Pocket Knives

People without pocket knives when they want to get into a box:

My mom opens chip bags like she's a wrestler ripping their shirt off for the crowd.
- The floor demands her chips!

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.

I'm way more insufferable:

!edc@sopuli.xyz
- 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.
- 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.
Let me introduce to you the open source and modular multitool
https://roxontool.com/products/flex-modular-multitool
- 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.
- thanks!
I'm also insufferable.
- can you post this on !edc@sopuli.xyz ?
I'm way more insufferable
Sanic username checks out

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.

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.
- 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.

One time I brought a watermelon to a picnic so that I could show off my fancy butterfly knife and I ended up cutting myself so badly that I had to wrap my hand in duct tape to stop the bleeding while someone else distracted the children. Worth it.

Something similar happened to me the first ... And last ... Time I used a mandoline.
- What's hilarious about this pic is the thing you're supposed to be using to keep your hands safe is sitting off to the side
- This is the only reason I own a pair of cut resistant gloves. Makes the mandoline actually a useful and safe kitchen tool.
- Happened to my mother. She sliced her palm very badly, sibling had to take her to emergency care.
  Sibling got me metal slicing gloves when they got me my mandolin lmfao
- I don't see how anyone could look at this device and be like, "yeah, that seems safe."

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

Well, shit
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........

I made this for opening boxes.

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.
Does it work?

I have this thing for a reason!

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.
The Cybertool really is the best of the Victorinox knives. Unfortunately, I lost mine 😢.
- My condolences
Mine has been rusted shut for ages. I wish you could disassemble and clean them
- I think threeme was supposed to respond to you but replied to the parent comment

It's part of the experience.

Lol, it's literally why they're carried in a lot of cases.

"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.

Real reality: I've got a torch on my phone, that light is never getting fixed
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.

"you just wanted to pull out the knife!"

"yea. i did. so i did."

I miss doing iaido. I still have my practice sword though, that shit was expensive

Can confirm. I once had a letter opener made to look like a tiny katana, with a scabbard and everything. It was fucking awesome.

Okay, if there's ever tape on the box, the box cutter comes out because I ain't got time for that bull.

I always have a pocket knife but I still end up using my keys to cut open boxes.

expensive knife?
- 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.
- 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.

maslow's mall ninja

I have a tiny Leatherman and use it all the time

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.

I've cleaned a moose with my pocket knife.

Are you Jordan Jonas?

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.

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.
- 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.

Best EDC knife I've found.

Check out Hacksmith's new Smith blade.
- I was seriously thinking about it. But at the end he said they might make an XL version with scissors and pliers and so I'm definitely waiting around for it.
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?
- Basically, yeah

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”.

but mine has tritium on the handle!!

The guy who always has a knife:

https://youtu.be/YAD0a6wWFrI

Or unwrapping Xmas presents.

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.

You can rip apart an Amazon box with your baby toe, those things are made to be easily ripped up. Tell that to my neighbours though, the shared recycling bin is always overflowing with uncut Amazon boxes

Really? It always seems to hurt my hands more than it's worth.
- Yeah, that tape is no joke.

I used my swiss knife for the scredriver, the mini scissors and the bottle opener. So everything but the knife when i think about it, the knife is basically the opinel, because it's better as a blade. I like that it's not spring driven.

i use every tool on my Mountaineer, but the hook. I've never used that hook.
Who needs that hook?

I keep a folding utility knife on me for just that reason

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