I opened the safe today, and pulled a former EDC from a protective canvas pouch, to potentially resume its place as EDC, or co-EDC, as I have several of them, and also want to always have a blunt-tipped Rescue model with me, too. It is a Gunting, CPM S30V, Plain Edge, a rare variant, quite collectible, but I did not buy it to collect, and carried it in the past, so it is not "mint," anyway.
After recently misplacing a non-Spyderco EDC, I considered several options, as I like to have a pointed-tip blade with me, in addition to a Rescue-type blade. I considered a Yojimbo, as I have one of those, but its handle is not quite as suited as that of the Gunting.
If it does resume its EDC status, it will mostly be carried in a kydex belt sheath, made by Robert Humelbaugh. I have other Guntings, in 440V, both PE and SE, plus a Trainer and a CRMIPT. The Gunting's handle remains the best design I have found for my hands, among folding knives, which why I bought several, a lifetime supply as insurance against loss and theft. The contoured clip is part of the equation, when gripping and handling the Gunting.
The kinetic opening, enabled by the ramp, also appeals to me, but is a secondary reason I love Guntings. The Emerson Wave is OK for opening upon pulling the knife from a pocket, but I would not necessarily want to open the blade immediately, and prefer to use a kydex or leather sheath, anyway. I would like the Gunting just as much if it had no ramp, but the ramp certainly gives me an additional option for opening the blade.
Bram Frank's less-lethal techniques with a closed-blade Gunting are controversial, but I fully understand that the law will view any knife, even a closed folder, as a deadly weapon, and will act accordingly, with the ability to articulate justification. I carried an original Al Mar SERE folder, at least as far back as the early 1990s, if not the 1980s, with less-lethal impact techniques in mind, well before I had heard of Bram Frank.
After recently misplacing a non-Spyderco EDC, I considered several options, as I like to have a pointed-tip blade with me, in addition to a Rescue-type blade. I considered a Yojimbo, as I have one of those, but its handle is not quite as suited as that of the Gunting.
If it does resume its EDC status, it will mostly be carried in a kydex belt sheath, made by Robert Humelbaugh. I have other Guntings, in 440V, both PE and SE, plus a Trainer and a CRMIPT. The Gunting's handle remains the best design I have found for my hands, among folding knives, which why I bought several, a lifetime supply as insurance against loss and theft. The contoured clip is part of the equation, when gripping and handling the Gunting.
The kinetic opening, enabled by the ramp, also appeals to me, but is a secondary reason I love Guntings. The Emerson Wave is OK for opening upon pulling the knife from a pocket, but I would not necessarily want to open the blade immediately, and prefer to use a kydex or leather sheath, anyway. I would like the Gunting just as much if it had no ramp, but the ramp certainly gives me an additional option for opening the blade.
Bram Frank's less-lethal techniques with a closed-blade Gunting are controversial, but I fully understand that the law will view any knife, even a closed folder, as a deadly weapon, and will act accordingly, with the ability to articulate justification. I carried an original Al Mar SERE folder, at least as far back as the early 1990s, if not the 1980s, with less-lethal impact techniques in mind, well before I had heard of Bram Frank.
