Grabbed Manix yesterday after sharpening Pacific. Plan to carry again today doing deck work and working in very back of yard . MG2
MNOSD 0002 / Do more than is required of you . Patton
Nothing makes earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
dude. it was a rough week. i'm definitely buying a lil native slipit and/or a ukpk salt to have for when i need to travel for europe or the freedom-hating states in the us. i have knives small enough, but they all lock. this was my first time traveling to europe ever, so i never had to worry about the locking issue. also, (not that i expect nonsensical laws to be logically coherent) why in the world are you allowed to carry a concealed fixed blade, but not a locking folder?! what moron comes up with this stuff?
- You were in Germany?!
Man, you should just have crossed their southern border into "my" beautiful Austria, where you could even have carried a Tatanka legally, no problem...
(And then shoot me a message of course so I could have bought you a beer ... )
/ Yes, and again: Knife laws are moronic indeed. Actually, afaik in Germany you CAN carry a locking folder as long as it can't be opened one handed.
As soon as it CAN (be opened one handed) though you are not allowed to carry a locking folder anymore. Not even, well, a tiny Ladybug...
We are really lucky in Austria. None of this nonsense here...
Top three going by pocket-time (update April 25):
- EDC: Endela SE (K390). Endura thin red line ffg combo edge (VG10), Chaparral SE (CTS XHP)
- Mountains/outdoors: Pac.Salt 2 SE (LC200N), Salt 2 SE (LC200N), Endela SE (K390)
yeah that's true. no lock or no one hand opening, which means none of the spydercos i have, unfortunately. i carried my sak camper for the week, which helped a lot, but there's still that feeling of panic every time i check for a pocket clip that isn't there.
i would've loved to cross into austria and see more sights and maybe even meet some of my forum brothers, but it was a quick trip for work. i didn't get to do much sightseeing.
Well it wasn't actually in my pocket but this one was out for a bit today.
Whuuut? Coolest thing I've seen in awhile. What is it?
FB41 - Darn Dao.
It's a flash batch fixed blade from late 2017.
16+ inch overall and 10.5ish inch blade.
That's a large size Spyderpac under it for scale.
Well it wasn't actually in my pocket but this one was out for a bit today.
Whuuut? Coolest thing I've seen in awhile. What is it?
FB41 - Darn Dao.
It's a flash batch fixed blade from late 2017.
16+ inch overall and 10.5ish inch blade.
That's a large size Spyderpac under it for scale.
Well it wasn't actually in my pocket but this one was out for a bit today.
Whuuut? Coolest thing I've seen in awhile. What is it?
FB41 - Darn Dao.
It's a flash batch fixed blade from late 2017.
16+ inch overall and 10.5ish inch blade.
That's a large size Spyderpac under it for scale.
Very first use of this beauty: broccoli, habeneros, carrots.
First use?? Considering that was a sprint run in 2016, that’s very cool!! Did you have it put away and decided to use it or did you pick it up somewhere? Either way, that’s an awesome Millie. It’s one of my favorites. The carbon fiber scales definitely take it up a notch in my opinion and I like the 52100 steel. I carried the same one most of last week. Enjoy that knife.
Very first use of this beauty: broccoli, habeneros, carrots.
First use?? Considering that was a sprint run in 2016, that’s very cool!! Did you have it put away and decided to use it or did you pick it up somewhere? Either way, that’s an awesome Millie. It’s one of my favorites. The carbon fiber scales definitely take it up a notch in my opinion and I like the 52100 steel. I carried the same one most of last week. Enjoy that knife.
I picked it up recently. I had an early Millie, ATS-34, that was my favorite knife until I lost it in a move several years ago. I replaced it late last year, finally, with a current blacked-out S30V model, and thought I was done. Then this one showed up, 52100 and CF, NOS, at a low enough price that I couldn't resist it. I'm rotating a bunch of Spydies through food prep, and today was its turn. It started developing a patina about 30 seconds into slicing up a pepper!