No.
I have a better blade…
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Barbie’s Swiss Army Knife. Costco-version knockoff leatherman & SAK in the car.
This is it.
You know, keeping the corkscrew & losing the hook in exchange for a nailfile would be even better. 
MacTech S&W blades are worthles POS, IMHO. I got one as a daily carry because I feared losing my Benchmade during a low-salary time…rusted (Rusted!) within 2 weeks in this humidity. The clip was shit and cut my jeans too. Grumble grumble grumble…Didn’t know the history of them bastids though…Grumble grumble grumble…Bastids…
-Tcat
This is it: Klein Tools Knife
…had it for fifteen years or so. Functions mostly as an envelope opener, but has come in handy time and again for various purposes.
Mac tech wrote “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…”
I checked on the web site and its 420j2, but it’s worked great for the last five years, holds an edge wonderfully, and is easy to carry around. Not like that POS Leatherman I had for a year or so.
In my right pocket, on my keychain, I have a venerable old Wenger, with blade, nail file, scissors, saw, can opener, bottle opener, straight-blade and Phillips screwdrivers, and auger. It used to have a tweezers and a toothpick, too… Amazingly, I didn’t lose either, but the tweezers actually came apart at the rivet (after many many years of use), and the toothpick is now irretrevibly embedded into its holster.
On my left hip, I have a generic utility tool (Leatherman-type thing) with pliars, wire-cutter, large and small blades, a couple of flat screwdrivers, fish scaler, heavy file, ruler, can opener, and an assortment of detachable screwdriver bits, in flat, Phillips, and Allen.
In my shirt pocket, I have a 13-function utility pen, with ink cartridge, small and large blades, saw, file, small screwdrivers (flat and Phillips), pick, nail remover, tweezers, fork, and something called an ear pick whose purpose is a mystery to me.
This is all everyday wear for me, along with a handkerchief, a scientific calculator, a pack of Post-it notes, my cell phone, and my wallet. And yes, I do feel naked without all that. If I’m doing anything outdoorsy, I also bring along my hunting knife, a monster of a fixed-blade made by my grampap. I’m not sure exactly what the alloy is, but it’s very sharp, and holds its edge for the next best thing to forever (but it’s a royal pain to sharpen when it does need it).
And I’m pretty sure that I have actually used all of those tools, at some point or another.
Yanceyle, according to the crew over at Bladeforums, CKRT has recently (within the last year or so) downgraded the steel on their entry level knives to 420J2, many of the CKRT fans are pissed off about it, i think they may have used AUS-6 or ATS-55 on the older stuff, neither AUS-6 or ATS-55 are terribly high end steels, but they’re a damn sight better than 420J2
that could be why your blade has held it’s edge so well, you had the better steel…
E-mail em. Replacements parts are cheap. Heck, they might offer to replace them for free!
How much does an e-mail cost?
I’ve had the full size dyad for the better part of 6 or 7 years. When I heard that Spyderco was going to release a dual bladed folder I sat on my local knife shop for over 8 months waiting for the dyad to be released. IIRC the mini dyad was released first, and I purchased that one post haste. It’s a great knife, but a touch on the small side. For general carry, or when I’m dressing up a bit, the mini is a great knife, but the workable size of the blade is on the small side. As soon as I heard a full size dyad was coming down the pipes I couldn’t wait. My knife dealer came to know me by my phone number alone…
On a side note, I’ve been carrying spyderco in one form or another for over 10 years. Won’t carry any other knife – they’ve never let me down.
On my belt, every day, is a Leatherman Pulse that I got FREE from Microsoft, as part of a demonstration package for 2003 server.
It replaced an older, more simple Leatherman.
The blades aren’t the greatest, but they stay sharp for the type of cutting I do, and everything locks into place.
of course it locks up, it’s a micro$oft branded product…
sorry, couldn’t resist
Yeah, but mine came with camouflage underwear.
Wow, am I the first Cold Steel guy in this thread?
Is that coincidence or something I don’t know about?
I carry the Recon 1 (the AUS-8A edition) for cutting. It’s a great knife in my opinion, and it was really the only one in my price range with an axial lock. I have trouble trusting most linerlocks since a friend of mine had one collapse on him.
Cold Steel markets a line of decent knives. As I mentioned in another thread, they don’t actually make any knives. Their entire product line is produced for them by various subcontractors, all Asian now IIRC. I own a Cold Steel tanto that I keep in my car. I’ve owned several other knives of theirs over the years, as well. IMO, the Special Products line is the best bang for the buck. As you get farther up into their premium knives, they become ridiculously overpriced for what they are. Their folders have never been very exciting to me. In the non-tactical arena, Buck, Case, AG Russell, et al. make much nicer traditional folders in the same price range. For tactical folders, Benchmade and others have snazzier knives.
Where Cold Steel turns a lot of potential customers off is with their advertising. Lynn Thompson is a monster of bombast and hype. If you believe their ads, Cold Steel products are just so much knifier than everybody else’s knives that knives virtually didn’t exist 'til Lynn Thompson came along.
Thompson can also be somewhat disingenuous. The tanto, which is the knife his company was founded on, is a design that he basically stole from custom maker Bob Lum. Look at historic Japanese tantos and you won’t see anything like that, especially the chisel point. That is all Lum. The Laredo Bowie, of which I own a sample, is a similar story. Lynn, in their ads, is basically claiming to have invented the coffin-handled bowie. What an ass.
To be fair, Lynn Thompson isn’t the only jackass in the cutlery world. Kevin McLung, of Mad Dog Knives, is a massively arrogant, blustering man based on my interactions with him at another board. Bob Loveless never seems to come off well in interviews. I could go on…
Ther are lots more nice folks than jackasses. AG Russell has always been a very personable, friendly guy in phone conversations and on-line. David Winston, a custom maker who made a couple things for me, is a great guy, The folks at Randall Knives are cool. I could go on even longer…
Doesn’t count as a pocketknife, but it’s the closest I have…a tomahawk. My dad made the handle, the head was bought from a reserve a couple towns away. It comes with me whenever I go out to the bush to cut cedar or go camping, and has also served as a makeshift hammer and shovel. It’s my fwend.
Hardcore! do you throw it?