The Wife Knife

[Horsewright]

Those ladies are tougher than most men nowadays

Yeah they get stuff done:

 

[ferider]

The wife:

One of her old knives, not the current edc. One of my Vaquero model in high carbon dammy and an elk handle with a turquoise spacer

The knife itself that she carries currently is one of my Vaquero models with buckeye burl for the handle and clay coated 26C3 high carbon steel.

When she is working the ground at one of our brandings she carries two:

Course most of the ladies around here do carry a knife:

There always has to be at least one castration photo, doesn't there ? What else use the ladies their knives for ?

J/K - nice photos as usual.

 

[Horsewright]

Sure thats how steers are made. 98 percent of all beef sold in the store comes from steers. Its a thing.

Dinner:

Cutting stuff, hay bales, feed sacks etc. Pretty much like we do. Biggest deal is when ya got ropes and horses and cows things can go bad quickly. A knife can quickly become a safety item:

We call this getting western. I can't tell ya how many of my lil fixed blade knives I've sold the day after a "wreck". Usually a guy will have a folder in their pocket that they couldn't get to in time. This is the closest I have of a pic of one.

That calf was trying to come forward on my left side and see how the rope is pulling me. I was able to turn my horse to the right and then get some more room to drag the calf so he wasn't trying to cut me in two with the rope. If I hadn't been able to get er solved with my horse I'd of been reaching for my knife.

Big reason we carry knives.

 

[Slice O Life]

There always has to be at least one castration photo, doesn't there ? What else use the ladies their knives for ?

J/K - nice photos as usual.

Well it is a WIFE knife thread. At some point, somebody is going to get castrated

 

[ferider]

Sure thats how steers are made. 98 percent of all beef sold in the store comes from steers. Its a thing.

I was aware and have no objections !

Regarding her knives, I should add, she also has a 9" sword, that she uses for a single purpose

https://imgur.com/1Y9DbMv

 

[strategy9]

I've bought my wife a handful of different knives over the years. Nothing "over the top", just a few different options for different occasions; a dragonfly, companion, avispa, some SAK classics, but a Buck Metro is the one she keeps on her key ring, and a Kershaw Leek is her "always in the purse" option.
That said, now that auto's are legal in our state, she thinks the d/a's are really cool, and now wants (an orange) one of her own. I have a used utx-85 (for myself) en route so that she can make a fully informed decision between it and a manticore S I own, holding both in hand.

 

[Horsewright]

I was aware and have no objections !

Regarding her knives, I should add, she also has a 9" sword, that she uses for a single purpose

https://imgur.com/1Y9DbMv

Thats a purty chink of beef!

 

[TimButterfield]

My wife doesn't carry...yet. I'm hoping to change that later this week. To ease her into the EDC path, I'm getting her a little SAK Indigo Classic SD and a Black Cherry Cerakote Fisher Space Pen. They are small enough to easily fit into her purse and the Classic SD can be used to fix her nails when they break. Once she learns how useful they can be without being a burden to carry, perhaps I can upgrade the package and add to or replace the Classic SD.

 

[Greasepiggy]

Mine has a Mnandi.

 

[Slice O Life]

I was aware and have no objections !

Regarding her knives, I should add, she also has a 9" sword, that she uses for a single purpose

https://imgur.com/1Y9DbMv

At what length does a knife become a sword?

 

[Slice O Life]

My wife doesn't carry...yet. I'm hoping to change that later this week. To ease her into the EDC path, I'm getting her a little SAK Indigo Classic SD and a Black Cherry Cerakote Fisher Space Pen. They are small enough to easily fit into her purse and the Classic SD can be used to fix her nails when they break. Once she learns how useful they can be without being a burden to carry, perhaps I can upgrade the package and add to or replace the Classic SD.

Good luck with this! I think regardless of who you are you can benefit from a knife, and a multitool is just a knife with multiple other functions

 

[3fifty7]

My wife has carried a Spyderco Dragonfly Tattoo for about 5 years now, she’s also had a Kershaw Starter and a Para3 LW but keeps going back to the Dragonfly.

 

[TimButterfield]

Good luck with this! I think regardless of who you are you can benefit from a knife, and a multitool is just a knife with multiple other functions

Thanks! I agree they are very beneficial and I usually have 2+ with me, but not all agree. For some, it may be just a speed bump they need to get over before it seems normal. I'm hoping that's the case here. A week or so ago, she broke a nail and the Buck 303 and 101 I had on me at the time were of no help. So, striking while the iron is hot, I think I have an 'in' for her to start using something like this. We will see.

 

[ferider]

At what length does a knife become a sword?

Don’t know. Just didn’t want to use a fancy Japanese word

 

[1911bphil]

Most of my wife's knives have been ones she's stolen from stock. I make em up for sale and she'll snag one on occasion.

I wouldn't blame her, your knives are awesome. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

 

[Greggy]

I am not in favor of weaponizing the women with whom I have lived. Just sayin...

 

[Vlade]

I think my wife usually carries 4 knives in her purse. When we are out and about, she prefers to use one of my mine because I can draw it in seconds but it would take her 5 minutes to find a knife at the bottom of her purse. I would guess the ones in her purse include a small blue SAK, a Kershaw Shuffle with a teal handle, and a Nagao Kanekoma Higo no Kami with a teal handle in a plastic bag to keep it from getting wet.

When she is out without me, she often carries an MKM Mikro neck knife, because it does not get lost in her purse.

At home she uses a Fantasticar folding utility knife, and a semi-custom fixed blade that I gave her. There are other knives scattered around.

She recently asked me to sharpen a small blue slip joint with 3 blades. I do not know the brand, but the main blade has a small etching of a buck. The main blade is only 5/16 of an inch wide, which is too small for my TSProf. I would not want to free-hand it because I cannot even see the bevel without a magnifier. I am trying to figure out how to use the magnetic tables with a Hapstone or the new Work Sharp, but that is not going real well.

If your work sharp is a guided system it will not work. The clamp is in the way for small blades. It's unfortunate cuz it's a good sharpener.

 

[Vlade]

My wife carries no knives. And she does not carry any guns. But what she does do is counts on her grandfather's machete for self-defense. Did you ever see a pissed off Puerto Rican woman with a machete? Just head for the hills that's all I can say.

We go everywhere together so protecting us is my job.

 

[Dustlover]

This is what my wife kept under her seat in her car for a couple months as the handle was too small for my big paws. Now I think it’s going to be for sale shortly.

 

[grasshoppers]

My wife has. confiscated my Pro-Tech Walter Brend auto. She struggled with
the many different locks used on most of my knives. She said she liked the Brend
because “you push the button to open it, and push the button to close it”.
Keeps it clipped on a pocket in the purse.