Your Knife For Social Gatherings ?

sabre cat

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Do you have a certain knife for social gatherings? You know, a gents knife, dress knife, or travel knife. What? How do you determine what knife gets carried when?

My Benchmade 531 was purchased to be used only as a formal dress knife but, I found that it works great as a light duty EDC. Yeah, you guessed it, the EDC role won out. Sometimes it still gets carried for fancy events.

Still left with the question of what to carry for formal social occasions? Many times I end up at one of these events, someone will approach me borrow a knife. I can see someone dropping a SAK in their pocket when forced into social gatherings with people they don't know. Especially someone reluctant to loan out a costly knife.
 
Depends on what you want. A Vic Classic is going to do anything one needs to do at a formal event. But it's not a dress/gents/classy/Sundaygotomeetin' knife. A nice peanut with fancy scale materials is nice.
 
Personally I like to wear a Katana on one side and a Wakizashi on the other, to social events. Then a SAK in my right front pocket and a Barlow in my left front pocket. Just to cover all the bases. But mostly to see the look on their faces.

The colors I wear - and whether I choose a nice suit or a tuxedo - depends on the time of year and type of event, of course.
 
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Whatever small pocket knife I am usually carrying. Formal, informal, I don't have special knives for special settings. A small SAK or peanut class knife is good enough for my everyday life, gatherings and all.
 
Any sort of Buck slipjoint sounds like the knife for you, especially the Rosewood models. Classy through and through, but not overpriced in the least.

I don’t run into many formal gatherings, but a few weeks ago I was at a friend’s wedding and brought along my GEC 48. I didn’t have to loan it, but I did have to cut a few items with it and actually received a compliment or two on it.


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For the occasional loaner for the non-knife person, I generally hand them my Micra, which is always in my RFP.

I run a seam up the side of my RRP on most of slacks, even my dress slacks, and just carry whatever knife suits my fancy there. It's discrete and comfortable. Nothing on my belt. No clip showing. Typically either an aluminum/micarta Buck 110 or an Opinel, both of which are "pretty" enough for any event I'm going to, if a bit big.

If I feel the need to carry something smaller to a social event (not often), I'll carry my Buck 500 - an older one with Micarta scales.

Buck 500 Duke and Micra by Pinnah, on Flickr
 
i still just carry my EDC when I'm forced to wear uncomfortable clothes - the CF and Ti Spydie Domino is gentlemanly enough IMO

if i was going to get something though - I would go with a slip or lockback, with a nice natural handle material and some shiny bolsters - like McFeeli or pinnah just posted
 
marcinek said:
Long time ago, I was in a similar discussion and the best explanation of how to determine/pick a dress/gents knife was given.

Ask yourself: What knife would Cary Grant carry?

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I neat way to address the question but we have options that Grant never even dreamed about.
Looking only at options he could have chosen sure would make this easier.
 
sabre cat said:
I neat way to address the question but we have options that Grant never even dreamed about.
Looking only at options he could have chosen sure would make this easier.
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Okay. :D If Cary Grant were alive today, what knife would he carry?
 
sabre cat said:
Do you have a certain knife for social gatherings? You know, a gents knife, dress knife, or travel knife. What? How do you determine what knife gets carried when?

My Benchmade 531 was purchased to be used only as a formal dress knife but, I found that it works great as a light duty EDC. Yeah, you guessed it, the EDC role won out. Sometimes it still gets carried for fancy events.

Still left with the question of what to carry for formal social occasions? Many times I end up at one of these events, someone will approach me borrow a knife. I can see someone dropping a SAK in their pocket when forced into social gatherings with people they don't know. Especially someone reluctant to loan out a costly knife.
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Kizer feist because it is very small. If its really formal I just drop it into my pocket.

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It depends what type of social gathering it is. A case mini trapper with a nice bone handle. A small buck like duke, knight or traditional.
 
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