Thread: EDC Knife

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

Yeah. when this eventually falls apart, I may order the real deal.

if you do, i recommend this outfit:
48945 - 1-7/8" Plain Blade Subcom F Folding Knife, Fiberglass-Reinforced Nylon Handle, Warranty
cheapest price i could find when i bought mine, and great customer service.

Hey everyone!!
Nice collection!

My EDC is a cold steel voyager, the medium, 3" blade . Nice, light, razor sharp, quick to deploy and a super strong lockback


I also have a SOG Tomcat 3.0, but its too big for an EDC lol, but its a lovely knife .

My EDC:
CRKT Tanto money clip (left front pocket): blade is honestly not used much...
Case sadlehorn trapper (right front pocket): For most utilitarian needs...
Hissatsu Folder (left rear pocket): Can handle whatever arises...

So.. i have had this knife get stuck open twice on me. Once when i just had it sitting out for a while and just now when i was sharpening it.

Is there a trick to closing this knife i am just missing? Had to loosen the screw each time. so feel like i am missing something somewhere, though it usually closes much easier.

Originally Posted by jockeys

yeah, i have a subcomm as well, handy little thing, isn't it?

My EDC is a CRKT M16-01KZ or my Colt Police Positive. makes dealing with boxes all day fun.

The majority of you probably have no idea how irritating this thread is to me! For many years, UK law allowed anybody to carry a locking knife so long as the cutting edge did not exceed 3" without having to account for themselves, so if you asked me that question a few years back, the answer would have been any of a number of lock knives fitting that description, a Buck or Puma knockoff being the usual kind of thing. Nowadays, though, following media driven hysteria about a statistically rather insignificant rise in stabbings in the larger cities, lock knives are out for the ordinary man in the street, leaving you with the sole option of a slipjoint up to 3". Just when I'd bought myself a Böker Warcom . Leaving the hoodlums to carry their choice of supermarket kitchen knife for those daily threatening and stabbing chores.

I've given up now. British society has such a downer on knives that if I bother with one at all, it's a bone handled vintage Sheffield penknife with a 1 3/4" and a 1 1/8" blade, and in all fairness, it's a very useful thing and all I usually need. A couple of lockers live at work where they're a necessity, and I'm careful not to leave one in my pocket in the evening; the rest are now just a collection.

My EDC for the past year is an older Boker stockman pattern. Carbon blades that take a good edge. Rescued it from a 2nd hand store for a $1.00. Some cleanup work and good to go! Bull

Originally Posted by Arrowhead

Just when I'd bought myself a Böker Warcom .

Section 139 came in over 20 years ago. Locking knives have been illegal with out good reason since then, it's hardly a 'recent' law.

If you want a good, UK legal EDC you won't beat anything from the Spyderco Slipit range. The UKPK, Urban and Terzuola. There are many many other very good options though.

Kershaw Ken Onion 1660.

I suspect that many on this board are knife nuts, like me. I have probably dozens of various types of penknives and larger folders, and I still carry those with blades under 3" sometimes, but after many years of casting around, I carry a Victorinox "Soldier" model Swiss army knife probably 95% of the time. I find that its awl, screw driver, bottle opener and handy blade, combined with REALLY stainless steel material offers the best range of utility for the things I need it for without the overkill of some of the more gee-gaw laden models. Cool knives like assisted openers, various "tactical" knives etc. are neat, and I have a few of those. I guess they would be useful if I needed a weapon, but my needs are far more prosaic and better filled by the Swiss army knife.