hip, vertical edge back
*Leatherman Crunch w/ serrated blade on right hip
*(unknown) Slipjoint "Lambfoot" config, single blade with nice snap to it, dropped in right pocket
*Spyderco SS PE 'Fly, either neck(clip out, tip down, "Normark" rig sized to fit a small tek) or clipped to right pocket.

I can switch the 'fly to either my g-clip or small tek if I feel like carrying it someone else. Lastnight I carried it tip down on my right side, with a lanyard, just out of boredom.

I have done days without any extra toys(like last summer with Air Cadets[Staff at the training centre], I wasn't supposed to have anything, still took my 'fly and card, had the fly on me 24/7 IWB but was unable to use it other than in my room)... I've also done a LOT of cutting with my fly only. Didn't even sharpen it last summer, just convexed the edge in the weeks before.

I have a new SS SE Cricket coming to me in about a month(getting ordered on Aug 3rd), will be replacing the 'fly as EDC neck. *Might* rotate the fly and slipjoint as right pocket. The SE Cricket will be all I need to get my ideal EDC.
 
Geez, anyone who carries around all that stuff (some of which is clearly prohibited), then attracts attention by setting off incindiary devices would be very lucky to be considered merely a friggin' retard if they got picked up. Do you ever read the news?


Deal with it yourself now, or you'll almost certainly be forced to deal with it later on somebody else's terms, which won't be pleasant, and could follow you around for years.

Do you carry 50 condoms in your wallet too? :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by firkin
Do you carry 50 condoms in your wallet too? :rolleyes:
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I used to carry 3 in my wallet. One extra pleasure, one flavored, one "ribbed for her pleasure" but I don't think that comes close to 50 :D
 
TMG- Cuz,chill,pick 2 knives. Learn how they
work. Make them apart of your life, but only
one or two.After a year or two you may be
able to add more, do not be in a rush!
Take it easy.:cool: :eek:
PS: Never listen to j-man.:footinmou
 
Originally posted by firkin
Geez, anyone who carries around all that stuff (some of which is clearly prohibited), then attracts attention by setting off incindiary devices would be very lucky to be considered merely a friggin' retard if they got picked up.
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Well, fortunately that's not me. I don't carry around all that stuff when I'm planning something like that. It is still risky to carry it around even if I'm not doing something like that, but as I said, I am aware of the consequences and I am willing to be held responsible for them.`
 
I think the easiest *and* best answer to this "problem" is to simply stop carrying other objects in the same pocket if they are likely what is setting off the button on the Companion! There should not have really been a need for more than one reply in this thread! The Goat had already identified both the problem and therefore the solution in his own post.

I'm sorry, and I don't mean to offend, but you've already figured out what to do about the fact that other knives are pushing the button on your auto. The fact that you've allowed this to happen so many times that you already have holes in more than one pants pocket makes me figure that nothing we say is probably going to affect what you do.

You were considering altering your knife in ways you could not even predict would work to your liking, and you never said, "Gee, the best thing I could do is to simply carry this knife alone in a pocket"??

I'm with the ones who said you are simply carrying too many knives at one time. I myself have a neck knife (The Spike), a folder (Vapor) and a mini folder (mini-Paraframe) lately. Nearby in my knapsack I have a Leatherman Wave. For me, that is more than enough. Technically, I won't ever likely be called upon to cut so much stuff that I would need anything beyond the Vapor, but I like to save the Vapor's edge and use the mini-para instead, and the neck knife is for concealment so it doesn't get used. But you have two mini-tools jangling in a pocket with an auto, you tell us so, and then you want a solution from us? Are you, as the british say, "takin' the piss?"
(putting us on)

---Jeffrey
 
Originally posted by peacefuljeffrey
I think the easiest *and* best answer to this "problem" is to simply stop carrying other objects in the same pocket if they are likely what is setting off the button on the Companion! There should not have really been a need for more than one reply in this thread! The Goat had already identified both the problem and therefore the solution in his own post.

I'm sorry, and I don't mean to offend, but you've already figured out what to do about the fact that other knives are pushing the button on your auto. The fact that you've allowed this to happen so many times that you already have holes in more than one pants pocket makes me figure that nothing we say is probably going to affect what you do.

You were considering altering your knife in ways you could not even predict would work to your liking, and you never said, "Gee, the best thing I could do is to simply carry this knife alone in a pocket"??

