Well, I just looked up the Delta Dart on the web and that's one creepy little piece of plastic. Without being judgemental, couldn't they throw you in jail for like a million years if they caught you with that thing on a plane?Yep.
I carry a Schrade lock blade I found in the tool depatment at Home Depot. It’s Home Depot orange color and had a fairly low price. I’d reccomend one to anyone looking for an inexpensive knife for everyday use.
In my senior year at high school I was going to drive up to Oregon to take a propane(?)-powered refrigerator and a couch up to my grandparents. (They lived “off the grid” and had to use gas refrigerators and made electricity with a generator.) I think it was just before a holiday or something. Anyway, I put a Buck 110 Folding Hunter on my belt since I always carried it when I wasn’t at school. Force of habit. Go on an adventure, have a knife with you. Could come in handy for opening oil cans, boxes, etc. I completely forgot I was wearing it until one of the school “bouncers” confronted me. It took me by surprise because I didn’t carry the knife to school. I just forgot and put it on that day. This was before “zero-tolerance”, so he let me put it in the pickup instead of confiscating it.
Totally unrelated, but I found another 110 Hunter in the desert near a bowling alley where I liked to play video games. I don’t know why I happened to be in the desert area beside the side of the road. I still have both Bucks.
Started out with Case XXX knives when I was a kid. Then I graduated to a Victorinox (the only Swiss Army Knife) when I was fifteen.
First it was the “Hunter”, with the wood saw and (the first time I bought it) a splendid match striker.
A few “Hunters” later I discovered the “Mountaineer” which has the metal file and hacksaw instead of the wood saw. I have never used another pocketknife since.
Even when they discontinued the “Mountaineer” style of knife I quickly bought two of them and a friend brought one from Switzerland for me. I’m getting ready to retire my 1991 went-to-Europe-and-Mexico-and-the-Grand-Canyon-knife for the next reserve in line.
Used to carry the Buck fisherman as a belt knife. I’ve carried a Gerber folding lock blade for almost thirty years. I also used to carry the Gerber pocket tool for many years until I discovered the Victorinox multi-tool.
I am currently considering converting from the Gerber lockblade to a twin blade Puma or something better.
Any suggestions from the edge enthusiasts out there about a thin twin blade (I like having one unused extra-sharp blade at all times) folding knife for general use that doesn’t cost a fortune?
Like others in this thread, if I am outside of my house I carry a blade. Period.
Oddball statistic I have heard: If you are carrying a blade, the chances of you surviving a plane crash are improved by 50%.
good morning friends,
i carry a buck 110 with me whenever i am working. mrs. longhair recently bought me a lovley black victorinox swiss army knife that i keep in my keyboard drawer. it has:
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[li]large blade[/li][li]small blade[/li][li]file[/li][li]saw[/li][li]fish scaler/ruler/hook remover[/li][li]scissors[/li][li]pliers[/li][li]magnifying glass[/li][li]phillips screwdriver[/li][li]bottle opener/large flat tip screwdriver/wire stripper[/li][li]can opener/small flat tip screwdriver[/li][li]awl[/li][li]large hook (purpose unknown)[/li][li]smaller flat tip screwdriver[/li][li]chisel[/li][li]corkscrew with rubber guard holding a ultra small screwdriver[/li][li]toothpick[/li][li]ballpoint pen[/li][li]tweezers[/li][/ul]
I’m a knife nut. Anything that comes with a set of steak knives is mine, just for the blades. I carry one of three different Victorinox models (The TRUE SAK… I don’t like Wegners), depending on what I might be doing that day. Occasionally I carry a Gerber Guardian harness someplace on me, and I’m rarely without my Gerber Multitool. I used to have a Case “Double Lockhorn” that I loved and lost. If anybody knows where I could find one, could you drop me a line?
I went the other way. I carried my V. Champion in it’s belt sheath for years. Then I started working at a place that had a dress code. I tried carrying it in my pocket, but it was a bit bulky; so I started carrying one of the smaller VSAKs I mentioned earlier. Then I went to the tiny Case XX 6333SS.
Speaking of Case, I have the yellow one right next to my computer. It’s a 31048SS. I think it’s a very elegant knife.
As for the V. Champion, there’s a story behind it. I got it as a birthday present from my mom. Not long before I was to depart for my Great European Backpacking Adventure, I lost it. I went down to REI and got another one. After I returned from my trip, I found the first one; so now I have two. About a month ago I decided to spend my REI patronage dividend. (For those who don’t know, it costs $15 for a lifetime membership to REI. I think it was $5 or $10 when I joined. You get 10% of your purchases back at the end of the year – 1% back for non-REI purchases on your REI MasterCard.) This year it was about $230, so I bought a nice pair of Vasque hiking boots (my previous pair I also got “free”) and a V. SwissChamp.
If this thread keeps going I might have to dig out my Box o’ Knives™ and list them all. That would be a long post! Like Turbo Dog, I’m a bit of a “knife nut”. I even made a Bowie knife and one of the knives I use in the kitchen.
I carry the Big One. Yes, the one that wears holes in your pants and makes a permanent dent in your right butt-cheek. Longhair you’re right to keep it in your keyboard drawer,it’s way easier on the fanny that way! As for the hook, you use it to carry heavy packages wrapped in twine or wire. It makes a wonderful handle.
I never go anywhere without it.
I own two so if something happens to one I have a back-up.
OBTW, for all Victorinox lovers, if yours gets scratched, broken, missing parts, etc. send it to Victorinox and they’ll fix it FREE. No questions asked. No matter how long you have it. Done it about a dozen times. It always returns factory new, sharp, repolished, regripped, tweezers, toothpick, ballpoint pen and eyeglass screwdriver in place and ready to slip in my pocket and take on the road.
When I wear a suit which prevents me from carrying the big knife I carry a Spyderco Civillian.
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I carry a Gerber muli-purpose tool. I used to carry a Swiss army knife, but my Gerber tool has all the same features as my Swiss army knife as well as several more, so I retired it. My Gerber tool is fantastic, except for the file, which a friend of my broke while trying to use it to break into a car.
I used my Gerber Multi-Tool just yesterday. Those Vasque boots I mentioned have hooks at the top for the laces. Unless I’m careful, they snag on the moulding in my Cherokee when I exit and get bent up. No worries, I just pulled out the Multi-Tool and used the pliers to squeeze it back into shape! 
I used to carry a half-serrated Spyderco Delica but I found that I couldn’t use it in public because it scared people. Now I carry a Leatherman Wave, which has an obvious tool-not-weapon factor. It weighs half a pound, but it has locking blades and the pliers and screwdrivers are often useful.
Oh god. How could I have missed this thread for so long…
I carry me a CRKT Sampson’s KISS. Nice and thin, but good and deadly, and I can open it quick as lightning. It’s a beaut, but I’m looking forward to upgrading to a Benchmade Osborne axis lock, like Mike mentioned before. Want. Bad.
I’ve got hundreds of others, though. Every brand, every use you can think of, I’ve probably got it, and if not, I’m coveting it. Except United Cutlery pocketknives. Blech.
I can’t carry them anymore, though. Stupid friggin’ goddamn zero tolerance. Some teachers know I have a small swiss army on my keychain; they tell me in very hushed tones to keep it hidden, with very wide eyes, obviously worried I’ll be thrown out. Sometimes I bring in my KISS if I need it after school and dont plan on going home. Calculated risk. I like my knife enough to do it.
Oh, and I prefer WENGER! HAHA! TAKE THAT!
[sub]Sig’s nice and appropriate here, too.[/sub]
anyone familiar with whittling knives. I’m visiting the US soon and need to pick up a new one. Like the 3 blade variety, with the longest blade about 2 inches in length.
Anyone use a ceramic blade? Recomendations? Just want a cool little folding knife I can put in the front pocket of a suit without it being too big or heavy.
I personally prefer the leatherman over the gerber tool for extended backpacking trips. Leatherman may have saved my life in Tibet many years ago. Always been partial to gerbers, but at least the model I had used more moving parts and therefore more things that could go wrong with it.
I usually have two or three knives/tools on me at all times. I used to carry a Spyderco Delica and loved it. When I broke the clip, I replaced it with a CRKT KISS knife.
The CRKT KISS is a great little knife, thin and unobtrusive, but it has two major flaws: it is not ambidexterous like the Spyderco, so you can’t open it with the left hand, and the lock mechanism is unreliable, especially when held in the left hand. I’ve had it fold on me a couple of times, so I’m very careful with it now. That’s a bad requirement for an emergency tool, and I’ll replace the KISS with another Spyderco or similar soon.
One of my other tools isn’t a knife (OT, so sue me), but since the multi-tools have been talked up in this thread I’ll mention it. The SwissTech MicroPlus is a great little plier/screwdriver tool that almost replaces my Leatherman when I don’t want to lug it around. It’s small enough to rattle with pocket change, like the Leatherman Micro but a whole lot more useful.
Very OT, I also carry a Photon Microlight, but I’m still mostly in the dark.
Isn’t that what your sporran is for?
A Swiss Army Knife, a ball of twine and some beef jerky?
It can’t just be a hairy purse to accessorize your plaid skirt. (Not to knock kilts of course. Or the men who wear them.)
-Rue
Of course he could be referring to his skien dhou [sp.]
I have a new Victorinox Soldier, red.
7 features
- large blade
- reamer, punch
- can opener with
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- small screwdriver
- cap lifter with
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- screwdriver
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- wire stripper
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I don’t carry a knife, but I saw a guy on the train this morning carrying a batleth! :eek: To be fair, I don’t think it had sharpened edges, so it was more a large heavy piece of steel than a real sword, but still…
For those who haven’t seen Star Trek ever, or at least since the original series, a batleth (and pardon me if I’m leaving out any letters, hyphens, apostrophes, or accentos from a word in a fictitious language) is a wicked-looking curved double-bladed two-handed weapon like a sword on acid.
I noticed when the man got off the train at Union Station, he had wrapped the batleth in a thick dark cloth, to avoid the attentions of the Amtrak and Metra police. He hadn’t hid it from the conductor, though.
Yep! Sure do!
When I’m out and about in the field or at work, I carry a small menagerie of hand tools. I carry a folding Benchmade Tanto/Serrated blade, one basic Leatherman (nuthin’ fancy), a small 2 AAA sized Mag Lite, and one laser pointer connected to a can/bottle opener. The Benchmade is usually in the front pocket of my BDUs and the rest of it is in a handy-dandy pouch that I can clip on my belt.
I’ve always got a silver Cross pen on me too. Ya never know when you need to sign your life away, or get her number. . .
Tripler
I carry a sidearm sometimes, but that’s a different story.