Which category fits you best?

What ONE camp do you fall into/your best fit?

  • Folder

    Votes: 81 66.9%

  • Fixed Blade

    Votes: 28 23.1%

  • Multitool/SAK

    Votes: 12 9.9%
  • Total voters
    121
Steely_Gunz

Steely_Gunz

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I'm sure this has been asked before, but I was just wondering where folks fall on the cusp of a new decade. If you had to pick ONE style of cutting utensil/tool that fit you and your needs best, would you pick a folding knife, a fixed blade, or a multitool/SAK?

Now don't try to make this overly complicated or convoluted. I will leave your criteria up to YOU. I'm not asking what is "best" or necessarily what you would pick for an End of the World Knife (unless that's how you want to answer. You do you.). I'm just wondering what you gravitate toward. It could be what you enjoy collecting the most, or what feels best in your hand, or what you gravitate toward at work or just what finds the most time in your pocket/on your belt. No right or wrong answers here. No persuasion. I'm just curious.

My one request: No "this and that" or "all of them" posts. As I type, I have a fixed blade neck knife on, an Inkosi in my pocket, and a Leatherman on my belt. I'm asking which ONE speaks to you most or which ONE you find the most invaluable for whatever reason.

For me, no matter what I buy or carry, I will always be a multitool guy. I love my high quality super steel folders, my large chopping khukris that could take me to the ends of the earth, but if I were to be dropped anywhere on the planet randomly, I would feel best having a good MT on my person. As a Jack of all Trades, I love the flexibility a MT offers. Maybe it was all those Macgyver episodes back in the 1980s. It is just more my style and mindset. It allows me more ability to bend a situation to my needs than a folder or fixed blade.

On less fantastical merits, I just use a MT more in my day to day. I open packages, turn screws, repair pumps, and hand fabricate little bobs and widgets to make things work that don't have replacement parts. Despite my work-carried MTs not sporting high end steels or glassy high performance actions on PB washers or bearings or being able to pry a car door off its hinges, they are the first tool I drop in my pocket every morning.

I carry nice folders and fixed blades because I like them. I sport a MT because I feel naked without one, and the few times I DIDN'T have one on me and needed it, a knife wouldn't do the job required. I will be the first to admit I shave grown completely dependent on the pocket tool kit.

So, with that said, where do y'all fall? Folder, Fixed Blade, or Multitool/SAK?

I look forward to your thoughts:)
 
I always have a folder, traditional or modern for the incidental cutting tasks they are most convenient.
 
I have all three but have more folders, a couple SAK's and three fixed blades. I rarely use a fixed blade so that pretty well dismisses that and even though I carry my two SAK's everyday, I really only use the toothpick on them, but occasionally I do use the blades (around easily spooked people).

I have, however, seemed to have reached a plateau on my knife buying and will take somewhat of a sabbatical for the time being.

Forgot to mention that I do carry and use a folder everyday, occasionally a traditional but mostly a modern folder.
 
Tough choice as it depends on the situation. But I have generally moved to a Vic SAK for day to day cutting with a folder.
 
Folders. My Kershaw Al Mar assisted knife seems to be getting a lot of use and carry lately. I've always liked Al Mar designed knives.
 
I chose folder because that’s what I like carrying and collecting, if I don’t have a knife in my pocket it’s most likely because it’s being used.
But my mt’s get a ton of use. I wish they weren’t so bulky, I’d carry one more instead of leaving it in my truck or a bag. I think I might check out the free p4... p4 free lol
 
If I am going on an outdoor adventure, I will carry all three but I prefer a fixed blade. I have had a folder fail on me (after ten years of hard use so it wasn’t a POS knife) and have had a multi tool fail as well (after three years of hard use).


Folder was an Ulster Boy Scout knife and multi tool was a Buck Tool.
 
Folder for me. Either my Alan Davis custom, Spyderco Delica, or my latest a Cold Steel Recon 1 satin finish spear point. Kevin
 
folder because I find it vary useful to have one always on me, I'm a hands on sorta guy.
 
folder because I find it vary useful to have one always on me, I'm a hands on sorta guy.
 
Lots of good responses. Much appreciated guys:)
I always like hearing the rationale of why people pack what they pack.
 
I always have a small two blade folder in my lf pocket and a SAK huntsman in a belt case. I probably use one as much as the other but the SAK has more options. I never drag around a regular multi tool but I keep one in my range bag and truck tool box.
 
Fixed blade all the way.

I use one as EDC. They're tough, sturdy and there's lots of models which are easy to conceal. My coworker has a folder which you can tell on first look, because of clip showing from his pocket. And at other hand they said "WOW" when Drop Forged Hunter appeared in my hand out of nowhere, since it isn't a tiny knife. I carry it in my pocket, and my shirt is always over smaller part of handle that is showing up on the side.

Fixed blade is more simple, easier to maintain, much stronger, safer, and a lot faster to use in case of emergency.
 
Fixed blade all the way.

I use one as EDC. They're tough, sturdy and there's lots of models which are easy to conceal. My coworker has a folder which you can tell on first look, because of clip showing from his pocket. And at other hand they said "WOW" when Drop Forged Hunter appeared in my hand out of nowhere, since it isn't a tiny knife. I carry it in my pocket, and my shirt is always over smaller part of handle that is showing up on the side.

Fixed blade is more simple, easier to maintain, much stronger, safer, and a lot faster to use in case of emergency.
 
Fixed blade all the way.

I use one as EDC. They're tough, sturdy and there's lots of models which are easy to conceal. My coworker has a folder which you can tell on first look, because of clip showing from his pocket. And at other hand they said "WOW" when Drop Forged Hunter appeared in my hand out of nowhere, since it isn't a tiny knife. I carry it in my pocket, and my shirt is always over smaller part of handle that is showing up on the side.

Fixed blade is more simple, easier to maintain, much stronger, safer, and a lot faster to use in case of emergency.
 
Fixed blade. Because in my book, a FB is actually a knife.

I love folders, Multitools, choppers, hawks, axes etc. etc. etc.

But a sleek chunk of steel fitted with some hand filling slabs lovingly encased in some hand tooled leather always gets me.
 
Fixed blade all the way.

I use one as EDC. They're tough, sturdy and there's lots of models which are easy to conceal. My coworker has a folder which you can tell on first look, because of clip showing from his pocket. And at other hand they said "WOW" when Drop Forged Hunter appeared in my hand out of nowhere, since it isn't a tiny knife. I carry it in my pocket, and my shirt is always over smaller part of handle that is showing up on the side.

Fixed blade is more simple, easier to maintain, much stronger, safer, and a lot faster to use in case of emergency.
 
Fixed blade. Because in my book, a FB is actually a knife.

I love folders, Multitools, choppers, hawks, axes etc. etc. etc.

But a sleek chunk of steel fitted with some hand filling slabs lovingly encased in some hand tooled leather always gets me.
 
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