Right now...? Sheepdog mini. Lot to like about this knife: size, blade profile, steel, ergos, overall quality... But... every time I elect to carry a non-Benchmade folder I find myself really missing the Axis lock mechanism. I absolutely love everything else about the Mini Sheepdog, but I do find myself wishing it had the Axis lock. A traditional liner-lock just doesn’t compare, IMHO.
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K-Bars What Knife is in your pocket right now?
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Only a couple months. It's a awesome knife grip and balance is unreal.
That’s a sic tool Phil. It has a ton of character. I can see that guy being very useful. Very thick also. I love that.
You dudes w out pictures. I heard you have the knife. I know you got a phone. Please take a picture and post it for us.
maybe we need an edc thread.
You dudes w out pictures. I heard you have the knife. I know you got a phone. Please take a picture and post it for us.
maybe we need an edc thread.
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Mostly carry the HK these days. It’s a light and quick Amazon package opener 
The BM is a heavy duty workhorse I’ve had since 2005 or so. I love it and it’s my go to for real shit. Both autos.
The BM is a heavy duty workhorse I’ve had since 2005 or so. I love it and it’s my go to for real shit. Both autos.
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I have a esee junglas as well, but it does not fit in my pocket. I chopped a tree down with it once, edge still feels brand new. That one stays in the truck now, this Buck hoodlum has a thicker tang and weighs less, stays in my hunting pack.
A couple of Benchmade Strykers, lost the top one, replaced it with the bottom one and then found it a year later
These days I just carry an Alox sak. Heres 2 of my favorites from my younger days when I carried the cool stuff. Both are probably atleast 25 years old. Great to see some guys like the CRKT. I have a couple and need to dig them out. Part of me wants to put these back in the rotation...lol I need a new sheath for the Applegate Fairbarn.
This ones been in my pocket most days for the last 20 or 21 years. Needs a pass or 10 on a stone.
Twosun TS111, I have a drawer full of ZT's and Spyderco and this ugly bastard is what I grab every time. Wish I had found it earlier, I could have saved a lot of money...
Strider. Titanium frame, with other side carbon fiber. No model or steel description on the blade. Given to me by my brother. Story behind the knife was my brother (Navy) did a training/operational deployment with some Marines. At the end they presented him a beautiful Strider with a custom tigerstripe finish in a presentation case. Some time later he runs into one of the guys in Coronado who made the knife who asks him how he likes the knife and how’s it holding up. My brother says knife is too beautiful to use, so it’s still in the case. The maker says that’s terrible, let me give you another to use. Brother says I don’t do freebies, but ends up buying another one to use. He has too many knives so gives it to me.
I find that objects with a story behind them always more interesting.
Spidersix
I find that objects with a story behind them always more interesting.
Spidersix
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@Spidersix your's appears to be a strider sng and that's G10 not carbon fiber. Steel is typically S30V, but would need to know how long ago he acquired it to be sure.
Bkultra,
Thanks for the info. I should of known G10! I’ll ask my brother the age of the knife next time we speak. Knife is nice and light, but seriously stout. Do you collect knifes? I have several Randalls, a beautiful handmade Mel Pardue Damascus with mastodon ivory scales, but my favorite is my grandfather’s navy knife that was on Guadalcanal. I can just still see where he scratched his initials on the back of the issued leather scabbard. Again, I like things with a story behind it and that knife went all the way through the New Guinea campaign and throughout the Pacific. Grandfather ran a surgical unit.
Spidersix
Thanks for the info. I should of known G10! I’ll ask my brother the age of the knife next time we speak. Knife is nice and light, but seriously stout. Do you collect knifes? I have several Randalls, a beautiful handmade Mel Pardue Damascus with mastodon ivory scales, but my favorite is my grandfather’s navy knife that was on Guadalcanal. I can just still see where he scratched his initials on the back of the issued leather scabbard. Again, I like things with a story behind it and that knife went all the way through the New Guinea campaign and throughout the Pacific. Grandfather ran a surgical unit.
Spidersix
Beautiful, beautiful knife you have there. I thought about getting some of the Japanese knives for my kitchen, but couldn’t bear to use such a work of art. And the Strider was probably a Marsoc, the first unit formed up under Socom trained with the Navy guys and then deployed together, IIRC. At the end of deployment, they presented the first Strider to my brother.
(I’ll try to take take some good quality photos of the Mel Pardue and post tomorrow, although I am not sure I will capture where Mel actually inlaid his signature inside the back spine of the knife handle-you have to open up the folder and look down inside. Still blows my mind every time I look at knife, I see another detail!)
Spidersix
(I’ll try to take take some good quality photos of the Mel Pardue and post tomorrow, although I am not sure I will capture where Mel actually inlaid his signature inside the back spine of the knife handle-you have to open up the folder and look down inside. Still blows my mind every time I look at knife, I see another detail!)
Spidersix
@Spidersix that is for sure a MARSOC strider. Very cool knife and not many of them, even cooler story behind them.
The initial run of this model consisted of 300 knives. 150 for the men in the unit and 150 similarly marked knives for collectors whose purchase offset the cost of the knives for the military. There are several small differences between the military and civilian versions of this knife. Military issued knives had no letter in the serial number, whereas the civilian counterpart was preceded by a "C" in the serial number.
The MARSOC SMF knife is marked with the date of the Marine unit's activation (030620 or 20 June 2003) as well as "DET-1" on the frame. In addition, the Military version bears the insignia of the Marine Raiders.
The MARSOC SMF knife is marked with the date of the Marine unit's activation (030620 or 20 June 2003) as well as "DET-1" on the frame. In addition, the Military version bears the insignia of the Marine Raiders.
LAPG TBFK S35VN EDC folder. The best $39 knife on the planet. I ground the flipper down to my liking and ground down the stud on the pocket-clip side to keep it from hanging up so much going in and out of the pocket. I've got a bunch of Spyderco and Benchmade in the rotation, but this one get more than it's share of pocket time.
Microtech Exocet OTF Automatic. I never leave home without it. Mine is the black DLC blade. It's a mother to sharpen, though.
So, it is not one of the original Marsoc 300. No numbers, etc. But the connection to Marsoc was as they came into Socom, at least some of them cross-trained with ST1 (my brother’s unit) in Coronado and then deployed to Iraq together. When they got back, the Marsoc guys presented my brother the first Strider. And you know the rest...
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