What would you rather carry?

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Case peanut
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Victorinox pioneer / Wegner Standard Issue
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Victorinox Spartan
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I carried the alox soldier for a couple of years, and while it's a perfect edc knife/multi tool in my opinion, now i only carry a peanut, and have been carrying it mostly for more than 2 years already. I really don't see any other knife replacing it, at least for urban settings.
But..i do have a sears 4way and a p38 in my wallet, and a bottle opener on my keys.
 
If it was the only knife I could own it would be the spartan, so very useful and it's the perfect size for an EDC pocket knife. I never warmed up to the alox, they feel cold and sterile in the hand and the pull on the blades is a little stronger than I like, good knives though.
The peanut would be a great second knife for when I wanted to carry something a little smaller or classier, it's just too small for food prep which I use my pocket knife for a lot. It's also the only knife I have ever broken in day to day use, the tip snapped off on me when I used it to bore a small hole in the top of a plastic water bottle to make a squirt bottle, didn't take much and it snapped clean off. I have never even bent a tip doing this with other folders, let alone snap one off.
 
I like SAKs for their uniqueness and functionality. But I seldom use most of the tools/implements found in most of them (can opener, screwdriver, etc.). All the extra tools make for a bulkier/heavier carry, in-pocket. I've also become somewhat disenchanted with the relative softness of the blade steel in them, though it can be made very sharp, very easily. Just doesn't hold it very long.

All that said, I'd be much more likely to carry the Peanut (and I do, most days, along with a large stockman).

As previously mentioned, I also have, on my keychain, my Dad's 1951 P-38 can opener, and a keychain screwdriver/wrench tool that came with a fishing reel purchased years ago. Sort of similar to the Sears 4-way mentioned. :)


David
 
Spaartaaaaaaan :D
All joking aside, I never leave the house without mine. I use the screwdrivers pretty often and I don't want to carry my big and heavy Leatherman Surge all the time
 
Peanut! Don't need more for general day-to-day that the P-38 and Sears Keycoin tools on my keychain can't handle--with less overall weight and bulk.

That said, when I do week or multi-week whitewater raft trips with my brother, I've got the Alox Cadet with me.
 
I've had my pioneer on me since I finally bought a new a year and a half ago. Hands down my most used knife, though rarely for the blade. Still have one or two other knives in my pockets;-)
 
Of the three you listed...I would prefer the Victorinox pioneer / Wegner Standard Issue. I just got one about two weeks ago, (actually it was a Farmer) along with the their sweet leather belt sheath & steel.

But, I would really rather carry a medium or large stockman.

Tom
 
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Peanut for sure - in my case it's a Pemberton, but nearly the same thing. (What IS this 4-way Sears key chain do-dad I keep hearing about? Pic?) :)
 
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