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I have a horse ranch and it is an absolute requirement to have a knife handy. Opening bales of hay, splicing hotwires, freeing a horse in a fraction of a moment caught in a rope or hay twine. I am never without a knife. It is always a Swiss Army knife with the blade, scissors, and toothpick being the most used. Not a big one or a small one...just a handy size.

As for other knives, I have had many custom ones for my gun shows and I make many more out of fancy handle material and always in Damascus which seems to be the best for ease of sharpening and holding an edge. Having a lapidary background, I make both knife handles and 1911 grips out of jade, petrified wood, ruby in zoisite, and every kind of fossil and exotic wood, stag, and bone available. My two 1911's have grips of petrified Tyranosaurus Rex and stag looking Wooly Mammoth ivory.

But my carry knife is a Swiss Army knife.

I agree about good damascus being easy to sharpen and holding an edge well. A close friend made several for me and they will get" serious sharp" very quickly. I carried a simple, one blade Swiss army for years. It is a stainless knife that sharpens well.

I switch around on what I carry for everyday, according to what time of year it is, which dictates what we're doing on the farm. Right now it's the Case trapper, but later in the spring it will probably be the Kershaw Leek, for ease of getting to, and opening. Assisted openers are nice when you've got one hand occupied and need to get the knife out and open quickly.

SRH

Here's my daily carry of late. Myself I never cared for small pocket knives...cheap Italian made D2 steel holds an edge fairly well.
Just the right length for filleting turkeys or poking something.

I have always like the Case series for pocket knives-- ?? What do all you learned gents use for sharpening. I use a Smiths Arkansas stone, two sided, one coarse, the other side finer grit stone. And 3-in-1 oil-- finish on a leather belt section- like a barber strops his razors with I suppose. RWTF

I usually use a Gatco sharpening kit (similar to a Lansky).

I have taken to carrying pocket knives with clips. Mostly a Boker for work and Kershaw otherwise. Both with 4" blades.

I don't like to carry a heavy knife. The Gerber lock-back slimline has a blade long enough to do something with and weighs nothing; doesn't wear out my pocket.

Get a Smokey Mountain Knife Company catalog and shop til you drop...Geo

Geo, you might like this one. It is very light with Titanium and wood handle, 3.5" blade. It is a Boker Trapper. On Amazon.

I like a Case single blade trapper to carry. That knife rides great in the pocket for me.

Couldn't open the link, Brent. Just as well because if I get on a knife buying jag my wife makes me keep them in the boxes and she gives them to the sons and sons in law for Christmas...Geo

Gee whiz, next I looked t had opened itself!


By the way I completely agree with the first sentence in your new tag. Wish you'd reconsider the second though.

I carry a NRA knife, not the best quality but what it says is more important than holding an edge forever.

Bill