I'm with the ones who said you are simply carrying too many knives at one time. I myself have a neck knife (The Spike), a folder (Vapor) and a mini folder (mini-Paraframe) lately. Nearby in my knapsack I have a Leatherman Wave. For me, that is more than enough. Technically, I won't ever likely be called upon to cut so much stuff that I would need anything beyond the Vapor, but I like to save the Vapor's edge and use the mini-para instead, and the neck knife is for concealment so it doesn't get used. But you have two mini-tools jangling in a pocket with an auto, you tell us so, and then you want a solution from us? Are you, as the british say, "takin' the piss?"
(putting us on)

---Jeffrey
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I know that would solve the problem, but it would create another: I'd have to carry fewer knives. :( I do use both of those multi-tools often, in fact, more frequently than many of the other things in my EDC.
 
Originally posted by cutty
TMG- Cuz,chill,pick 2 knives. Learn how they
work. Make them apart of your life, but only
one or two.After a year or two you may be
able to add more, do not be in a rush!
Take it easy.:cool: :eek:
PS: Never listen to j-man.:footinmou
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Who is this prick?
 
Originally posted by J-man_the_jet
Who is this prick?
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I read his post that you quoted, then went back to read your posts to see what he might have a problem with about you. I read the first post of yours before the one he made about you, and since I hadn't been reading the posts that led up to the discussion you were in, I assumed it was about knives. Then I read that you carried one "ribbed for her pleasure", and in the second it took me to realize you were talking about condoms, I was afraid that you had found a way to use knives in the bedroom.
 
Originally posted by TheMightyGoat
I know that would solve the problem, but it would create another: I'd have to carry fewer knives. :( I do use both of those multi-tools often, in fact, more frequently than many of the other things in my EDC.
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LOL. TMG. What are you trying to accomplish? You want to carry alot of knives and still look like a maniac? Get a knife vest system.

http://www.survivalsheath.com/sheaths/index.htm

Even still, having two bowie style weapons dangling from your belt is beyond tacky IMO. If you're thinking about using them for protection forget it; you've already lost the "surprise factor".

There is only one solution: DONT CARRY SO MANY DAMN KNIVES!

And if you do, have them organized and not just dangling in your pocket.
 
I just meant that I use all the knives I carry, (sorta :rolleyes: ) and I would have to carry fewer if I reserved a pocket for my Dalton.
 
You must spend alot of money on knives. You know, you could buy a well rounded high quality folder, even a custom with the amount you've spent. When I decided to purchase a Sebbie I was looking for a knife that could everything I need and do it for the rest of my life. Another question I asked myselfy was "When I'm 60, will I still want to carry this knife?" The answer was of course, yes for the Sebbie. I doubt when you get older you'll want to have all those knives on you. I suggest you buy one good knife, one that will do it all forever, and that you'll want forever. Carry that and hell, your two multitools as well.

P.s. Why two large fixed blades and one around your ankle?
 
Originally posted by TheMightyGoat
I just meant that I use all the knives I carry, (sorta :rolleyes: ) and I would have to carry fewer if I reserved a pocket for my Dalton.
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IMO you only need to carry ONE knife. One good knife will cut anything you need. I carry 2-3 at most. A Sebbie where ever I go, a Small AA Neck Kneedle and maybe a small secondary folder like my Benchmite. Carrying 20 knives is not only overkill, its ridiculas :rolleyes:
 
Ditto TBG. I think you guys who carry more than 2 carry too much. I'm a friggin meat cutter, I use knives all day. Other than the butcher knives, I only need one for EVERYTHING. My 806D2 takes care of it all. I never feel wanting for a different knife. I'm tellin' ya, one good folder and an SAK, that's all you need.
 
I carry two knives on a daily basis. I carry a CS Vaquero Grande for protection purposes and a CS Scimitar for cutting things infront of sheeple.

Im saving up for an Emerson, Spyderco, Al Mar and Benchmade...so I have quite alot of work ahead of me.
 
I could take my carry down to 2 and a multi... pressed, I could go to 1 and a multi, but that 1 would be an overkill using a 4" fixed to cut threads and clean nails.

carry 3 as I reserve the slipjoint for stampede avoidance and afterwork light duty(and not going home right after work some days, I carry it on me).
 
Originally posted by J-man_the_jet
I used to carry 3 in my wallet. One extra pleasure, one flavored, one "ribbed for her pleasure" but I don't think that comes close to 50 :D
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Why don't you just carry an energy bar? They are easier to digest.
 
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