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K-Bars What Knife is in your pocket right now?

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.
 
Drop a picture on us BigJim.

Benchmade knives are a great choice.

phil that’s very cool! SH9 mini kook Kirinite Knife. Can we get some more pics Phil? How long you been carrying that guy?
Only a couple months. It's a awesome knife grip and balance is unreal.
 
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Benchmade Torrent 890 by Steigerwalt Design - it has spring assisted opening, a 154CM blade, G10 scales, and a deep carry clip.
 
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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.
 
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This one comes in handy for boxes at work haha
 

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Normally I carry a SOG Spec Elite auto everywhere I go (love that knife), but lately I’ve been carrying this CRKT CEO. Great little edc for $40 on amazon.
 

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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.
 

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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.
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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.
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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.
 
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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.
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Yes, you could say I collect knives. If the knife your brother was given is the MARSOC version, I use to own one of those sometime ago. I've collected everything at one time or another. I even own kitchen knives that cost as much as my AXMC.

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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!)
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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.
 
Been using this for a couple months now. Love how it feels in the hand and the pocket due to its weight. Wish I would have bought one sooner.
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First time tried to sharpen my Benchmade "Superfreek" 560BK-1 with CPM M4 steel. ...

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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.
 
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.
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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