Most used knives - real work horses.

One of my Kershaw RAM 1910s lives in the coin tray of my car. Since most of my cutting is done on packages or automotive work, that's the one that sees the most use. It's a great little flipper.
 
My do everything EDC for the past dozen years or so is an old Kershaw OutLaw. I also EDC a Paraframe, a Subcom and a Chive but the OutLaw is the one I seem to always use. Around the homestead my relatively new BK2 has become my work horse do everything blade. Once I have a leather sheath and wood handle on it The BK2 may very well become my primary EDC
 
The best one I ever owned was a large spyderco dyad. One razor sharp blade and one to beat the heck out of. Now that was a knife! Lately, I carry a walmart spyderco native. Probably the only thing in walmart that says made in the USA on it, and at $39 if I snarf it up I'm not out much. I have a salt one that I only carry on weekends, so it doesn't see as much abuse.
 
I carry my father's old SAK, which appears to be an older version of the Wenger Classic 13, maybe from the late 1970's if I had to guess.

It's beat up pretty badly got plenty of character, predates the tweezers and toothpick shown in the picture below from Wenger's website, and I love it very much.

I use it prepare lunch all the time. What a wonderful tool :D.

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My most hard used knives are one of my Salt I's. I'm slowly moving to a Pacific Salt but every time I grab a knife because I'm not sure what will be thrown at it......it's always a Salt I. Sometimes it's a black SE and other times it's a yellow PE.

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Well in a folder its my leatherman (wave) and in a fixed it has to be my custom made D2 recurve that was made to my specs, one day i will learn how to post pics...
 
My most used blades are folders and those are, in order of use, the Manix and the Ruckus.
I'm finding these two do everything a folder could be expected to do for a person. While I still have some of my once large collection left, the remainder have been rendered to mere window dressing for the most part.
 
The knives I use most are an older liner lock model Old Timer 470T "The Beast", Cold Steel Recon 1 and a CRKT "Sting"! I also have a little Kershaw 1640 Vapor which see's some use usually in the warmer weather when I dress down and need something smaller. The thumb disk missing on the Old Timer, this happened as a result of batoning but the knife is 10 years old so I figure I got my money's worth! Tried to post a picture but it didn't come through? Maybe next time?
 
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Santa Fe Stoneworks custom camillus lockback. Nickel bolsters on the top only, brass liners, wood scale on the back, aquamarine/wood decorative dealy on the front. The blade is stonewashed, which I think is nice and does work to disguise some of the use.

No clue what the blade steel is what with camillus being out of business and this knife not listed on the SFS site. I see "high carbon" and 1095 on the blades for most camillus' so I guess its a tossup between 420HC and that. Not that it matters, its hollow ground so it cuts pretty well even if its not hair popping sharp.

Small at 2" and I dont fancy lockbacks but see what happens when you bust out your 520 to open a bag of bagel chips.
 
I have a rotation of multiple and varied (size, price, style, etc) EDC blades to complement whether I have a suit and tie day or steel-toe boot day. However, the knives i carry most are a SAK Spartan and an Emerson Mini-Commander (usually simultaneously). The Spartan is light enough to disappear in your pocket yet has enough capabilities to tackle most chores that arise during a typical urban day (Ask MacGyver). The Emerson Mini-Commander is a great size to tackle cutting chores not suited to the SAK as well as serve as a defensive tool while still remaining politically correct (ie not freaking out sensitive bystanders). For occasions where i don't want a pocket clip showing (mostly with dress pants) I switch to carrying only a BM Mini-Griptilian. I always usually have access to a SAK or Leatherman in either my brief case or day bag.

Great discussion by the way...
 
My most used knife is small Dog Paws Sebenza & my green micarta Interframe Jack by Mike Alsdorf.
 
The blade on my Leatherman Charge multi tool sees alot of work. Today, 12 lb. test all day long, anchovies, squid, and even mussels. I need to get er cleaned up. Rust never sleeps. The blade steel is phenomenal at holding an edge, and I do not baby that one. OK, maybe I baby my slipjoints too much.....
 
Two most used knives are a couple of cheapo fixed blades -- whichever one happens to be handy that day. A Schrade Sharpfinger is usually on my person. Otherwise, a Cold Steel Safekeeper III . . . it is a really good utility knife.
 
Used the hell out of it for many years (landscaping duties, general cutting, small camp chores).


I recently lost a screw out of the pocket clip though, so it's been momentarily retired until I can locate another one. (Lowes doesn't carry anything like it):(
 
I work in an office so I need a small, light, sharp knife with no clip sticking out my pocket and the Spydie Ladybug fits the bill. For bigger jobs I've been going to a Spydie Delica 3 PE and for abusive work a medium CS Voyager (got to sharpen it every other day regardless).
 
SAK Cadet at the office for everything... mail, packages, food [after a quick wash in the sink].

BG-42 Military for the weekend and hanging around the house. The only thing I don't cut with it is metal, and i keep it off the ceramic dinner plates. :)
 
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