Was at dairy queen and...

The only time i see knives is when im doing trees everyone there has some expensive knife (you cant not have them) there was every once in a while a guy ina truck that came around with benchmades a few spydercos and some kershaws, they were priced high but alot of people bought them for more because not only were they getting it now, the knife came to them. but they dont edc the knives just at work

The only person i see with a knife is my gf who has 2 kershaws (i bought her, a zing and a half ton) and my dad who has a old schrade lb7 made in usa, nothing like the new 1s, so much higher quality, even better quality then my buck 110 that i used to carry, he has had it since he was a kid and still carries it.

I dont got alot of money i carry a black kershaw blur now though.
 
Most of the males in my family carry a knife, mostly slip joints. In public I see a clip no and then. Guy that works at Bass Pro had a Emerson, that's about the nicest knife I've seen someone in public carry.
 
One of my coworkers carries Grip, one Adventura, one Milly and para, one Navigator. One keeping UKPK in the toolbox. My mechanic uses Leek.
 
My buddy EDC a Benchmade HK Auto flipper. I took him to a local cutlery shop that carries high end stuff. Hes hooked! He said hes going to get a blacked out MT UT they have.

I usually rotate between a ZT0350, MT UTX85, BM806, Camillus Heat Tanto.
 
I'll speak in defense of the condemned, mainly because I'm one of them myself and didn't even realize it until I started reading this thread.

I carry a cheap knife, just like so many other people do. I know that they're not great but I carry them anyway. One reason is because I believe a cheap knife can still be respectable quality for what you need it for. Another reason is because I can't justify the price of a Spyderco or similar quality folding knife on what I earn in salary. Another reason is because in the work I do it's not uncommon to lose the knife clipped at your waist and it never winds up getting found; your Benchmade might have a great warranty attached to it but the best warranty in the world won't replace a $150 knife that fell off its perch and is now buried somewhere in a ditch you had to climb into.

Some people don't put their knives to the test to see how much they can withstand without breaking. Sometimes a cheap tool will do the same job as an expensive tool, it'll do it to a satisfactory degree, and it'll do it whenever we need it for a good many years. That's the experience I've had with a good portion my equipment. Most of the knife-related stuff I do is deburring copper and PVC pipe, stripping wires, cutting tape, cutting plastic sealing and slicing cardboard, and for that my Wal-Mart Ozark Trails folder works just fine.
 
Charlie_K - why not pick something nice up for after work & weekends? Your job sounds like it must be paying enough. I totally understand the loss prevention thing though.
 
cziv said:
Charlie_K - why not pick something nice up for after work & weekends? Your job sounds like it must be paying enough. I totally understand the loss prevention thing though.
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Mainly because I'm continually scouring the pawn shops in hopes of finding a third good deal. One KA-BAR and one Buck knife at unbeatable prices gives me hope of finding other good model knives for the price of a cheap folder.

I'm also not entirely educated on just what is a good quality line of folding knives. When it comes to firearms a $150 shotgun will often function just as well as a $700 higher quality model of similar configuration, and that has kind of affected my mindset. Buck knives are regarded by others on this board as being very good quality, but they seem to be getting slammed in here in favor of Benchmark and Spyderco.
 
Pretty much everyone I work with carries a knife of some kind, but most of them are cheapos or small, well used traditionals that they've been carrying for decades. I did have one guy in the mall (at a Barns and Noble none the less...) notice a spyderco para2 in my pocket. He whipped out his benchmade 943 and asked me if I had any benchmades, so I listed off a few model numbers and whipped out my Ritter mini with custom scales. His first reaction was "oh a griptilian, nice...wait...is that a griptilian?" He had never seen a Ritter before nor one with custom scales. Needless to say he was impressed. I was just happy to run into another real person (not that you guys aren't real...but you know what I mean) that was somewhere near as crazy as myself.
 
i work at a professional bike shop as a mechanic, some guy commented on my paracord bracelet asking "do you think your ever guna use that" i laughed, im sure he had a quality blade on him knowing about paracord.. maby...
 
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