My ideal carry knife...

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Hello all! Thanks for reading my first post.

I typed out my my whole backstory on knives, guns, and tools but erased it as i know, to most, its just too much. In summary, like many of you, i find the use of traditional tools to be more meaningful and enjoyable. Dont get me wrong i still have a chainsaw, ar 15, and multiple modern folders i put to use but my scandinavian forest axe, lever/break action guns, and slipjoints are much more near and dear.
My daily carry is a gec bullnose with red linen micarta scales. I love it. The simple legendary sodbuster pattern, pull weight, half stops, and tight construction make it close to perfect for me. Give it dark green linen micarta scales, a clip point blade, made of.... M4 tool steel. You have my ideal carry knife. Whats yours?
 
Thank you for your restraint and welcome aboard.
Tough question, but I'm rarely without this Case 18.
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A square end stockmen, 4” or just under, with clip main, wharncliff and pen secondaries. And the wharncliff and pen reversed ends from normal (kinda like buck has done) to make them both open right handed. I actually had it built (with the added lockback main blade, which I am glad I did!).

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I'm not really interested in the latest-and-greatest high end steels, but I would appreciate a bit of a "step up" from the traditional norms. I like ease-of-sharpening, even if it means more frequent.

I'd love either:
-Case Peanut, dark green bone, "As-Ground" AEB-L blades
-GEC #14, Ebony barehead with brass liners, single Spear blade in CPM-154

I have fixed blades in both of those steels, and I really enjoy their performance as well as how easy they are to strop/sharpen. AEB-L's ability to perform at low bevel angles would make a Peanut even more of a scalpel than it already is.
 
SVTFreak said:
A square end stockmen, 4” or just under, with clip main, wharncliff and pen secondaries. And the wharncliff and pen reversed ends from normal (kinda like buck has done) to make them both open right handed. I actually had it built (with the added lockback main blade, which I am glad I did!).

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Beautiful commission, SVTFREAK. Just about the perfect stockman, imo..love the square ends w/ gvooves and long pull main. The stag is stellar and the bomb sheild is just that...Great build.
 
My ideal carry knife would be a shortened GEC #48 single blade. If they would make that knife 3-1/4" to 3-1/2", it would be my perfect watch pocket carry. I love how slim the handles are and the thin pointy blase is so useful for so many tasks that I do. As it is, the #48 is just a tad long to be "perfect", but a shorter one would probably never leave my pocket. Wood or bone, carbon or stainless, doesn't matter to me.
 
SVTFreak said:
A square end stockmen, 4” or just under, with clip main, wharncliff and pen secondaries. And the wharncliff and pen reversed ends from normal (kinda like buck has done) to make them both open right handed. I actually had it built (with the added lockback main blade, which I am glad I did!).

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Wow that is stunning
 
002.JPG Welcome to the porch, new pard.. I like your choice of a GEC Bullnose and its a good one.
I myself love the pattern of long now discontinued Case Stockman #64047 and #6347P. They are my go to pattern anytime I find myself in the woods and generaly stomping around on the land..

 
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Wurrwulf said:
I'm not really interested in the latest-and-greatest high end steels, but I would appreciate a bit of a "step up" from the traditional norms. I like ease-of-sharpening, even if it means more frequent.

I'd love either:
-Case Peanut, dark green bone, "As-Ground" AEB-L blades
-GEC #14, Ebony barehead with brass liners, single Spear blade in CPM-154

I have fixed blades in both of those steels, and I really enjoy their performance as well as how easy they are to strop/sharpen. AEB-L's ability to perform at low bevel angles would make a Peanut even more of a scalpel than it already is.
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I follow you. I actually do not own a knife in M4 although a bravo edc is calling me. On paper though it checks all the boxes for me. Edge retention, toughness, and an honest patina over time.
 
I don't have one. I don't put my pocketknife to heavy use; I just find a sharp edge indispensable. I can make do with most anything, so I favor single blade slipjoints for their reduced bulk and weight. Give it natural covers too, I dislike synthetics on old-timey knives.

This is my primary carry.

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kamagong said:
I don't have one.
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Same here. There is a fairly broad range of knives that all fit my general needs so there is no single ideal for me. Generally speaking anything from 1 to 3 blades in about a 3" - 4" closed length works for me, and I vary it up within those general parameters.
 
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