Size of your EDC pocketknife

RDaneel

RDaneel

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I'm just curious what size most folks carry and why. I find that a 3 1/4 inch pocketknife is about the most I can comfortably carry in the pocket. I rotate between my Buck Cadet (3 1/4) and my Robeson Wharncliffe (3 1/8).

How about you? If you carry a larger pocketknife on a regular basis, how do you do it? I mean, is a larger knife still comfortable in the pocket or do you carry it in a sheath?

I've got a 3 7/8 inch stockman I'd love to carry everyday, but it just seems too big in the pocket.

Thanks,

Dean
 
Well I heard it's not the size but what you do with it! We are talking knives right??? :D

I carry a Mooremaker stockman that is 3 7/8" closed and while I like the bigger stockmans that is about as large as I can carry comfortably in my office dress. I am actually thinking about getting something slightly smaller maybe a Canoe or something around the 3" closed range for my pocket and keeping the stockman in my jacket or briefcase.
 
I'd say that knives from 3" to 3 5/8" would be my practical range for carrying comfortably (and feeling good in my hand).
 
3 1/4" or less is most comfortable for me. I'll carry a 3 1/2" SAK or a 3 9/16" Uncle Henry sometimes but I prefer the 2 1/2" to 3 1/4".
 
Tatical or Traditional I carry 2 1/2" - 3 inches (Blade length) for a normal EDC in my front right pocket and a SAK key chain (on my key chain of course). For heavy outdoor use I carry a Buck Hunter in sheath. Somtimes I have a Stockman or a small stilleto in my shirt pocket.
 
My main EDC slipjoint is 4 1/4". The smaller ones might be a bit lighter to carry in the pocket, but to me they feel flimsier; easier to flex.

I like a solid knife, no matter what kind it might be.
 
I usually wear blue jeans so carrying my 4 1/8" trapper or my 4"+ stockman is no problem. If I'm wearing slacks I usually carry a whittler around 3 1/2". I'm getting use to the bigger knives (>4") and miss them when I don't have them. The bigger slipjoints are like the rock in the shoe; after a while you don't even notice it's there.


Dean
 
I usually wear blue jeans too, but I like comfort over a larger blade. Also considering were I live with all the restirctive laws (even though theres no laws saying I can't carry my Buck Hunter downtown, only if a Police officer says I'm carrying it as a weapon. But I'm not going to get into legal issues).
 
There's always an Old Timer Middleman in my front left pocket. In the office I have an Opinel #8 in right front. It's a little chunky but very light. Out of the office I have a CRKT m-16 clipped to my front left. I guess I'm just used to having a bunch of stuff in my pockets. Keys, knives, smokes, lighter, wallet.

Frank
 
Frank, I usually have alot of things in my pockets as well. Expect in my front right pocket. So thats why I like my knives comfortable to carry because everything else takes up alot of room in my other pockets. But then I think, what diffrence would a bigger knife going to make in one pocket when a bunch of crap is already in the others?
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The largest knife that I'll usually carry is either a BM970 or a Reeve small sebenza. Today I bought a Jeff Cover pen knife which comes to about a 2 in blade and a 3 in handle. Very nice with an ATS-34 blade and sheep horn scales!
Matt
 
Usually a 31/4" stockman, Buck 303 Cadet, or knife of about the same size. Sometimes a single blade lockblade on Sunday for church. For outside work a larger stockman, 33/4"+. The larger ones just feel too heave to me for EDC.
 
I have to agree with "3nails" about size. All things being equal, big is better as long as the knife can be carried comfortably and one gets minimal grief from the public and LEOs. My limitations on comfortable carry have more to do with weight and thickness than they have to do with length.

For example, I find that I can tolerate the length of a 4 1/4-inch Sunfish very nicely because its double-ended two-bladed cross-section is so thin...kind of like a canoe on steroids. (The knife's weight can be another matter. With natural handle materials, especially, a big Sunfish can be a heavy beast. If any slipjoint ever called for a titanium frame, a big Sunfish certainly would.) As a result, I usually carry a 4-inch Sunfish as a EDC. This "little" Sunfish is still amply large for most purposes and it is less of a load in my pocket. It gets fewer wide-eyed looks from the public, too.
 
I don't like to carry anything much bigger than 3-3/4" in my pocket, but I do if nessesary. I do carry an old Gerber Folding Sportsman II in my back pocket sometimes, but it's thin, and stays upright beside my wallet. Unless I remove my wallet and have to jockey the knife around again to make my wallet fit. Otherwise, it's a belt pouch or for everything 4" or more.
 
Clipped to my jeans pocket, I find 3.5 to 4 inch perfect. In a sj, no bigger than 3.5 closed.
 
I carry a Richard Rogers toothpick. It is 4" overall and the blade
is 2 5/8. It's thin and is nice to carry. I'm looking for the perfect two blade knife. I miss having a second smaller blade.

Jeff
 
Jim,

I hate to be repetitious, but I would look into a Wichester 45/70 4-inch Sunfish as a candidate for your "perfect knife". I have one and it is my EDC.

This knife would be the same length as your toothpick and it would be about as thin, since Sunfish are double-ended. It would be wider than your toothpick, though, of course, and a fair amount heavier. The Sunfish's spear master blade is wide and "skinner-like", in profile...not much point to it, at all. The "pen" blade (and a big one it is, too) does have a relatively fine point for a spear blade, however.

About the only downside to this knife is that it is not cheap...about $125, or so. (Blue Grass does know how to charge!) Actually, I have two of these knives and the second one came to me "dirty" inside, so that might be something for you to watch.

If you are interested in a knfe like this, though I would not wait too long in ordering one. Winchester knives are "private label" knives that, as I understand it, are mostly made by Queen. Private label arrangements are not always "forever", I am told.
 
My current every day carry knife is a custom slipjoint I had Don Hanson III make for me. Blade is about 2.75" long with an overall length of 5.75". Blade is all high carbon tool steel twist damascus with pearl handles and double nickel silver bolsters.
 
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