Need your help

1. What size (blade length) knife do you normally carry?

3-4"

2. What do you use your knife for?

Utility stuff, home improvement projects, occasional threat deterrent

3. At what age did you begin carrying a knife?

14

Here you go Sal. Good luck!
 
1. 2.5" - 3.5"
2. Utility purposes and woodland purposes - Cutting boxes, ropes, string, wire, paper, whittling a whistle or hand drill from dead wood, repairing equipment ranging anwhere from a tent or backpack to a seadoo or a ford 150. There are a million more uses but those are my most common.
3. Age 8 (maybe even earlier)
 
1. 2.5-3.5
2. anything from opening mail to cutting roofing material "Ivan :mad: " which means plastic silicon tubes etc.
3.apporx. age 8 that knife was a old timer which was the best sling shot maker in upstate N.Y. :D 3crom
 
3- 4 in.

opening boxes, striping wire, cutting the foil on a pill bottle, opening mail, removing a splinter

9 - 10 y.o.
 
-4" (Starmate)
- Cut rope,tape, scrape paint, open packages, cut leather for hobby stuff, today dug/pried a nail out of one of my wife's tires. Have also gutted /cleaned a wild turkey with this knife.
- started carrying a knife hunting age 8 (old Kabar and a Buck110)
- started EDC age 13 (Buck 110)
 
-Different knives from 3in. with in a variance of .5in
-started at 12 with a Swiss Army Knife quickly moved up to one handed folders by 15 every day carry.
 
I generally carry a pocket knife with a blade of 3-3.5" in length. That seems to be big enough to handle most chores without getting too bulky, or frightening to observers.

I use my knife daily to open bags & boxes, cut twine, clean my nails, cut fruit & other foods, and most importantly it is my ever-present staple-remover. Other tasks I encounter from time to time are too numerous to try to catalogue, but I do enjoy whittling regularly. And removing splinters.

I started carrying a pocketknife when I was 10, and haven't been able to live without one in the near-30 years since. Practically every day one friend or another will ask to "borrow my knife for a minute."

Sorry to hear some jerk is looking for easy money.
 
1. Normally my folders range from 90 to 110 mm (95 per cent of my time while I am in urban areas), fixed blades - from 100 to 130 mm (the remaining 5% of my time, while I am in the wild).

2. In the city - mostly cutting boxes, ropes, loose threads, slicing foodstuffs of all kinds.. Probably I should also mention a couple of cases, when I had to use it for self-defense, but really a couple only in some 10 years..
Outdoor I use knives for all sorts of camping work and a little woodwork, too.

3. Since I was 12.

I just hope this helps.. :)
 
Hey Sal,

1. usually a 4inch blade folder with lock + other smaller knife (SAK or little folder with or without lock)

2. cutting papers, boxes, ropes, wood, self defense (back up weapon)

3. since my cca 7 or 8 years of age..
best regards JR
 
Hi,

1. EDC is normally a Military or one of my Natives
Also have a multi-tool in my briefcase, and another one in the car.

2. General purpose type activities - and slicing up fruit everyday for lunch.

3. From when I was around 8.

Regards
 
1. 3.5"
2. Everyday tasks; Opening packages, slicing/preparing fruits & vegetables
3. 8 -9 years of age
 
1. Usually within 1/2 inch of the longest blade legally allowed by local jurisdictions.
2. I typically carry a dedicated knife for ultility purposes (opening letters and boxes, cutting string and tape, cutting limes for gin and tonics, etc.) and a dedicated knife for personal defense.
3. I began carrying knives for utility around age 10 and for personal defense around age 12.

Stay safe,
 
Hmmm....I wonder if this is the reason?

I saw a clip on TV of a court case in the Boston area where a guy is being tried for murder. He stabbed someone with what appeared to me to be a Military. The knife was shown only very briefly, and the view was partially obstructed, but it looked like one from what I saw. The reporter made some comments about the size of the knife, that 4" is huge, and not like a Swiss Army knife (her words).

It sounded like one of those cases of was it self defense or not, and perhaps the prosecution is making a case of the type of knife he was carrying.
 
1. i carry a 3.5"-4" blade most of the time.
2. i use a knife at work (as a surveyor) for "erasing" on wood. i also use it for cutting flagging, and peeling/slicing fruit at lunch. i also carry a knife around town and at home, which i use to open boxes or packages, for cutting food, and trivial, everyday tasks.
3. i began carrying a knife at the age of 11. stopped carrying one for several years, and then began carrying again when i was 23.

abe m.
 
1. I carry a SAK everyday and my other EDC rotates between a Military, 710 or a Ralph/Wilson Combat Elite, length 3.5 to 4 inches.

2. I use my knife daily to cut open delivery bags, opening mail ect.

3. My Grandfather gave me a Barlow when I was 7 and have carried a knife almost daily since that time.
 
I carry several knives/tools as EDC buy my general preferred blade length is from at least 3" but usually 3.5" to 4".

I have been carrying knives since age 13.

I use my knives for typical things like cutting straps, cutting up boxes, opening packages, light gardening, cutting rope/twine, slicing fruit/vegetables, opening cans(multi-tool knives), scraping, etc. I also carry in case I become trapped in a burning car and the seatbelt gets stuck. Don't laugh; I know of at least one case where a woman was trapped in her car and could have easily escaped had she had a cutting tool to cut her stuck seatbelt; she ended up burning to death. Several construction workers also failed to get her out because oddly, not one of them had a knife either.
Jim
 
i think the reason u gave to cut yourself free is very smart. Sometimes, specially in flipped over (older) cars your bodyweight can make it almost impossible to unclip the seat belt, especially when u have wet (bloody) hands or if u are dazzled from the shock. My mean reason why i carry is as SD and to free people out of wrecks in similar circumstances. I have been called to an accident where 4 people were burning alive in a flipped over car, but the heat was to high to reach them. If one of them or a bystander had the guts and the knife to try to free them earlier before the heat was to high, some of them could still be alive.

Good thinking
 
1. 1-4 inches (4" is local legal length) I carry one for utility purposes and one for personal defense.

2. Cutting articles out of newspapers, cutting cord, slicing food.

3. 8yrs. old. I'm 34 now.
 
1. Carrying all the time, usually a folder, 4-5 inches.
2. Everything from slicing sandwiches to carving wood to emergency response.
3. Since I was 16 (I'm 40 now).
 
I always carry a balisong. Usually 3-4" blade.
I open boxes, blister packs, prep food that kinda stuff
started carrying when I was 8 (I'll be 26 in a couple of weeks).
 
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