Out of curiousity, what is your favourite size?

XtianAus said:
Casino, can you please explain your thought on the lanyard and how they can be dangerous? I am curious. I thought they were there for the opposite reason
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In so far as an added leverage (such as a practical lanyard) can also give the user too much of a sense of security. There is a YT video comment from Guy who had posted someone else's opinion about lanyards and larger knives. I am no expert in this matter, so let me go try to find it again and I'll come back to post the link.
 
Here it is:

[video=youtube;OVr-Afxqy2s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVr-Afxqy2s[/video]
 
I don't do lanyards. They don't work for me, and for the reasons people seem to indicate they are useful, I'd rather lose the blade than have it swinging uncontrolled and attached to me. About like the guy in the video says. Of all the knives I have, only a couple have lanyards, and they're deep pocket carry folders. Where the lanyard can be placed over the edge of the pocket for easy retrieval.
 
Rocks: I had that set up with my Spyderco PM-2 for the same reasons you mentioned but I finally decided to remove it unrelated to my most recent incident. Usually I thumb flick the PM2 and it is as creamy smooth as can be. However if I flicked it with my index finger, sometime the lanyard obstructed that action and its motion. Now i am in the no lanyard group and if I end up losing something, I rather let it be the tool!
 
Thank you Silver. I lived to tell the tale :D

P.S. Thank you Rocks.
 
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Casino that sucks!!! I'm notorious for getting cocky with kitchen knife technique. Trying to slice veggies chip thin super fast and having my thumb drift out of the protected position or using the wrong type of knife out of rushed priorities. The tips of my fingers are pretty scarred but nothing tendon deep [emoji33]. I wish you a speedy recovery.

As to the question, I'd say 4-6" range is my sweet spot!
 
Thanks Redwood, here is what happened: I've always had a very bad habit of prying out avocado seeds with the tip of knives rather than using the edge. This time was not going to be my day! Before I knew it, the knife had slipped off the seed and had impaled the left indx deep since I was holding the half fruit with my left hand. The male nurse in the ER told me that they see quite a lot of self-stabbing from avacados but usually in the palm of the hand. I need my palm more than I needed my index... Oh wait, that didn't come across the right way!
 
Wow nice one Casino!!
I hope it heels up without any damage. I'd like to tell you it'll never happen again, but I'd be lying.
 
Casinostocks said:
Thanks Redwood, here is what happened: I've always had a very bad habit of prying out avocado seeds with the tip of knives rather than using the edge. This time was not going to be my day! Before I knew it, the knife had slipped off the seed and had impaled the left indx deep since I was holding the half fruit with my left hand. The male nurse in the ER told me that they see quite a lot of self-stabbing from avacados but usually in the palm of the hand. I need my palm more than I needed my index... Oh wait, that didn't come across the right way!
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Interesting I'd read this this morning. Just last night, I was doing the same thing with an avocado and SWATmandu, but with the edge, and had to take several runs at it because of the somewhat thick edge. I remembering wondering how much avocado razor sharp INFI needs to go through before it won't slice right into my hand.

Hope you heal quickly.
 
Casinostocks said:
Thanks Redwood, here is what happened: I've always had a very bad habit of prying out avocado seeds with the tip of knives rather than using the edge. This time was not going to be my day! Before I knew it, the knife had slipped off the seed and had impaled the left indx deep since I was holding the half fruit with my left hand. The male nurse in the ER told me that they see quite a lot of self-stabbing from avacados but usually in the palm of the hand. I need my palm more than I needed my index... Oh wait, that didn't come across the right way!
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yikes!!! i once stabbed my palm reaching into the dishwasher, but nothing this bad! heal up! get some of those kevlar gloves ;)
 
redwood22 said:
yikes!!! i once stabbed my palm reaching into the dishwasher, but nothing this bad! heal up! get some of those kevlar gloves ;)
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Welp, this one is going to derail this thread a bit but I'm posting my prognosis in the hope that it will be a lesson to others and maybe the Kevlar gloves which you had mentioned, sounds more of a factual suggestion than off the cuff!

