Your longest run with a single knife.

T. Erdelyi said:
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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Now I'm curious, what are the nine available carry positions?!
 
I kind of wandered from having multiple knives and went for ~7 years with a Horseman being my EDC (it was a gift from a friend), and I worked it hard, cutting drywall, electrical wire, and anything else in my path.

Funny because in all those years I never knew how the Horseman/CQC handle shape does not fit my hand well. I was looking to replace it with another but went back to a CQC-7 and then the bug bit again. I now have a small collection again, and it is growing, and the Horseman has been retired. It was included in a sale to someone else, so I no longer have it. I hope he is using it.

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mt666tm said:
I kind of wandered from having multiple knives and went for ~7 years with a Horseman being my EDC (it was a gift from a friend), and I worked it hard, cutting drywall, electrical wire, and anything else in my path.

Funny because in all those years I never knew how the Horseman/CQC handle shape does not fit my hand well. I was looking to replace it with another but went back to a CQC-7 and then the bug bit again. I now have a small collection again, and it is growing, and the Horseman has been retired. It was included in a sale to someone else, so I no longer have it. I hope he is using it.

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Something sexy about a worn Emerson. Love how the DLC coating wears.
 
abbazaba said:
Over a decade with a Benchmade 330 I received as a gift. It's a perfect lightweight EDC/gentleman's carry that is invisible in pocket. Unlike my newer knifes, it's probably opened more beers than packages :)

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If this didn't have markings, I could be fooled into thinking this is someone's homemade custom. If this was mine, I'd be thinking about somehow adding custom bolsters. It's not even mine and I'm thinking about it....
 
silverds said:
If this didn't have markings, I could be fooled into thinking this is someone's homemade custom. If this was mine, I'd be thinking about somehow adding custom bolsters. It's not even mine and I'm thinking about it....
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The genius of this knife is lack of bolsters over the titanium liners. It all makes sense in hand :)
 
Lapedog said:
Something sexy about a worn Emerson. Love how the DLC coating wears.
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thought emerson used teflon, not dlc? am i wrong? thanks.

agree it does look good worn down from use.
 
About 12 years ago, i decided it was about time that I have a good pocket knife. I figured I would buy one good knife and call it quits. I hunted around, and people suggested that a BM Griptillian was the best EDC knife in the history of ever. I had never even imagined a knife could cost a whole $90. I mean, that's just CRAZY!!! Who spends that kinda cash on a freaking knife, right? Well, I ponied up for it, thinking "buy once cry once." I carried it exclusively for about 10 years. To me a knife was kind of like any other tool or appliance. Just like I have no interest in collecting multiple toasters, I saw no need to get more than that one knife. I already had a Kabar USMC, a Schrade ToughTool MT, and a Cold Steel kukri machete. I figured that with that combo along with the Griptillian, I had every knife need covered, and that's the way it was until about 3 years ago when I decided I wanted a smaller fixed blade for outdoors use. In my research, I started whetting my appetite for more knives... knives I didn't need but now wanted...
I had become..... infected.

I started buying more and more. I'd see a Buck 110 in a local shop, and knowing full well i didn't need one, I'd buy it anyway. A Mora? Well it's only $15 yeah sure i can always use another. Another Mora? They're still only $15, ok sure, I can justify that...besides, I don't have the blue one yet.. (that happened about 10 times...)

Then I'd decide I need a knife for boating, a knife for wood processing, and all of a sudden I created all the niches for knife tasks that I have never needed previously but damnit I needed a knife now or I couldn't do that job!!!

I've since sold off much of that original collection and narrowed my collection. As a guy with two knives inbound this week, I hesitate to say that the infection is in remission, but I definitely have a better grip on it.

Oh, and that Griptillian? 10 yrs of HARD EDC use later... still working great, though it doesn't get carried much any more. Maybe I should pull the old girl out and give her some pocket time... She pulled EDC duty solo, with nothing else in the rotation for a decade. We've got history...
 
Wow, I’ve not carried a knife nearly as long as some other members. My Spyderco Military has been in my pocket more often than not, though the Umnumzaan competes heavily. Right now I have a small Inkosi that lives with the wallet that balances a perfect set of size and function.
 
I have carried a spyderco military for just over 2 years now. But I must admit, while its been a millie, it has been one of 6 versions. Always a Military though
 
At least a decade. Back in my younger years I would buy and carry one knife. I carried a small Gerber forever. Then I got into knife forums, bought lots of nice knives and can hardly carry the same one for a day
 
I carried a plain edge sog flash 2 for 11 years. I lost it about a year ago. I miss that knife, would probably still be in my pocket today .
 
I'm close to 70 years old & have carried a knife daily since I was a little kid. My longest run with a single knife would be with my Uncle Henry Stockman. (The one in the middle.) I bought it in 1970 & carried it every day for almost 30 years. It wore out the right front pocket in many pairs of jeans. The second most carried is the Buck stockman on the far right. It was bought maybe 5 years after the Uncle Henry & carried when I wanted a slightly smaller knife.
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bladeboss said:
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.
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I posted a thread on my three.... there have been others I Carry with them but those three are my longest runs.....

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...knives-over-the-past-almost-40-years.1520520/

So 11 years
 
jbmonkey said:
thought emerson used teflon, not dlc? am i wrong? thanks.

agree it does look good worn down from use.
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I am not actually sure about what coating Emerson uses. Some google research leaves me confused too. Some people are saying it's ceracote, others are saying "black teflon"
 
Longest run with that single knife? I have run 12 miles with a Para2 IWB in my gym shorts. ;)

Seriously though, I carried a Benchmade 3550 for about 9 years straight. At that time it was actually my only nice folder.
 
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