Thread: EDC Knife

While it's true that everyday I carry my Benchmade 940, if I go out at night, I may have one of these with me too:

On the bottom is an 11" Frank Beltrame swingguard with a horn handle. This may very well be my favorite knife. The blade fires out like black lightening and the lock-up is a wonderful thing. Above that is an 11" Beltrame picklock stiletto with rosewood scales. I love the Italian design of the switchblade, especially with the bayonet style blade as you see in the three I have here. I got my first one by taking it away from a very drunk fool who came at me with a 9" with a stag handle when I was 16 years old. I've owned at least one every day since. It took me a day and a half to figure out how to close the blade. The pivoting bolster blade release mechanism is pure design genius. Thiird from the bottom, the 9" picklock in blue and bright polished stainless is just sexy as Helll with perfect proportions and balance. Ah, above that, the Buck conversion is a very nice example of brilliant machining. In the mid seventies, everyone had a Buck Bros folder on his belt. I had to be different so in 1976 I bought a Gerber Folding Sportsman III. With a little work and practice that Gerber made a very nice gravity knife which the Bucks wouldn't do. The Gerber blade was about twice as heavy as the Buck's. Now if the conversion to full auto was available back then, I probably would never had owned a Gerber, or lost it in a fight to a very nice man with a bat. Ah the good ol' days. Above the Buck are two toys. Out the front (OTF) knives are fun to play with but they are very dumb. If you ever use one to open anything that bleeds more than an envelope, you won't likely be able to clean it enough to expect it to ever open again. The mechanism is simply too precise and a little stickiness on the blade will gum up the works. But they are cute.

All of these knives are completely illegal in my state. They are illegal to carry and illegal to own so this post is strictly hypothetical.