Pocket knife weight maximum

I prefer light for daily carry.
I go for titanium and carbon fiber for this reason.

My main are sebenza and shirogorov (carbon).
Lightweight and perfect length blade for my uses.
 
Centermass said:
A knife can be heavy, but carry very well, due to dimension, shape, clip style, clip placement, and other factors. Some are indeed straight up bricks.
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Overall design contributes greatly to how a knife carries.
For instance, this knife-
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carries easily clipped to the right front pocket despite it weighing about 16 oz or so....
This one however
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is an absolute brick in your pocket even though it only weighs about 9 oz....
 
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For a pocket folder, 3oz is about the perfect weight of a knife for me (conveniently that's the weight of a small Sebenza). I'm OK with carrying knives up to 4.5oz or a little more once in a while. Anything over 5 oz is pretty much out.
 
Well I wear a belt so I don't really care about the weight of a knife. lol I do care about the shape! I'd carry a Buck 110 in my pocket before I'd throw a Spyderco PM2 in there, since the Buck is heavy but smooth and not too tall. The Spyderco (I've had this issue a number of times with different knives, I am just picking on Spyderco because they are the worst pocket hogs with that hole in the blade) is lighter and has a clip sure, but you have to dedicate your whole pocket to it because if you don't it will scrape your hand to pieces every time you try to get into that pocket which now has way less space anyway. Just awful I say. Also, if it is a heavy knife I just put it on my handy dandy belt. Heck, an Iphone probably weighs more than most knives and no one complains about those. They get bigger every year and people don't mind.
 
Twindog said:
My Rukus weighs 8 oz. I consider its heft and size a feature, not a bug. But I live in jeans.

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Nice knife. I used to carry a mini Rukus which was one of my favorites at the time.. At about 5 oz, as I recall, it was about as heavy as I wanted to carry.
Now with the Recon1 being about 5 and a half oz, as one of my work knives, that may be the current maximum weight I prefer.
 
I'll carry a Buck 112 in my pocket. However , my 110's are belt carried. I have carried my Umnumzaan in pocket with no problem.
 
Hmmm...I had five rolls of $1 coins in a lightweight pants pocket. That was awkward, at best; but they weren't clipped at the corner. I'm thinking any pocket knife if carry, even in jeans, would have to weigh less than half that.
 
I draw the line at pocketing my Swiss Army Tool, that rascal is heavy and belt carry only. Otherwise, IF I tallied up all the knives in all my pockets, hmmm they probably add up to more than my Swiss Army Tool, so what does that mean? dunno, but I like a folder that has a little heft to it. Reminds me of that part in Jurassic Park movie where the kid was playing with the binoculars and the lawyer asked "Are they heavy?" he said yes and the lawyer said "then they're it's expensive, put it back" ;)


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I always read that the PM2 was a large knife for EDC, but after I got it I found it only weighs 3.8 ounces. I don’t even know it’s in my pocket unless I pat it with my hand to check. Anything 5 ounces or less, I hardly notice.
 
Regardless of what I carry, my knife needs are almost always as a fancy box opener or cutter.
The shape and dimensions are more of an issue for me than weight.
I now carry a thin fixed blade that goes into my pockets without a clip (for thinness) in it's sheath, of course. The particular knife I've been using is a White River Backpacker Pro in the kydex sheath with the clip removed. The overall length is just under 7 /4" and the thickness of the knife at the handle (thin G-10) is .513" and the sheath is .21" at it's thickest point.
Before that i carried an Izula with a paracord handle area that was about a 1/2" shorter in it's sheath. Both of these have a sheath that stays on securely which is an obviously important safety issue.
The knife sits within my jeans pocket and doesn't really show at all or stick out at the top.
 
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