What knife are you carrying everyday right now?

[Cucuy]

Can’t remember when I got this Griptilian, but it’s been in my pocket ever since. I’ll include others (Opinel, Cold Steel, local makers), but never exclude this one.

 

[Safari Dave]

I carry two knives everyday.

A Victorinox Champion in my right pocket
A Benchmade Adamas in a cargo pocket or clipped to wherever I can find a place on my right side.

After at least 15 years, I lost my Adamas a few weeks ago, so I am carrying a Gerber 06 Auto drop point, until I find my Adamas.

A Georgia Weapons Carry License covers you with "switchblades", but I would just rather have a very rugged "tactical folder" on a clip, on my right side.

 

[Safari Dave]

If limited to one, the Victorinox Champion would be my only knife.



Mine even killed an Impala 5 year's ago.

Victorinox no longer makes the Champion, but you can find them on eBay every now and then.

 

[Nicaburns]

Compared to the blade show in Atlanta, the Fort Worth show is pretty small… if I were going to travel to see a knife show, I’d do the ATL show… it is to knives what SCI is to international hunting…

But if I lived within a few hours radius of DFW, I’d definitely recommend checking out the show in Ft Worth.., it’s a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon..

I have a table at Blade show Atlanta every year… if you are there, stop by table 8R and say hello!

 

[ARHinAK]

Benchmade Barrage. Same knife every day for 13 years without fail, except I did send it to Benchmade for a replacement blade once. Skinning service wire, using it as a screw driver, scraper and a pry bar is hard on stuff. Great knife!

 

[CoElkHunter]

Well, I took an interest in this when I I first saw it.
I’m still thinking about ordering one.
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Very nice! Buy it!

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

I carry a Civivi folder in my pocket - everywhere. My Police Officer son has told me it is illegal to have a knife on my person in Australia now ......
It's razor sharp with the strop kindly gifted to me by Grumpy gumpy

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I keep forgetting to ask if it turned up, also can’t remember if I told you how the eyelet works. I’ll see you at wbb if not before
Gumpy

 

[Adam Stevens]

Only had 2 for probably 10 years now roughly. Work we run a Milwaukee cable knife and I use it 99% of the time for anything and everything. I think I even had one in Africa!

Other is a northarm knives Skaha. Fantastic edc folder. It's always in my non work pants.

 

[Kraut]

Puma SGB Buffalo hunter

 

[Brandon.Gleason]

Gene Ingram F1 folder in S30V with coconut husk micarta handles for almost 10 years. Super light and disappears in almost any pocket.

I've oodles of knives, and have been on the hunt for a new one for a while. I'd love a Spyderco Dragonfly again, preferably in one of the new premium steels (Magnacut, CPM 15v, Rex 121, etc), but none to be found. Ive been fighting off the urge to pick up a Native 5 in CPM 15V (their BBB collaboration).

 

[IvW]

Spyderco Civilian(the one with the long hook blade)

Muela Kodiak when hunting.....

Okapi biltong knife is always along(for biltong and eating sheepshead)....

Lots of other knifes for other uses but these are the carry two....

Also use Kershaw blade trader and AMC blade trader for camping and overlanding.

 

[Mountainshadows]

If you’re going to be there, we’ll have to link up for a coffee or a burger somewhere…

@Mountainshadows has come down the last couple of years… I’m not sure if he’s planning on doing it again this year or not, but if he’s in town I’m sure we’ll link up and head over there together..

I'll not make the Ft Worth show this year but might be looking at next year for a set up. I've got the Montana Outdoor Expo the week after the Ft. Worth show that's keeping me here on the home front.

My pocket carry is this little fixed blade TJ. @mdwest can tell you who the maker is.

 

[mdwest]

I'll not make the Ft Worth show this year but might be looking at next year for a set up. I've got the Montana Outdoor Expo the week after the Ft. Worth show that's keeping me here on the home front.

My pocket carry is this little fixed blade TJ. @mdwest can tell you who the maker is.

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I definitely recognize that maker… I own some of his work myself… I think he goes by @Mountainshadows on some hunting forum..

 

[Bullthrower338]

Been packing this bench made for about 4 years, don’t remember the model but I like it and hope I don’t lose it!

 

[CoElkHunter]

The one, the only Buck Model 110. Mine is an early model with a 440C stainless steel blade.
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It holds an edge long enough to process two entire Sambar deer without needing a touching up.

But it’s a little time consuming to sharpen on the Arkansas stone which I use.

If you send your Buck knife (knives) back for refurbishing, Buck sharpens it and cleans it up like new for $7.

I carry a buck 110 in the black pouch on my right hip and a case trapper in my pocket.
The case is for opening boxes, and digging in corn or bean fields, anything that may dull it quickly. The buck is reserved for sharp knife duties.

Before and after photos. The top two I’ve owned since the middle ‘70s and the bottom 110 I found some time ago:
BTW, Buck told me the 110 on the bottom was only made in ‘80/‘81.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Nothing expensive, but I carry one of these or some others (Bucks) all the time. If I lose one I’m not out a lot of money and it amazes me how well some of them are made today. That wasn’t the case back in the day.

 

[fourfive8]

Took me most of a lifetime to finally figure it out but IMO, the most important attribute for knives, other than best design for use, size and ergonomics is edge retention. There is nothing more frustrating than constantly having to sharpen a knife during continuous use… like dressing, quartering an animal on the ground in the field. Diamond rods and diamond hones have solved the issue of sharpening blades of high HRC steel. After almost 70 years of carrying and using knives, I’ve come to the conclusion that I would rather carry a knife with a higher HRC blade, +\- 60, that may occasionally chip, than one with a super tough blade of lower HRC steel that won’t hold an edge. I don’t use knives as pry bars, I use them to cut. If the edge occasionally nicks, so be it as it doesn’t affect overall use.

Most of the time a couple strokes with a sharpening rod reveals the hardness. The much touted tuff but softer steel feels soft, kind of a sticky/galling type feel as the rod or hone moves down the edge. The rod or hone feels like it’s skating, skittering down the edge of a hard steel blade.

This nick in my dad’s knife was done in about 1954. It never affected the use of the knife in the least.

 

[WyoBull]

Leatherman Rev is carried every day and when I want to go fancy I carry a William Henry folding Damascus.
Oh, I also carry a small Swiss Army knife in my pocket, you know, the one that has tweezers, toothpick, folding blade and folding scissors?!?! LOL

 

[coreydb]

My EDC is a 2" blade folding pocket knife by Boker.

 

[Rez Exelon]

Oh man, I have several in rotation from fancy to chancy. Most often right now is a Buck 263 Hi Line, a Kershaw Fraxion, some kind of low-end Gerber, a ZT 0305TS, and then my office workhorse is a CRKT SPEW.

That said, I'm fairly excited as I won a few Bestech EDC style knives at auction a few days ago and I get to wait till they arrive to see if they'll be in rotation or the TNT (Too Nice to Touch) pile