I love my EDC. What do I do with it? It looks very cool.

[annr]

Probably figuring if he can't beat 'em, join 'em.... a family member selected and purchased a small slipjoint with a MOP handle for his personal use.

Today I get this email,
"I love my EDC. What do I do with it? It looks very cool. "

Made me laugh. So I guess he took it to work and he likes the way it looks. Anyone want to help me help him out? He's more of a city slicker. The gentleman in "gentleman's folder".

I think it is a pretty small knife, probably not even up to box cutting.

I'm thinking: packages, string, plastic bags, fruit...

 

[Absintheur]

mmmm...that small it probably won't be up to replacing the oversized butter knives they give you in steak houses. First real use my Spyderco Police Model got was slicing up a Porterhouse.

He can always clean fingernails with it...

 

[Thomason]

Just the other day I was whining in a thread that I did not have a pearl handle knife. As you can see I remedied that situation. A peanut, fluted bolsters, pearl scales, a gentleman's knife. Tell your friend he can use his pearl knife like I plan to use mine. I will carry it as a badge confirming my status as a gentleman.

 

[annr]

Just the other day I was whining in a thread that I did not have a pearl handle knife. As you can see I remedied that situation. A peanut, fluted bolsters, pearl scales, a gentleman's knife. Tell your friend he can use his pearl knife like I plan to use mine. I will carry it as a badge confirming my status as a gentleman.

Thomason,
You may have nailed it. I'll let him know that sometimes less is more. Beautiful knife BTW and not far off from what I saw of his little knife.


And this begs the question: how sharp does it have to be?

 

[Nukemkb]

Just the other day I was whining in a thread that I did not have a pearl handle knife. As you can see I remedied that situation. A peanut, fluted bolsters, pearl scales, a gentleman's knife. Tell your friend he can use his pearl knife like I plan to use mine. I will carry it as a badge confirming my status as a gentleman.

Well, I'll be darned! that's just about the cutest thing I've seen for a while!!

 

[Absintheur]

Trying to show off the color in mop is difficult but here you can see some of the greens and pinks in these two with black lip MOP.

 

[Rupestris]

I'm thinking: packages, string, plastic bags, fruit...

Yep. Those are the tasks my little slipjoints excell at. Used mine today to open a couple boxes, and slice some sloppy BBQ Chicken Pizza.

Chris

 

[puukkoman]

He can always clean fingernails with it...

Ya gotta get 'em dirty first....
Sorry, that wasn't meant to be in poor taste, only in jest.
Anything he usually uses his fingers for (opening mail, food packaging, etc.) is a good place to start, and can actually be accomplished more easily with the use of a small blade. That'll get him comfortable with the notion that it can actually be useful.

 

[sixgunner455]

Almost bought a little old MOP pen knife this afternoon. Got the old bone handled German Scout instead, but it was a close thing.

Pen knives cut paper in an office really well, open mail, packages, clean under a fingernail, cut up an apple, slice up a chicken breast, and so forth. Anything you can do with a blade. Just, with that thin little blade and small pivot pin, you have to be smart about how you apply it to a cutting task, to avoid damage.

 

[annr]

I'm getting favorable reports on the package opening. I told him that the knife could use a sharpening. He's afraid to wreck it. I showed him on a little crock stick set-up and I hope that he will work up the nerve to try. The knife wasn't very sharp to begin with.

 

[jackknife]

Probably figuring if he can't beat 'em, join 'em.... a family member selected and purchased a small slipjoint with a MOP handle for his personal use.

Today I get this email,
"I love my EDC. What do I do with it? It looks very cool. "

Made me laugh. So I guess he took it to work and he likes the way it looks. Anyone want to help me help him out? He's more of a city slicker. The gentleman in "gentleman's folder".

I think it is a pretty small knife, probably not even up to box cutting.

I'm thinking: packages, string, plastic bags, fruit...

It would be nice to know just what kind of knife your relation is carrying. If it's a peanut or baby butter bean or such, it may be more capable of cutting work than you give it credit for. We have a gent here that skinned a gator with a peanut, and I know of another gentleman who did a deer with a Vic classic. If you saw what my better half has done with a classic it would give you nightmares.

Remember, our very distant ancestors did a heck of alot with a single flake off some flint.

 

[Bob W]

I work on a drill rig and could really use a knife like that for cleaning my nails!

Actually, that mother-of-pearl peanut could easy perform every task I use a knife for, even at the rig - cutting plastic tubing, opening coffee packets, cutting old electrical tape, opening boxes...

 

[smitty0331]

Don't forget about opening evvelopes.

 

[neeman]

annr,

Tell your friend they will be suprised what a little sharp knife can do.
All they have to do is cut with it, not chop, poke, or stab.

 

[annr]

It would be nice to know just what kind of knife your relation is carrying. If it's a peanut or baby butter bean or such, it may be more capable of cutting work than you give it credit for. We have a gent here that skinned a gator with a peanut, and I know of another gentleman who did a deer with a Vic classic. If you saw what my better half has done with a classic it would give you nightmares.

Remember, our very distant ancestors did a heck of alot with a single flake off some flint.

He took this with his phone's camera and didn't get it too well, but you can get the idea. The knife is about 3 1/2" closed

 

[jackknife]

An Eye-brand congress should be a very capable edc that can handle just about any pocket knife duty. Far from a frail little pen knife. The photo puts a whole different light on the subject. The congress was a very popular pattern back in the 1800's down south where most of the population was involved in agraculteral lifestyles. Your comment about it not being up to box cutting led me to believe he had some really small light duty pen knife.

 

[sixgunner455]

Oh, that's a sweet little thing.

 

[mnblade]

An Eye-brand congress should be a very capable edc that can handle just about any pocket knife duty. Far from a frail little pen knife. The photo puts a whole different light on the subject. The congress was a very popular pattern back in the 1800's down south where most of the population was involved in agraculteral lifestyles. Your comment about it not being up to box cutting led me to believe he had some really small light duty pen knife.

I agree with jackknife, this is a very capable knife. Heck, I've taken down large boxes with my Case peanut!

 

[jackknife]

They always under estimate the little guy!

 

[annr]

An Eye-brand congress should be a very capable edc that can handle just about any pocket knife duty. Far from a frail little pen knife. The photo puts a whole different light on the subject. The congress was a very popular pattern back in the 1800's down south where most of the population was involved in agraculteral lifestyles. Your comment about it not being up to box cutting led me to believe he had some really small light duty pen knife.

I had not a clue. Now I want one. It's kind of interesting because its owner had even less of a clue when he bought it online, but the knife suits him. I noticed that the blade is forged. Where he works they make drop-forged keys that go into one of the most elegant yet useful products one can think of: handmade professional flutes made of precious metals.

Is the MOP real and the metal any certain kind of silver?

I noticed the the blade is stainless and fairly thick behind the edge compared to what I use. The bevel angles are larger than I typically use on my knives. Any advice I should give him on sharpening and angles? Better stated: give ME (since I think I'll be asked). I have never sharpened such a small blade and it seems like it would be a little hard to hold in the fashion that I am accustomed to.