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    Raz

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    Cold steel sr1 - camping/edc
    Spyderco lil native/ para 3 edc/general
    Buck - fishing
    Leather man super tool 300 anything my knives cannot handle
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    45tex

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    After looking at the $800 knife offered here, I wonder where the value is found in a blade? I see better looking knives at convenience stores. If you own that one I'm not trying to be a smart ass, I was just astounded.
     

    ekim

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    Hell I struggle at $50.00 knives, no way would I pay that kind of money for a EDC knife. Maybe for something I knew was worth more would I buy it and sell for a profit. But it would have to be a sure thing.
     

    sharkey

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    Got a lot of favorites. These are in the roatation this week. Clone ZT which is quality built and a Ruike model from the same folks that make OLights.
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    Why on earth if you live in a state where you can get a carry license soooo easy, would you wan too carry. knife instead of a gun for personal defense????????

    If you try to use a knife and the other guy has a gun, you're doo-doo is very weak. It ain't gonna comet in your favor. Ever since 1957 and Horace Smith and Danial Wesson campout with the first self contained metallic cartridge, the small handgun made the Bowie knife obsolete. If you try to use a knife against a guy with another knife, you're in for a lot if stitches, it you win, and a nice cool slab in the morgue if you lose.

    Look guys, I'm no sugar ninja, only a guy who survived a crappy life trying to grow up to adulthood in a inner city neighborhood in D.C. where street violence was common. I saw a real knife fight once. The two guys did a g great job of butchering each other and one died on the scene and the other went to the ER and time intensive care to see if he'd make it. After seeing that, I don't even carry a knife that could be used in a fight. I don't think the little Swiss Army knife in the coin pocket of my jeans would be much good.

    On the other hand, I did see real live shootings. Plural. Unlike a knife wound, that didn't have the shock effect of a bullet, I never saw anyone who got a hit anywhere in the center of the body that didn't go down right then. Even small caliber's seems to have that effect if the bullet got into the center of mass. But I've seen people get cut and fight like the devil, and even get stabbed in a fight and think it was a punch until after the fight and they discovered they were bleeding. Knives just don't have that fast effect like a gun shot does.

    They say God created man, and Sam Colt made them equal. Not Spyderco, Benchmade, or any other tacticool ninja knives that are sold on too much fantasy of mono e mono and John Rambo.

    What a knife is good for is intimidating a mugging victim into quietly giving up his wallet. Or his car. It's a great criminal weapon of intimidation that is cheap enough to be tossed down the next sewer or dumpster as you run past. Same for a box cutter. Cheap, scary, and disposable if you're a felon with a record and can't be caught with a weapon.

    What I saw a lot of grown men in D.C. carrying for personal defense was some sort of blunt force trauma tool. Stout walking stick wit brass head, Crescent wrench in back pocket, piece of sawn off pool stick under seat of car or bar, ball peen hammer nearby or on floor of car. My own mentor in the gang I was in, Ray, had been in prison and couldn't carry a gun or large knife. But he was a motorcycle mechanic by trade and was employed so, and he always had his wrench in his back pocket for "working on my bike, man." He also carried a nice walking stick with a brass lion head and he used it once to beat the ever lovin dog poo out of a guy he had a fight with in Gaffney's Bar on 14th street. The other guy pulled a knife and Ray destroyed him. Other guys knife never drew any blood.

    Even in anti gun D.C. people who really wanted to defend themselves got a small gun from the neighborhood gun guy. It was the number one choice over everything else. Second was some kind of blunt force club. Knives were seen as a punks weapon.

    You're right! From now on when my boxes from Amazon arrive I will just shoot them open. Thank you for sharing your hard knock wisdom with us.
     

    flgfish

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    My current favorite day to day knife is a small Honey Badger. $30 on Amazon or so. The action is wonderful and satisfying. Only dig is the body is polymer but overall it’s a great piece.

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    The nicest knife I own is made by a small, custom shop owned by a former Seal. Its called Half-Face Blades. It’s a little bigger than I like for day to day carry is all... just a skosh heavy for shorts.

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    I carried this Kershaw for years, but after 1000s of sharpenings I have mostly moved on. The tip of the blade has always been a bit thin and pokey for a day to day knife anyway IMO. Now it mainly sits on my desk and opens boxes.

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    satx78247

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    To All,

    My "Winchester folder" w/3" blade made by Gerber. = I found it laying in the street one rainy afternoon, about a decade ago.

    Holds a good edge & does what I need a folder for.

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    PeoplePhobic

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    This is my #1 favorite (folding) knife of all time. I've tried a lot of stuff, everything from a Buck classic to a Microtech ultratech, and I always come back to this one in the end. My simple little Gerber EAB Pocket Knife. It's nice and small. It fits in a watch pocket or a shirt pocket. I can clip it to a pocket or even use it as a money clip. It's also small enough to fit inside and clip to a molle loop. Instead of sharpening it you can flip the blade over to the unused side and exchange it for a fresh blade. Its cheap enough not to worry about scuffing it up or losing it. I just love it.

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    PeoplePhobic

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    My (distant) second favorite knife is this Boker Automat Kalashnikov 74. It looks kind of cool and it was also really cheap. I was very disappointed in the AUS8 steel though. It was "supposed" to be on par with 440C but it just doesn't hold an edge well. It is really easy to sharpen though. The spear point is a nice blade shape that I've found to be useful. The 3.25 inch blade is a nice size. I also have a 2.5 inch one that I've found to be quite useless. The handle has a nice grip between the texture and the jimping. You can usually tell how much I like a knife by the wear on it. It's auto (a switchblade) which I like. Typically any knife I have is a liner lock or a frame lock and autos like this one are just button locked which is just easy and intuitive. I like a knife that I can afford to mess up or lose and this one was only like $35. I don't mind handing it to someone when they ask to borrow my knife for a second (after making sure I've told them that it's a switchblade and not in-fact not a screwdriver or a pry bar lol). I probably wouldn't go looking for it again unless I could find it in a better steel if I broke it or lost it but it's done well.

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    PeoplePhobic

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    My 5th favorite knife is this CRKT Ryan. This is kind of my go bag/camping knife. It's really too big to edc in my opinion. I find it makes a decent compact replacement for a larger fixed blade on a camping trip though. It's pretty thick and has the thumb studs which work good if you're wearing gloves or if you want to axe through stuff by hitting the back of it with a stick. It actually has a really good wedge shape to it for that. It has a liner lock and a second safety switch on the back that rotates a piece of metal behind the liner lock so the blade can't release to fold. I don't know what the steel in this is but it's even worse than the AUS8 in my Kalashnikov above. It's decent for occasional use. It's not really that I particularly like this knife or that it's super great or anything it's more that it prevents me from needing a fixed blade. I really didn't like it for anything until I started hitting it with a stick to split up some kindling. Frankly I picked it for that because I was sick of sharpening it and I didn't care if it broke but it managed to show me a place where it could be useful. I think I paid like $20 for it.

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    PeoplePhobic

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    What happened to 3rd and 4th favorite?
    My 3rd favorite is a Gerber prodigy which is a fixed blade. It comes with a nice molle sheath. Mine has a bunch of burrs and grind marks and stuff so it's not perfect but it's a lot of stuff for the money.

    My 4th favorite was my Microtech Ultratech. It's just so light and elmax steel holds an edge so well. Kind of expensive but you get what you pay for.

    Those aren't folders so I omitted them. I'm honestly surprised someone actually paid enough attention to notice 3 and 4 were missing.
     
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