Need your help

-I carry 2 knives EDC. Lengths range from 3-4".

-Uses vary from work tool, to food prep, to basic utility stuff (box and letter opening, newspapaper clipping etc).

I've had a knife since about the age of 5 (cub scouts). I've carried daily for at least 20 years.

Good luck, Sal.

Jack
 
1) 2,5 folder + 3,5 fixed + 4,0 folder + 5,5 folder (nearly) EDC

2) i use one or another for everything at work ,
from cuting paper to prepare brotzeit.

3) 18, (as soon it was legal here).
 
Jeff Clark, engineer, age 55. Started daily carrying a scout knife with 2.5" blade at age 11 (when I got my paper route). I first carried a pocket knife at age 6. Now I carry updated version (Victorinox Adventurer SAK) with locking 3.25" blade. I carry everywhere but on airplanes and into courthouses. I use it to fix things, make things, open things, cut things apart for disposal and other utility purposes. It serves as a backup form of defense, generally in case of dog attack.
 
1. What size (blade length) knife do you normally carry?

4" or greater

2. What do you use your knife for?

As a cutting tool to open boxes, scraping, prying, stripping wires, etc..

3. At what age did you begin carrying a knife?
Approx. 7 years old
 
1. Typical EDC is 3.44 or 3.5 inches for primary knife, plus a Leatherman Charge with two blades 2.94 inches

2. All around general utility and survival. Today I used it to cut open boxes, cut wire, strip wire, cut rope, slice a peach, carve a notch in a stud, cut out a punch-out in the back of a cabinet and the day is far from over.

3. I recieved my first knife, a two bladed stockman which I still have, at age 8. I have always carried a knife, including to school from that day forward all the way through college, since then. Only time I am without a knife is when the government won't allow one, in the courthouse and on airlines, for example.

Good luck Sal!

Doug Ritter
www.equipped.org
 
3.5 and under.

utility - envelopes, foil, box, rope, food prep, back-up safety tool, SD (psychological).

17.
 
1. 4.5" folder
2. Everything I don't want to use my teeth for... Opening boxes and chip bags to mail, trimming string...lots of nail cleaning. Scraping my old vehicle tags off. You name it. To bad James Mattis isn't here. He expounded pretty well on the utilitarian nature of a knife for use poor naked apes...
3. Age 8 on my birthday right before I got my whittlin' chip!
 
1. What size (blade length) knife do you normally carry?3.6" blade (SERE 2000)

2. What do you use your knife for?
Cutting everything one needs to cut with.
(I.E. - Opening boxes/mail, cutting rope, loose threads, etc...)

3. At what age did you begin carrying a knife?
Age 7- 10?? CubScouts got me started!! :)

--Raptor--
 
1 1/2" - 3 1/4"

Open packages and boxes. Slicing limes for Corona.

I Started carrying a Buck 313 Muskrat at age 14.
 
Sal, sorry to hear that you are involved in a court case, and I hope everything works out for you.

I usually carry at least one standard sized SAK plus at least one one handed opener, which range in size from, say a Chinook II or Benchmade Blackwood if I am hiking, down to the Kiwi if I really don't want to seem threatening. ok, I ocnfess, I ALWAYS have the Kiwi. For an "average" size, I like the Persian. (Do we detct some prejudice here--ok, plead guilty). So anywhere between 2-4.5" would be the answer.

I have been carying knives since about second grade. When I was a kid in school, nobody cared-- everybody had a pocketknife (as we called them).

My knives are used for anything from opening packages, cutting 1/8" thick aluminum sheeting, making shelter, and damn near everything I can think of.
Cutting insulation off cables. Cutting tubing. Cutting cable ties. Preparing my lunch: slicing vegetables, fruit, etc. In my case, you might as well ask what I use my thumb for (and no smart remarks, guys).

Here is one example that may help. A group of people were opening a package (wood, cardboard, etc) with the only tools they had at hand which were single edged razor blades. One of them was (not too seriously) cut when the blade slipped out of his hand. I finished the job with whichever knife that I had on me at the time-- and needless to say, I have nver been injured using knives for this type of thing. And, I might add that any knife I carry is gonna be about as sharp as that single-edged razor blade.

Again--good luck and let us know if we can do anything to help.
 
I hope this resolves itself quickly.

1. 2-3" blade folder (often Spydercos)

2. Everyday utility: cutting thread, opening boxes/letters.

3. 20
 
2.5 and 3.5 inches.

Packages, mail, blister packs, string, tape, scoring drywall, plaster, mortising wood, occasional plant trimming.

Around 9 or 10 years old, my brother old scout knife, (But not to school)
 
G'day Sal,

1. Carry a few knives, smallest blade length being a SS Cricket ( 1 7/8" ), largest being an Endura or BM710 ( approx 4" )

2. Used for work predominately, but always carry a folder or two for that "just in case" requirement. Better to be safe than sorry.

3. Was given my first knife by my father when I was 6 years of age. Have always owned and carried knives since then.

Good Luck
 
1. What size (blade length) knife do you normally carry?
3 5/8" (Spyderco Rescue 93m), along with either a 3.5" Microtech Scarab (automatics are legal in AZ) or a 4.2" balisong.

2. What do you use your knife for?
Utility. Opening boxes, cutting boxes up, plastic bags, mail, CD wrapping, cleaning wounds when I beef it on my bike, and a million other things I can't think of until I need one and realize "Boy, I'm glad I have a knife with me".

3. At what age did you begin carrying a knife?
14
 
1. For EDC an Endura, a Victorinox Huntsman, and a CQC-7B, so that would be under 4". For outdoors activities a much larger fixed blade.


2. For day-to-day purposes opening packages and cutting things.


3. 8
 
1) I carry a 4" fixed blade and a 2" fixed blade.

2) I use them for all kinds of things, far too numerous to list. I don't wonder how some people get along without carrying a knife, though; I know how they do it -- they keep asking to borrow someone else's.

3) I've been carrying some kind of pocketknife at all times ever since I was five years old.
 
Hi, Sal - looks like you'll get all you need from the forum. Good luck - be safe -

Greg Walker (call sign Kasik) sends from Baghdad
 
1. What size (blade length) knife do you normally carry?
3.5" normally. 2.5" fixed and a 3, 3.5, or 4" folder.
2. What do you use your knife for?
Cutting open boxes, packing tape, cutting food, prying open little things like lighter fluid spigots, cleaning my nails, opening mail, pressing recessed reset buttons, and many other mundane tasks.
3. At what age did you begin carrying a knife?
12
 
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