What is the largest knife you actually use?

Wowbagger said:
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
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3.5 inch blade
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I had no idea more made flat ground knives. Wonder if they sell blanks.
 
Old model Habilis bushtool or a Swamp Rat Ratmandu around the house and yard and if I'm going to be outside more a Becker BK9. The Becker is more fun than should be allowed, it cuts veggies and meat well and will sail through a 1.5Inch green branch with little effort. The others are a bit thick behind the edge for vegetables but the Bush tool isn't terribly with food prep.
 
The Cold Steel 5 Max currently sees duty as my vehicle blade.

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Kershaw Livewire (3.3" blade). I think the only knife I have more than 3.5" is my Endura Wave, which I don't even know where it is at the moment (in some box somewhere). My most "used knife" these days is a Magnus Slideclick utility knife. I've had bigger knives in the past, but I learned that I just don't need anything massive anymore.
 
My only non-kichen-use big knife, a Barkie Tundra Camp. My next in size is the Aurora 2. I also have a pole mounted Cold Steel Bushman in the garden cabin, but rarely use it.
I had a Condor Hudson Bay before, but sold it. When I need something bigger, I reach for a Mini Duku or larger parangs, but that is mostly for chopping.
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Winkler Highland Hunter in sculpted maple. I changed the blade angle to 23 degrees so it is super sharp and will slice well. Winkler makes tough knives so I use it when working in the yard, on the grill, and in the woods. A little bigger but not gigantic. When I’m at work I switch to a winkler operator. It conceals well in my scrubs. IMG_8613.jpegIMG_8618.jpeg
 
I love big knives and actually use them for knife things. I carry one of my Fell Beasts every time I go to the farm. When you've got an 24 inch knife, everything becomes light work. Brush clearing, chopping, fire starting, food prep, I prefer a big blade for pretty much any task

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I am pretty sedentary at this point in my life, so I am not field dressing wild game or doing heavy camp craft chores.
As a teen in the 1960s, I mail ordered a WW-I style very long bayonet that served no purpose. In the same era, I mail ordered an Air Force Pilotts Survival knife. Had a friend grind off the cross guard and made a sort of frontier looking laced together belt sheath for it. IThat combo brought me some admiration when camping as a Boy Scout.

Today, my EDC is a weatherman Wave+. It comes with me whenever I put on my pants along with wallet and keys. Typically I use it to open the shrink-wrapped cold cuts from the fridge and for cutting Amazon boxes. I have used the Phillips head bit to retighten the struts on my walker. In the past(1980s) I worked on oil rigs in the desert and offshore . . .and then my EDC was a Buck 110. It got used nearly every day to cut open 100 pound bags of drilling fluid additives and sometimes cement.

I have been given a Spiderco large folder that has no model designation on it. It is a bit large for me to pocket carry and I really have no need for a knife that large anymore. Recently, I bought a pre owned CRKT M18 . . .because I always wanted one nd it was nearly a gif-away. Like the Spiderco, it is too big. Like the Spiderco, I have no compelling need for it either.
 
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Biggest folder that fits my 50+ rule is predictable. 110 of course. But my endela is closing in if not already there.
 
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