Should you carry more than one knife?

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How many of you carry more than one knife?

I live in N. FL. and years ago there was a fight between two workers in a slaughter house. One was cut badly and the other was not. The one guys knife was dull so it did not give good cuts and the other knife was sharp cutting the other guy badly.

Do you use the knife you carry, or do you a second knife for everyday use to keep your self defense knife sharp? [this is if you happen to carry a blade for self defense purposes.]

Teej
 
Moderator, would you please move this to the Practical Tactical section?
Thank you,
Teej
 
I'm amazed at how dull some people let their knives get. If they are sharp enough to use they will be sharp enough for self defense. That being said I have a couple I carry but don't really use, They are sharp and extra point and I don't want to ruin the point. One of them is a kershaw leek, I just love the shape of that little blade!
 
I always carry two or more knives.
The big one is more intended for defense purposes and the smaller(s) for real EDC use.
But I never carry a dull or far from shaving sharp knife.
Everytime I feel the need I go for the sharpmaker.
It doesn't mean that I don't use the Big One to cut things other than Homo Sapiens :p , but for those every day, usual cuts, I almost everytime go for the smaller, sheeple frindly ones.

Regards,

Andre Tiba - Brazil
 
It is recommended to carry at least 2 knives, ne for self-defence and the other as a utility tool. The reality is that you end up carrying more than 2 ;)
 
Coming from a more bushcrafty/survival type of mentality, I don't have much hand to hand experience with a knife. However, I do carry two knives and am proficient with them. A Victorinox Hunter lockblade SAK that is razor sharp and a medium length fixed blade, like the BRKT Northstar, or a Mora, also razor sharp. Plus, depending on where I am, I could also have a sharp limbing axe like the SA Wetterling Large Hunter, or a WWII Khukuri, also razor sharp.

As was illustrated by the two butchers, a dull knife is pretty much useless and is a hazard to work with, let alone take into a fight. The defender would be better served to pick up a stick and club the attacker, rather than try and defend with a butter knife. Either knife I carry will work as a defensive blade, however, it seems to me that the better part of valour is to evade the situation altogether and if that fails, then have a backup plan and something more than a knife to defend with.

Assuming that neither the attacker, nor the defender have a firearm, there is a list of weapons that can be fashioned with a sharp knife in the field, including bow/arrow, spear, throwing stick, throwing star, etc., all of which will kill game of various size and weight and at the very least will disable and persuade an attacker to give up his attack and find greener pastures.
 
I prefer a small fixed blade knife for my edc or a very sturdy folder. It gets used constantly for every day tasks. For self defense, I go with a large bore pistol at all times. I have no training in edged weapon combat and thus would be totally out of my depth in that area where as I shoot on a regular basis. CCF has never been in an issue since I have been a LEO almost my entire adult life, but I live in a state that like many others recognizes the right of honest, law abiding citizens to carry firearms.
 
I usually carry at least 2 knives for no other reason than I like my knives. Sometimes it's a larger and a smaller version of the same knife. Sometimes it's a folder and a fixed blade.

Just depends on what I'm doing or feel like carring that particular day.
 
Here in Brazil I carry a Spyderco Endura daily. Is it for defense? I've had my hand on it a few times but haven't had to pull it yet in seven years of living here. I do like to keep it razor sharp and I don't use it for casual cutting. For that I keep an old, original Leatherman tool in my briefcase. Most people who know me here know I always have my "canivete" (pocketknife) but if they ask to borrow it for some mundane chore they get the leatherman. Mac
 
lol i usually carry 2-3. Buck 110 and/or a benchmade mini pika for utility and chinook II for SD.
 
1 in town (sm. sebbie) for edc, two or three when in the woods: SAK Trailmaster, one small custom Dozier, one Dozier Wilderness (or Becker Crewman, etc.) Sometimes a small hatchet (Gransfors) depending on where I'm headed and what I'm doing.
 
i carry a SAK and an endura. but not for SD.

if i'm out hiking or camping i carry a SAK and a howling rat

if i'm in a so so neighborhood (i try not to be) i carry a SAK and a CS vaquero grande

did i mention i carry a SAK? :D
 
I live in a pretty remote area (55 miles to the nearest stop light), and my daily walks take me to places that sometimes other folks don't see for weeks or even months (during winter) at a time. I carry two knives at all times, a self made fixed blade 4" sheath iknife and a Victorinox Huntsman. The police in the area don't even look twice at the sheath knife, but then most of them know me anyway. I wouldn't even consider a knife for self defense except as a last resort, as the thought of poking holes in some HIV infected druggie has little appeal to me. That's what they make guns for, and I have a concealed carry permit.
 
As we are all looking for THE ONE Knife and nobody has found it yet, the answer can be only yes.I always carry an sak or leatherman as tools and depending to where i go, a fixed blade knife with a 4 -9 " blade for bigger tasks.
 
In my tactical knife fighting courses with the Israili knife system and Marine SF, I was told to carry AT LEAST two knives. One (a single edge) to be used by my dominant hand, and the other (a double edge) for your weaker and faster hand. The reason is that your stronger arm can defend more solidly and the faster one cause faster damage fighting with the lead hand forward.
 
this is knife website, of course you always carry as many eddddgggeeedd toools:p :p :p (drool) as possible
 
I've never been in a situation where I was sorry I was carrying too many knives. I have been in situations where I was sorry I wasn't carrying another (or at least a bigger or better) knife.
 
rhino said:
I've never been in a situation where I was sorry I was carrying too many knives. I have been in situations where I was sorry I wasn't carrying another (or at least a bigger or better) knife.
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Amen! :thumbup: Redundancy at its best.

Skam
 
when it comes to sharp and pointy things, I always carry more than one. I have heard the idea of carrying duplicates of important items as: two is one and one is none. Murphy is the big reason to have more than one knife.
 
I honestly thought this was one of those "trick" questions! I thought everybody knew that two is one and one is none.
Gene :D
 
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