Most useful pattern

i would have picked a red swiss army knife, actually, for a 'non knife person'. everyone knows what one is and the blade is only one of the useful items.

otherwise i would probly pick some sort of two blade trapper type knife. that way they have one blade for your usual cutting and the other can be 'reserved' for when you need an especially sharp blade.
 
A non knife person probably will tend to leave the knife at home cause they wouldn't think it can be useful.
Any single blade small knife would be even overkill (until the get "infected" :D). But, something small, nice, and simple, would probably have better chances to slip inside his pocket.
So, look for something small, simple, single bladed in the 3"ish range (a barlow? a solo alox SAK?). Eventually, you could go for a two bladed knife, and get him a peanut, or 309, or something like that.
Wishes for the preaching though :rolleyes:

Fausto
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On the assumption that this question is tied to a real non-knife person and not just an abstract one....

I find that knife gifting is frought with peril. In most cases, the person doesn't use the knife I spent hours thinking about and choosing. What a person takes to is just so personal.

My wife and went out together to pick her engagement ring when we got engaged. Took away the surprise but she go the ring she liked. I take a similar approach when staring somebody on knives.

I put several in front of them and ask what their impressions are. I'll even loan them out on trial runs. I try to avoid pushin my taste on them.

As for useful, useful for what? Even among EDC use, people disagree on this.

Edited to add: if I'm buying for somebody who is not used to carrying a knife and I can't show them options first, Ill start them with a (non-traditional) Leatherman Micra and tell them to keep it off their key ring and in their pocket with their change. It's by far the most useful "knife" I own.
 
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I'll agree with that Pinnah. I have one on my keys all of the time. I used it tonight at my sons birthday party to cut open boxes, snip twist ties, and open battery compartments on his toys. You just can't beat the combo of a nice slip joint, and a Micra on the keys.
 
The peanut doesn't take up much space in the pocket and does just about anything asked of it, so that would have to been my answer.
 
For me it is either a medium stockman or Case's Sway Back Jack. I will say that my go-to traditional folder is an Uncle Henry medium stockman. Seems to be the perfect size with a blade combo that really sees some use.
 
Campbell said a sharp knife, but he is right. A non knife person probably can't even sharpen. So a knife with a good thin geometry from the factory.

A knife with decent steel so they don't think all knives are junk or hard to sharpen.

Light and unabtrusive so its not such a burden to carry.

I would probably go with a USA Schrade Stockman.
 
>Most useful... Camp knife pattern like old Victorinox Alox Soldier... Electricians knife or 2011 Foru m knife. All have great urility: sharp blades, screw driver/ paint can lifter and or bottle openers.
 
I'd say it's a tie between a stockman with a pen blade (like a Case 6332/63032 or 6318HE), or a wharncliffe trapper/Hawbaker muskrat, depending on how much you like a straight blade.

A non-redundant 4 blade congress can be very useful, but there's so few examples, and none (for me, anyway) are perfect. A Case 64052's blades are a bit too thin (even thinner if you get a newer 4 spring model), and the Schatt & Morgan Pennsylvania congress is too big for me.

Even though I haven't carried it much since I got it (it's the humid season here), the Schrade 44OT is an extremely capable, yet extremely pocketable knife (If you can find one).

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