Need your help

Carry: 3.5" to 4.0" liner lock or lockback. ( Secondary carry or vehicle knive
Swiss Army ( multiblade )
Vehicle: 16.5" to 20" OAL khukuri.

Use: Carry - everyday use from letter opening, cleaning nails to ? Anything
that needs cutting, whittling, shimming or shaving.

Vehicle: general purpose tool for utility or emergency cutting or
chopping. Harvesting sagebrush for spiritual purposes.

Age: since Cub Scouts. Scout knife replaced about age 18 with Buck 110 and similar ones subsequently. Swiss Army ( multiblade ) knife as secondary carry on person or in vehicle glovebox.

No knife forseen for use in self defense as I hold firearm CCW.
 
Size: 2-3.5" blade on either folder or fixed.

Use: Utility. Usually envelopes and boxes; rope. That thick plasitc packages that stuff comes in.

Age: Since age 12
 
I've been carrying knives everyday since I was 13. I used to think I needed a 4" inch blade, but the older I get I find 3" and 3.5" inch blades are more to my liking and just as useful. Also, within the last year I have switched over to carrying only Spyderco knives (save for one Strider SNG.) I have owned and handled many other productions but with the help of this forum I have converted over to the almighty hole. Good luck Sal!
 
Need your help:

I’m involved in a court case. I’m sorry, I cannot give detailed information. I would like to know:

1. What size (blade length) knife do you normally carry?
I normally carry a knife between 2.75" blade (Benchmade Mini-Griptilian) and 3.75" blade (Spyderco Military).

2. What do you use your knife for?
I carry my knife for general cutting tasks, from opening mail and packages to slicing food. It is also available for lifesaving purposes ranging from rescue to self defense, but neither of those latter two uses have been necessitated for me.

3. At what age did you begin carrying a knife?
I have been carrying a knife of one type or another since I was in about fourth grade, so, about 8 or 9 years old. I used to carry some of the early, small Swiss Army-type knives, and in college I carried a small Buck "Gent" gentleman's locking folder (blade length about 1.25"). After college I began collecting and carrying Spyderco knives, mostly Delicas at first, and now others. It's fair to say that I have been carrying knives daily since I was old enough to not cut myself accidentally.

Thanx much for your help.
Sal

Sal, you seem like a very good man, and I know that your company is EXCELLENT, producing very high quality American-made products. I have strong faith in your personal and professional integrity. I wish you success in your court case, whatever it's about.

-Jeffrey
 
Sal

less than 4 inches (usually a Dodo)

daily chores -opening mail, coring apples, opening blister packs and in the kitchen. At work cutting rope and rescue tasks as I'm in roped access.

Since a small boy in Cub Scouts about (8 years) with a SAK


Good Luck

Bob
 
Blade length? Either Endura, oor a 4" Russian custom fixed blade.

What used for? Opening packages, slicing food into smaller bits, making sandwiches, all sorts of other small stuff.

Since what age I carry?
Aprox. since 17.
 
I carry a 2.75 and a 3.75 most days I started carrying about 26 years ago and I use them to a "cut things" ;) Actually I use them for opening mail,packages,feed,fertilizer,seed bags, hoses,rope,cloth and as a general safety tool in case of stuck seat belts etc.... Oh and I use them to cut my food and while hunting and camping...and as a last resort self defense
 
1.) 3" - 4" depending on where I'm going and what I'll be doing.

2.) I use it for general utility, food prep, whittling a little and Zen like relaxation.

3.) I was approximately 8 years old.
 
I normally EDC a 2.5 inch blade at home and 3.5 or 4 out and about. Sometimes an auto for personal protection. I live in Florida where it’s legal again. . .at least for now.

I’m retired U.S. Army. I enlisted at age 16. Served in Infantry, Armor, and Aviation. Was rarely without some sort of knife on me that I can recall. Opened field rations, unjammed weapons, cut rope. . . hell you name it, just about everything that my nails and teeth couldn’t handle. These days its more mundane tasks but never-the-less indispensable. I was presented my first slipjoint (scout I believe) from my Dad for Christmas at about 6 years old. Mumbly Peg was the game of choice in my neighborhood in the 40’s
 
1. I carry a Spyderco Endura which I guess is around 4".

2. I am a Customs Inspector who works in cargo. I examine air and ocean freight. I use my knife everyday to cut open cartons and cut strapping, tape and twine.

3. I have carried a knife since I was 14 years old when my dad gave me a Swiss Army Knife.
 
1. 3" class AND 3 1/2 " class blade length. Delica and Sebenza/ Buck 110
2. 70% KP 30% light to med utility.
3. 9 yrs old. 6 " hunting knife. First folder 12 yrs old.
 
1. 3 1/2 inch blade.
2. I use it to open packages, food prep and yard work.
3. I think it was I was about 8 or 9. When I was a Cub Scout.
 
1. 3 1/2 inch blade
2. Cut the caps off cigars, open packages, cut shrink wrap, open mail, cut
string, trim loose threads, cut articles from newspapers, etc.
3. About 28 (that's 25 years ago)
 
Blade length about 2.8-3.6 inches.

Used for cutting up lunch, opening boxes, letters, cutting fishing line, whittling to relax.

Started buying knives at age 12 (about 50 years ago).

Regards,
FK
 
1. 3.5" Sebenza or 2.75" Gunting, (khukuri with 11" blade carried in truck for chopping brush.)

2. opening and breaking down boxes, cutting fruit, garden work, opening letters, cutting string or duct tape, opening plastic packaging, cutting paper, hundreds of little unusual tasks that come up, like scraping gum off the floor.

3. 6 years of age
 
I usually carry a Victorinox Classic on my keychain, a smallish (about 2-2.5" blade) folder and another folder in the area of 3.25-3.6". I use them to cut coupons, envelopes, string, tape, fruit, plastic bags, rubber chicken breast, and countless other things. I've generally carried a knife since I was about 12 (I grew up in a time when carrying a SAK wouldn't get you thrown out of school).
 
Sal,
I don't know when I started carrying everyday. I know I couldn't take it to school but as soon as I got home it would go in my pocket and I would head outside. I know I haven't been without one for 15 or 16 years now.

I like larger blades and usually carry 3.5" or larger blades. Right now I have a REKAT Sifu clipped in my right pocket and a Spyderco Chinook I clipped in my left pocket and a Kershaw Leek down in my right pocket.

I use my knife everyday to open mail, cut tape/string, cut food, open the plastic packages that everything comes in, and the hundreds of other things that need to be cut everyday. It (the knife I happen to be carrying) can also be used for self defense if it comes to that. The knife is one of mans oldest tools and its great versitility and ability to multitask is its great strength.

Good luck with your lawsuit, if I can be of service please let me know. I would imagine this goes for most of the forumites here.

Tom
 
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