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You can rip apart an Amazon box with your baby toe, those things are made to be easily ripped up. Tell that to my neighbours though, the shared recycling bin is always overflowing with uncut Amazon boxes
Really? It always seems to hurt my hands more than it’s worth.
Yeah, that tape is no joke.
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I always have a pocket knife but I still end up using my keys to cut open boxes.
expensive knife?
Oh, no. Cheap knockoff SOGs. The knife is there for everything you shouldn’t use a knife for. Screwdriver, pry bar, toothpick, etc. Keys are in the same pocket tho and are usually the first thing I find.
Yep, mine was $12 on Amazon, has a screwdriver built in with a holder for bits. Poor blade… gets used for everything.
I have an expensive knife and try and use any chance I get. I bought it for a tool and not for looking at. But maybe I’m different.
Yea, all my tools deserve use even those that are nice to look at.
I ripped out my SOG Kiku XR and handed it to my buddy when he didn’t have a can opener for his corned beef hash at a football tailgate. The quality stuff should be BETTER at this sort of abuse then the cheap stuff. If it breaks, you gotta get something more up to the task.
The only thing in my EDC is that knife, and it’s all I usually need. That short and fat bastard can do work. That said, I’m not into pretending it’s a screwdriver.
When all you have is a knife, every problem looks like a wine bottle cork that you should have tried removing using a proper corkscrew first instead of playing mac gyver to impress the room
Well, shit
I suppose you could sabre the neck off with the 25mm blade on your Victorinox Classic to look cool. But if you had a Victorinox Tinker you could just use the cork screw that is on the knife…
I’m way more insufferable:
Let me introduce to you the open source and modular multitool
Open source doesn’t properly describe the Roxon Flex multi tools. CAD files are available for making custom implements but the drawings for the frames they are used in are not available.
Regardless of this I think the Flex series seem like great tools and I am considering buying a Flex pliers tool. The thing holding me back is the price because in Europe and most of the world you can’t buy the frame only and implements are only available in sets.
I’m also insufferable.
can you post this on [email protected] ?
I actually don’t edc it anymore. I have an office job now, and half that giant belt clip doesn’t really fit in with the business- casual attire.
But I do keep them in my car, and happened to be using them today in time for those pictures because we’re moving offices this week and I was using them to take apart monitor arms, cut boxes, etc.
I was using them to take apart monitor arms, cut boxes, etc.
… disassemble the corporate helicopter fleet, clean the salmon & beef steaks for the team’s BBQ lunch, tighten the bolts on the hatchway to the HVAC-access roof, recalibrate our GPS markers for the DST changeover… just the usual.
Yeah, when I carried it all the time I was fixing shit left and right.
What it’s really good for is all the little annoyances you notice day to day that aren’t worth a trip to the garage in the moment.
Door knob slightly loose in the back bedroom? Fixed next time you walk in. Drawer sticking? Take care of it now instead of forcing it and forgetting about it later. You don’t even realize how much of that stuff there is until you have the multitool handy at all times.
And the bit driver really is a game changer. You can get a ratcheting version now too.
Dude, where did you get that holster. I’ve been looking for one that would carry the bits and blades for my surge.
Edit: looks custom printed, nice
Bought it years ago on Etsy. Just looked in my email history, and it looks like it was from a user named HoldMyGear. Looks like they’re still active, and they have a version for the ratcheting bit driver too.
I have a 3d printer, but it doesn’t look like the stl is available anywhere. It’s printed really well, though. I don’t know what material it is, but it’s held up a lot better than standard PLA or PETG would.
Edit: looks like he has one for the Surge as well.
Man I don’t edc anything, or simultaneously, everything.
If I put my keys, wallet, or phone down outside of my pocket or bedside, it’s lost until I’m late to the next thing.
people without pocket knives when they need to cut something ☞
My family always gives me shit for always having my Gerber on my belt, until it’s Christmas morning or any of the other times someone needs a knife or pliers.
Your family Christmas morning sounds vicious. You should try getting everyone to sit down and have the youngest child hand the presents out one at a time.
See, in america every holiday and social event is an opportunity to express your individualism and lack of empathy. Usually there’s a competitive game people assault each other over, like Uno, Spades, or cornhole. A common phrase here is “I just don’t like other people”.
I keep a tiny 1" knife on my keychain. It’s incredibly handy, unless I forget to take it off when going through airport security…
Can you not fly with it? In Europe, you can, the limit is 5 or 6 cm of blade. I regularly fly with mine.
Nope, but they recently loosened the rules so you can bring nail trimmers again.
If it’s sharp or pointy at all you have to check it in the US. I almost got my nice multibit screwdriver confiscated because it was almost too long.
I’ve done the same with my Gerber quite a few times
Can confirm. I once had a letter opener made to look like a tiny katana, with a scabbard and everything. It was fucking awesome.
I have this thing for a reason!
You can clean them. You can technically disassemble them but it involves preening over pins and whatnot. It’s a hassle. A good soak in warm soapy water and a scrub with an old toothbrush can do wonders. If it’s seized by rust WD-40 is your friend.
Mine has been rusted shut for ages. I wish you could disassemble and clean them
I think threeme was supposed to respond to you but replied to the parent comment
The Cybertool really is the best of the Victorinox knives. Unfortunately, I lost mine 😢.
My condolences
This is like when you go round someone’s house for dinner and they ostentatiously get out the “Japanese steel” to chop the vegetables with, which you have to ceremonially bloody on your palm every time it comes out of the block. Later you see the shitty little serrated knife they normally use while helping load the dishwasher.
probably, they used the “shitty little serrated knife” for something that needed serrations.
Just because you have a nice Santoku, doesn’t mean that you won’t be using other knives for specific purposes. Our Nakiri cuts nothing but vegetables, fruits, nuts and herbs. I won’t use it for anything else.
I have knives that only cut apples for decades now.
I think I’m beyond help at this point. When I’m not at work I EDC a pocket knife, a leatherman, and a Swiss Army knife. Probably overkill but I’ve never been in a situation where I thought “I wish I came less prepared to this”.
I used my swiss knife for the scredriver, the mini scissors and the bottle opener. So everything but the knife when i think about it, the knife is basically the opinel, because it’s better as a blade. I like that it’s not spring driven.
i use every tool on my Mountaineer, but the hook. I’ve never used that hook.
Who needs that hook?
The guy who always has a knife:
Or unwrapping Xmas presents.
I’ve cleaned a moose with my pocket knife.
