My magnificent Opinel no 6.

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NirreBosse

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I bought this opinel no 6 last year. I have had a no 8 for many years but concidered it a thad big to carry. Also this one got to be unused as EDC for a long time. I had it around the apples to ppel them once in a while but other than than no real use.

So a few weeks ago I headed for hollidays in Crete and needed to deside what EDC knife to bring. I have a few Cases in smaller sizes but was to afraid to loose them. This one I thought could travel in the outer unlocked compartment of our suitcase, no big harm if it got stolen or othervise lost. I did a little filing on it just at the edge in the end of the handle to make it unsharpened at the wery tip closest to the hand and made easygrip opening as I understood it to be wet a lot during the trip and a easygrip makes it pinchable with a stronger grip. i also gave it a bath in 50/50% balsdamtherpentine and raw linseedoil to stand more water.

I used my knife many times a day to peel fruit, cut meat at the restaurant, wittling a little in olivewood on the beach etc. I also kept it in my pocket while swimming in the meditiranian and being in the sand on the beach. I tell you that this knife performes very well as a knife for salt water and sand as well as food and fruit.. Easy to cleen and a extreamly simple mecanic that doesnt jam up easy by salt, sand or fruitfluids. Yes it has darkened but its not in any way harmed and yes it was a little stiff a few days from damp but not hard to open pinching the blade.
Mabye a stainless one would have been more suited but i cant see a big problem with saltwater and carbon steel as long as its an EDC that sees regular use and small maintainance a few times eatch day.

It has stayed in my pocket a few days since I came home and I enjoy using it but I reacon I soon has switched it to my CV cases again and put it to storage for my next trip to Crete.



Bosse
 
I have a #6 in the carbone blade also. It is now my only EDC. I have others, including some case cv blades, but they lay on my bench next to my sharpening equipment. My knife needs have changed since retiring, and my #6 covers all that I now need. Light, sharp, small, and I can hardly tell if it is in my pocket. Nothing to really go wrong with it, and it can be sharpened on about anything, and I can use it in a restaurant without causing a panic.

Blessings,

Omar
 
I'm loving my no. 6 Opi with stainless steel. So light you can barely feel it in your pocket!

-- Mark
 
I like my SS Olive Wood #6 and went ahead and polished the blade to make it a bit dressier. For pocket carry the Coghlan's Opinel #7 with the tapered handle is at least as compact in feel and gives a slightly longer blade.
 
I have a No. 6 that I mostly leave in the tool pouch I wear at work and use it quite a bit there, both because it's just a great cutter but also the friction folder aspect of it makes it easy to quickly use and put away in a a no knife environment. I find myself dropping it in my pocket outside of work a lot more recently too.
 
I have a number 6 and a number 9, I have had them for a few years, and they are my standard kitchen knives. I have always sharpened them on the ceramic spyder rods, and they were adequately sharp, but I was unhappy with the edge on the upsweep. It only occurred to me a couple of days ago to reprofile and sharpen them on the diamond stone - in a couple of passes, followed by progressively finer rods and a strop, they became the sharpest knives imaginable, I was shaving my face the other day, and as an experiment tried the number 9 on a few easy spots and it gave me a very smooth shave - I didn't do too much, not being used to straight razor shaving, you could easily cut yourself badly. But the edge was really impressive.
 
there is a no. 6 in my local knife shop in stainless and snakewood - looks very stylish. costs a lot more than an ordinary one naturally.
 
I have two #6's in carbon, one I modded, one as is. I do not think they look good at all, but they are incredibly functional and cut brilliantly. They hold an edge well and they are thin enough to slice better than all my other folders.
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thought I would go back to ordinary EDC slipjoints as the suntan wore off but I find myself just sticking to this knife. Now the single Knife I have used for more than one mounth. I tend to stick with my favorits but mostly I let something else slip into the pocket every once in a while. I think that this knife is exelent. Theese days I arrange my fishinggear and my sons because we go to the montains next weekend to stay for nearly a mounth. So its cuting a lot of line for bouth flyrods, haspelgear and floatfishing.

Bosse
 
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