Top Five EDC Folders?

[Gunnie 12]

Production or customs….

 

[cereedy]

1. Benchmade mini grip 556
2. Buck 110
3. Benchmade 710
4. Buck 303
5. SAK ranger

 

[kindred_spirits]

For me:

Spyderco Delica
Benchmade Grip/Mini Grip
Boker Trance
Large Classic Sebenza
Spyderco Manix

 

[Joshua J.]

Spyderco Military.

Spyderco Calypso 3.

Leatherman Charge XTi.

Victorinox Soldier.

Ontario/Hossom Retribution I.

 

[jmf_tracy]

emerson

 

[John T Wylie Jr]

1. Strider PT CC
2. Benchmade 635
3. Emerson Mini Commander
4. Case Whittler
5. Small Reg Seb

customs ?
Erickson Slipjoint ( hey its the only custom folder I have... )

 

[offsetlover]

Kershaw Lahar, JYD2, RAM, Blur, and Speed Bump (all alum. version).

 

[chuckschilling]

Top 5 according to what standard(s)? There are as many different reasons for carrying a folding knife as there are folks who own them, and then some.

 

[rifon2]

There are just too many good ones.

A few:

Benchmade 710
Spyderco Delica 4
Benchmade 530
Lone Wolf T-2
A.G. Russell Featherlite (clip point ATS-34)

 

[knarfeng]

Benchmade griptilian or mini-griptilian as the case may be.
Benchmade 710.
Spyderco delica
Spyderco Native.
Queen large stockman

 

[kicwk]

1 Small Regular Sebenza
2 Mini Al Mar SERE
3 H&K 1450
4 BM 710 D2
5 Delica 4

 

[Dagon]

for my relatively "gentleman" kind of usage:

- Fallkniven U2
- Spyderco Kiwi
- Kyocera ceramic gentleman knife
- a real Laguiole or at a lower budget an Opinel #8 in stainless edition
- a Swiss army knife

I am thinking to eventually add a Klotzli gentleman knife and a CRK Mnandi, and these could well disturb the above list...

For customs (actually the Laguiole could be considered as a custom), there is at the moment one knife I am lusting after as an ideal EDC gentlemen knife. But it is a wee bit expensive.

 

[Fallbrook Forge]

Large regular Sebenza
SAK fireman
only two I carry
and can I just WHOA!!!! 435,000 euros!!!!!!!! wow, just wow

 

[pafka]

Tough choice. In no particular order:

Spyderco Mini Manix
BM Grip
SOG Vulcan
SOG Spec Elite I
Spyderco Native

 

[Dagon]

> and can I just WHOA!!!! 435,000 euros!!!!!!!! wow, just wow

The Galliane is 435 euros, not 435000, which to me is still not an evident purchase!

A bigger picture of the knife:

Exactly the kind of knife I have a weakness for and eventually I will succumb to the temptation!

Anyway, with the current EUR/USD exchange ratio it is very beneficial for me to buy knives from american vendors on ebay. The Galliane and Klotzli will have to wait, while the CRK Mnandi will probably jump the purchasing queue!

 

[Steven Andrews]

Benchmade 558 Mini RSK Mk1
Benchmade 556 Mini Griptilian
Benchmade 943 Osborne
Benchmade 552 RSK Mk1
Benchmade 551 Griptilian

 

[BJE]

1. Benchmade Mini-Grip
2. Benchmade 710
3. Victorinox Soldier
4. Spyderco Military
5. Benchmade 960

 

[Absintheur]

My picks

Mcusta Take
Buck 110
A. G. Russell FeatherLite One Hand Knife
Loveless City Knive
Case Sodbuster

 

[T.K.C.]

1. 3 inch XM-18
2. DB Fraley Torrent
3. Scott Cook Lochsa
4. Shane Sibert MPR
5. Todd Begg Gent's Glimpse

 

[scars]

CRK Mnandi
Benchmade Mini Grip
CRK Small Sebenza
SAK Cadet
Case Copperlock