Let's See Those Regular SS Users!

black mamba

black mamba

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We have a thread for knives with patina, so I thought we could have one for stainless (rostfrei) knives as well. Please post yours that get used regularly.

Utility (watch or cargo pocket)
This Evo Grip 14 is the only knife that I carry virtually ever day. Perfect set of tools for me.
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Home Carry
Ram's horn forum Viper in wonderful M390. A joy to carry and use.
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Large Stockman
Boker #4474 has good size, great matched stag and 440C. What's not to like?
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Work Knife
GEC #47 Viper. Grippy jigged bone and death to cardboard and plastic packaging!
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Medium Stockman (favorite pattern, had to have two of 'em!)
Bulldog 3rd Generation. Green jigged bone and acorn shield . . . 'nuff said!
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There are many others that I carry occasionally, but these are the main ones. Please post up your workers.
 
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Case 54, probably one of my favorite "working knives" I picked it up for really cheap on sale.
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Buck 301 and 112 that I carry often. Not picture is a 110 that gets carried too. The 112 lived in Europe with me for a year while I was in the army. The 301 was often in my pocket but got given the boot that time for a SAK.

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The above mentioned SAW pioneer.

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Honorary mention goes to this Case Copperhead that I carry, but not quite as often as the others.
 
Hurrah for stainless the nemesis of rust :D (some pedantic type will tell me it will rust actually....but hardly:cool:)

Without a doubt the Buck knife which was Forum Knife 2018, just everything I like in a user and no corrosion/verdigris problems, very keen steel too.

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Something went weird with the editing earlier...couldn't add text :(

The Opinel No.6 is a smaller size- same as the GEC15 though (I have a stainless 15 but don't carry it for fear of losing it as stainless GEC are very difficult to replace)

Chambriard le compact in Stag, very nice filework on these and a good thick slab, Sandvik stainless. The French make very wonderful single blades and my usual carry is a Stockman plus a single blade, one stainless the other carbon.

Was going to say I don't have a picture of my most carried stainless knife ( ex car knife, a Buck 303 now does that duty) CASE 18 in Amber Bone. But I have this rather poor and oversize one, must do something about that.

More tomorrow.

Thanks, Will
 
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TheJon said:
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Case 54, probably one of my favorite "working knives" I picked it up for really cheap on sale.
Vv8FOHc.jpeg


Buck 301 and 112 that I carry often. Not picture is a 110 that gets carried too. The 112 lived in Europe with me for a year while I was in the army. The 301 was often in my pocket but got given the boot that time for a SAK.

nHIJKfK.jpeg


The above mentioned SAW pioneer.

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Honorary mention goes to this Case Copperhead that I carry, but not quite as often as the others.
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Groundhog? Have any luck?
 
Three of my favorite (and frequently) carried stainless steel bladed pocketknives. Buck 303 (circa 1980) Case 6318 (circa 1976), and Schrade USA 93OT (roughly 1980’s). All get quality pocket time, I had the Case in my pocket today. OH
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They may not patina, but they show use and wear in their own way and have a different kind of charm… small scratches (probably from cardboard), scuffed bolsters and shield, worn-in handle, etc… it is nice not needing to wipe down after cutting up fruit too🙂

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Only one, but it’s got a lot of miles on it.
A very good friend gave me a new old stock Camillus jumbo trapper as a wedding present the day I got married. I’ve toted it from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, all over the Rockies and across the Great Plains. Used it for everything from skinning squirrels to grizzly bears, butchering game from birds to moose, cutting baling twine feeding cows, sharpening pencils, once cut the inner fender out of a lady’s car after a wreck so she could move it off the road, another time I cut a young lady’s seatbelt as I tried to free her from the car she was trapped in. I carried it literally everywhere every day for close to a decade, was the only pocketknife I had and the only one I wanted.

One night I was catfishing by lantern light and it slipped out of my pocket. I noticed the next morning as I was making coffee and immediately drove back to where we’d been on the lakeshore the night before. As luck would have it I met two pickup loads of young boys who were on a youth club fishing trip of some sort as they drove out of where I’d been the night before. I waved the older guy driving the truck down and asked if they’d happened to have found a big yellow pocketknife. He said they sure had but it sounded like it belonged to me and kindly gave it back.

I decided right then that it had served well and would get semi retired. It means too much to me to risk losing it again. Just so happened that GEC was about to drop a run of their identical sized 23s and I managed to get a pair of them for my users.
 
I like the Laguiole knife and am lucky to have several including Custom . However, the one that gets a lot of use & carry is an inexpensive G.David in Sandvik and Juniper. Just really well put together although less elaborate.

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More elaborate is a Fontenille- Pataud in Ram's Horn- exterior bark. This is a lockback Laguiole and has a stop pin so you can let it snap shut if you must

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