My Orange Kershaw Tyrade came it today. It's a bit stiff and none of my bits fit the screw to adjust it. I guess it will loosen up with use. I put some Break Free on it. It's about the same size as the JYD II, but has a thicker blade.



Of all these Kershaw made knives, the Speed Bump is the fastest opening by far.



For years, like most outdoorsmen and bikers, I carried the Buck 110, and then the Buck Lite. But when Cold Steel came out with the Voyager and Vaquero series, I went with them. Voyagers are so light, you can carry a big one with comfort and ease. Knife snobs may not like them, but they perform very well for me in ordinary everyday use.



I never got into the Spyderco craze as much as some folks, but I have a few, and they are very nice for the money, epecially the Tenacious. I just haven't used them much.



These are some rugged outdoor knives from Al Mar, Ontario, and Blade-Tech. They have heavy built liner locks, except for the framelock BT Rijbak.



The Swamp Rat RT has been my EDC for over a year. It is slim and light. It carries almost as well as a Voyager with superior S30V steel. It was made by Blade Tech. Here it is along side the Rijbak.



Here are my Benchmades. The Skirmish is a brute of a frame lock. I would not fear to baton with it. The OTF Auto Infidel is not so tight. It's mostly a weapon. The Deja Voo is about the slickest opening liner lock I have seen. I like the flat ground blade and carried it for a while, until I got the Swamp Rat.



So here are all my big bad frame locks together. The newest is the ZT, which is just fun to fick open all day. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />



But even the frame locks look wimpy next to the CS Rajah II, my favorite woods folder. It can even chop. That's awesome for a folder.



Maybe next time I'll photgraph my SAKs, Gerbers, Bucks, Camillus, and others.

very nice collection... yea i like that ontario rat folder. and i got a specbump and its definatly fast.

Taking Horn Dog's lead... here are my EDC's in chronological order.

(I have a few other folders, but not many. I honestly try to buy knives that I intend to use, so with folders I buy a new knife to replace the current EDC.)

First off, when I turned 16 I took my birthday money and bought this Swiss Army "Mechanic". I loved MacGyver, so I had to have a genuine SAK. I carried it for a few years then just stopped for a while, can't remember why.



Right after I got married (over ten years ago) I wanted to start carrying everyday. I haven't gone a day without a knife since. My buddy was looking for a Christmas present for his pop, so we went to the local knife shop and fell in love with this guy... the CRKT "Mirage". We bought three.



I carried that for at least a year, loved that knife. I knew nothing about knives and was lucky to start my knife collecting with a Columbia River.

Well, of course as my interest in knives grew, I discovered other brands and models and when I first moved to Utah (almost ten years ago) I researched and researched and decided the Cold Steel "El Hombre" was the perfect knife for me. It totally was. I carried it for years, and never met anyone who had one... loved it!



I discovered Spyderco next, and even though I still loved my El Hombre I wanted to own at least one Spyderco. My in-laws got me this one for Christmas a couple years later. I think it's the "Endura".

I carried it in my left pocket as a backup for my Hombre for a few months... then stopped.



Not long after I read somewhere (probably in their catalog) that the Cold Steel employee folder of choice was the Large clip-point serrated "Voyager".

Long story short... I traded up. I carried that Voyager for years and beat the crap out of it.



I don't know why, maybe I just thought it was cool, but I wanted to have a good quality butterfly knife. So, for Christmas not long after my wife got me a Benchmade one. I don't know what the model is, but it's pretty basic. I learned to flip it around a little and carried it in addition to my Voyager in the case "canted" on my belt across my back.



After a few weeks I noticed my back would ache by the end of the day. I put the balisong in the knife box.

When I saw this guy in the catalog I thought, "Ok, I gotta carry that thing!" Cold Steel Ti Lite VI.



It tore holes in my pocket, so I stopped... and traded up for this:



Say what you want, but it takes a real man to EDC the "Vaquero Grande".

I carried it everywhere except for church. Then I carried the Benchmade auto my buddy gave me. It was my "Gentleman's Knife".



It wasn't long, maybe a year, before I felt that a six inch blade was a bit excessive. So when I saw Ken William's Hissatsu folder, I was sold.

Carried it for a couple of years.



And then, about 6 months ago I traded that up for the Spyderco "Tenacious". I haven't found a knife I wanted to trade that one up for yet... but maybe a ZT would be nice. I don't know. Not long after I got that I started spending all my "knife money" of SYKCO fixed blades! So the Tenacious will be fine for now. More then "fine", it's a great knife.

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Whew! Done.

My current EDC knives are a Kershaw Shallot w/ ZDP-189 composite blade. It has been modified by the addition of a black pocket clip, its recurve is removed, and it currently has bandaid sticky tape on it for traction. I need to get some skate board tape for it. My other EDC knife (for lighter colored pants) is a reverse tanto Leek with an American Flag aluminum scale and stainless liner on one side and stainless framelock on the other.

I will likely pick up a black Aluminum scaled Speed Bump again when I can again afford to buy something. A Waki and two S5s orders killed my discretionary funds for a long while. I really liked the 'Stud Lock' on that knife. It was [censored] fast opening and closing once it was broken in.

Although the Tenacious gets great reviews from just about everyone who owns it, I am unlikely to ever purchase one. As a general rule I do not like liner lock knives, the orange Tyrade being my only exception. I also do not like to purchase goods made in China.

BTW the kershaw knives pretty much all take a Torx 6 for the scale or handle screws and a Torx 10 for the pivot.

My current EDC is a CRKT M16-13Z. I love the hell out of it. It's not as big/badass as some of the folders in this thread (I like the look of that Kershaw Tyrade and might order one, but it looks a tad large for my hands and pockets), but I find it to be just about the perfect sized blade for anything I throw at it. Small enough that it doesn't weird people out, spear-point shape which I love, a little serrated (but not too much). I've used it for everything from woodwork to slicing food on the trail to prying a cork from a wine bottle when I had no corkscrew. Locks up stiff as hell and I love the assisted opening. It was my first serious knife and it goes everywhere with me.

I just ordered a Woodsknife Wk2 folding puukko, I'll post my thoughts on that when it arrives.

Anywho, lots of cool knives in this thread, I'm looking forward to slowly acquiring a larger folder collection.

I got a Spyderco Military a few years back and I haven't been able to put it down.



I've bought plenty of other knives but I just always seem to pick this one up. I think its as ugly as sin but the steel, weight, size, ergos, lock, Spyder hole, and jimping keep me coming back!

Anyone know where to get a good price on the spyderco leafstorm ?

Looking at either one of those or the digi camo para military.

I get my Spydercos on eBay.

Thinking about woods carry folders I thought this would make a nice addition.



Should be good in case I drop it.

Maybe I'll ask my wife for my birthday... in a couple months. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

I like my ritter grip aloooooot! I will definitely get the wilkins grips for it though.

I really don't like the handles.

I keep hearing awesome things about the Griptilians, and I thought what set them apart was the handles.

So, what don't you like about them? Would help me out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />