Pocket Knives
Pocket Knives
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I'm way more insufferable:
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I actually don't edc it anymore. I have an office job now, and half that giant belt clip doesn't really fit in with the business- casual attire.
But I do keep them in my car, and happened to be using them today in time for those pictures because we're moving offices this week and I was using them to take apart monitor arms, cut boxes, etc.
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Man I don't edc anything, or simultaneously, everything.
If I put my keys, wallet, or phone down outside of my pocket or bedside, it's lost until I'm late to the next thing.
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Let me introduce to you the open source and modular multitool
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Open source doesn't properly describe the Roxon Flex multi tools. CAD files are available for making custom implements but the drawings for the frames they are used in are not available.
Regardless of this I think the Flex series seem like great tools and I am considering buying a Flex pliers tool. The thing holding me back is the price because in Europe and most of the world you can't buy the frame only and implements are only available in sets.
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thanks!
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I'm also insufferable.
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can you post this on !edc@sopuli.xyz ?
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I'm way more insufferable
Sanic username checks out
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People without pocket knives when they want to get into a box:
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My mom opens chip bags like she's a wrestler ripping their shirt off for the crowd.
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The floor demands her chips!
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If I ain't got a pocket knife on me, you need to tell me to go back in the house and put my pants on....
But I'm old and I grew up on a farm and everyone carried a pocket knife. It's a tool just like any other tool. In fact, it's human's second oldest tool, right after the basic rock. I highly recommend getting one for yourself. A Victorinox Classic is a great EDC. You might not use the little 1"/25mm blade very often, but that nail file and scissors are fantastic to have. And the Classic comes in many handle colors and can hang on your keychain until needed. In fact I highly recommend any Victorinox tool. It might be the greatest urban survival tool ever invented. And Vic's are always acceptable carry in nearly every social situation. People never seem threatened by them.
These days I don't use my pocket knife as much as I used to. But I still carry one every day and it some how feels wrong if I don't. And it's there waiting and ready for when I do need it.
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I used to have a knife with me most of the time as a kid. It was cool and useful.
But when I had to store it in security when in festival I more often had to remember to not forget about it than I used it.
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There are a few places that knives are not allowed because a few morons can't be trusted and ruin everything for the rest of us. Just have to be smarter and leave you knife at home when you know you are going to those places.
What is truly sad is knowing the general population often thinks a pocket knife is a horrible scary dangerous thing to see in public.
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I made this for opening boxes.
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Does it work?
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Throw a qullion (i think thats the term anyway. Reading them fantasy books sometimes i forget that may have made up basic shit too) on that mofo and you could also use it to staby stab... boxes.
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Can confirm. I once had a letter opener made to look like a tiny katana, with a scabbard and everything. It was fucking awesome.
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I have this thing for a reason!
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You can clean them. You can technically disassemble them but it involves preening over pins and whatnot. It's a hassle. A good soak in warm soapy water and a scrub with an old toothbrush can do wonders. If it's seized by rust WD-40 is your friend.
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The Cybertool really is the best of the Victorinox knives. Unfortunately, I lost mine 😢.
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My condolences
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I always have a pocket knife but I still end up using my keys to cut open boxes.
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expensive knife?
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Oh, no. Cheap knockoff SOGs. The knife is there for everything you shouldn't use a knife for. Screwdriver, pry bar, toothpick, etc. Keys are in the same pocket tho and are usually the first thing I find.
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I have an expensive knife and try and use any chance I get. I bought it for a tool and not for looking at. But maybe I'm different.
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Okay, if there's ever tape on the box, the box cutter comes out because I ain't got time for that bull.
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It's part of the experience.
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Lol, it's literally why they're carried in a lot of cases.
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"everyday carry" people fantasy: the lights went out but we have to open that box and sign this form. We're doomed!! Who can save us!?!
reality: I guess I will just do it later.
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Reality is the box can be opened by hand, everyone in the room has a flashlight on their phone and the form can now be esigned on a phone.
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Best EDC knife I've found.
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I couldn't see the blade until I zoomed in, it's the same color as the background, haha.
Looks like a utility knife razor?
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Basically, yeah
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I have a keychain mini-multitool (Gerber Dime) with a dedicated "retail package opener" and it's by far the function I use the most. It's actually getting worn down and needs to be resharpened.
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When all you have is a knife, every problem looks like a wine bottle cork that you should have tried removing using a proper corkscrew first instead of playing mac gyver to impress the room
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Well, shit
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I suppose you could sabre the neck off with the 25mm blade on your Victorinox Classic to look cool. But if you had a Victorinox Tinker you could just use the cork screw that is on the knife........
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This is like when you go round someone’s house for dinner and they ostentatiously get out the “Japanese steel” to chop the vegetables with, which you have to ceremonially bloody on your palm every time it comes out of the block. Later you see the shitty little serrated knife they normally use while helping load the dishwasher.
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probably, they used the "shitty little serrated knife" for something that needed serrations.
Just because you have a nice Santoku, doesn't mean that you won't be using other knives for specific purposes. Our Nakiri cuts nothing but vegetables, fruits, nuts and herbs. I won't use it for anything else.
I have knives that only cut apples for decades now.
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Not everyone’s climbed to the top of the forbidden peak to learn the correct Zendatsu technique from Kendo Nagasaki to use those holy tools though.
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The guy who always has a knife:
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I miss doing iaido. I still have my practice sword though, that shit was expensive
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I think I’m beyond help at this point. When I’m not at work I EDC a pocket knife, a leatherman, and a Swiss Army knife. Probably overkill but I’ve never been in a situation where I thought “I wish I came less prepared to this”.
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I've cleaned a moose with my pocket knife.
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Are you Jordan Jonas?
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but mine has tritium on the handle!!
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Or unwrapping Xmas presents.
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i use every tool on my Mountaineer, but the hook. I've never used that hook.
Who needs that hook?
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I'm usually like, ooh, I have a Swiss army knife in my pocket. And another on the keychain.
...Except when I'm home, the keys go to the tray and I switch to indoors pants, so when I actually need the damn things I usually need to take extra effort to go grab them anyway.
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I have a tiny Leatherman and use it all the time
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maslow's mall ninja
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people without pocket knives when they need to cut something ☞
My family always gives me shit for always having my Gerber on my belt, until it's Christmas morning or any of the other times someone needs a knife or pliers.
I keep a tiny 1" knife on my keychain. It's incredibly handy, unless I forget to take it off when going through airport security...
Your family Christmas morning sounds vicious. You should try getting everyone to sit down and have the youngest child hand the presents out one at a time.
Christmas morning! Every single time I'm the person that pulls out the knife.