WC vs EDC

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pvicenzi

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How does your WC (weekend carry) knife vary from your EDC. I tend to carry a smaller knife at work, and haul out my larger knives for the weekend. I also tend to carry fancier knives on the weekend. How about the rest of you?
 
I usually carry two knives, but one of them changes. My constant EDC is my Chuck Gedraitis custom folder and I carry it both at the office and on the weekends. My second knife is the one that changes. During the week I'll carry a sheeple friendly slipjpoint like a peanut or small stockman--I have a rotation of them on the dresser that I go through. If I need a knife I'll bypass the clipped Gedraitis and pull out the little one unless I'm in my office by myself.

On the weekends I replace the slipjoint with some sort of sport utility carried on my off side. Currently it's a waved Endura set up for left hand carry, but a Dalton auto occasionally ends up there.
 
It's more an "in-the-city/out-of-the-city" thing for me. In town, I can only legally carry a 3-1/2" blade, so it's the Gerber Freeman S30V folder for me (a very nice knife, by the way). Most of the rest of the state has no limits on blade length at all, so depending on where I'm going or what I'm going to be doing, there are any number of other knives I carry.
 
No different really, every day is every day for me. Fallkniven P/3G

If for some reason I'm not carrying on person, there is always a small folder in the glove box of the vehicle. Fallkniven U2 or FH9 usually.

Kevin
 
There is no difference between what I carry during the week & the weekend.
 
Differences for me aren't based on week/end, but on intended use. I don't normally carry anything bigger than a 3.5" blade outside of wilderness and sporting situations (Large Senenza, GW, etc.) so that would not be an issue at the office - if I had an office anymore.

One tendency I do have is to carry a stouter knife if I know I'm going to be poking into things. That does not necessarily mean a larger knife, though. Sometimes I'll carry two knives for that reason.

Maybe should mention that I am an architect, so I work with both paper and building materials. A relatively pointy knife with a very sharp edge is super useful for working with paper, sharpening pencils, etc. Something more along the lines of a .20" GW is more useful for jobsite visits, where there is sometimes some poking any prying involved - or just tasks that you wouldn't want to perform with a very fine edge.

Ironically, some of my smaller knives are fixed blades. Something along the lines of a Busse Bear Cub will take a fine enough edge to work with paper and yet be stout enough for prying out heavier staples.
 
pvicenzi said:
How does your WC (weekend carry) knife vary from your EDC. I tend to carry a smaller knife at work, and haul out my larger knives for the weekend. I also tend to carry fancier knives on the weekend. How about the rest of you?
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In the hospital, in my scrub pocket, a Boker Subcom. In my bag I keep in the OR, a cheap frost folder (in case my bag is searched and knife confiscated).
Once home, a JYDII or Boker Gemini folder. On the weekends the same unless going out. A spyderco if going to a nice restaurant. It looks nicer clipped to slacks.
 
I carry the same slip joint knives during the work week and on the weekend. Weekends I add a small fixed blade, right now it's a Tom Krein Micro Chef most of the time.
 
I don't need to carry a knife at home. In fact, I don't carry anything in my pockets at home. If I need a knife, I only need to walk as far as the bedroom to the dresser.

When I go out somewhere, I drop my regular EDCs in my pockets, and strap on a fixed blade if I'm going out in the woods.
 
Main fixture on anyday of the week and does not vary from weekday to weekend (EDC)
Tool Logic for those suit and tie days ;)
 
Weekday: SAK Bantam (for food), LM Squirt P4 (for tinkering) and BM H&K Ally (for everything else).
Weekend: LM Wave.

I'm still looking for something to replace the Ally, something with a sharp point and a glass breaker. Nothing wrong with the Ally, it's just that I want something more robust under 4 oz. I'm leaning toward Böker Jim Wagner RBB drop point, but haven't made up my mind yet.
 
Well, the law being as it is here, we can only "EDC" non-locking folders; so on non-work days my main knife is a Spyderco UKPK, and on work days I'll swap it for a Tenacious or a small fixed blade. That's the only thing that changes though; all my other EDC gear stays the same.
 
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I usually have a small collection in my EDC bag, (Pygmy Falcon II), which will include a SAK, a small leatherman and often a small custom fixed blade.

However, in my pocket, I generally have one of the following:

Weekday at work - Spyderco Calypso Jnr in ZDP189 or a BM Mini Grip.
Weekend at home on the property - Strider SnG
Weekend going out somewhere, party, whatever - Sebenza.
 
Weekdays in the office - Strider SnG.

Nights and weekends - Spyderco Military.

Vic Climber always with me as the sheeple backup.

All my many other knives look at me with the evil eye.
 
I don't carry the knives I collect, I've got a Xikar folding linerlock knife a friend gave me a few years ago with a tanto style blade and I've sharpened it so many times it looks like a drop point now. He saw it about six months ago and gave me another Xikar diff. style so thats what I carry every day now unless I'm in the woods.
 
My knives never know what day it is or even which pocket their in. They are just happy to be off the desk.




:D
 
I experiment with new blades on the weekends if I'm around the house. I still carry my standard SAK every day and no matter what I wear unless I'm in a bathing suit (no pockets). I often have the SAK in a PJ pocket.
 
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