What's your favorite knife (EDC)?
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A Potted Plant
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What do you think this is someone looking for a red mariachi
JonF
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Not an EDC for me, rather a ERH (Every Room in House) knife. The Milwaukee Fastbacks are the best utility knife mainly for the fast open/close action. There's no assist, just a push button lock and a very free swinging hinge: a quick flick opens or closes it in an instant. There's at least 6 stashed everywhere around the house here and one in every toolbag. Most common use is opening, then breaking down the endless parade of shipping boxes. Biggest accomplishment was getting to wife to use it instead of a steak knife. 
i have the husky branded variant of this knife spread all over the house for the same uses, still cant get the wife away from using the scissors slipped all the way open when shes in the kitchen tho
Right? This was fun.
I like the green. I wanted green with a black tanto blade but got this.
The little Gerber was my everyday until I discovered clips. I did use it more since it was only 15 bucks or so. So there’s something to be said for cheap ish
Karate Monkey
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Not an EDC for me, rather a ERH (Every Room in House) knife. The Milwaukee Fastbacks are the best utility knife mainly for the fast open/close action. There's no assist, just a push button lock and a very free swinging hinge: a quick flick opens or closes it in an instant. There's at least 6 stashed everywhere around the house here and one in every toolbag. Most common use is opening, then breaking down the endless parade of shipping boxes. Biggest accomplishment was getting to wife to use it instead of a steak knife.
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This thing is dynamite. It's not for heavy demo work, but for a box cutter/light cutting, I've had one in constant use for ~8 years.
Over the Bars
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You have a nice boss
Mathers
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Yeah he hooked as all up.
Over the Bars
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Had my eye on that one too
RobW
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Best folding utility knife ever-had a husky blade but the bearing fell apart. Bought a new Milwaukee but not this model- Xmas is coming though!! I have a leatherman multi tool but heavy for on the hip. Looking into a new knife aside from my Milwaukee. I used to carry a case pen knife for years, it was my bird and trout knife. The bone side fell off and it wasn’t comfortable in my pocket any more so away in the tool box it went.Not an EDC for me, rather a ERH (Every Room in House) knife. The Milwaukee Fastbacks are the best utility knife mainly for the fast open/close action. There's no assist, just a push button lock and a very free swinging hinge: a quick flick opens or closes it in an instant. There's at least 6 stashed everywhere around the house here and one in every toolbag. Most common use is opening, then breaking down the endless parade of shipping boxes. Biggest accomplishment was getting to wife to use it instead of a steak knife.
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JDurk
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Outside Magazine Buyer's Guide has a way of making me research thing I "need"
A Potted Plant
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TITANIUM 8" Scotch brand. Three for $12 at Costco.
TimBay
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Oooh, TI.
A Potted Plant
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What am I cutting?
Karate Monkey
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If you're buying scissors, go to Jo-anns or Fabric Land. Seriously. Regular scissors are trash compared to stuff meant to cut fabric (not that you should use them for such after cutting paper/cardboard--the clay binders that give the paper strength also dull the cutting blade). That said, my good shears (9" Heritage, straight with dipped handles) never touch paper products. After 3 years of use, they're every bit as sharp as the day I got them.
Fiskars for paper. They make a 'kitchen' model that is nothing short of excellent. I have an older one with black handles/longer blade/shorter serrations:
