Multiple "Traditional Knives" as EDC

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silenthunterstudios

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I have subscribed to the three is two, two is one and one is none theory for some time, in relation to knives. If one knife breaks, you have a couple more to use. If the 2nd one breaks, you better watch out, because you have bad luck, and Murphy's law says that the third one will break too. Of course, it might just be user error :D.

Anyway, carrying three folders is a little bit excessive, and I don't do it, often, anymore ;). I had a one hand opener, a SAK type knife, and a large one hand opener. Lately, I have been carrying a slipjoint with an approx 3" main blade, and my Case backpocket. The BP is more played with than anything else. Nothing wrong with indulging our inner knife nut. I also have the everpresent Vic Classic on my keychain.

How many of you carry more than one slipjoint every day?
 
I carry three usually, a GEC executive whittler, a canoe jack franken knife and an old Swan that I use for cutting leather all day long. I have been known to have 5 in my pockets. ;-)

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Robin
 
Never. Most of the slip joints I carry have more than one blade, so if one breaks, I'm still covered. If the knife itself breaks (ie. the handle) then I was definitely doing something I shouldn't have been doing with it. I have carried one traditional and on modern folder a couple of times, but it just doesn't feel right.
 
Sometimes.

My edc is usually my little Vic classic on my keyring, with my peanut in my pocket. Always have at least those two on me, and that gives me three blades to pick from. If I am doing a particular activity, like boating, camping, or working at the club, I may slip a third dirty deeds knife in a pocket. But being my peanut has two blades, and my Buck cadet has three, I rarely need a third knife.

Carl.
 
I generally carry a better assortment of blades than our local True Value. I don't have a "minimalist" gene in my body.
 
On workdays, a large one-hand modern folder and my slipjoint of the day (usually Case Humpback Stockman or GEC #56). On the weekend, a large GEC (Sunfish or Stockman) and Vic Soldier (for the opener).

When it arrives, the 2011 Forum Knife will most likely end up as full-time daily slipjoint carry. :thumbup:
 
With what ever traditional I'm carrying 9 times out of 10 I have my Victorinox Deluxe Tinker with me as well.
 
I carry 3 slip joints: A Great Eastern two blade whittler, a Queen/Burke Barlow, a Cold Steel Trapper. I use them as listed in ascending order depending on the toughness of the material needing cutting. Why 3 knives? Only because I enjoy using them.
 
What I carry will largely depend on where I'm going and what I will be doing for the day .

I generally carry 2-3 knives-generally a large single blade folder (today it is my brand new Gunstock from A. G. Russell), a SAK Alox Soldier, and the Vic Rambler is always on my keychain. Sometimes I just tote my old Buck Stockman in lieu of the Soldier or the large folder.
 
I always carry one, sometimes two, and rarely three. If three, then one is a one-hander.

At BLADE I might just be the knife counterpart to the Damon Runyon character "Twelve-Gun Tweeny." :eek: :D
 
Rotate my BK 11 and 14 in my back pocket, kershaw leek clipped in my front and leatherman micra on my keychain. I always carry three other knives in my coat just in case...you should see what I carry in my car.
 
There are days when I only have one knife, but there are also many that I have two knives - a larger one for big stuff and my standard small knife for nearly everything. - Ed J
 
yablanowitz said:
I generally carry a better assortment of blades than our local True Value. I don't have a "minimalist" gene in my body.
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As it relates to the pocketknives I carry, I'm in the same boat. I know I don't 'need' to carry more than one, but really, what's need got to do with it? We all hang out here (like the knife-addicted junkies we are), because of what we WAANNNT, right? It's just too hard to pick only one, for me.

Today, it's a pair of Queens (#49 Cattle King and a Country Cousin). And that's a relatively light load, for me. I went out one day, a couple of weeks ago, and realized I only had ONE in my pocket. Almost felt naked... :eek:
 
I have 90% of the time a fallkniven TK4 as a backup knife to my main slipjoint, as a harder use knife or working knife, the EDC remains the main slipjoint which is one of the ones I rotate
also always have a multitool (swisstool) but never even think about it's blade, never actually used it I think but it's there so I have it even if I don't want or need it

so basically I'd say 1-2 knives up to 3 counting the MT's one but it happens that I only have either the MT alone or the MT and a slippie (trapper, canoe, stockman...)

I carry the TK4 or other hard(er) use knife in my waist bag so if I have the waist bag that one is with me, otherwise only the slipjoint and MT are with me

Maxx
 
I like to have one blade around 3" with some belly (clip or spear) and one blade with a straight edge, usually smaller than the first (sheepsfoot or wharncliffe). Sometimes I get that in one knife but not always. Sometimes even when I do, I like carrying a second smaller slip joint like a peanut.

So that's 1-2, plus a Vic Manager on my keys making it 2-3. If I every carry a 4th, then its usually a fixed blade.
 
I always have a stockman, either a Henckels or an 8OT in my left front pocket and (for this month at least) a 104OT in the right front. That gives me a reasonable selection of blades.
 
I kinda do, since I have my traditional slipjoint (stockman/congress/whittler/muskrat/SBJ) in one pocket, and my Victorinox Cybertool 29 SAK in another. The Cybertool, with its multi-bit driver, is about as modern a knife can get and still be considered "traditional", since the Swiss Army Knife is under the traditional umbrella.

Apart from that, no, I don't carry multiple traditional knives. If I still wore jeans, I might put a peanut or SBJ in the coin pocket, but I don't so I don't. The traditional knife I carry will have 2-4 blades, all different, including at least one straight and one curved blade, so carrying multiple traditional knives would be excessively redundant (carrying a SAK and a traditional is somewhat redundant already).
 
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