Kershaw scallion - gift from my Oregonian brother, a factory second, first assisted knife, never managed to cut myself thru hours of play
Protect runt-just a nice little auto. Snappy
Crkt heiho- like the blade style
Benchmade emissary-just a nice little knife
At work, I always carry a Leatherman squirt- tiny, disappears in pocket. Blade. Scissors. Screw drivers. Pliers. Just enough tool(s) that can magically appear from nowhere and save the day.
After years of carrying and searching for the perfect size and type of EDC, I ended up with a Chris Reeve Small Sebenza with micarta inlays. For the past 4 years I’ve been very happy with it. I must admit that I’ve wanted to try a Rick Hinderer 3" bladed, slicer grind, non-flipper. Having found that I much prefer a high quality knife, 3" blade, in pocket clip form, my choices are limited.
I’ve been carrying an SOG Twitch XL every day for some time, and I recently Got a Chris Reeve Large Sebenza 21. Love that knife. that’s become my daily carry.. Almost lost it at the airport a couple weeks ago, as I forgot it was in my pocket & got all the way to security before realizing it was with me.. Luckily they had a shipping envelope for knives and lighters! Whew! $410 knife or $500 plane ticket?
Just to be different, here are some everyday carry knives that would be useful in completely different situations, like Afghanistan! ROTFLMAO! Sorry, old Leo is in a weird mood this morning.
Nonetheless, pretty nice knives eh!
Cheers
Silly Leo
:cheer: Ok, first we have “Leo Mitch”.
Then we have “Old Leo”.
Now we have “Silly Leo”.
If we put them all together, we get “Silly, Old, Leo Mitch”.
Or for an acronym “SOLM”.
Or a homonym “Psalm”. :woohoo: 
:silly: :silly: :silly:
Cheers
SOLM
My zt 0550 and esee izula for a fixed blade.
[quote quote=“leomitch” post=16295]Just to be different, here are some everyday carry knives that would be useful in completely different situations, like Afghanistan! ROTFLMAO! Sorry, old Leo is in a weird mood this morning.
Nonetheless, pretty nice knives eh!
Cheers
Silly Leo[/quote]
The top three knives are GO TO JAIL here in California. But this conversion leads to anther converstion where I start chewing on my tongue. :evil:
[quote quote=“EamonMcGowan” post=16356][quote quote=“leomitch” post=16295]Just to be different, here are some everyday carry knives that would be useful in completely different situations, like Afghanistan! ROTFLMAO! Sorry, old Leo is in a weird mood this morning.
Nonetheless, pretty nice knives eh!
Cheers
Silly Leo[/quote]
The top three knives are GO TO JAIL here in California. But this conversion leads to anther converstion where I start chewing on my tongue. :evil:[/quote]
Why chew on your tongue mate? Say your piece Eamon, especially if it as as thought provoking as all your fine posts. 
Cheers
Leo
Well… just ten days after saying that I had been EDCing a small Sebbie for four years, and was considering a Hinderer. Yesterday I began carrying a 3.5" Hinderer flipper with slicer grind. I already like it and it will probably remain in my pocket for a considerable time. No need to sharpen it yet since I easily shaved off much arm hair trying it out. I was surprised that it didn’t feel much bigger or heavier in my pocket, even though it appears to be.
[quote quote=“leomitch” post=16392][quote quote=“EamonMcGowan” post=16356][quote quote=“leomitch” post=16295]Just to be different, here are some everyday carry knives that would be useful in completely different situations, like Afghanistan! ROTFLMAO! Sorry, old Leo is in a weird mood this morning.
Nonetheless, pretty nice knives eh!
Cheers
Silly Leo[/quote]
The top three knives are GO TO JAIL here in California. But this conversion leads to anther converstion where I start chewing on my tongue. :evil:[/quote]
Why chew on your tongue mate? Say your piece Eamon, especially if it as as thought provoking as all your fine posts.
