What is your primary purpose of carrying your EDC knive?

1. Because I like to flick them open while I'm thinking or bored.
2. I open a lot of boxes.
3. I use it to cut wrapping paper, classier than using a razor knife.
4. Because I like to.

;)
 
I actually don't need to carry any knife other than a Victorinox MiniChamp, but today I bought a $120 Spyderco Viele II to EDC just because I think it's cool to have a nice knife with me *just in case whatever happens*
 
Hair said:
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So the real question is: Even if the need for a knife is a rare thing outside of work and specialized tasks and hobbies, WHY NOT carry one just in case?....
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I agree with what most have said here. I carry mine on days where I may not need it because I want to be prepared just in case.

I started carrying a knife 2 years ago. I'm 33 now. I am one of the people that do think "how did I ever manage before?". I use my knives for everything.

People ask to borrow my knife all the time (only a few get to borrow it).

Here are some things I use my knife for:

-Cut strings off of clothes
-Open letters
-Open packages
-Just in case I need it
-Whittle
-Food prep when camping
-Cutting an apple at night at home
-Slicing up grapes for my little girl
-Carving a marshmellow or hotdog stick
-Cutting zip ties
-Stripping wire
-Sharpening a pencil
-Opening CD's/DVD's (that stupid shrinkwrap)
 
what rat said........I do most of what everybodys said here to me it boils down to do you want to be the guy who has the knife or are you always gonna be the guy who has to ask for one. The reason that you want one should be enough.
 
My knife is simply for utility. Open mail, packages and probably the most important task is to open that chocolate bar wrapper!

Don't get between me and my chocolate bar!
 
I started carrying for work purposes, but there came a time when it felt strange not to have one in my pocket.

Once you start to carry, you'll wonder how you ever managed without!
 
tjpark said:
Hi,

I am a newbie here and looking for my first EDC knife. Knives are cool and tempting me to have one. However, I cannot find any practical purpose of buying one and carrying it.
So I wonder what other fellas are doing with their knives on daily basis.

Let me find a perfect reason why I should have one.

T. J.
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My maternal grandfather gave me my first knife (a little two-blade folder with red aluminum scales) when I was five. In that time I have gutted fish, cut fishing line, string, rope and cord of all shapes and sizes, whittled sticks from marshmallow skewers to walking sticks, made crude bows and arrows, opened envelopes, boxes, CD and DVD cases and other packages without number, cut and prepared food from vegetables to fruit to cheese to steak, carved wood, split it and cut it down to size for firewood, cut patches for my flintlock, cleared brush, limbed trees, cut and trimmed my fingernails, thrown them at things for entertainment, trimmed and finished tomahawk handles, played mublety-peg, opened the back of my watch to change the battery, screwed and unscrewed everything from eyeglasses to electronic devices (SAKs rock), built leantos, whittled mag blocks and banged their spines against ferrocium rods to light fires, scraped paint and glue spills, opened bottles, opened cans, pulled wine corks, stripped wire, cut paper, removed splinters, summarily dealt with poorly tied knots, and I'm sure dozens of other uses that I've forgotten.

I have a knife on me at all times, at home or out of doors. It's a cliche, I know, but I do feel naked without a knife.

I'd suggest getting yourself a decent midsized SAK; I'd recommend the Victorinox Super Tinker or the Rucksack, but there are literally dozens of different models and I've never met a SAK I didn't like, so do some homework and get yourself a model that suits your needs. Carry it with you every day. You'll be wondering how you ever got by without it within a couple of weeks.
 
I mostly cut sales tag and open plastic covering with my knife. Not very exciting, but very handy.

To rip off Victorinox's slogan, "a knife is more than just a tool, it is a friend!"
 
If you decide to buy a knife, forget the SAK advice and buy a real knife. Later if you still want to acquire more knives you can buy an SAK as a toy or sort of curiousity, but keep a good heavy duty knife handy at all times.

Nolan
 
I'm lost without a knife. It's a tool, for me. I work in shops where there is always something that needs to be cut. From opening boxes, cutting, scraping, picking, pokeing, prying to cleaning my fingernails. I use a knife everyday.
I use it in the Hotel, when I travel, to open cans and, after washing it, prepair food. (I get tired of eating at resrurants)
I started using a knife as a BoyScout. Be Prepaired!
I don't think of a knife as a tool for SD.
 
Self defenese is, of course, a major reason for me. My first, and only time (so far) of drawing my knife in self defense was when I was only 6 years old. A 6th grade girl (12 years old) started to bully me during the walk home from school. Not only was she twice my age, but she was a large girl for only being 12. I don't know why it started. I didn't even know her.

One morning I stole a pen knife belonging to my father. It was kept in is "ditty" drawer in my parents bedroom. When the girl pushed me that same afternoon on the way home, I pulled out the knife, opened it, and pointed it at her. I don't remember what I said, if anything. But I do know that she never bothered me again.

I didn't get in trouble with the school but my best friend told his parents and, needless to say, they told my parents. I sure got in trouble then.

I've wore out 2 Swiss Army knives when I was a mechanic (for 12 years). I now carry 2 and sometimes 3 knives.

But the most valuable lesson was what I learned from that event when I was only 6. To this day, one of the main reasons I carry a knife so I can defend myself against large, older women. Most people probably would disagree with me but wait until you get bullied on the way home from work someday by a large, older woman. You'll wish you had your father's pen knife with you then.

:D :D :D
 
My grad father started me out. My gradfather used to be an engineer on the railroad way back. He would hire out of work travelers for odd jobs. One way he used to tell if he could get an honest days work out of a guy was to check his pocket knife. He used to say "Any man too lazy to keep his knife sharp, is too lazy to give you a goods days work." So I remembered that when he gave me my first pocket knive. And to this day every knife I have is razor sharp, even the collectables.
 
Usually, I carry a knife to cut stuff.
Sometimes, I use it to eat the souls of baby animals. I have a custom knife just for that (SoulSucker 3000). [kidding]

Normally, I carry a couple things, dapending on what I'm doing. Usually I have a one-hand-opener, which I use the most. It's quick and easy; cutting jobs done while I'm working on something with my hands, and only have one hand free, etc.
I almost always add a SAK to the mix, for the tools. I like having a little device in my pocket that opens my beer bottles, drives screws, cuts stuff, etc. It comes in very handy.
Sometimes, instead of one or the other (or both, or even in addition), I carry a traditional slipjoint. I like carbon steel slippies. They're great slicers, since their blades are thinner than the blades of most one-handers, and they stay sharp forever (if you get a nice carbon steel blade). Plus, they look very nice, and feel good in my hand.
 
These are my edc for now, the drop point is for at home, and the tanto is for at work. You can see my work knife has been staying pretty pristine, things have been slow. My at home knife takes a beating. I mostly use it doing chores around the barn.

I bought them both used, because they had very similar blade stripes and had the early dark green G10 scales.
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