Too many in the pocket?

2 is ok. 3 is 2 many. I mean the total number of knives in all pockets, not just one pocket.
 
if a vic 58 (rally or rambler for bottle opener, scissors, nail file and cleaner, tooth pick, tweezers, screwdriver (flat and phillips) and small knife for small tasks) counts than 2 in total, the vic in addition to a larger traditional. sometimes a 91, 93 or 85 vic instead of the 58 when i know i need more substantial screwdrivers e.g.
 
I work in a vineyard, so I usually have my leatherman PS4 (or charge, if I know there's a specific job to do), and a Mora fixed blade, usually a classic but today I have my stainless companian. For folders, I have my recently aquired hawkbill Tina knife, and a queen peanut.

On my day off, I try to only have the Leatherman squirt, and one slippy, my Erics jack, ken coats 3 3/8 easy opener or my Charlow.
 
I've never carried more than two. I carry the same two every day. I plan to add a third when I can get my hands on the pattern that I want. I have 3 children and would like to have the option of handing down a knife that I carried daily to each of them.
 
Workdays I keep it at one slipjoint. Useally my medium stockman or a small SAK. Weekends its one of those or a sodbuster, a modern folder or fixed blade, and a leatherman.
 
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It's usually two for me. Either a peanut or a toothpick in the watch pocket, and a trapper or stockman in the right front. If I'm going fishing, the 110 usually gets added to the belt
 
At this moment I only have one. I got home from work and emptied most of my pockets, I have my Blackwood Sheep foot Charlow in my pocket still. It has been in my pocket daily since I received it. Thanks again Paul Hilborn. The sharps I unloaded were a small Douk-Douk, and 8OT Old Timer. The Old Timer is my daily work knife, it usually stays at work when I leave but it needs a good sharpening not just a touch up.

Tomorrow the same three will be in my pockets when I leave for work. I am stopping on the way to meet a friend of mine that has my Forum knife and the slip I had made for it.

I am afflicted.

Chris
 
Six or so. A Cold Steel Voyager, a Kabar Acheron, leatherman wave, Schrade 501, a little three blade slippie and a few others. Sometimes I'll go into my pockets and find a knife I forgot I had.
 
I like two traditional per front pocket, and a modern/clip in the right rear.

Is 5 knives too many?
 
Typically a Peanut in the watch pocket and a slipjoint in RFP. More often than not the slippie is a Stockman or Barlow, but a Vic Farmer or Pioneer frequently pull duty in the RFP. I have other slipjoints that get pocket time.

For down n dirty hard work the yellow Sodbuster is always what I reach for.
 
I've carried as many as 3 in my pockets. Two seems more than adequate and at 3 I start feeling silly.

Usually, I have a SAK (Victorinox Craftsman) which usually meets all my needs. When working outside around the property, I also carry a Mercator Cat or an Opinel No. 10 or a Buck 110 on my belt...and an Ontario 6145 machete or an Estwing E45A ax...but I can't fit either of those in my pockets.
 
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One in my LFP. I don't think I've ever carried more than one. Maybe a backup knife in a backpack while camping?

I'll carry two flashlights in the woods, but never needed more than one knife. Rather than the "two is one, one is none" philosophy, for knives I like Ray Jardine's philosophy "if I don't have it, it don't need it".
 
For going to town, I always have a pair of small folding knives, Buck 484s, clipped to each front pocket, as well as a pair of small Kabar fixed blades at 8 & 4, usually 1232s (or 1250s/1256s). Then there's a BK11 in my LRP and a Leatherman Wave (old school version from the Y2K era) in my gear bag. The vehicle load-out has every thing but the kitchen sink - machete, pry bar, bolt cutter, hack saw, Estwing E3-R rigger's axe. 24+ years as a rural FF/EMT got me to carrying lots of stuff.

When running EMS calls, my duty belt had a seat belt cutter and a Kabar 1232, with the Bucks still clipped in my front pockets.

For the farm, I swap out the small Kabars for their big brother, the 1211 and one of their cousins, a BK-9/6/1/4, but I still have the Bucks.

I keep trying to get used to a no-clip traditional for one of my front pockets, but my pockets suffer from TMS syndrome and the trapper keeps working to the bottom under everything else.
 
I carry a <3" multiblade (peanut or small stockman) slipjoint in the pocket and a Vic Farmer (my "big knife") on the belt everyday.
 
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Does anybody carry a sharpening stone, and only one knife? That would make the most sense to me. (of course, there isn't much 'sense' in owning, and using the amount of knives I do :D)

I find that at work, I need to keep one knife 'scary' sharp, and have a user that I can easily sharpen. A 2-blade jack is the minimum for a work knife, if not a sodbuster and a peanut for one work knife and one to keep sharp.
 
Lot depends on what I'm wearing and the season of the year....More Clothes More Carry:D The only good thing about winter!

One in trouser pocket, one in jacket pocket, another one in Outdoor coat pocket and there has to be one slipjoint and one small fixed (generally SAK Alox Farmer and BR PSK or similar) in any bag I'm carrying. Then there's the car.....:cool:
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Ted, I noticed one day that I had about $500 worth of sharps in my pocket, and only $20 in my pocket clip.
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:) I know that feeling, too :thumbup:

I usually carry one slipjoint out of my extended EDC rotation and add a SAK Cadet or Pioneer if I feel the need for more. Unless I go on some kind of trip I leave my sharpening stones at home. Going hiking is always a good excuse for a fixed blade though - sometimes even a larger one :D
 
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