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Top Budget EDC Knives Revealed - My EDC Pocket Knife Favorites
Jun 8, 2025
Looking for the perfect everyday carry (EDC) knife that won’t break the bank? In this video, I’m sharing my top favorite budget-friendly EDC knives that deliver serious value, reliability, and performance. Whether you’re new to the EDC world or a seasoned collector, these picks are affordable, practical, and ready for daily use. #knife Prepared Wanderer AMAZON STORE: https://bit.ly/3Jjs1iO Prepared Wanderer Patches and Stickers: https://thepreparedwanderer.bigcartel.com Prepared Wanderer WEBSITE: https://preparedwanderer.com Prepared Wanderer FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1835005976546722 Prepared Wanderer INSTAGRAM: prepared_wanderer Blog https://wanderingoutdoors.com
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today's video we're going to be taking a
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look at my EDC knife
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collection my favorites the things that
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I like to carry and how I store them
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Stick
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[Music]
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around Behold the box of
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holding This contains my probably most
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beloved carried EDC knives It certainly
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is not my entire knife collection
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because I've shown that in a video
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before and it's way too big for this
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little box but I want to show this thing
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to you and what I got inside of it Now
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first of all this box is from Harbor
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Freight It is their mini tool chest and
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it is a phenomenal
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uh knife collection EDC collection
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carrying box It's a great place to keep
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your stuff I love this thing
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metal construction and it is like a mini
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toolbox just like a bigger toolbox It's
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got drawers It has rolling drawers with
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a nice smooth
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action There's rubber
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feet Uh the lid opens up and you've got
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a nice display in here And there's
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actually matting material that they've
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included inside this so you don't have
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to cut mats for this But here it is
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So I added some cool knife stickers to
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my box These are uh stickers that I I
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got at Blade Show last year and some
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other knife company stickers that I had
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around So I added those Thought that was
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pretty cool But I love this box because
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it helps me kind of keep all my stuff
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organized and I can get to it pretty
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quickly
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And the quality of this little box is is
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phenomenal And it's like I think under
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$25 maybe 20 bucks something like that I
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don't know Wasn't very much And
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currently they come in three colors
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black red and blue But I hear that there
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are more colors coming And I'm kind of
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excited about that because I really want
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an orange toolbox So Harbor Freight if
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you're watching this video I'm placing
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my order right now for an orange toolbox
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Okay So what do I have in my little
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collection So the top shelf here I've
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got uh an assortment of
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folders We'll start with this guy I
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picked this up at Blade Show last year
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This is from SRM
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Knives It
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is a very nice budget
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friendly pocket knife It has that axis
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lock that um I actually like quite a bit
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pretty decent action on this
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knife But I really like the blade
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profile You see that And then the handle
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is nice and thin and grippy It It's a
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very nice knife to carry It's uh slim in
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the
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pocket This guy is I believe this is the
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DVO
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Growler if I remember correctly
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Uh I got this I think in a
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trade and um it's a really beefy solid
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knife Uh you can see that bo blade
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profile is really uh nice and wide nice
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and
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deep Love that
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knife It's a pleasure to carry So you
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got to have a Spyderco So I believe this
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is one of the made in China uh Spyder Co
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I cannot remember the exact name of this
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thing Sorry I don't have notes for this
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video I'm just kind of going to wing
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this thing But what I like about this
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particular Spyderco is to me it is a
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really great uh kind of field pocket
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knife Like I can carry this out in the
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woods um and get stuff done and not
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worry about losing a very expensive
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knife cuz these are not very expensive
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But what I really like about it is is
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the handle on these uh is super
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grippy And uh it's perfect for
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chores in camp maybe even cleaning a
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squirrel or two You could do a lot with
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this little knife and it's uh very well
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made like most Spyder Co even though it
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is one of the Chinese ones
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Then we
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have this is
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uh we have this one This is the the
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Kaiser I think that's how you pronounce
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her
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Kizer Uh I got this for Christmas I
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believe a couple years ago This is a T1
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Um this is probably my most
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carried EDC knife for quite a while Um
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when I got this thing I really love it
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Um I love how it carries I really like
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the micarta handles and how they've
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gotten a really nice patina to them You
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know every time you handle micarta the
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oils from your hand transfer to it and
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it starts darkening it staining it I
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love my Carta And this one just looks
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fabulous It's a frame
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lock and it's got the nice thumb studs
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Whoops Yeah See There we go Good thumb
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studs So you can flip that
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open Got some wear in my pocket clip for
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sure Then uh another great knife for
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woods carry is this Cold Steel Finwolf
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And what's really unusual about the
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Finwolf is it is a Scandi grind pocket
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knife Not a lot of those on the market
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Um and the Finn Wolf is affordable It's
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a great carver So if you like to carve
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and make stuff when you're
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camping this is a great knife to get Um
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it has a sharpened 90° spine Has this
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very nice lock back to
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it So it's a sturdy sturdy knife that
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can do a lot of stuff
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Now this guy I picked up recently This
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is from
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Cevivi I think this is the Neuropantic
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or something like that I did a little
