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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on April 26, 2015, 02:38:02 PM
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http://lifehacker.com/five-best-everyday-carry-knives-1700075192?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29
Nowadays, a Leatherman Wingman is in my NiteIze smartphone carry case, and a Benchmade triage is riding in my front left pocket. I on occasion carry a Victorinox Rescue Tool or a Kershaw Cryo instead.
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Interesting. I own variants of three out of the five listed.
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Crap.
I'm "trendy".
I'm packing A Kershaw Leek.
may have to reevaluate my choices.
Naw, it's a decent little knife.
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Lifehacker, whoever he is, seems to have a pretty limited view of what is out there in the knife world. =D
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I dislike best of lists because they are invariably colored by the writer's world and choices. All 5 listed are not hard use knives and how could you make a top 5 list and not include a SAK? I tend to carry at least 2 knives, one a good cutter and the other while sharp must be one-handed, positive locking and have the blade geometry of a prybar.
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I dislike best of lists because they are invariably colored by the writer's world and choices. All 5 listed are not hard use knives and how could you make a top 5 list and not include a SAK?
Yes to that.
I've carried tacticoolish sharp pointy things. They're just not as practical as my SAK Deluxe Tinker.
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As the article notes, the five best knives were selected by the number of votes to an online survey.
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These types of ratings are foolish. The worst sharp knife beats the best dull knife any day.
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Before I started carrying an automatic knife, I carried a CKRT M16, which was rated "runner up" in the survey.
But personally, IMHO, SO many of the EDC-suitable knives on the market are minor variations on a theme, that surveys like this are pretty useless.
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They didn't choose my current favorite so they are wrong.
For the record, the Spyderco Byrd series Meadowlark2 is a darn fine stand in for a Delica. The blade is a little thinner (actually an advantage in some cases) but at a third the cost I was sold. My Delica is ten years old and the tip has gotten a little rounded. I will probably regrind the blade, but the Meadowlark can fill the pocket until then. I like the thin, smooth stainless grip. Doesn't shred pockets or take up much space.
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I have a Leek and several CRKT M16 variants around here. My current EDC is the Gerber Propel Auto (http://www.gerbergear.com/Tactical/Knives/Propel-Downrange-Auto_30-000695). I know it sucks that you need credentials to get the auto, but it's a tough knige that I've been abusing for a while now and holds an edge. I sometimes also grab my Benchmade Auto APB 6800 (http://www.benchmade.com/products/6800)
Like scopes, while there are some fine <$50 knives, you also get what you pay for.
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Don't really know much about what's out there in the knife world. I always have a CRKT Mini My Tighe on me. It has served me well for cutting things.
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Fail.
No mention of Spyderco Delica.
They mentioned the endura 4 wave- its too big for EDC and has a lousy grind profile.
The lack of Benchmade griptillion on the list makes me not take the author seriously.
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These types of ratings are foolish. The worst sharp knife beats the best dull knife any day.
Sharpen? Just buy a new one. :P
I guess I don't use my carry knife enough to dull it down. It looks a lot like the Gerber mentioned. It got it becaseu it looked light, compact, and had the serrations. Some of these and the honorable mentions look good.
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That would get expensive. I use mine many times a day.
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Leatherman Blast in the bag, SOG Twitch II clipped in a pocket with the end sticking out for quick and easy access.
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Back in Middle school, before I could afford a Buck 101, I had an Opinal (like the one pictured) for several years. I loved it. And it seemed like every time I had saved up enough to buy the Buck, some other shiny would come along, and I'd simply soldier on with the Opinal.
I want to say it was around Junior year in HS before I finally saved enough to by the Buck.
I wish I would have seen this when I was in Indy. I would have looked around to see if the Opinal was still there, somewhere.
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Fail.
No mention of Spyderco Delica.
They mentioned the endura 4 wave- its too big for EDC and has a lousy grind profile.
