# What's your Pocket Knife? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 17, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820 "2004-06-17T05:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/1 "2004-06-17T05:27:46Z")
Just another random-uestion-type thread. I have a Leatherman Juice S2. It’s a nifty little all-purpose tool, great for around-the-house stuff. Before the juice I had a micra, which was small enough to fit on a keychain but not nearly as durable. [Juice S2](http://www.leatherman.com/products/tools/crunch/default.asp) [Micra](http://www.leatherman.com/products/tools/micra/default.asp) What about the rest of you Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/2 "2004-06-17T06:18:23Z")
Great minds, and all that. An S2 rides on my left hip at all times. Well, not _all_ times…when I have to wear a suit, I drop a Swiss Army Knife (Tinker) into my pants pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/3 "2004-06-17T06:26:50Z")
Eleven-year-old Victorinox Spartan SAK (it’s the oldest thing I own!). I’m trading it in for a SwissFlame soon though. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/4 "2004-06-17T06:44:11Z")
I just have a little bitty thing with a small blade, a mini file and a pair of scissors. It’s a Microsoft freebie. It and several others were left over from a mass mailing my sister worked on. She sort of kept them and a bunch of leftover Microsoft T-shirts from collecting dust in their warehouse. Sort of. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/5 "2004-06-17T06:44:55Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > Eleven-year-old Victorinox Spartan SAK (it’s the oldest thing I own!). > > I’m trading it in for a SwissFlame soon though. Actually, it isn’t a Spartan. I have no idea _what_ it is- Victorinox doesn’t have a knife with this combination anywhere on their current products page, and Pops brought it back from Switzerland years ago and hasn’t got a clue what it was called. Can anyone identify it? Large blade, small blade, bottle opener with notch, can opener with flathead screwdriver, corkscrew (without the plug-in phillips head screwdriver) and the leather punch thingy. And a keyring, of course. It’s the full size kind, but it’s quite narrow thanks to the lack of screwdrivers and so forth. Definitely a Victorinox, not a Wenger. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/6 "2004-06-17T06:48:16Z")
**RNATB** , that very same knife is sitting before me on my computer desk! I \*think \* it was called the **Climber** …I think. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/7 "2004-06-17T06:48:51Z")
I’ve got a similiar one to **Tikki’s** only mine’s a really cool looking stainless steel one my gf got me for my bday last year. I keep it on my keychain and it comes in useful all the time. Especially at the hospital where I wish I could say I use it for emergency tracheotomies and the like but instead use it to open boxes of IV fluids. (sidebar: I spelled tracheotomy right on the first try! Go me!) ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/8 "2004-06-17T06:50:26Z")
A basic original Leatherman PST. It’s not really appropriate to wear in an office setting, though. I keep meaning to get a Micra or similar for the desk drawer. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/9 "2004-06-17T06:55:52Z")
Schrade Old Timer 3-blade. I used to carry a Victorinox Swiss Army knife from Switzerland (gift from my mother) before I got my OT back. Good knife, and handy. Post #999…now, to figure out what the big 1-0-0-0 will be. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/10 "2004-06-17T07:10:15Z")
I have an Angler Swiss Army knife I got in Switzerland, mainly cos I really liked the fish. I also have the classic knife. Then I have a leatherman tool that I use less often. I want one of the knives with a usb drive in it. Man that’s cool! -Lil ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/11 "2004-06-17T07:11:09Z")
A Victorinox Swisstool stays in my right front pocket when I’m at work, in my Briefcase when I’m not. I got the Swisstool on sale (they weren’t selling because you have to have big hands to use one, it fits me perfectly). Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/12 "2004-06-17T07:11:31Z")
I carry a [Spyderco Delica](http://www.spyderco.com/online_product_info.asp?sts=6%2F17%2F2004+1%3A05%3A04+AM&pfid=C11BK&deptId=1010&mscssid=ECGH9U0TDJ7C8K0H9TK5LW787AUJ9DC7) with a half-serrated blade. I can’t abide carrying fat multi-tools in a pocket, though I do have a smallish Victorianox with a saw that goes into the backpack when camping. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/13 "2004-06-17T07:23:13Z")
A Leatherman [Pulse](http://www.leatherman.com/products/tools/pulse/default.asp) and assorted other small pocket knives I keep around because they have one or two really good tools on them. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/14 "2004-06-17T11:28:03Z")
Although I’ve been given newer and flashier pocket knives, the one I still carry is my old Boy Scout knife, kept well-honed. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/15 "2004-06-17T11:33:32Z")
I have a leatherman juice CS4 that lives in my studio and gets a pretty good work out. I have a Swiss Army Classic - the baby with the scissors and not much else, that lives on my keychain and I wouldn’t be comfortable not having with me. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/16 "2004-06-17T12:07:37Z")
I have a Swiss Army Knife, the [Camper](http://www.victorinox.com/newsite/en/produkte/produktdetails/detail.cfm?pid=1-3613) model. My husband bought it for me when we starting dating, 14 years ago. I don’t carry it around with me anymore, but I do use it when we go camping. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/17 "2004-06-17T12:12:46Z")
Victorinox Swiss Army Deluxe Tinker. > **[Swiss Army Deluxe Tinker Red](https://www.dlttrading.com/swiss-army-deluxe-tinker-red)** > > DLT Trading offers popular brands along with hard-to-find knives, and personalized engraving options. Find the knife you've always wanted online today! The best compromise between tools & size. Never buy a Wenger. The blades fold up on you when you’re using them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/18 "2004-06-17T12:16:44Z")
I have a collection of knives. Until recently I just used my little three-blade Victorinox “gentleman’s knife” on my vehicle keychain. My remote control fob stopped working, so I’m using the other fob; and I can’t be arsed to take the little knife of the first one. So I’ve been putting my Victorinox Champion in my pocket. I got it as a birthday present in 1981. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/19 "2004-06-17T12:28:49Z")
I’ve had this [Kershaw](http://www.onlinesports.com/images/ker-k2420.jpg) folding knife for nearly a decade. I’ve lost it, sent it back for repairs, drove over it, found after losing it over a dock at high tide, and still the longest I went without it was when I left it in a ski lodge, and a buddy who knew me…picked it up and sent it back. That’s a Vermonter for you. I love that little knife. And anytime I recieve a knife for a present I always give the person who gave it to me a dollar. Yes, I am irrationally superstitous. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820/20 "2004-06-17T12:46:50Z")
A Buck 110. I bought the first one for work and kept in its belt sheath during work, in my pocket otherwise. Bought a second one when I broke the tip off the first. After a friend repointed that one, the second stays in my pocket. Now I have a work knife and a dress knife. They must be about thirty years old by now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-pocket-knife/250820.md?page=2)