What's your EDU?

I edu a knife I made for myself out of 1095
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I do also EDC a spyderco millie and occasionally a leek.
 
For the last 8 or 9 months I have been trying to find a smaller worthy replacement for a kershaw Boa PE that gave me something around 4 or 5 years straight of depend on it EDU performance. I have gone thru a completly stupid number of folders in that relativly short period of time - what's in my pocket today is a Spyderco Lil Temperance with one of STR's lowriders on it. I keep going back to this knife and it's looking more and more like this will become my standard issue folder for a few years. I'm not particularly interested in it's self defense qualities - but as a EDU the blade design seems adequate for the kind of hard use I give a knife and the big benifit is a handle you can actually get a grip on.
And ( giving in to temptation) - I just ordered a beater Boa off the Exchange. Really - never even start on big folders - they're a real hard habit to break - just plain better tools for almost all tasks.
 
The only knife that I always carry and use is the Small Sebenza. Everything else I add in if I need something that they are better suited to than the Sebenza (such as a FB or a bigger folder).
 
My EDU EDC is my ZT-300. I had bought a ZT-500 to rotate it with but it seems to enjoy the taste of my blood a little too much. Every time i open it i seem to cut myself it's weird. I see why buy a knife if i am not going to use it.
 
My SS spyderco native is carried and used every single day (and believe me it shows). Lately ive also been using my spyderco paramilitary alot. I'll admit i baby the paramilitary simply because I love it and want it to last as long as possible (especially when i have a native as my workhorse).
 
My two aeodctbufpac knives are my Kershaw reverse tanto (13c26) leek and DLC coated Shallot depending on if I am wearing light or dark colored pants (about every other day carry to be used for protection and cutting).

My ededctufrt is a IDL Tools T10 (Crap, I forgot what my made up accronym for that was...). Anyway, its a nice little SAK replacement with all locking tools and a well designed set of pliers.



HEY, is that a queen in your pocket or are you just happy to be at Mardi Gras (sp?).
 
Well, as of my last posting, I changed my EDU (which I'm now calling my Cutter, out of respect to Cutter17 for starting the thread) to a Spyderco USA Native, just because I wanted to give S30V another run for the money. The waved Endura 4 is now relegated solely to the EDCFSDSTNA category.

Regards,
3G
 
I use, or have used, every knife that I own.
For the last couple of years I have been carrying a Buck 110 exclusively (with very few exceptions).
I do alternate between various 110 models.
And while my stag scaled 110 is my usual EDC/EDU, today I went with my walnut scaled 110....

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She was brand new when this picture was taken.
 
cutter17 said:
What is your Every Day User? Not talking about your edc, UNLESS it is your edu. Some folks, I'm one, carry both an edc and edu. I usually edc a ZT0500, today it is the ZT0300 that just arrived, but rarely have any use for it. I also edu a Boker Wharcom that does pretty much does all the work I need a knife to do. So why carry the other one? I carry the ZT because it is easy to carry for me, if the time ever comes that I do need to use it, I have it, and because it is a precision built tool that I like to have with me. I enjoy finely engineered items and especially so when it comes to knives. Now, as far as the Wharcom is concerned, this is one cutting machine! The blade shape, wharncliffe, is handy for about everything I do with a knife. The blade steel, AUS8, is not the latest supersteel but it does take a good using edge and is easy to resharpen.

So, how about it....................what's your EDU/EDC??
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What's the point of having to lug around an EDC if it's not going to be an EDU?
 
Coffee Black said:
What's the point of having to lug around an EDC if it's not going to be an EDU?
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Could be for show... Like gent's knife. Maybe someone carries it every day but doesn't actually USE it every day.

Or it could be a defense knife that is carried every day with the hope that it will never have to be used.

Those are two cases I can think of that a knife would be carried regularly but not be used frequently.
 
THG said:
Could be for show... Like gent's knife. Maybe someone carries it every day but doesn't actually USE it every day.

Or it could be a defense knife that is carried every day with the hope that it will never have to be used.

Those are two cases I can think of that a knife would be carried regularly but not be used frequently.
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I can agree with you about the defense knife. Although I do use my defense knife for light cutting like opening a packet of crackers, etc.
 
I do use it on occassion, but like I said, my smaller knife does most of my work. Not really for show as I don't pull it out and wave it at everybody I see, and I don't do my knife that way either:eek::eek:;) Now, back to reality, I just like having a finely tuned, well built, large folder, on me. Once you get used to it the weight is really negilible, and all my carrying folders have deep carry clips that only allow the clip to showwhen the knife is in my pocket. Maybe in the back of my mind I am thinking defense, but I can tell you for sure that in the front of my mind, I'm thinking RUN!!!:thumbup::D
 
Two users. Kershaw Sapphire for nastier stuff (e.g., cutting shingles, cardboard), and a WH Gentac for other duties (e.g., label removal, opening USPS boxes with new knives :D)

- Mark
 
I'm really wondering now if people are carrying "pocket queens," or if they're just carrying a beater and a nice knife.

Why scratch up the blade of a nice knife cutting up a gritty cardboard box, stripping wire, or other generally "dirty" cutting tasks?
 
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