Which do you prefer for edc

I am new here - but I could not resist this conversation.

I carry one folder and one fixed. Folder is for the task work - fixed is for SD. It would be odd to pull out a fixed blade to cut boxes or other simple tasks...especially around other people. At the same time, pulling a folder for SD in a quick must need situation after your gun no longer works...fixed blades will not fail to open...or stay open. Yes, I carry both EDC. I am down to using only a Leek for my folder, but my fixed changes between a Gerber Ghost, SOG Seal Pup, Izula and Izula II. When in the woods...it's a much different story!!
 
jkbm said:
I am new here - but I could not resist this conversation.

I carry one folder and one fixed. Folder is for the task work - fixed is for SD. It would be odd to pull out a fixed blade to cut boxes or other simple tasks...especially around other people. At the same time, pulling a folder for SD in a quick must need situation after your gun no longer works...fixed blades will not fail to open...or stay open. Yes, I carry both EDC. I am down to using only a Leek for my folder, but my fixed changes between a Gerber Ghost, SOG Seal Pup, Izula and Izula II. When in the woods...it's a much different story!!
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Welcome to the forum. :thumbup:
 
Fixed primarily because I can, eventually. I'll also have a folder or two, for the casualties... but my great pleasure is to draw a fixed blade when there is something to cut. I let my fixed blades at home when I go to town, of course.
 
jc57 said:
Folding. I never have a need for a fixed blade knife outside of a kitchen.
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Same here. I've never had a need for a fixed blade outside of the kitchen. I don't hunt, and even if I did, I'd likely carry a folding knife.
 
Crickettwilight said:
Which do you prefer for edc fixed blade or folding knife?
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I've recently change my mind on this issue, I used to carry only folders but of late I'm leaning more toward fixed blades. If I really need to depend on a knife a fixed blade is the better choice.
 
TravisH said:
At 4" and nearly 8oz, your ZT is hardly what I'd call a typical EDC folder. ;)

My Office EDC maxs out at 2.25" and 2oz. My non-Office EDC maxs out at 3.5" and 4oz. All more than adequate for the tasks at hand.

For camping/hiking, it's a fixed, like the BK15 or BK10. At 5.5" and 6.5oz and 12oz, they are much more practical than any overbuilt folder.
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True, the ZT is a pocket tank. Even my little CRKT Edgie though is about the size unfolded as many of my fixed blades.

Just because the blade is fixed, doesn't mean it's a honking belt knife.

My EK&T Companion and DCL knives fit perfect in the pocket, and I have no issue pulling them out to use in front of customers.
 
JesseT said:
Um, where exactly are you trying to conceal your knife? [emoji15]

Joking aside, what I carry depends on where I'm working that day. If I'm in the hospital I carry a traditional folder fully concealed, if I'm in the clinic I carry my Benchmade 940 clipped in my front pocket, and pretty much anywhere else I pocket carry my Fiddleback Esquire (an amazingly comfortable knife for fixed blade edc).
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When I carry a fixed blade, I don't conceal, but as I wrote that, I was remembering a time that I went to some place for work years ago and there was a guy driving a little forklift, wearing a trench coat, a Crocodile Dundee hat(with teeth and everything), and he had a big cheap, ugly, Gerber fixed blade on his belt.....oh, and a long pony tail. I would have loved get in that guys head. LOL.
 
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