Your Longest-Running User Knife?

I only use it two weeks out of the year but my Schrade sharp finger with gut hook has been processing meat since 1991 for me. Works out to 48 weeks of daily use cutting through skin, meat, bones and organs. It's doing fine. Looks like it has at least anothe 40 weeks left in it, or about 80 more years.
 
I carried a buck blw for five years in college. I don't carry it anymore but I still love to pull it out for the memories
 
My memory has faded a bit, so I'm not sure if the Benchmade 750 Pinnicle or the AFCK 806D2 takes that honor. In a few years the Spyderco Paramilitary 2 will pass them both I'm sure. I basically stopped searching for different EDCs after I got my first Para. Now if they only made it fully serrated...

An obligatory picture of my Pinnacle just for nostalgia:

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Here's another vote for the Benchmade 750 Pinnacle...after carrying it daily for the last 15 years or so I only recently replaced it with the Pro-Techs pictured.
I still carry it occasionally when I head over to the People's Republic of California where my newly Nevada legal Rockeye is verboten... :mad:

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12 years of service. Never gets any praise. Never gets posted in nice pictures. Yet, it is my oldest knive. I bought it at 18 and I'm almost 30. It's time it got some credit.
 
Let's see, I carried a frost cutlery doctors knife that my grandpa bought me for almost 3 yrs until he passed away. That was the last day I carried it. Then I moved on to countless knives that I lost as a young teen. Bought a Kershaw oso sweet in 8cr13mov that I carried for 2 years until one day I cut a card board box and the tip broke off. Huh, imagine that! Ha my current knives are the leather man wave and another Kershaw 8cr13mov blade. Don't know the exact model, but it has benn with my right hip pocket for nearly two years now.
 
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carried one like that for 17 years. i still have it, and it's still the sturdiest folder i have.
 
Emerson CQC-7A from a special run in 2008.

Disassembled, cleaned, new screws, and retired it about a year ago and replaced it with a newer one. Wish I had a pic of it - it's beat to hell.

Second place is a Spyderco Chinook I
 
I see a lot of knives, but my personal carry has been a Strider SnG for around two years now. Something about it just works.
 
Wenger Nomad. I've had it since I was seven years old, my great uncle gave it to me. Still use it.

 
I carried a Gerber Gator for years and years and then switched to a Buck Crosslock. I carried it and it's replacement for probably a good ten years or so. Lately I've carried my Benchmade 943 a lot. Probably several years now.
 
Jimmy Lile small stag folder similar to the one below - carried it everyday from 1976-1996 when I discovered Spyderco knives. I still EDC it a day or two a week.

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