Pocket knives

[rob_s]

I keep thinking I'm just going to get one of these and carry it in one of these.

ETA:
Or maybe this instead.

[blues]

It's all fun and games until a maker sends you a new knife that hasn't even been sharpened. I've also been given a new rental car that barfed some sort of weird, viscous frost all over the windshield on start up one time. I take nothing for granted.

Exactly.
It's the failure of the expected that is remarkable, not the opposite.

It bothers me when a maker, custom or production sends out a knife with a poorly ground bevel or final edge. After all it's a knife and its job is to cut.
I've sent one or two back over the years for what I considered unacceptable workmanship...but generally, if I like the knife and intend to carry and use it, I just suck it up and sharpen it up myself, scratches on the bevel or flats be damned.

Fortunately, I also know a few makers who know how to build a knife with a fine edge though I haven't been buying new blades of late.

[Failure2Stop]

I keep thinking I'm just going to get one of these and carry it in one of these.

ETA:
Or maybe this instead.

For what a folder does, those do it.

[UNK]

You need a proper pocket knife...

So what would be a "proper" pocket knife in your opinion?

I presume one of the blades would be a grenade.

[Willard]

I keep thinking I'm just going to get one of these and carry it in one of these.

ETA:
Or maybe this instead.

I've had the former for so long I don't know when I got it...also looking at the latter, but unsure on button & inadvertent deployment.

[Gater]

Mine was my first "real" knife, given to me by my father. I haven't used it in decades, but it'll be the last one I own, too.

Been meaning to try one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Kwik-Thumb-St...wik+stud+knife

[voodoo_man]

Stahp plz...

[Redhat]

My latest EDC is an Ontario RAT2, about $27 and it came very sharp out of the box. I also have the larger RAT1 but these days I don't have much use for large knives on a day-to-day basis. Just a slick little pocket knife IMO. Of course I always have a small SAK on me as well.

[din]

Of course I always have a small SAK on me as well.

You ever consider seeing a doctor about that?

[Redhat]

You ever consider seeing a doctor about that?

Did you? SAK = Swiss Amy Knife