What is the largest knife you actually use?

[Boattale]

First, the rules:
1. No kitchen knives.
2. No smatchets.
3. No just batoning - cut things with the knife and your hands.
4. Carry does not equal use.
5. Use = cutting something, anything with the knife > 50 times.

For me, it's a 119. Field dressed many deer, butchered even more, tons of general camp duty - food prep etc. Tent pegs, ridge poles, cut line you name it. Idaho Tang stamp and the nylon sheath. Just a perfect combo. Sadly (kind of) I gave it away to a fishing buddy who clearly coveted it and fixed my yamaha outboard motor when nobody else could even get it to fire. I miss it, not a doubt. But since a 118 Pro came my way, it's OK.

Let's hear your stories.

 

[DMG]

Carothers Field knife for normal cutting but I use a machete or kukri in the woods, occasionally

 

[norcalAF]

I use a folder the most in my daily life, typically between 3.5 to 4"

 

[DA170]

Police 4 and Military are the largest folders used regularly! I’ve carried the orange Subvert but haven’t cut much with it. Cold Steel SRK SK5 is most used fixed while camping. I leave it in the bottom storage of the RV and use it for everything.

 

[DocJD]

David Mary Custom , 5.75" BL :


Use it for moderate wood cutting , not chopping / battening . Boxes , plastic jugs , etc .

 

[Drop bear]

Skrama. Mostly for batoning. But it's there on the hip. So everything else. Food. Cut cord. Open packets.

 

[knarfeng]

Cold Steel "Folding Bushman". 4 1/2" inch blade. It gets used as a folding machete when I am clearing weeds with a weed wacker and I find something more robust than the weed wacker can handle.

 

[DocJD]

For weed , brush , vine clearance , Cold Steel Machete Swords :



Chinese Machete Sword :

 

[Mick Boardman]

Daily use from usually both of these.

 

[ShaiHulud]

My morakniv knives,
In the kitchen.
Yee!

 

[Crag the Brewer]

I like some blade length for my edc's.
I feel it's easier to carry and safer to use.

My First 3 in order.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

There's a bunch in between that are Mine.

But this next one, I'm intending on being my last....
5.5 inches of 10V Goodness

It's Faster than it looks
*Edit to add.....it might be a few years down the road since I'm too busy making the Favorite knives for all You People.
Haha

 

[smith357]

For EDC I typically don't carry anything bigger than 4" blade, I do use an 18" machete in the garden, a 12" kukri in the woods, a 6" bowie or trailing point for general hunting/camp duties, but those are the exception not the rule.

 

[donnord]

A Buck 110 probably is the biggest I use regularly. In some cases I carry a longer fixed blade.

 

[GB940Rookie]

RAT RC6 (ESEE 6)

 

[SharpBits]

Folder: Full size CS Talwar. Excellent cardboard terminator. Yes, an excellent slicer.
Fixed: DMC Barax or Huntsman Fell Beast Twisted Soul (2nd)

 

[Danke42]

This is the biggest folding pocket knife that I carry and use.

 

[Wowbagger]

I use the following weekly to cut quadruple wall cardboard :
I used this first one today .

(I thought they were actually longer but now I come to look at the blade length specs I'm surprised they are that "short")
all three are thin . I LIKE THIN !
I grab which ever I am in the mood to use ; are in the top of one of my tool boxes at work .
All are vendor's images .

3.6 inch blade


3.5 inch blade



3.5 inch blade

 

[Henry Beige]

It would be a tossup between a Mora Companion and a Green River 4215. Although, TBH, my biggest knife meets your standard of >50 cuts would be the Opinel No. 7 that has been replacing the No. 6 I usually carry.

 

[Wandering_About]

3" is by far my most used blade length. Mainly in the form of a small Sebenza now.