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bit of a short video on this one What I
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like about this is it's just kind of an
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unusual looking pocket knife Really nice
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uh design Love that groove that they put
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into the blade I think that's pretty
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cool And it's big It's just a big pocket
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knife and it really fills up my hand So
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I appreciate that I like big pocket
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knives I cannot
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lie And this one has a button release on
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it So there's a button lock So if you
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want to you can release that button and
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then let it flip
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down This is the Ontario
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uh Rat
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One Ozate steel This is the model one Um
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very solid knife Look at the liners on
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that
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thing It is heavy duty It is meant for
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outdoor use and
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um it carries very well And I love the
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orange handle so I can find that thing
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if I'm in the woods and I drop it I
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picked this one up recently at a um pawn
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shop and it's nothing special It is just
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uh I believe one of
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the one of the Camellis
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um knives that they came out with
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recently So this is I believe a made in
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China knife but it really is made well
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You can tell there's really good fit and
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finish to this thing It's got a
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beautiful handle on it the
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micarta and uh it's kind of a a fancier
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lockback with a pocket clip which is
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kind of
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cool I got that for hardly anything
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Cleaned up really well It's a nice
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knife Next drawer down we
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have this is a knife that uh was given
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to me for Christmas from my stepson This
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is an Ozark Trail
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um action on it is not the smoothest It
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doesn't flip open like I want it to but
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um it's a
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cool design I love the metal handles on
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it And of course since it's a gift it
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has you know kind of a special place for
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me but it's fun to
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carry I just wish that flipper would
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work a little bit better I've loosened
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it I've oiled it and it still kind of
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sticks a little bit So maybe if you guys
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got some ideas in the comments let me
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know and I'll try it But it's a fun
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knife to
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carry So this is just a cheapy
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Kershaw but I love the flipping action
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on that It's very solid Flips out with a
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lot of uh force It's got a nice pocket
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clip on it It's a relatively small knife
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compared to some of the others so it's
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very nice to
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carry This is a Buck knife
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Um nothing really fancy um kind of an
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unusual knife for them Uh I think this
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is like uh some kind of adventure series
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I forget what they call these but it has
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serrations which is not ideal for me I
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don't care for serrations on pocket
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knives that much but I just like the
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two-tone uh metal handle that they came
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up with The
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aluminum just very cool looking It's a
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frame lock
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just kind of a cool looking
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knife Then from
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Swiss and this is one that I've carried
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quite a bit I really enjoy this
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one It's got that carbon fiber inlay And
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then what's interesting is they came up
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with this limited edition version at
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Christmas Um and they actually sent this
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to me which was pretty cool of them to
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do uh since I did some Swiss Tech
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reviews for them and they were
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appreciative So this is the limited
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edition version and the white handle And
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I believe this is a G10 material Haven't
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really carried this much but um I just
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love the looks of
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it Both those are frame locks Then we
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have this little guy This is from QB QB
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K U B Y Uh it's a Chinese brand but I
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really like the
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jade handle on that It's kind of got a
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coffin shape to
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it
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Good solid flipper I really like
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flipping knives just because they're so
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easy to to manipulate with one
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hand Nice blade profile kind of reminds
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me a little bit of a one of the
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Benchmaids This is another knife I
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picked up at uh Blade Show This is
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Rosecraft Um it's a brand that I really
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had no knowledge of until I went to
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Blade Show And um it's a made in China
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knife Uh the company is Rosecraft is in
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the United States and they design and
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come up with some very cool pocket
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knives I love this one because of course
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the orange and the gray but
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um it's more of a traditional
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knife with some modern upgrades with the
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pocket clip and of course the the
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flipping
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action And then of course and then it
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has this button lock again So another
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button lock knife but it's got that
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flipper Comes out really quickly
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easily Just a good looking knife They
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make cool stuff Okay now we're moving
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down to the last
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drawer This guy I picked up in a trade
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and this is from Topps
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Very different kind of knife for me I've
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never had something like this Of course
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it looks like a straight
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razor And it's got the very beautiful
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micarta handles My favorite knife handle
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material It does not
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lock but it does get in there pretty
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tightly Heck of an edge on
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it And it has this
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beautiful leather
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case So you can carry that any way you
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want left or
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right And down here we get into more
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what I would consider traditional pocket
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knives
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Uh this is an oldtimer and I believe
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this is called the Buzz Saw
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Trapper and it is a Ducks Unlimited
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edition Um what's really cool about the
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buzz saw trapper you know you have your
