Its 1996....what's your EDC today?

Back in 96 I was only 22. I remember carrying a CRKT M16 spear tanto partially serrated during that time period. I'm now carrying an izula or spyderco endura 4.
 
In 1996 I turned 28, was still single (for 2 more years anyway), and although I didn't have many knives I really liked the ones I had. I still have all three.

I would have been carrying:
Spyderco Pro Venator I bought new in 1992 I think, and
a Buck 703 (the main spring had not broke yet :() or,
an Old Timer 125OT my grandfather left me when I was 12.
 
1996 is vintage? I'm still wearing socks and underwear from then...

Anyway, I carried a Camillus USN Demo camp knife.
 
If it's '96, I'm 15 and would be carrying some crap knife I overpaid for at Chinatown.
 
I wasn't carrying a knife back then, I was 4. But if I remember correctly I did get a small swiss army knife when I was five. However, i did have a marlin .22 lr back then. funny how I didn't get a knife till I was 5, but I had a rifle since I was 4. My dad told me that it was even too big despite being a junior model.
 
'96...Let's see. I'm 43 and carrying a Leatherman and either a Vic Tinker or a Klein lockback. I'm not exactly sure which.
 
Lets see.... I was 20, and I went to Gatlinburg, TN at least 4 times a year, so SMKW was getting some money from me.

My EDC knives back then were:

Spyderco Green SE Delica
Leatherman Super Tool

Other ones that got used quite a bit:

Gerber Gator Serrator (one of the most under-rated folders ever, I loved it)
Benchmade 501 Monarch (Sandvik stainless)
Benchmade ?? (can't remember, Sandvik stainless, thumb stud, zytel handle pocket clip, partial serration, blue box)
 
jimmyd1982 said:
I was still in high school so I think it went back and forth between a sak and a cheapo balisong from the daytona beach flea market
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I WAS in high school too, last year.
during the school time I always carry an SAK pioneer with me and either a Dozier hunter or a BK14, no one recognized that. I'm carrying a Vic forester, I have a lot of wood work today.
BTW, my SAK holds an edge even a bit longer than my BK14, can someone explain that? I sometimes a bit worry about it...is there anything wrong with my BK14?
 
I know exactly what I was carrying in '96...an orange handled Spyderco Rescue Clip-It, a Benchmade AFO and a Gerber Multipliers oh and a Vic Classic on my keychain. I still have all of them. Just to put this into perspective, I'm wearing a t-shirt right now that I got in 2000!
 
I had a med Smith & Wesson SWAT serrated :barf:, i still have it actually i broke the tip off and its missing 2 screws

I also had a Delica that my friend found on the ground and gave to me, i didn't care for it i ended up giving it back and haven't owned a Spyderco since.
 
I was 21 and the only knife i had (besides my cheap rambo knife that was at my parent somewhere in storage) was a Gerber gator 650. I didn't edc though.

Just traded off that same Gerber this week.
 
Around that time I was carrying a Scharade Clip Hanger. (not that great but it worked, just a couple more years before I got my first spyderco)
 
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