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.
