What knife are you carrying today?

[mtngunr]

Today it will be the cool Emerson, as much to keep its purchase from being a waste of money, as anything. Blazingly fast opener with the wave feature, it comes out of pocket open, and you can't get any faster than that, speed limited purely by how fast you can get a knife out of pocket, and truthfully a challenge to get out of pocket withOUT opening it.

This is one of the very limited number he made with a thumb stud, I wanted it as easier for me to flick/not-roll open with thumb rather than his typical disc screwed to spine, purely for if closed in hand or dropped in jacket pocket. Otherwise stud (or disc) is purely superfluous clipped in pocket.

His knives show much evidence of handwork, rather crude compared to batch tumbled polished factory wonders, with hand deburr of liners, blade a little rough inside handle, etc, and I rather like that. VERY good and secure handle shape in hand, not near as hard edged as it appears, a guy could work with this one.

He offers more conventional/practical blade styles, but then it wouldn't be the iconic Emerson which I wanted.

 

[enuf]

I have some cooler knives, this one is not real cool, but I carry it for the toothpick.

 

[Glock 'em down]

I have some cooler knives, this one is not real cool, but I carry it for the toothpick.

It's hard to beat a good ol' Vic SAK.

 

[mtngunr]

It's hard to beat a good ol' Vic SAK.

Check out the handle and blade marks on this pair, along with mailing label, post card both sides, a Russian plane in Switzerland which flies folk to glaciers, the postcard signed by female pilot and plane....

 

[mtngunr]

I have some cooler knives, this one is not real cool, but I carry it for the toothpick.

Hah! I ALWAYS have one in reach, and mainly for the awl and screwdriver blades which have saved innumerable knife tips and edges...there is one in the bathroom, one in kitchen drawer, one in car console and one (hah! probably at least three) on cubbyhole shelf/shelves in bedroom. Could not live without a SAK.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Check out the handle and blade marks on this pair, along with mailing label, post card both sides, a Russian plane in Switzerland which flies folk to glaciers, the postcard signed by female pilot and plane....

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That's awesome!

 

[enuf]

Check out the handle and blade marks on this pair, along with mailing label, post card both sides, a Russian plane in Switzerland which flies folk to glaciers, the postcard signed by female pilot and plane....

very cool indeed.

 

[mtngunr]

very cool indeed.

I picked up a few oddballs as I came across them. The military originals date back into late 1800s, had wood scales, then later fiber scales, and circa 1961 came out with red anodized aluminum, very pretty until someone used it and looked like crap soon after, and in 1964 went to silver since they all went silver with use.
The military issue had DOM stamped on blades, the red Swiss canton cross added circa 1980. After that knife was replaced as an issue knife, the cross on scale was changed, same with checkering pattern (hard to see but compare top row of checkering on silver knife with those below it), plus blank spot for short-lived inspector stamp was deleted, and a large blank spot for personalized engraving was added. The change in rivet also pretty obvious.
Folk go nuts anytime one in original style red anodize becomes available, which the red one shown is of that later rarer thing...
The black one is cool, looks perfect in that color, also rare, and this one a transitional model, the blank side is the old pattern scale, but there were no more scales of old style available for opposite side and so has a new style scale and cross on that side.
The single blade last one speaks for itself, and fun to show the knife, talk about color blind and how it looks purple to me, folk firmly say it is green as I close and reopen my hand and ask them are they sure, where they then doubt their own vision or sanity.
To keep it on topic, will be carrying the issue knife tomorrow since it shows small signs of use on main blade.

 

[sumoj275]

So many great blades here on this topic.

Today I’m carrying a Demko 2.5 in 20cv and blue micarta scales.

 

[mtngunr]

So many great blades here on this topic.

Today I’m carrying a Demko 2.5 in 20cv and blue micarta scales.

Demko should be in the Cutlery Hall Of Fame for his Triad lock...a pity hardly anyone else wanted to pay him for its use. It's the only lock ever seen which truly beat the Eka tail lock in strength/security.