I would disqualify most of the knives as having blades too short (but also for unsatisfactory blade profile). I don't understand why people think that a 3-1/2" to 4" folder is in any way a "big knife," when it's no larger than a common table knife or steak knife. (Especially when you fold it in half, for carry.) They also have handles that are very appropriately sized. They are also a small to medium sized knife, when compared to most fixed-blade knives.
???
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^^^I wonder if it is a function of knife laws. For example, Washington state does not have uniform knife laws, and so each county and/or city or town can create their own knife laws, usually having to do with blade length. I most commonly carry a 3.5" Benchmade triage, and that is illegal in the city that I work, but is not illegal in the unincorporated county that I live or some of the other cities that I travel to for work. In this area, pretty much everything up to 3" is legal almost everywhere, and everything over 3.5" is illegal almost everywhere. So based on that, I can see how someone would think that a 4" knife is a 'big blade'.
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Does your CCW not cover knives?
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My first reaction was to say that the knife laws must have come from the idea that 4" knife blades are large, and not the other way around.
But I could see how anything above a certain size might be considered more useful as a weapon, and they might be outlawed for that reason.
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Does your CCW not cover knives?
Missouri's CCW used to be ambiguous, but it wasn't considered wise to rely on it to cover a knife. I think it was recently clarified, so that the CCW now explicitly covers guns, and nothing else. :facepalm:
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Bummer. It would seem logical that if you can carry a gun, pretty much any knife you can strap on would be a downgrade. I know logic and .gov.
FL is a "License to carry concealed weapon or firearm". It hadn't occurred to me that some states would limit it to only handguns.
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It hadn't occurred to me that some states would limit it to only handguns.
You're not an idiot.
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Does your CCW not cover knives?
Washington state does not. When I got my first carry permit, in 1981 in Seattle, the state permit was called a 'CCW' for 'carry concealed weapon'. After a number of court cases over whether a CCW allowed the carry of other weapons, several years ago the state permit was changed to a 'CPL' for 'concealed pistol license' to better clarify that it pertained only to handgun carry.
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I haven't seen any arguments for restricting permits to firearms. I wonder what those might be. I guess they must argue that the state can't allow people to carry X, unless the required CCW course trains people in how to use X (knives, clubs, blackjacks, etc).
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Virginia's CCW law specifically does not. I could carry 4 guns and spare mags and be perfectly legal but add in a 4" double edge knife and I get a free pass to the pokey if a cop wants to enforce it. My reading of VA's other weapons law makes me pretty sure it was written in the old days when the state was may issue and we had to keep all those other weapons out of the hands of the "wrong" people.
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Bummer. It would seem logical that if you can carry a gun, pretty much any knife you can strap on would be a downgrade. I know logic and .gov.
FL is a "License to carry concealed weapon or firearm". It hadn't occurred to me that some states would limit it to only handguns.
Kind of screwed up. Here in the Sooner state I could legally open carry a brace of 1911s, but if I had a switchblade they'd haul me to jail.
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The Kershaw Leek is the most popular in the 'five best' list as done by popular vote.
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Kind of screwed up. Here in the Sooner state I could legally open carry a brace of 1911s, but if I had a switchblade they'd haul me to jail.
As of November 1st, 2015 that will no longer be the case. Today our Governor signed a law that makes carrying a switchblade legal.
Looks like I'll be buying an auto knife in the not too distant future.
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I always thought it was a perfect example of the stupidity of the law that in Seattle I can legally carry this
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.firearms4less.com%2F126-733-large%2Fblack-rain-fallout15-ar15-pistol-black.jpg&hash=8b624d83b04a4ebb3cf4a47e019350dd15ebb3f6)
but not this
(https://www.spyderco.com/pix/products/large/C10BK_L.jpg)
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I always thought it was a perfect example of the stupidity of the law that in Seattle I can legally carry this
<gun>
but not this
<knife>
Only because there's a strong and active gun lobby and not so much with knives. It seems once most people get old enough to get a handgun and CCW, they become less militant about knife carry and switch over to "gun nut", relegating knives to utility status. Not saying it's right, just what I've observed.
Chris