Thread: EDC Knife

BUCK 181 USA ATS-34

boy mick we have a few things in common. i couldent stick another animal the way i did that time if i tried it was pure luck also im just glad i dident have to go for rabies shots. i hear there not plsent

Originally Posted by MickR

Nice blades there Wullie. I don't have anything as old as your 110, but I do have an Old Timer lock knife (Not the chinese made ones, refuse to own one of them!) that I truly love. Being a bit tedious to open one handed though, it tends to just stay handy but rarely used. I find that when I want to be using my knife, I am invariably trying to do so while holding something with my other hand ...Especially when I'm out on the farm.


Mick

When I was about 12 I was walking around the woods with my cousin (same age) and entered a clearing about 15 feet apart. It was during the rut and and deer seemed extremely aggressive that year (a man had been hospitalized when he ran afoul of a buck) and just our luck I clear the brush and end up about 4 feet in front of a very agitated buck. It's stomping and threatening so I try and back away, tripping end up tangled in the brambles and heavy brush. My cousin seeing that things could get very bad very quickly takes out his knife (an old KaBar his father had carried in Vietnam as a tunnel rat) and throws it at the buck. Later he admitted he only thought it would hit the thing and scare it, but instead it sticks and the buck takes off. About 50 yards across the clearing the knife fell out and we retrieved it, but to this day the story comes up any tie were together.

to bad he dident fall dead that would have been a trophy even if it was a spike

I always carry an opinel No 8. sharpened to a shave ready state, a low grit sharpened SOG powerAssist, and a Fallkniven DC3 pocket hone.

nothing fancy, just things that get the job done, and get it done incredibly well..
opinels are amazing knives, incredibly easy to hone, yet they keep their edge unbelievably long!
I sometimes use it at work to trim the edges of OSB boards if they're too big to fit, or I scrape the back end of the blade along my metal workpiece to remove burrs quickly.. very versatile tool

the SOG has an amazing needlenose to it that seems to take a ton of abuse for breakfast when I use it at work to loosen bolts, pull splinters out of my fingers, cut & strip cables... it does it all

This is what I carry. Small but does the job.
It's a Boker Damascus.

Fragalot do you know the story behind Opinel knives? It's very interesting. Opinel are a great knife, and one that too many people look at as cheap junk. A shame really.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

Fragalot do you know the story behind Opinel knives? It's very interesting. Opinel are a great knife, and one that too many people look at as cheap junk. A shame really.
Mick

They really are great blades the steel quality is good, but the grind is what sets them apart in my opinion

Sadly I only know a fraction of the history behind them beeing a simple workers knife

Google it mate, you might find it interesting reading. I have the information around here somewhere, but it eludes me at the moment, and I don't want to give you information that might be wrong in some small way.


Mick

I'm between knives currently, but I'm currently all for the single locking blades. My last was a CRKT M16, loved it. With the nub on the back and a slight flick, and it'd be completely open.