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Absintheur
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I have about a half dozen Scout pattern not counting my SAKs. They get rotated through the EDC rotation with the rest of the knives I tend to carry in a smallish belt pouch. These include Kabar, my Demo knife, Case, Imperial, Bulldog, Rough Rider and a few others.
Although I don't carry one daily, I do own several. I certainly wouldn't feel "under-knifed" if I chose to again carry my scout pocket knife. As a matter of fact I long for my demo knife that I "lost" over the side back in 91. At the time I regarded it as junk and gratefully replaced it with one of my SAKs. Looking back, I wish I had it back
I usually exclusively carry a SAK.
I've only carried it for a few years, mostly because I've only had it a few years
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Why do I carry it?
For my purposes, it's tremendously useful. The variety of tools really allow me to expand my lunch options significantly, and are just useful in general. If anything, I'm concerned with being "under-knifed" with other patterns due to a lack of tools
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What I also like about carrying it is that to non knife people, it seems more like a tool than some other patterns, and especially when compared to some knives we don't talk about in this forum.
What I also like is being able to save the day whenever a corkscrew isn't available.
I've been thinking about trying a demo knife or some other cheap ebay scout knife. Rough Rider's "utility knife" is kind of tempting as well.
I've only carried it for a few years, mostly because I've only had it a few years
.Why do I carry it?
For my purposes, it's tremendously useful. The variety of tools really allow me to expand my lunch options significantly, and are just useful in general. If anything, I'm concerned with being "under-knifed" with other patterns due to a lack of tools
.What I also like about carrying it is that to non knife people, it seems more like a tool than some other patterns, and especially when compared to some knives we don't talk about in this forum.
What I also like is being able to save the day whenever a corkscrew isn't available.
I've been thinking about trying a demo knife or some other cheap ebay scout knife. Rough Rider's "utility knife" is kind of tempting as well.
I have a scout pattern Camilus that I won as a door prize at a knife club meeting years ago. I kinda sniffed and turned up my nose at it at first, SS blades, red plastic scales, but over the years I have come to respect it a lot. It stays in a bowl on the kitchen table for all sorts of mundane chores. Very nicely polished blades and sharp too. The garden variety SS sharpens easily and gets quite sharp. Plus it has a substantial bail (and bulk). To my way of thinking , such a knife tied to ones belt with a cord is the perfect soldiers field knife.
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I have several, and I've carried one all over the world. But I hardly ever carry just one of them.
I got my first when I was 19 (vic Tinker), lost it a couple of years later, and didn't get another until I was at AIT and needed a knife (since I had left them all at home before Basic). Got another Tinker, and carried it all over the world for years. Handles are loose now, but the rest of it is perfectly fine and functional. Every blade and tool has marks and scratches from regular use. I could go back to daily carry of it right now and be fine for most things, honestly.
I carry a Vic Soldier or Mechanic and Executive paired up with a one or two bladed jackknife most days. Just seems to work for me. I do most of my cutting with the jackknife, clean fingernails and trim random hairs with the Executive, and use the Soldier for loaning to the knifeless, opening cans, etc. Really, it's overkill. I could, functionally, eliminate the jackknife most of the time and use the cutting blades on the SAKs. And I do, sometimes. I just enjoy the knives, though, so ... why limit myself to one knife, or even one style of knife? When I only had one, that was life. Now, I count myself fortunate to be able to enjoy more of them at a time.
I got my first when I was 19 (vic Tinker), lost it a couple of years later, and didn't get another until I was at AIT and needed a knife (since I had left them all at home before Basic). Got another Tinker, and carried it all over the world for years. Handles are loose now, but the rest of it is perfectly fine and functional. Every blade and tool has marks and scratches from regular use. I could go back to daily carry of it right now and be fine for most things, honestly.
I carry a Vic Soldier or Mechanic and Executive paired up with a one or two bladed jackknife most days. Just seems to work for me. I do most of my cutting with the jackknife, clean fingernails and trim random hairs with the Executive, and use the Soldier for loaning to the knifeless, opening cans, etc. Really, it's overkill. I could, functionally, eliminate the jackknife most of the time and use the cutting blades on the SAKs. And I do, sometimes. I just enjoy the knives, though, so ... why limit myself to one knife, or even one style of knife? When I only had one, that was life. Now, I count myself fortunate to be able to enjoy more of them at a time.
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I carry a Wenger Standard Issue Soldier a lot, but my favorite traditional looking camp/scout is a Camillus made Remington R4.
I carry a Wenger Standard Issue Soldier a lot, but my favorite traditional looking camp/scout is a Camillus made Remington R4.
This is a nice looking knife. I have An Alox Wenger and a Demo knife. LOVE the Demo knife. However, i would LOVE to get one of these traditional looking camp knives. Is that one of the new line of Remingtons they are making?
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I don't carry a SAK exclusively either but on my 5 day work week I carry a Cadet II and on the weekend a brand new red Pioneer.
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Last week, for the first time in a long time, I put away my Old Timer Middleman Jack (33OT) and instead carried my Vic Soldier while the wife and I took the kids up to the mountains for a week of hiking and just having fun in the sun.
It's a great great knife, to be sure. In the end, I don't think I ever used any of the tools (other than tightening a loose screw on our hotel-room door, something I could have done with the Leatherman that stayed in my suitcase). Mostly the Soldier was used for food prep; stuff like cutting up apples for the kids. And also for whittling the bark off a stick to be used for hiking, etc. But even not using it as a "tool knife," even from the perspective of it being a pure cutter, it performed wonderfully. There's not much you can't do with a thin, flat, sharp blade like that. And of course the sturdiness of the tank-like alox handle on the Soldier is just confidence building. You know nothing's going to happen to that pup!
It's a great great knife, to be sure. In the end, I don't think I ever used any of the tools (other than tightening a loose screw on our hotel-room door, something I could have done with the Leatherman that stayed in my suitcase). Mostly the Soldier was used for food prep; stuff like cutting up apples for the kids. And also for whittling the bark off a stick to be used for hiking, etc. But even not using it as a "tool knife," even from the perspective of it being a pure cutter, it performed wonderfully. There's not much you can't do with a thin, flat, sharp blade like that. And of course the sturdiness of the tank-like alox handle on the Soldier is just confidence building. You know nothing's going to happen to that pup!
