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I started carrying a full sized folder alongside my fixed blade and stockman to have the basic nessmuk triad: food prep detail, cardboard general, wood processing prybar. Unfortunately the full sized folder rubs up against the stockman (crkt) every time it's used. This picture is the best pair of pants I had out of several that I'm keeping as yard work pants. It was the last one that didn't have a gaping hole where the two knives rubbed against each other. The white spot on the coin pocket is the last paper thin strands of cotton before the stockman punches through:
Because I started working at a company that has a no-holes policy for clothing I had to buy new pants. Same problem, just a bigger change pocket (went from dickies carpenter to carhartt double knee carpenter). One line of stitching and the stockman is now held up and away from the BM710 so they don't actively rub against each other, and because the pocket is at a heavy slant I draw it without having to pass by the stockman at all. Because the coin pocket is so huge on these I'm not losing much usable space, but I'm saving a ton of wear and tear.
Here you can see the triangle stitch a little better
I don't know if anyone finds this interesting at all, I just don't have any friends in my normal life who even have a chance of caring. Might save a few pair of pants worth of coin pocket holes
I started carrying a full sized folder alongside my fixed blade and stockman to have the basic nessmuk triad: food prep detail, cardboard general, wood processing prybar. Unfortunately the full sized folder rubs up against the stockman (crkt) every time it's used. This picture is the best pair of pants I had out of several that I'm keeping as yard work pants. It was the last one that didn't have a gaping hole where the two knives rubbed against each other. The white spot on the coin pocket is the last paper thin strands of cotton before the stockman punches through:
Because I started working at a company that has a no-holes policy for clothing I had to buy new pants. Same problem, just a bigger change pocket (went from dickies carpenter to carhartt double knee carpenter). One line of stitching and the stockman is now held up and away from the BM710 so they don't actively rub against each other, and because the pocket is at a heavy slant I draw it without having to pass by the stockman at all. Because the coin pocket is so huge on these I'm not losing much usable space, but I'm saving a ton of wear and tear.
Here you can see the triangle stitch a little better
I don't know if anyone finds this interesting at all, I just don't have any friends in my normal life who even have a chance of caring. Might save a few pair of pants worth of coin pocket holes
I went and measured it against my case medium stockman and turns out I did not actually grind them to what I had thought I did. I set all edges to roughly .018" thick. I vaguely remember aiming for those numbers but having a hard time acheiving them on my sloppy 4x36" craftsman sander. 