Cheers
Leo[/quote]
Leo,
You give me far to much credit for my ramblings! However thank you! The chewing of my tongue is in my strong support of peoples’s right to protect themselves and how California undermines that? Now I probably have said to much already and I will let it go at that. After all this is a knife sharpening forum.
Thank you for indulging me, Eamon
Pas de probleme mon ami! I too have a problem with laws that say I can’t defend myself. We can defend ourselves up here to a certain extent, but may not carry for that purpose (either knife or gun…or golf club etc. ) But then they also qualify it by saying…you may, but only using necessary force. Poor me! I can’t muster the necessary force anymore without resorting to a weapon.
But here we are away from knife sharpening and not in the Off Topic section! Bad Mod!
Leo
Leo,
You are a bad bad mod!
Your pal,
Eamon
[quote quote=“EamonMcGowan” post=16400]Leo,
You are a bad bad mod!
Your pal,
Eamon[/quote]
This quite true, I am! :evil:
Best to you mate
Leo :lol:
Since I am moving to England in a month or so I had to retire my Rockstead Chou as my EDC & this is my new EDC.
Knife is made by Takeda in a Higo style out of AS steel 61-63 Rockwell .
Overall length 176mm length closed 110mm blade length 67.6mm height 19.2mm Spine above heel 2.55mm at tip0.6mm.
It is a Scandi grind although I may put a micro convex bevel on it when I sharpen it .
Leo Nav
Is that a Hinderer design?
That’s very cool, Leo! I didn’t know Soshui makes folding knives as well. They look like his other knives: basic, but very high quality. It’s a real coincidence that I’ve just been emailing with him :cheer: .
So far as I know it is based on Higonokami style knives from the 1890s . This particular knife is not absolutely as original in style and has a greater level of finish the hinge on the traditional ones is a pin domed on one end and the other flattened off this has a more modern alternative.
It is possible that Hinderer took some inspiration from these knives that are seeing a renaissance due to the West’s interest in Japanese blades(mine included).
The blades are typically laminated .
Leo: If you’re the gent you seem to be, Mallorca will be a lesser place with your absence. I always wanted to spend some time in the UK, but by the time the opportunity arose, I was the boss and had to send someone else. He advised me that the reason Brits drank warm beer was that they had Lucas refrigerators. And they had kippers on their eggs for breakfast. I think I’d still like to go, but travel is out of the picture now. I know the Brits speak a language similar to our own.
Did you have to change your EDC knife because of UK laws? If so, what was it? Is this move a permanent thing?
Lastly, does the Takeda’s secondary bevel go all the way to the edge as it appears? Looks like you just shaved your arm.
I have to move back to the UK my son is near school leaving age and there simple are not many job opportunities for him except for working on yachts which does not appeal to him; so the move to the UK is permanent still have a lot of family around London although I will be in the next biggest city that been Manchester.
By the sounds of it UK has tightened up their knife carrying laws I thought the Rockstead would be fine but even though the blade is little more than two inches long it is a fixed blade therefore verboten so higo style knives are okay blade less than 3 inches and not locking (my Lagouiles are too long unfortunately ) so now most of my knives will have to stay in the house(for my appreciation) I have 3 higos in total two traditional ones and the one pictured so three usable EDCs (having been a yachtsman most of my life I am used to carrying a knife I would say that a knife is obligatory on deck).
As to your questions yes I did swipe off some arm hair which I forgot to wipe off . The knife is Scandi ground (similar to a Mora)around 10/11 dps . I will see how the edge works if I find it chips I will put a convex bevel on it it is beautifully thin.
I always pinch just above the bevel to gauge the shape of the knife if I can feel a shoulder or it feels too fat I thin it since this is virtually as important as the bevel ; the first thing that struck me about this knife was how thin it is similar to my Honyaki Nakira .
The pinching above the bevel really helps me when gauging whether I need to thin or not I would recommend this to anyone once you know how a good slim profile feels and therefore cuts it is a really quick method no eyes needed.
Leo Nav
