Your daily carry knives

My absolutely positively EDC is a Victorinox Midnite Manager 0.6 x 0.8 x 2.28 inches (left front pocket). Don't laugh. Its acceptable for formal, smart-casual and casual occasions. For self defense it has a ball point pen to record details in case of a car accident. An LED to see things in the dark. A bottle cap remover for beer bottles without twist tops. A Phillips head screwdriver for emergency battery replacements and other needs. Scissors for the odd mustache and nose hair trim and a thousand other things. Most of all it has a razor sharp 1.5 inch blade for self-defense or torture using the age old Oriental thousand cuts method.

I have a Spyderco LadyBug on my key ring. And usually a Spyderco DragonFly Salt H1 clipped in my right front jeans pocket. And a Byrd Meadowlark combo blade in the center console of my car. Mostly for cutting seat belts of backseat drivers as a first warning.

I have quite a collection of other knives that are not part of this discussion. Like a Puma Gelder given to me by an ex-girl friend either as a present or a threat, and a Buck 110 I bought for myself shortly thereafter.


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Nice and welcome to the Forums!
G2
 
Charlie Mike said:
The black coin on the lanyard is the elusive 18 month sobriety chip... not every fellowship has them. My next lanyard (1-7-16) will have a bronze 2 year chip.
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Keep it up CM, been a lurker for years and it's really good to see you coming up on two years.
 
My daily carry is always:

- A large folding knife
- SAK Recruit
- Maratac AAA Copper
- Folding pocket comb
- Pen (varies)

And like you, have other knives, both folding and fixed, in my day bag. I rotate my carry fairly often, so it keeps things fresh.
 
lessismore said:
I'd narrowed it down to a yellow peanut with nice polished edges, and a #47 Viper in green micarta with a bit of a toothy edge. That seemed to cover all my needs.

That was until last week when my Viper slithered off somewhere out on the prairie.

Thats a great shot Gary, that group looks like it'll cover just about anything!
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Well I thought I lost it out on the prairie the other day, but it slithered home and was hiding in my couch.:thumbup:

I bought it right after my daughter was born as a father's day gift to myself. She just pulled it out of the couch and handed it to me. Yes, I'm an idiot. But a happy one.
 
That's great news right there ! I had a knife jump out of a pocket once out when I was trying to chop some branches off a tree, I was leaping, well as far as I can leap, into the air to get at the branch and the knife must have leaped out and I never heard it hit the ground. I searched high and low for that thing, an old Rigid folder with wood scales. Next year, my wife was mowing lawn, yes I know, I'm blessed to have a wife that will mow the lawn ;), she noticed something shiny in the grass after she made a pass with the lawnmower and low and behold, it was the knife! None the worse for wear! after sitting on the ground under snow all winter! Then I remember how it must have come to have landed there, pretty amazing.

G2
 
I figure Gary might like this. I'm gonna make a leather pancake sheath for this one and then it will get some carry time.

 
Thanks CM, that's a pretty cool knife right there!
G2
 
My grouping has changed slightly, the Kizer has moved on, surprisingly but she did, and the Real Steel Sea Eagle has filled that spot for the foreseeable future, the rest are still in there for now though :)

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G2
 
I like the aesthetics of that Sea Eagle. Gary, how to these Real Steel knives stack up against other Chinese budget folders from Kershaw, CRKT, etc.?
 
This is what lives in my pants and on my belt, all day everyday.

Modified Spyderco PM2
Condor Kephart
Case large stockman in CV
Leatherman Wave with 42 piece bit kit, UST ferro rod, Streamlight Microstream in belt sheath
 
Cosmic Superchunk said:
I like the aesthetics of that Sea Eagle. Gary, how to these Real Steel knives stack up against other Chinese budget folders from Kershaw, CRKT, etc.?
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I've had most all of them and this seems to be on a much higher shelf, at least the one I have in hand.
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I've always kept my collection extremely small just to minimize investment. Plus having less knives and a cheaper selection has so many benefits. I just carry one knife and not every day. My favorite has always been my orange s30v military for $115, and I eventually got a $30 black powder coat low rider clip for it which makes a world of difference. Despite it's size it's such an easy carry that I can -easily- IWB in gym shorts! It's really big and just such a perfect knife! But sometimes I want to keep it small so I pocket a $125 Air instead, another perfect knife which I totally adore! But when I know I'll sweat into my pocket I just avoid it. Sometimes I carry my $300 560cf for it's amazing flipping and it's sexiness! Such a cool knife! But my least favorite for sure. I don't love the metal handled nature of it. Overall contrasted with my Millie it's just so much denser, heavier, chunkier, less grippy, less tactile, less shiny, and thicker ground so it cuts things like apples and oranges less well. It's less safe feeling despite a -bank vault- lockup. I bought a cold steel Talwar XL in AUS8 for $70 and what an incredible knife! But I kind of don't do the defense thing anymore so it's too big. It's such a perfect knife, dare I say better than the Military, I've thought of buying a 4 inch one. Maybe even in XHP, but my orange military always staves off that purchase...for now. I've been tempted by literally a thousand knives but have kept my earnings elsewhere. Rockstead has really interested me lately. I love the shiny blade and craaaaaazy hard steel. But the price is so astronomical, even $300 for the necker, that I can't justify it yet sadly. I just know from use that all of my pocket knives perform totally outstandingly, but if I didn't have this one or that one I may have already shelled out the $700+ for a sweet Rockstead.
 
Ti-Lite Titanium for the most part and either a regular Tanto or the Mini Tanto for my walks.
 

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I have been carrying a SAK mechanic for 3 years now in my pocket almost everyday. It has seen a lot of use and has sentimental value to me.
 
The basic, most routinely carried EDC rotation:

The "others" who get respectable rotation time:

+ most usually one of these:


And then there's the work Knives & Pure Beaters:
 
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