What's your Favorite Everyday Pocket Knife

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  • Art
    Senior Member, Deceased
    • Dec 2009
    • 9256

    #1

    What's your Favorite Everyday Pocket Knife

    Mine is the Kershaw Leek. It's very slender, very lightweight, is lightening quick to open with one hand, comes very sharp from the factory and stays that way. It has a drop point blade that is useful for a host of tasks from cutting that tough steak to self defense. It is (or was when I bought mine) made in the USA. I own two, a lavender one that travels with me and a teal green one that stays in my office. They do come in more "manly" colors but I'd lose those quickly.

    The Kershaw Leek just may be the ideal EDC. With its 3-inch blade, the Leek is a good-sized knife, but not too big. The slim design makes it easy to carry and its razor-sharp blade of high-performance 14C28N means it can take care of a full range


    These are not cheap but shop around and you can get them for well under the $100.00 price from Kershaw.

    So what are your favorites??
    Last edited by Art; 05-22-2022, 05:02.
  • lyman
    Administrator - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 11269

    #2
    ditto, usually,

    I have the plain stainless one,


    also have a William Henry with a Carbon Fiber scales, that is extremely light,


    years ago I used to carry a #8 Opinel, drilled a hole in the handle and put a leather thong in it,

    very handy knife that was extremely easy to sharpen

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    • dryheat
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 10587

      #3
      A nice old time pocket knife. I've carried one everyday since I was twelve yrs. old (when I decided I was old enough).
      One blade. Light and thin. Even when I was a Boy Scout I didn't like that big fat boy scout knife. If I need tools they are in the truck/camp box.
      I like the idea of those quick open knives. When I was a kid, switchblades were thought to be a dangerous as machine guns. I had a swtichblade kind of air rescue knife once that had a hook on it meant to cut shroud lines of parachutes if the guy landed in the water. So they're not that evil.
      If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.

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      • bruce
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 3759

        #4
        Normally a Benchmade Auto-Presidio 5000. On Sundays I normally carry a Benchmade Auto-Benchmite 3500. Positively adore these knives. Today ... waiting on a kidney stone to "pass." Apparently in bladder. About to head out to the office. My Boy Scout (Camillus) Whittler's knife is in my pocket. Sincerely. bruce.
        " Unlike most conservatives, libs have no problem exploiting dead children and dancing on their graves."

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        • one shot
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2021
          • 534

          #5
          Never had much use for one but always keep a Bidor Parang close by.

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          • lyman
            Administrator - OFC
            • Aug 2009
            • 11269

            #6
            Originally posted by bruce
            Normally a Benchmade Auto-Presidio 5000. On Sundays I normally carry a Benchmade Auto-Benchmite 3500. Positively adore these knives. Today ... waiting on a kidney stone to "pass." Apparently in bladder. About to head out to the office. My Boy Scout (Camillus) Whittler's knife is in my pocket. Sincerely. bruce.
            Hope that stone passes quick, been there done that more than I care to think about

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            • kj47
              Senior Member
              • Apr 2013
              • 699

              #7
              camp king

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              • bruce
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2009
                • 3759

                #8
                Re: Kidney stone. I have decided to adopt a new name. I am now ... Rock Star! Tomorrow morning ... X-Rays and then an appt. w/ the urologist. Sincerely. bruce.
                " Unlike most conservatives, libs have no problem exploiting dead children and dancing on their graves."

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                • Former Cav
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2009
                  • 2241

                  #9
                  this or a variation of it. this has a D2 tool steel blade so it holds and edge real good. Price is cheap for an "automatic"
                  https://www.bladehq.com/item--Boker-...c-Knife--17106

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                  • lyman
                    Administrator - OFC
                    • Aug 2009
                    • 11269

                    #10
                    Originally posted by bruce
                    Re: Kidney stone. I have decided to adopt a new name. I am now ... Rock Star! Tomorrow morning ... X-Rays and then an appt. w/ the urologist. Sincerely. bruce.
                    my uro told me I was a producer, of gravel,

                    so I call my kidney's gravel pits

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                    • jmm03
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2009
                      • 178

                      #11
                      Benchmade 745 and an old Victorinox commemorative that looks like a german utility knife, (has the essential tool, a corkscrew...) Jim

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                      • Art
                        Senior Member, Deceased
                        • Dec 2009
                        • 9256

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Former Cav
                        this or a variation of it. this has a D2 tool steel blade so it holds and edge real good. Price is cheap for an "automatic"
                        https://www.bladehq.com/item--Boker-...c-Knife--17106
                        Nice knife. If I was going to carry a "Switch" it would be something like that.

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                        • M1Tommy
                          Very Senior Member - OFC
                          • Aug 2009
                          • 1027

                          #13
                          Nothing terribly spectacular, I have some version of the CRKT M-16 knife in my back pocket. I recently bought one of their "Razel-GT" critters, just because I wondered about them and AG Russell had them on sale plus a "long time customer appreciation discount". It is chunky but sort of amuses me.
                          Tommy

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                          • Tigre_fish
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2009
                            • 284

                            #14
                            been carrying a Spyderco Delica with half serrated blade for at least the last 25 years.

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                            • Dan in NH
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2009
                              • 109

                              #15
                              Spyderco Para 2 in my pocket now

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