Let's see your cheaper travel knives.

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SW-EDC

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You know, the cheaper ones because you don't want to lose your good knife while flying somewhere, traveling etc. Because you have to have a knife, always!

Here are mine. All S&W. Don't take the auto while flying just driving.
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I'm 56 and I have never been on a plane. I roadtrip. I gifted about two dozen Buck's version of the 'SAK' many years ago. After 9/11's many restrictions etc.

I recommend the most budget friendly version of a 'SAK' you can find. Or anything with a bottle opener or corkscrew. 😉
 
Victorinox Small Tinker.
The tools are handy to have along. The blades will cut whatever I need to cut; and if sharpening is necessary, the blades can be sharpened on the unglazed bottom of a coffee cup.
 
Over 65, travelled a lot air, land and sea, but not anymore. If I were to travel again it would be a basic SAK like the Soldier, maybe Spartan or Trekker depending on the mode of travel and geographical itinerary. I might carry two in case I lost one.
 
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Almost always a Victorinox Tinker. I usually will have a pliers based multitool also in my suitcase just in case, but the Tinker will stay with me unless I am flying and then I check it in my bag. It has plenty of functionality, cuts good, and if it gets lost or whatever it is easily replaced for less than $30. I have been known to travel with a medium stockman, like a Buck 301 or a Case 18 pattern, backed up by a multitool because I like the idea of having multiple blades when I am away from home and my regular sharpening equipment. I guess it depends on where I am going and how I will get there.
 
A funny story, I drove out of town for a week on vacation for a week and decided to take my Kershaw Chill for whatever reason. I went in one of those cheap hardware stores and saw they had a sharpener that looked like a knife steel but had a big ceramic rod for cheap. I bought it and when we got back to the hotel I decided to try it out, and it was horrible. The ceramic rod being the cheap piece of garbage it was did not have a clean smooth surface, and basically trashed the edge on my knife. The more I worked with it the worse it got, so I ended up carryIng a dull knife the whole trip which bummed me out. Several lessons learned there, and one of the reasons why like backup blades on my travel knives.
 
The last time I was on a plane was when I returned from Vietnam in 1968, and I don't plan on ever getting on one again. Cruises? Nope! Nope, nope, nope. If I can't swim to shore, I ain't going.

We've traveled over most of the country, but pretty much all my travelling is in my own vehicle, with me driving. My travel knives are an Alox SAK, and a small modern folder, like a Native 5.
 
I normally have a SAK that stays in the car along with a Gerber MP 400 or 600.

A 551 Griptilian is normal for my traveling these days because that is what I have carried in the past, and I am a creature of habit.
If I am going to be around people I do not know, a small SAK also goes with me.
 
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