Although I have several pocketknives (most given to me by my wife), my standby has always been my old Boy Scout pocketknife from eons ago. It still looks like this current model right down to the fake staghorn plastic handle:
Do you have a Terminator Destructo Bloodletter 5000, or a Terminator Destructo Bloodletter 5000 De Lux? ‘Cause the Terminator Destructo Bloodletter 5000 De Lux come with a whetstone & an attachment to remove stones from horses’ hooves, which could come in real handy, 'cause you never know when you might wanna sharpen your Terminator Destructo Bloodletter 5000 De Lux while removing a stone, or even more than one stone, from the hoof of a horse.
Yeah, but the Massive MegaKill 10,000 is even cooler, it’s got a StainlessFRNTitaniumCeramo-tungsten alloy handle that adjusts itself on the fly to fit your grip, a depleted unobtanium negative-convexed variable-length Eaglebill (like a Hawkbill but better, eagles are better than hawks) blade that’s so sharp it’ll cut you if you even think about it …ouch!, it never needs sharpening, and it sharpens other knives that are set down near it, unless those other knives are Taylor Cutlery (Smith&Wesson and other knockoffs), Gerber, or the cheap pot-metal knives, it EATS those…
and it’s got a black-coated blade, that makes it even cooler…
Large Sebenza Classic. It is a beautiful piece of work. Frighteningly sharp too. Just a few minutes ago, I ordered one of these AG Russel yellow delrin folding hunters for certain applications where I don’t want to use a knife as spendy as the Sebenza.
If you guys don’t cut it out I’m going to whip out my Infin-O-Kill Zapmaster 5000 with the optional Dyna-Balance gyrostabilizer and X25K Inert-E-Lizer recoil compensation pack and make this forum a place suitable for only cockroaches and gigantic fire-breathing Komodo dragons.
Stranger
Ummm…why fire-breathing Komodo dragons?
What do you have against the Clorox-breathing Komodo dragons?
Do you not have an Equal Opportunity Policy towards all vile & unnatural scaley beasties?
I, for one, am offended.
but knives don’t have recoil, hence no need for a RCP…
are you sure it’s a knife?
besides, my MegaKill pales next to my…
Armageddon Industries World Cleaver Maxx!!!one11!
the WCM uses a variable-geometry blade of magnetically isolated antideuterium positrons, with special high-performance Heisenberg Compensater, and Improbability Generator, the grip scales contain a S.E.P. field generator that makes you not care what happens on the other end of the blade, this knife is capable of splitting the planet in half, then splitting those halves into halves, and those halves into halves…
lets not even bring up the sheath that’s equipped with a History Eraser Button…
I have an Opinel as well; mine is the No. 8. I like the carbon steel blade, although it looks like they are made in stainless as well. I don’t remember that from before, I wonder if it is new for them?
“Depleted unobtanium”?
You just won the thread.
There’s a painfully generic and fairly dangerous Leatherman-esque tool in my desk drawer. It was a freebie at a trade show, and it’s good enough for opening boxes and tightening screws around the office. There’s no lock at all on the blades, so the user needs to watch out for things snapping shut onto their fingers. If someione decides they need it more than I do, I won’t be terribly upset.
Otherwise, I’ve got a Leatherman Juice C2. Much better blades, safer, and the waiter’s corkscrew really works. It’s red, and dare I say, almost cute, so people in the office don’t wig out if they see it.
My old, original Leatherman PST lives in the glovebox.
Currently, I carry two knives, and two “Leatherman” tools:
One knife is a folding CKRT M-16T knife (good for general use out at the jobsite). The other rear-pocket-knife is an old Buck Workman my uncle gave me something like 15 years ago.
I’ve got one Leatherman Wave in an extra M-9 magazine pocket on my holster, and one SOG PowerLock in my backpack or briefcase (whatever I’m carrying that day).
Tripler
Why so much? I’m a busy, busy man.
Leatherman micra on my keychain. Usually a Spyderco Cricket or another small folding knife. Used to carry a Tekna XTra Edge which is one of the handiest little knives ever (blade about an inch, maybe inch and a half in a little plastic sheath).
Only problem I’ve found with the Cricket is that the grind is on the wrong side. If I use it to, say, strip insulation off a wire, I have to cut towards myself.
I have a C2 in my desk drawer. It is the most-borrowed implement in my room. Just about every teacher in the wing has borrowed it for one thing or another, rather than waiting for maintainence to fix it. 
I always have a leatherman on me for the tools…never been very impressed with their blades.
For standard day to day carry I have the Spyderco Dyad JR. If I’m going camping or somewhere where I anticipate the need of a bigger knife I have the full size Dyad
At work (paramedic) I carry the Spyderco Assist II.
I can’t believe no one has mention the Columbia K.I.S.S. pocket knife. I picked one up at a gun show about five years ago and I love it. Camping, hiking, around the house, its the best I’ve had so far…
Oooooh. Now they come in black, as well.
Yeah, I bought a Leatherman once at a great price without realizing that it had no locks. The blade is viciously sharp, and without a lock I have never used it for fear of losing a finger. I really only use the pliers. Just a waste of money. But, I am older now and wiser…
I’ve been carrying a Benchmade Stryker plain edge for 10+ years now and I love it but that Ken Onion Blur Tanto is sweet. I’m off to my local knife shop to look at it in person.
Grrr… i’m so envious, me want full size Dyad, but they’re hard to find…
…stupid Taylor Cutlery making a cheap ripoff and drawing out a long expensive court battle against Spyderco.
…Spyderco made the Dyad series first and had patents, taylor craptlery made a cheap Chinese ripoff, then sued Spyderco for “infringing” on their “patent”, drawing the court battle out long enough to make it unprofitable for Spyderco, at the time a much smaller company, Sal Glesser decided to retire the Dyad series rather than fight a long, drawn out battle against a manufacturer with a personal vendetta against him (taylor craptelry made some comment about “teaching Sal a lesson”)
taylor craptelry makes Smith and Wesson knives, BTW (CynicalGabe’s S&W looks like a ripoff of a Chris Reeve Sebenza, specifically the handle scales and blade profile look Sebbie-esqe, the top-mounted thumbstud is different though) and taylor is known for making cheap Chinese knockoffs (ripoffs) of other reputable knifemaker designs
the “homeland security” knife is a Buck/Mayo ripoff
“super stout folder” looks like a ripoff of some CKRT designs
“every day carry” looks like a Kershaw ripoff
almost every taylor craptelry line looks like it has been ahem “inspired” ahem by other manufacturers and uses cheap, low quality steel
personally, i will never buy a taylor produced knife, mainly because they had a hand in killing the Dyad series…
And that’s why I’ll never, ever, carry a non locking pocket knife again. I had a small Gerber made multi tool that was like a big Swiss Army knife and it had a small LED flashlight as part of it. I was attempting one morning to put a new hole in a belt that had gotten too big, and the damned thing snapped closed down through my thumbnail, vertically. It took months to heal. Sure, I know it was a stupid job to be doing with a knife, but all the same, non locking knives are too dangerous to be useful to me.
do you know what bladesteel yours used? the current models use bottom-of-the-line 420J2 (lowest quality rated steel on the market, a step above generic “stainless” or “surgical steel”, even 420HC and 440A is better…
the new K.I.S.S. knives will very likely sharpen easily, but probably not hold an edge worth crap
i have a pretty wide range of steel in my knives, every steel has it’s place and limitations;
SAK; unknown steel
Kershaw/Ken Onion Scallion; 420HC
Spyderco Dyad Jr; ATS-55
Native; CPM-S30V
Harpy and Cricket; VG-10