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traditional blade there
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but it has a saw
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blade as your secondary which is really
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nice to have a saw blade like that And
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that's a good that's a good size saw So
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this is a this is a game processing
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knife And of course that saw locks And
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then you
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have a needle or an all whatever you
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want to call that It's more of a
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needle for punching through
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leather And then a very nice pair of
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tweezers So this is a woodsman's dream
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right
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here Perfect for carrying in the woods
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or
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hunting
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Another
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oldtimer Got our main
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blade Got that spay
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blade Then that little guy right there
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So it's a threeblade knife Uh this is
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made in the USA just like the last one
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So this is the one of the original
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oldtimers not the uh Chinese-made
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ones
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Vintage And we
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have a
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Remington And it's a scout style knife
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So you got your main blade with a nice
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deep
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belly Another saw Fantastic Love saws on
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blades Can openers
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bottle
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openers and then a secondary
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blade and a
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bail Once again this is made in USA
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vintage Very nice
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knife
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Vtorox with my initials in it Wood
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handle Uh I believe this might be I
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don't know Is this the Tinker I'm not
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I'm n unsure of the
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model Boy that's got some lint in it I
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did have carried that one haven't I So
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you got your bottle wine bottle opener
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cork You got an
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all of course the tweezers toothpick
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which come in handy quite a bit A
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beautiful stainless steel that Vtorox is
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known for
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can opener bottle opener
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screwdriver and a secondary blade Uh
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these woodandled ones are very
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lightweight and durable too The handles
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hold up very well If you The plastic
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ones will chip and scratch and fade but
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these wood ones seem to just get better
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with age So if you don't like the
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plastic handled ones look into the wood
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handled This is another Swiss This came
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out recently Um very nice gentleman's
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folder Barlo
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design It's a two-blade barlo It's got
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that carbon uh fiber type material for
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the
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handles Big blade there Haven't carried
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this much but I really love the looks of
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it Great little pocket knife And of
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course we've got some Rough Riders Love
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Rough Riders Have a huge collection of
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Rough Rider knives I forget what model
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this
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is I have so many of
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them that I kind of lose track of what I
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have but it's got these
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two blades on it I really love the looks
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of it with that little eggorn and then
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that that kind of uh plastic I don't
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know if that's plastic or actually bone
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That might be bone cuz they do a lot of
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bone on their handles but it just it's a
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nice looking knife Then from Rosecraft
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uh this is another one of their more
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recent knives
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Beautiful pocket knife I love that
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orange bone
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handle Look at that fit and finish Just
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gorgeous
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beautiful pocket
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knife Then a knife that has some
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sentimental value This was given to me
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by a very good friend of mine gentleman
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that I call my brother And uh this is an
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Italian stiletto
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And if you don't know about stilettos
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um or
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switchblades there's all kinds of junky
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ones out there but you know the good tal
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Italian ones or German ones are the way
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to
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go And then how you fold these back up
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is the release is here in the guard So
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you push that guard down and then that
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will
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fold and click Yeah this is AFC This is
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Italy This is an Italian stiletto So not
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the uh flea market gas station
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stilettos that you will
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find And of course that kind of mother
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of pearl looking handle
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Beautiful Of course another Vtorox I
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love this one Not all who wander are
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lost And of course it's got Bigfoot on
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the front of it favorite uh one of my
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favorite Swiss Army knives that I carry
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Love this
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guy Now this
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one doesn't have the cork screw It has
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the screwdriver which um makes it even
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better And this model has the saw So I
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think this is the
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hiker
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maybe I got a little fire starter
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lanyard on there from Lester River
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Bushcraft So that's
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that And then my last one here this is
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from um Traditional Pocket
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Knives This is their slip Another
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Rosecraft Look at that Isn't that
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gorgeous Just a beautiful knife
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You know when you collect pocket knives
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um aesthetics become as important as
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function Um pocket knives are works of
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art in my opinion And uh I've gone
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from just a casual user and purchaser of
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knives that I use and I've really gotten
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into purchasing
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knives on how they look um color feel uh
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because to me they they knives have
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elevated themselves to this almost art
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form Uh there are so many beautiful
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knives out there and when I see one if
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I'm drawn to it I got to get it I got to
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throw it in my collection And this is
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just a small small
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uh look into my collection of knives And
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these are some of my more beloved uh
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pocket knives that I carry So I hope you
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