The hand surgeon I had to visit at Kaiser told me that they were concerned about some permanent nerve damage and recommended surgery to graft some nerves in that index finger and if the damage was too severe to the tendon, to also perform some repairs, but he wasn't too concerned about the tendon! The way it was explained to me, severed nerves are like live wires being cut and they can wreak havoc causing Digital Neuroma which can become very painful and the pain is akin to getting electrical shocks!

I have very little sensation on the inner side of my left index but it has only been 10 days since the ER visit and IMO the index has made pretty good progress, although it is pretty weak and I can't make a proper wrist (the darn stitches are still in) Anyway, he wanted to schedule for surgery tomorrow :eek: but I balked and said that I had to think about it. Thing is with the surgery, my left hand will be in a splint for 4 weeks for grafting nerves and up to 3 months if tendon repair is required. Then I will have to be very careful that the newly grafted nerves don't get all torn up by me doing something too strenuous. It will also take a full 2 years to see if they surgery was successful.

I don't know as I am sitting now, I am resigned to letting it be and to live with this electric eel of an index finger I've created for myself.
 
Sorry to hear of your epic woops Casino. I hope you heal up well.

If not, chicks dig scars. Maybe learn some party tricks ??
 
The kitchen can be a dangerous place, as I, too, have learned.

Re the OP's question: I'd have to go with my 4.1 M-390, with my Elmax EDC 4 as a back-up.
 
LOL @ Justin.

Mate: I'm 52 years old knocking on the 53rd door. Although I have not given up on my manhood or frolicking with the ladies, the liberating thing about being a single man in midlife with grown up kids is that I am no longer a slave to my desires of debauchery. I'd leave all the party tricks to the yougins like you as I'd rather go and be by myself in the woods ;)
 
rockspyder said:
I don't do lanyards. They don't work for me, and for the reasons people seem to indicate they are useful, I'd rather lose the blade than have it swinging uncontrolled and attached to me. About like the guy in the video says. Of all the knives I have, only a couple have lanyards, and they're deep pocket carry folders. Where the lanyard can be placed over the edge of the pocket for easy retrieval.
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Funny thing about the video. Back in the 80s when I was a kid, this is the exact way we were taught to hold poles when were were becoming amazing little downhill skiers. Nothing new about the technique. Years later I started to get pretty good and I went to visit my cousin who was racing for a junior team. Get going 60 miles and hour and bail with a pole in each hand like that, get caught in a tree and damn near rip your arm off, or maybe break, sprain, or dislocate your thumb... learn the lesson once. No more straps. I only use lanyards on my folders to help get them out of my pocket. The first CRK fixed blade I got had a lanyard and I actually laughed. My wife asked why. I said, If I won't tie a carbon fiber pole to my arm, why the hell would I tie a knife to it?!
 
I'd say my 4.1 is most useful but if I was limited to only 1, probably the 5. As mentioned, may change my mind once I get a hold of my 4.7.
 
Casinostocks said:
LOL @ Justin.

Mate: I'm 52 years old knocking on the 53rd door. Although I have not given up on my manhood or frolicking with the ladies, the liberating thing about being a single man in midlife with grown up kids is that I am no longer a slave to my desires of debauchery. I'd leave all the party tricks to the yougins like you as I'd rather go and be by myself in the woods ;)
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HAHAHA I'm about to turn I don't know I think 36? Anyways who cares about that. If it's too late for a party trick.... It's never too late for a camp fire trick!!

Oh god, were derailing another thread. 4"-6" for EDC!! On special occasion smaller, even rarer, larger.
 
OK then, back to the topic (well sorta):

At the beginning, I was all over the Survive! map but was mostly enamored with the larger GSOs. However, after holding a couple physically in my hands I decided that they are actually bigger knives in person than they look on pictures or reviews. That is why I shifted focus and instead of weeping over not having ordered a GSO 12 as I missed the ordering deadline because of procrastination, I just ordered a choilless GSO 6 which will complement my GSO 4.7 which I hope to be receiving in the next few of weeks or so. The next two to add to my repertoire will be a GSO 4.5 BC knife and a Necker II. I will preorder the 4.5 and hope to snag a Necker II during a Monday Sale. So to recap: 6 / 4.7 / 4.5 sliver & Necker II. I have a GB axe and an ESEE Junglas for the other kinda stuff!
 
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