The Knife that you can't leave home without.

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Depending on my mood, there are a lot of knives that I put in my pocket. Regardless of what I carry, my Vic solider is always there. Not that the knife is anything special, but it is just too darn useful. For instance, I use the pick on the Vic the most. Any time I want to open a package or evelope, it's the pick. The blade is keep hair popping for cutting only. To tell you the truth, it is the knife that I can't leave home without. Do you have a knife that always winds up in you pocket?
 
I pretty much carry and user smaller slipjoints, but a friend made me a lockback a couple of years ago. It had been decades since he had made a knife like that.

It is always on me no matter what other knife I carry. Some call me crazy for carrying the knife.

My friends mean a lot to me so I do not mind being crazy.
 
I grew up with a grandad and uncles who carried stockmen, and a dad that used a peanut for everything, but when I was 12, dad gave me a Camillus scout knife because our church had found a scoutmaster for the new formed troop. That was Mr. Van, who went on to become a very major influence on the rest of my life. The scout knife became the pole star around which every other knife moved in and out of my life. When Mr. Van passed on, he left me his Remington scout knife and a Martini .22 rifle. It is not unheard of for me to be carrying that old Remington once in a while, even now.

I saw early on how usefull a pocket knife could be that had a screw driver on it. Once when we were driving down to the family place on the eastern shore, dad's old Hudson started to miss. Pulled over at the side of the road he got the hood up, and with my Camillus scout knife, he unclipped the distributor cap, and reset the points using a piece of beer can as a gap set/gage. It did untill we got to grandads.

When I enlisted in the army, I got issued an all steel U.S. military scout knife. It served on some rough duty for the next decade I was in the army engineers. Durring my service I picked up a Buck 301 stockman at the PX, and I used that as well, but the scout knife was the one always with me. In the late 60's I got my first sak, and was impressed with the fit and finish, and how they packed extra tools in a small package. It was a level of refinement over the army scout knife, and it became a companion.

In the early 70's I was medicly discharged from the army and the V.A. got me an apprentice position as a machinist. Over the next 28 years till my retirement, there must have been a zillion times I was running a job on a machine on the other side of the shop from my tool chest, but I had a sak with a screwdriver and a phillips driver that saved me a walk.

Over my life lots of knives find their way into my pocket, but whatever is in my right front jeans pocket, be it a sodbuster, peanut, or one of my familys old pocket knives from my cigar box of memories, there is a black nylon pouch on my belt. In it is a sak and a small AAA Dorcy flashlight. A couple of screwdrivers and a light is just too handy to leave home without. For twenty years it was a Victorinox tinker. These days its a Wenger SI.
 
A medium sized SAK, usually a Victorinox Hiker, Huntsman, Climber, Farmer or a Wenger with similar features.
 
he he There is always a rambler on my key chain and normal size Vic' in my pocket- Usually a Farmer or at times a explore or a hunts man
 
It's been my Vic "Farmer" for so long..... it's hard to remember when it hit my pocket in the first place. Lately it has been a Queen D2 Country Cousin however.
 
For the longest time it was a Schrade Old Timer 123OT, its a single blade hunter pattern. 20 years of use/abuse/and sharpening has left the blade a bit...thin.

For a time it was a Spyderco...something or another.

For the last two years it has been a Case three-blade Sowbelly or a Case Seahorse Whittler...usually the Whittler. Now if I can just pick one up with CV.
 
lately it has been an AG Russell Barlow. Ive had it for about a week and have carried it every day.
 
Has been for several years, A William Henry B9 liner lock with ironwood handles. Love it and most anything else that they make.
 
for about the past year a case peanut has all ways been with me. Depending on the day it may be CV or it may be stainless, but a peanut is always riding some place. Backs up the TL-29 well and is better for picking splinters opening boxes and other chores. Unlike my TL-29 that is mostly work edc, the peanut is there 7 days a week. Joe
 
Right now it's my Vic Sportsman II. Before that my Vic Cadet (basically an alox Sportsman), and before that my Wenger SI. I guess I'm like alot of folks on here. No matter what else I carry (including my Leatherman Wave), I always have a SAK on me. Wow. This is turning into a very revealing thread.
 
german eye copperhead it lives in my pocket sometimes with a case mini trapper.on my belt a old timer lockback
 
I always have a sak with me. I usually reach for my Vic. fieldmaster or huntsman tho for the last few days I have been carrying a Wenger highlander. Saks and scout patterns offer alot of utility. I pair mine up with a small pair of needle nosed vise grip pliars for a edc.
 
The one that rides in my pocket nearly everyday, regardless if it's works slacks or jeans, is still my Chestnut Smooth Bone, Case, Mini-trapper, in Tru-sharp. I change out occasionally for a Bone Stag Russlock, or one or another for just a little bit, but it always seems to come back to the mini-trapper.

At work, I alway have a Wenger SAK. I don't even know what model it is, but it is like at Vic Soldier, I think. That stays in the inner pocket of the accursed blazer we are required to wear as part of our uniform.
 
Vic Soldier. Been in my pocket every day for four years now. The alox is a little banged up from loose change and the blade has a few scratches, but it stays sharp and does what I need it to do.
 
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