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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #120 on: March 07, 2017, 12:54:13 PM »
Can't get along without one. Now carry a dinky Swiss Army that usually serves my needs.
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #121 on: March 07, 2017, 01:06:01 PM »
The law re carrying a knife in England has become pretty strict in recent years, because of a wave of fatal stabbings, mainly in London. You now can't carry a knife without good reason unless it's folding and the blade is no longer than three inches.

I read somewheres how Russia has a murder rate about 20 times the rate here... and zero gun permits. It's mostly knives, fists, and clubs. Mostly while drunk. They have a couple very interesting TV docs showing their prisons.
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #122 on: March 07, 2017, 02:10:03 PM »

How many of you find that if you carry a pocket knife that is too chunky, it winds up wearing a holes in your pocket or even wears a hole through the leg of the pants? I have ruined a few pair of pants that way over the years. Leatherman's must be carried in a belt sheath IME. Good thing I can sew!

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Wearing out the pocket is a good point.   These days, I only carry little knives (2-1/2") in a pocket.   My Boker goes around my neck, my Spiderco Clipit on a clip on the pocket edge, and the Camillus #3 folder I'm carrying at the moment in a belt sheath ....

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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #123 on: March 07, 2017, 02:32:32 PM »
Yep, a genuine Moto Guzzi swiss army from the mid 80's. Anyone else have one?
And for the Jeep guy"s here, I carry in mine a Jeep knife kit from the mid 50's. Came from my dads Panel Wagon. I wonder what thats worth? It even has the little pencil in it.
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #124 on: March 07, 2017, 02:57:16 PM »
I carry a Harper's Swiss Army knife. 
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #125 on: March 07, 2017, 08:42:25 PM »
I can't survive day to day without this Leatherman Micra, sometimes I carry the bigger Leatherman.
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #126 on: March 08, 2017, 07:45:44 AM »
The law re carrying a knife in England has become pretty strict in recent years, because of a wave of fatal stabbings, mainly in London. You now can't carry a knife without good reason unless it's folding and the blade is no longer than three inches.


That does not surprise me.  But, except for the Leatherman, all of my pocket knives are small ones.  Got into that habit back when I flew a lot.  I did lose a nice Swiss army knife at Ontario airport.  I was in CA for a meeting when the first gulf war started.  I didn't know they changed the rules until I got in line.  After that I stopped carrying a pocket knife for a long time.
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #127 on: March 09, 2017, 10:31:40 AM »
Interesting, the responses.

The "need" ranges from "I've never needed a knife so I don't carry one" to "I carry a knife (or tool) and use it every single day".

How does one person go, say, 10,000 days and doesn't use a knife, and the rest of us use one every day or (me) several times a week?   Are our environments and activities that different?

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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #128 on: March 09, 2017, 10:26:52 PM »
Well, it could be that instead of using a pocketknife a person keeps a utility knife or box cutter in their desk drawer.  When in the kitchen use a knife out of the drawer.  When in the shop pick up a pair of side cutters.  Or scissors.  For opening boxes sealed with tape I've used a house key.

Heck, until I showed my wife the scissors on a swiss army knife she wanted no part of them  :)

So, yeah, I can see how someone could get by without a pocketknife.
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #129 on: March 20, 2017, 04:01:56 PM »
This is a good read on "Best Pocket Knives" by Popular Mechanics.   Some the knives that are mentioned are carried by forum members that posted on the thread.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/g2975/best-pocket-knives/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=030817
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Re: Pocket knifes. Do you carry one?
« Reply #130 on: March 20, 2017, 06:10:30 PM »
Thanks, Tom.. :thumb:
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