EDC knives?

[wyntrout]

I always carry the little red one and usually the middle one, Gerber Quick Draw (3" blade, assisted opening) as well. I got the Covert (Gerber F.A.S.T.) with the 3.7" blade and larger grip for more of a "fighting knife", but with little or no training, I hope to never need it for that. The little Swiss Classic "Variation" is handier to me than the others with the scissors. I use it a lot. the tiny blade is sharp enough to cut coupons at the stores and to get the foil/plastic cover off my wine bottles. Too bad it doesn't have a corkscrew, but that would make it too big. It weighs about 0.7 oz. and the others are 4.83 and 3.35 oz., from the top.

Wynn

[LaP]

I use it a lot. the tiny blade is sharp enough to cut coupons at the stores and to get the foil/plastic cover off my wine bottles. Too bad it doesn't have a corkscrew, but that would make it too big. It weighs about 0.7 oz. and the others are 4.83 and 3.35 oz., from the top.

Wynn

My knives are very adept at cutting foil off the wine bottles. It takes a fine pression instument to get just the right slice around the bottle top. I make sure my knives are always up to the job and I do performance tests as often as needed.

[ltxi]

Usually a 3 3/8 inch serrated Benchmade AFCK.

[wyntrout]

I slide the knife blade up from the bottom of the "foil" usually removing a small strip, and then just peeling it up and off the bottle, leaving nothing to capture and release wine after pouring.

I wasn't paying enough attention one time, and the new bottle of wine had a metal twist cap! OUCH! I had to resharpen the blade!

Wynn

[Jeremiah/Az]

Mine is a red Victornox Camper. Yep, the one with the plastic toothpick & tweezers. I have carried it for years.

[melissa5]

I slide the knife blade up from the bottom of the "foil" usually removing a small strip, and then just peeling it up and off the bottle, leaving nothing to capture and release wine after pouring.

I wasn't paying enough attention one time, and the new bottle of wine had a metal twist cap! OUCH! I had to resharpen the blade!

Wynn

I don't usually remove the foil and just bore through it with the corkscrew. One day I got a surprise and found a twist off top under the foil.

[LaP]

I don't usually remove the foil and just bore through it with the corkscrew. One day I got a surprise and found a twist off top under the foil.

Yeah but, one way or another that top DID come off didn't it!!!?

Years ago while young and unprepared, I didn't have a corkscrew.... I used the head of a 16Penny nail to drive the cork thru and then enjoyed the fruit of the vine. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

[Bawanna]

This is a knife.



These are what I usually carry though. The SOG Pentagon Elite is a heck of a knife, fast easy opening and closing. Not nuts about the blade shape but it works.
I really like the feel of the Fox & Hound fixed blade, always liked fixed blade knives over folders but of course folders are easier to deal with.
I'm embarassed with the leather sheath I made for it but it works and is 100 times better than what it came with. I'd love to get a good horizontal carry scabbard made for it someday.

[LaP]

Bawanna: Did that Bowie Knife come from Crocodile Dundie?
"Crykie, that's a big knyfe"

[knkali]

and he has it all displayed on a blood stained sheet

[wyntrout]

I think that's a sweat or tear-stained pillow case.

Wynn

[Bawanna]

Bawanna: Did that Bowie Knife come from Crocodile Dundie?
"Crykie, that's a big knyfe"

That Bowie was my dads. I never saw it or knew that he even owned it. Going thru his stuff after his passing my ruthless, vulture like step mom who I liked and got along well until his passing allowed it to go with some of his other belongings for my sisters and I to have. My sisters and their husbands graciously agreed that I was the proper and just new home for it. I have no idea when he got it or any of it's history which is terribly sad but its in good hands now.
I do on occasion carry it even at work, no rules against knives at my PD.

[Bawanna]

and he has it all displayed on a blood stained sheet

Actually I just quickly grabbed a rag off my bench. It's no doubt Coco Bolo sawdust which stains really well. I thought it was cleaner than it was. I just don't have the artistic photographic capablilities of some here. I did contemplate taking them outside as everyone says natural light is better but it was wet out and I was feeling plumb lazy.

[LaP]

Bawanna:
Glad you got to take posession of that knife. Some things are meant to be and it sounds like that was one of those things.

[apheod]

spyderco paramilitary II is my EDC, but i have a few other nice folders, a benchmade 707 M2, a 705 D2, an sv30 doug ritter mini-griptilian, a spyderco sage 1, and my EDC multitool, a victorinox spirit s has several blades on it.