Actual users

[ZrowsN1s]

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If I paired down my collection to the essentials, it'd be:

Pacific Salt SE (EDC)
Pacific Salt PE (PE EDC)
Swick (FB EDC)
Aqua Salt (Camping/hiking FB)

I'd only carry one at a time.

Everything else is fluff for me.

H1 is great stuff.
I carry a 'salt' knife pretty much every day. My only ask would be a few more FRN colors besides yellow and black.

[Darth_cholo]

4 Spydercos (little bit of a Carbon Fiber freak)

PM2 CF M4
Manix 2 CF s90v
Caly 3 CF zdp189
Chaparal g10/CF xhp

[NoFair]

Smaller office and suit carry: C22 CF Michael Walker
Larger general use: Military (any one of them is fine, but if just one then probably a CF one)
Salt water use: SE Pacific Salt (The SpydieChef is great, but I'm used to beating up the Pacific so I'll stay with that for the moment)
Fixed blade: Non Spydie custom :o

[razorsharp]

Shaman and advocate out of what i currently have. Shaman, Shirogorov 95, and Dalibor Draco for my trifecta

[PanChango]

A Caly 3 and a Military would cover things for me.

[Chopping Broccoli]

My EDC knife is the original Para 1, plain edge. Travel knife is often my Ladybug Salt, serrated edge. Water/Kayak/Camping knife is often my Pacific Salt, serrated edge. Dress up knife is usually the Sage 1. Suite/Tie knife is the Centofante Memory.

So I guess my five users that are in regular rotation are:
Para 1
Ladybug
Pacific Salt
Sage 1
Centofante Memory

[standy99]

GB1 on land
Pacific Salt around water

Everything else is just bought due to being a knife nut.

[TomAiello]

Folders:
Manix 2 LW (maxamet), EDC
Urban (k390) or UKPK (s110v), travel carry--europe
Chaparral CF, "dress up" carry or travel carry--restrictive jurisdictions in USA.

I'd also keep the DF2 LWs that are my daypack and glovebox knives, and the LB Hawkbill keychain knife I use for a very specific work task.

Fixed Blades:
Southfork (regrind) and Sprig, both in constant kitchen use (and occasional outdoor use).


If it was down to just 1, it would be the Manix 2 LW Maxamet (my normal EDC).

[spyderwolf]

Endura and Dragonfly

[ThePeacent]

....
If I paired down my collection to the essentials, it'd be:

Pacific Salt SE (EDC)
Pacific Salt PE (PE EDC)
Swick (FB EDC)
Aqua Salt (Camping/hiking FB)

I'd only carry one at a time.

Everything else is fluff for me.

H1 is great stuff.
I carry a 'salt' knife pretty much every day. My only ask would be a few more FRN colors besides yellow and black.

dying is easy and gets you dozens of possible colors! :cool:
these are my two best and most carried users, as are all my Salts

[hmr170]

Delica, Sage 1 and PM2 in S30v

[Okan_7]

Most of mine are users but some definitely more than others.

1) PM2 in S110v
2) Military in 204p
3) Tasman SE

Im looking at picking up a Pacific Salt SE soon and from what I have heard and,with my Tasman's performance in mind, I think it will become a part of the top 3 for me

[ZrowsN1s]

dying is easy and gets you dozens of possible colors! :cool:
these are my two best and most carried users, as are all my Salts

Yellow isn't the easiest color to work with. It would probably be hard to get it something like that Teal color, or white. Darker colors yes. RIT dye wears off too. (I do have a RIT dyed HBDfly). Anyways would just like a few more options, I bet others would too. I think a lot of us who carry and use the salts never take them anywhere near the ocean, which is what the yellow color is intended for if I'm not mistaken. (in case you drop it in the water).

[Bill1170]

The Spyderco knives I use the most are a FFG D4 in VG-10, a Manix 2 lightweight in S110V that a friend modded to lower the spine and convert the hole into a wave hook, and my beloved smurf blue PM2 in M390.

[Hopsbreath]

Most used knives to date are my PE Endura and SE hawkbill Ladybug. Now, the Endura has been everywhen and done everything with me. Just reprofiled it to 30 degrees inclusive tonight in fact. It’s been a great backpacking knife, house work knife, gardening knife, Amazon package destroyer, picnic knife...but it’s a smidge too big for my Hospital job in my opinion, that’s where the Ladybug comes in. Not to say an Endura is totally out of place in my work environment though. Once saw an ER doc’s eyes light up when he saw my ladybug and had to show off his Spyderco, a big bad/combo edge/third generation Endura. He was ex-Military and had picked it up during some far off deployment and carried it for like 15+ years, his only pocketknife. A nearby nurse’s eyes just about popped out of her head when she saw it. I’ll stick to the LB.

[dogrunner]

This is actually easy, because I can base it on what I really carry every day.
1. Military
2. PM2 - I carry the mili more, but could and did easily live with just a pm2
3. PM3 - when I want / need something a little more discreet
4. CF chaparral - for office carry when the PM3 might be a little too heavy

For 1-3 my favorites are all Cruwear, but I like M4 and S90V too.

I'm glad I don't have to make this choice yet, though. Too many others (and variants of these) I don't want to get rid of.

[tvenuto]

@Hops

It’s so interesting to me that in a profession where people are almost fascinated by blood and guts, not to mention surrounded by tools to disassemble the human body, that there is such an aversion to edged tools. I can assure you that your experience isn’t an isolated one, i’ve heard many in healthcare relate similar stories. And there always seems to be so many things to cut, packages to open, etc!

[xceptnl]

Real user at work today.

[TomAiello]

@Hops

It’s so interesting to me that in a profession where people are almost fascinated by blood and guts, not to mention surrounded by tools to disassemble the human body, that there is such an aversion to edged tools. I can assure you that your experience isn’t an isolated one, i’ve heard many in healthcare relate similar stories.

Where are you guys located?

When we moved to Idaho, my wife (she's a doctor) had the nurses at the hospital trying to show off their carry pistols to her. She said the difference between Georgia (where she's from) and Idaho (where we are now) was "in the South, every boy has a gun...in Idaho, _everyone_ has a gun."

I don't think I've ever heard a story from her about anyone in healthcare here being averse to edged tools.

[Bloke]

When we moved to Idaho, my wife (she's a doctor) had the nurses at the hospital trying to show off their carry pistols to her.

Tom, do nurses shoot unruly patients in the US? :eek: