Your longest run with a single knife.

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Howdy folks!

Remember a while back I made a thread trying to use a single knife for a year?

Well I never really stopped.

I've carried a lot of stuff since then, and every time I always try to think "just this for a year".

And yes, I still think the PM2 is perfect, just like my thread.

But thats just it. Its the perfect "knife".

More often than not, I need to scrape, pry, screwdrive (is that a word?) and the PM2 wasn't made for that stuff. (Maybe scraping, but no prying).

So I threw my Vic Pioneer in my pocket.

Its only been 8 days, but I decided to ask Bladeforums just for fun.

What's your longest run with a single knife?
Pictures would be fantastic. Especially if its all scratched and beat up.

My longest was also a Pioneer, but a different one. About 10 months.

Sorry about my hypocritical lack of pictures. Photobucket is being mean to me lately. But I'm sure y'all know what a Vic Pioneer looks like.
 
8 or 9 years, I guess. I used to carry a Buck 110 on my belt at work many years ago. I wasn't into knives at all back then, it was just an almost never-used tool.
 
CRK collection.jpg Well, no doubt that it's one of my CRK large Sebenzas...sometimes a Model 21, sometimes a Wilson Tactical/Sebenza collaboration, a large Classic or a Regular. They are all basically the same knife...just..different. :) Oops...there is an Umnumzaan in there also.

...about eight yrs now...no plans to switch...
 
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Buck 110, on and off for 40 years. "On and off," but each time "on" would usually be for several years at a time. I wore out the original sheath and had to replace it sometime in the 90s. Right now I'm more into carrying SAKs and traditional slipjoints, but I'm sure it will come around again. :D
 
At least a decade with a Vic Huntsman, prolly closer to 2...
Now it is the Vic pioneer alox, on my 2nd one, not quite a decade yet. I always have something else with it just for me to use.
 
I carried a Spyderco Police for years. I'm thinking four or five years. I lost that old hoss. :( Since then, I've never carried a single knife continuously like that.
 
About 3 years, a cheap POS Remington. That was before when I thought paying 20$ was ridiculous. I still have it. It for some reason I have a fondness of that knife. I have given away roughly 30 knives over the years. Either to upgrade a buddies knife, even gave knives to random guys that tell me they don't carry a knife, plus I enjoy sharing my obsession. Nothing real expensive.
 
Before I really got into knives, I carried a first gen Delica with the FRN clip for a decade.
When the backlock started to get loose, I looked for a replacement. That's when I got bit by the knife bug.
 
I carried a Case Canoe for about 6yrs? when I was much younger. It was well used when I bought it.
Had a USMC as my only fixed blade for about 25yrs.
 
How about pics to spice up the thread.

This has the most pocket time of all my knives. Its a fine knife on its own, but after a slight modification, it is downright amazing. It slices like nothing else. It has a classic renaissance look. To me, it looks like something Colonel Kováts may have carried while fighting for the right side of the American Revolution. Colonel Kováts was a Hungarian who served heroically as an officer in the Continental army and died fighting for our independence. His legacy was the founding of the U.S. Cavalry.

Actually, you know what...since we will soon have no more statues left to honor our heroes, hertoforth this knife will be known as Col. Kováts.

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This was my EDC for years as a teenager, not even sure how many but probably as many as 4.

And this has been on me every single day for the last about 5 years and I don't think It's going anywhere unless maybe I find a Leatherman blast.
 
What's your longest run with a single knife?

I always liked knives, but I was no knife knut. I carried a two-blade Case jack knife (and a two blade Case Barlow before that) for probably 10 years. I carried a Schrade 250T for field work (like a Buck 110) and for a number of years, that was pretty much every day. The Case was still in my pocket however. A metamorphosis occurred when I carried a SAK for a couple years (mostly office work) and I liked it. That changed everything.... a Tinker first, then an alox Soldier, then the current side locking Adventurer. The Adventurer has been in my pocket for 10-15 years now. I'll add a modern sometimes and lately it has been the Steel Will Mini Cutjack in M390 which I consider a great knife. Been carrying it with the SAK for over a month now.
 
Probably my Cutco 1891. I carried it for 2-3 years and then last year replaced it. I have only been seriously into knives for at most a year now. Since then it has been a revolving door of knives to figure out what I really like. The BM Mini Grip and Spyderco DF2 are the only ones I've sold and repurchased because I missed having them.

Here's the 1891. It's a lot sadder looking than the pic shows.
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For six months when I got my third knife, a Byrd Meadowlark, I carried nothing else. Shortly after the knife bug bit me bad, and I've rotated ever since.
 
I carried a Buck 303 (made by Camillus) every day for over 10 years in the 70's-80's time frame.
Anyone wonder why I say, "440A works plenty good enough for everyday if it's done right?" Because it did for me for over 10 years. In those days I had a string of different jobs. Drove a truck, worked in a retail paint/hardware store, worked in construction; worked in an engineering lab. Had all kinds of cutting chores. That little stockman with its 440A blades never let me down. It did it all.
 
Bought this at one of the firsts ECCKS or NYCKS, one or the other. It was also my first custom knife, made by a local premier maker whom I've long since become friends with. Bought the year before my daughter was born, I've carried it as an EDC pretty much continuously since day one, (about 27 years) here it is, a Bud Nealy Aikuchi in Blued 0-1 wit a distal tapered tang, dovetailed bolsters and black linen micarta scales.

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I carried a Buck 303 (made by Camillus) every day for over 10 years in the 70's-80's time frame.
Anyone wonder why I say, "440A works plenty good enough for everyday if it's done right?" Because it did for me for over 10 years. In those days I had a string of different jobs. Drove a truck, worked in a retail paint/hardware store, worked in construction; worked in an engineering lab. Had all kinds of cutting chores. That little stockman with its 440A blades never let me down. It did it all.
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A decent 440a definitely works just fine for me.
I've got an ( I'm told early 90's ) colonial made Swiss style scout that I picked up last summer for 50¢ at a yardsale and I can't complain one bit about the performance of the steel which I'm told is 440a.
It takes a razor edge very easily, and is still cutting things at the end of the week. That's as much as I can ask of any knife.
 
20 something years with a Buck 110 that my uncle gave me. Funny enough Gerber Icon for 6 years, and now starting 1 year so far with my Large Sebenza 21.
 
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