Leatherman micra, in my purse. Handy little thing.
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Thats it? Must be a much more liberal community than mine! 
I carry a Cold Steel Voyager. #50XTH. Half serrated, 5" blade. 11" overall length.
I usually have 4. The two I carry at all times are a Swiss Army knife keychain, and this Smith & Wesson in my back pocket. In my truck are this Gerber and a standard Leatherman Multi-tool.
I always have a knife - it’s the sailor in me. If you don’t have a good knife, well you may as well get underway without a lifejacket, IMHO.
[Obligatory Sea Story[sup]TM[/sup]]
As a young seaman aboard my first cutter, we were towing 3 large (unmanned) fishing vessels back to Cuba. As I had the bridge/tow watch one crappy night, the lead vessel began to sink on us. I ran back and grabbed the fire axe (placed near-by for just such an event) and stood by to cut the 5" hawser upon command. When word came to cut it, I hauled back with that fire axe on that wet and pitching deck, and let loose to cut the towline. Being the city kid that I was, it should come as no surprise that I missed that towline by about 6 inches, and damn near holed the steel deck underneath. At that moment, my sup came running up, good knife with serrated blade in hand, and cut the line like butter. Heh. Guess who got to sand, prime and paint the damage?
Never again would I be caught without a good knife.
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[Redd Foxx] What kind of racist shit is that? Hell, nah, I don’t carry a damn knife. I got an icepick, though. [/Foxx]
A CRKT M16 14-SE, 4" tanto-point blade, half serrated, half straight, can be opened one-handed almost silently. Also a Leatherman Micra and a Victorinox SwissBit with a 256 MB flash drive.
I’ve got a Swiss Army Card in my wallet at all times. Not much of a knife, but the tool itself is incredibly useful. I own other knifes, but compared to the card I find them to bulky to keep with me.
Its a tool much more than a weapon. In fact I doubt I could use it in a threatening way.
I carry another one of those easy one-handed opening knives, in my case a Spyderco Delica. 3" blade. I use it quite a lot at work. I don’t think I’d ever pull it in self-defense, as I don’t know the first thing about knife fighting, and by pulling it I’d just be escalating the stakes without increasing my ability to defend myself, which is a losing bet.
I carry a Xikar Xi138. Five inches open, very sharp, lightweight, and easy to open and close with one hand.
I occasionally carry others (I have zillions, I collect them) but this one’s my favorite combination of functionality and convenience.
Your psychologist sounds like an idiot. Knives that open with one hand aren’t surreptitious weapons, they’re simply convenient. I often need to use a my knife when the other hand is already busy. And given that it takes several seconds to fish the knife out of my pocket, it’s hardly going to be ready at hand in a fight.
I don’t “explain away” my knife as a tool, it is a tool.
I used to keep a four inch lockback knife in my bag, but stopped when I was doing some rubbish-clearing a few years ago. Before that, I always seemed to have a tiny Swiss Army penknife in my pockets.
4" ColdSteel Ti-Lite. I got it to impress the girls. </trashy lesbo>
I also have a 1" penknife (if I can find the damn thing) and a Leatherman in a belt holder with a mini-Maglite. Damn handy, especially if I’m crawling around and popping open computer cases.
Middle-weight Victorinox here - I’ve carried a pocketknife since I was seven or so, and I really resent having to pack it away when I get on a plane. I’ve a couple of others, but they’re in boxes somewhere in the Pacific right now - a not-quite four inch double-edge sheath knife, and a two-and-a-half inch lockback. Handy for when I’m feeling paranoid, but I hardly ever carry them.
I carry a swiss-army knife. Mostly out of sentimental value, really (it was my grandfathers, he gave it to me shortly before he passed away). It’s also handy sometimes for work - opening boxes of books in the warehouse, what have you.
I also sometimes carry around a leatherman-type multitool, which is a beautiful thing to have around a dorm (such as last night, when the towel rack on the back of my door decided to fall off.)
I’ve considered carrying more of a self-defense knife, but I’d feel stupid doing so.
Yep. Since I was about 9.
Keys - left front pocket
Checkbook - left rear.
Walet - right rear.
Change and knife right front.
I always carry a knife. I have never lost a walet or checkbook or keys. I have lost, umm… 3-4 knifes in my life. I’m 44. I suspect I had them out using it as a tool and set it down and…
I’ve been carrying a knife since I was about 9.
Current knife is a small buck lock back, about a 2" blade. Great for opening boxes, whatever. Never thought of it as a weapon. I have to be extra careful flying or I’ll loose it.
have a Victorinox Tinker on my keychain. I’ve been carrying it for 14 years now. The red plastic sides have fallen off, so it looks very cool. Sometimes I carry a classic Leatherman, but it makes my purse kind of heavy.
When I’m on the river, I always have my trusty Gerber Clip-Lock Rivermaster.
I cary an Alien xs on my bicycle, but otherwise no. It’s something I’m too likely to forget when I travel by plane.
A tiny blue Victorinox resides in my purse. It is constantly in use. Particularly to fix broken fingernails, unfortunately.
Yea, a fairly nice folding 3 inch or so blade will be on my person at most times, except at school where it is illegal.
I also am in the market for a throwing knife, but I’m not sure if that would be worth carrying or not, seeing as to how I’m in the market for a 10 inch or so model.
I do. All the time.
I’ve be carrying a knife since childhood. I’ve been reared in a very out-of-the-way rural area, and I used it in particular when collecting mushrooms, but also for whatever a kid can thing of doing with a knife.
I coudln’t tell for sure why I still carry one, but I just have to carry it, or I feel something essential is missing. I make sure it’s in my pocket each time I leave home (no…it’s not some sort of obsessive behavior).
Maybe carrying a knife is some sort of “manly” thing, in my mind, but mainly it reminds me of my “roots”. When I use it for instance to cut a piece of bread or cheese, it reminds me of my great-uncles, etc…doing the same when I was a kid. Doing so I feel like I carry a tradition and a way of life. My knife is probably a symbol of my ties with this past (the area where I was living was particularily backward, and the people I knew, in particular relatives, were mostly old people, so it’s a past, a “culture” that extremely few people my age ever knew, and that totally dissapeared, making it even more important to me).
I sometimes fantazized about using it to defend myself if need be, but actually, it can’t be unfolded easily, so it would be pretty worthless in such a situation.
It’s a Laguiole
Leatherman micra on the keychain and usually a Spyderco Cricket. For a long time, I carried a Tekna Xtra Edge (a tiny 1 inch blade in a sheath) as well because it was so handy. I have several other Leatherman tools as well but I rarely carry them anymore. Defense is far, far down the list of why I carry knives – they’re mostly for gardening and cutting open recalcitrant packaging.
Little baby victorianox on the keychain. Midsize victorianox in the pocket, and a leatherman wave when I am doing anything that might require it.