Thanks for the replies, everyone! I am glad to see that for some, I am not alone in this mental struggle. Not that it’s really a struggle, probably too harsh a word. It’s a friggin’ knife, after all.
I am fortunate to own eight CRK knives and carry five of them without issue and use freely, except for the Zaan, a CF Inkosi Insingo, and a Micarta 25 that are also all pristine and look like they could go right back in the box and be sold as LNIB.
It is kinda nice to have three different models that look like they just arrived from CRK an hour ago and are brand-spanking new.
I have CRK leather slips for each and have started carrying them now in those as a “transition” but see me slipping into normal carry with them but dang, it’s also kinda cool to have them looking so fine, too!
If I had only one CRK, it would definitely get carried. I am very lucky to have so many, each are a different variation of different models - both leftys and righties - and I like them all equally. I’m left handed but carry both types of knives freely.
I guess I’ll just continue to use one in my pocket at will, and admire another of the pristine ones as I drive down the road getting from home to the far-away town I’m headed to that day, which is every day. I sell business data services but live on a farm, so I get to live in worlds at polar extremes every day but need a knife 100% of the time, either as a probably-never-needed but good-to-have-just-in-case defensive weapon/package opening tool during the day, and a simple “cut something if it needs to be cut” item the rest of the day until dark or afterward, with lights.
We are lucky to be able to be on a forum discussing CRK knives, as we can either afford them easily, or saved up forever to get one. Depending on the size of my monthly commission checks, I’ve been in both camps.
But no matter how I got each of them, I feel fortunate to have them as they are fine pieces of American manufacturing that seem to be getting harder and harder to find nowadays as a whole, in general.
So my hat is off to CRK and I even really like my new 31, it’s a freakin’ BEAUTY! and not an ounce of lock rock that I could determine with a one-second push down on the blade with my thumb. So if you want one of those, go for it, damn the torpedoes and lock rock, full speed ahead!
