Recommend a nice, but ‘less scary’ edc knife for my collection

Maybe you could find a now discontinued Kershaw Ken Onion Rainbow Leek.
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This image is not mine and was obtained from a Google search...KnivesShipFree.
 
If you are looking at the Sebenza/Inkosi price range, you should take a look at William Henry. Since the knives that you showed were all Ti handled, perhaps the plain Ti versions of the B12 Atlas or B30 Gentac would interest you. The A300 line has some interesting handle inlays, too.

If you are OK with something a little smaller, this is one of my favorite Spyderco knives - the handle is heftier than you would think for a knife this size, but it carries well and won't make sheeple think "weapon" when you use it:
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Smaug said:
It's a pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) air rifle, a Brocock Compatto in .177. It sends out a 10 gr. hollow point pellet at about 900 fps. It's just enough medicine for squirrels out to about 50 yards. That's about 18 ft-lbs is energy, compared to a 22LR with regular high velocity ammo, which shoots a 36 gr. bullet at around 1250 fps, for around 140 ft-lbs.

The .22 PCP air rifles make more like 30 ft-lbs, which is even better past 40 yards, out to about 80. 30 ft-lbs blows right through them, even body shots.

In my back yard, I shot them from 10 to 45 yards. I'm in a town home now, so I have to actually go OUT somewhere to hunt them any more.
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Smaug - thanks for the reply. Very cool air rifle, reminds me of some of the long-range rifles now being sold. I use to pop squirrels from oak trees surrounding our house when I was a kid I shot from my bedroom window using my Remington .22 target rifle using CB .22 rounds which made very little noise. Fortunately we lived out in the boonies and no neighbors were around to report me to my parents who would have killed me. Our high school had a shooting team which I was on. It was a co-ed team and the gals shot as well or better than many of the guys. Those were good times. Everyone was very careful and responsible and nobody got crazy about someone using a firearm properly. Seems like now everyone wants to shoot squirrels, whitetails, or whatever at a thousand yards using their tricked out 6.5 Creedmoor sniper rifle. That scares me!
 
Someone above mentioned rapidly firing open a flipper. I agree. It's an attention getter. When in the company of strangers I will open one at my side. It often escapes unwanted attention.

The Keen has been mentioned a couple of times. It's wife-approved in my house. These are my current rotation dependent on need.

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DireWoof said:
I actually do like the look of those Northwoods Barlows and if I can get over my OCD about one handed opening, I would actually be tempted to get one.
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For what it is worth, after many, many years of carrying one-hand opening, pocket-clipped, locking folders, I've recently delved back into the world of traditional knives. I was apprehensive at first as well.

The first thing that blazed in my mind was not feeling the knife there in the corner of my right pocket. One, of some form or another, had been there for a long time. But that only lasted a couple days. The one-hand opening thing has really not been an issue. I was bit concerned about this as well but it turns out that in the overwhelming majority of cases where I need a knife I honestly have no need for one-hand opening. The first week or so, it felt a little odd and there was a couple times when I actually had to set something down and pull out my knife but that was the exception and never a problem.

If I was needing my knife as a daily working tool,t hen that would be different. And I still keep my Dragonfly 2 at the ready by my chair at home for those tasks where I do want one-hand opening but as a general, light-use, EDC, especially in the "gentleman's" category? I think traditionals are an awesome fit and very approachable to just about everyone. I've probably gotten more interested comments on my traditionals than anything.

If you like the GEC Barlows, have a look at the Lionsteel Roundhead. That's a great looking knife in modern materials (M390) that still has the traditional flair. Or, maybe consider a Case Barlow for around $60-70 to see how you like the style, one-hand deal, etc without investing too deeply.

If you can open up to non-clipped, slip joints, there is a massive world of awesome stuff out there that doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves. Don't even get me started on the French stuff...Whoosh!
 
I also agree that a slippy might be the way to go Case, GEC, Toms, or manadi if you want to drop the coin. Just a thought.
 
The Masserin Consoli is another great looking knife that is something of a modern/traditional blend. It's a back lock that can be had in quite a few handle options and comes with S35VN. It would be right at the outside of size for what I'd want to carry without a clip but for me knife has to share space with other things in my pockets. That might not be a consideration for others.

Okay, I'll stop.

Wait, maybe the Buck 55?

Okay, okay, seriously...

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