Thread: EDC Knife

Originally Posted by Giuseppe

My "EDC" : An Opinel n°08, it's not a fancy knife or anything, but it's almost indestructible, actually it's so simple there's nothing to break.

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Fun fact, mine is a limited edition, made with a piece of wood from the "Hermione", a reconstruction of the frigate on which La Fayette embarked in 1780, to bring support to the American insurgents !

The missus and I have #8s for camping. Not L'Hermione, just the standard ones. I can't recall if we went for the carbon or stainless, though. And I can't be arsed to go digging about under the stairs to find out. But still, great knives, and the locking mechanism is so simple but so solid that I kind of wish I'd thought of it.

They are good for camping, indeed ! The good thing is that they are pretty cheap (at least here), so you are not afraid of using it !

And I also forgot to mention one important point to have an Opinel as an EDC, for me : In France the law is pretty strict about carrying knife, it cannot exceed a few centimeters, nor have a locking mechanism. But the Opinel is so common in France that it's way more tolerated than other folding knife. Which is quite important for an EDC.

These days I carry a Thiers Gergovie, by Arto :

Originally Posted by Hirlau

No , that's o.k.,,,that's an interesting folder, at first sight it looks like a fixed blade.

I'll work my GOOGLE FU on it now.

(A little view of the locking mechanism, if you are interested in any way ! The ring rotate in both directions to either block the blade open or closed.)

Yes, I was interested & I'm interested in getting one. They look to be very reasonable.

They are ! I don't know if they are easy to find in the US though, so if you don't find one at a reasonable price, pm me, I could send you one. I just checked, it'd cost about 12$, shipping included.

Thanks Giuseppe, I'll let you know.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

I finally made a folding knife for myself to carry. I finished it last saturday. So I'm proud to say that THIS is what I'm carrying at the moment:

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That's beautiful.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Thanks Giuseppe, I'll let you know.

I just took a look for you. REI.com doesn't carry them, which seems weird to me; there are tonnes of them in Canada. MEC.ca (think Canadian REI) carries them and I believe will shoo to the US. $12 is pretty hard to beat, though...

Originally Posted by Jes

I just took a look for you. REI.com doesn't carry them, which seems weird to me; there are tonnes of them in Canada. MEC.ca (think Canadian REI) carries them and I believe will shoo to the US. $12 is pretty hard to beat, though...

Oh right, if they are common there, that could be an option !

(I re-checked, and there's actually 2 options for shipping, and as long as I'm not really sure of which is possible for a package like this, I'll play safe, so : Max. 14,28$ for a n°8 carbon, and max. 15,53$ for a n°8 stainless, shipping included, indeed.)