What blade did you EDC today?

Hi isti.
I’ve just been looking at your Steel Reviews blog (again) I’ve had to shift the Y-Start with stonewash,G10 bolsters and red/white Micarta scales to my “Must Have” list. Your modded clip looks great as well.

I’ve not got around to the 7071’s yet but I’m due a gift cert from FastTech I believe., that might make the price of the 7071 attractive. :slight_smile:

Your posts always seem to lead to me wanting knives and spending money, Oh! Wait! that’s normal for me. :bigsmile:

One of these has spent a bit of pocket time recently, small but useful.

Hi Steve

The value/price ratio of those Y-start folders is pretty good. The brownish-white micarta handle gives them a kind of aged look which makes them more interesting in real life. I think I’m going to edc one of them at the weekend. :slight_smile:

The SRM 7071 with the all steel handle looks quite attractive I wish SRM could release a slightly bigger version too. Your SRM 4107 would be awesome with a 3” locking blade for me. :slight_smile:

Hi isti.
I’ve blown my budget for now but the Y-Start’s are definitely on my want list.
I just had another Military clone delivered today, for a little over $17 it is excellent, the G10 is two tone digicam, just black on a light coloured scale, not to every-ones taste maybe but I like it more than the green ones.

Earlier in the week I got a Paramilitary 2 clone, blue G10.

That cost $5 more but it’s worth it. Usual place. :slight_smile:

8steve88 are these clones any good? I picked up a Salt clone and it is horrendously bad. How long are the blades?

Fox Orion

I've never been able to figure out exactly what to call this knife. Too big for a gentlemans folder, and too small to call tactical. It's super light weight and elegant in its own way. It does look gentlemanly though. Maybe a gentlemans squirrell skinner?

Buck 290 platinum
Don’t have my phone on me so this picture will do.

I have two Military, one Paramilitary, one Brous Reloader, one Medford Praetorian, all between $15 to $25. They represent good value and are a change to the normal Enlan, SanRenMu etc. I’d put the quality as near SanRenMu and better than or equal to Enlan. They all lock-up with no blade play in any direction.

They came in white boxes, apart from the Spyderco’s - the Military’s had poorly printed boxes but the Paramilitary even had the sticker with the model number and date code/barcode, also included was a printed Edge-U-Cation sheet.

The Paramilitary has a 9Cr18MoV blade, the others 8Cr13MoV. The Spyderco’s were etched with CPM S30V on the blades, this was the wrong type of steel to the original, the Paramilitary with blue G10 should have M390 steel and the Military with brown G10 should have CTS XHP steel.

I won’t be hard using these knives and have no intention of selling them.
For the price they are excellent. I purposely bought the cheapest that I could find that offered what I wanted in terms of the looks, although I have no intention of hard use they look well capable of taking abuse, no corners cut on construction, proper nested liners, the Paramilitary has phosphor bronze washers.

The blade length on the two Military’s is 100mm, cutting edge 90mm. The Paramilitary blade length 90mm, cutting edge 80mm and the compression locks up fine with no play in any direction. they are reasonably well ground and the Paramilitary was as sharp as a very sharp razor.

I’ve been impressed enough to keep buying them. It might be that I’ve been lucky but every clone that I’ve bought has been well worth the outlay.

I know all the arguments for and against buying these clones but as I’m more likely to buy a genuine Military now that I’ve tried a copy then they’ve served a purpose, the Brous and Medford I’ll never be able to afford so the “causing loss of sales” doesn’t really apply to me.

Can anyone here recommend a Southard clone?
I’d like to get something with decent fit and finish, especially in the pivot mechanism.

Today I’m carrying a San Ren Mu 7063. I received it about a week ago and the pivot is finally loosening up enough to flick open nicely.

A spyderco Southard clone? Or a clone of a Brad Southard custom?

One of my all time favorite customized production knives is the 2.9” cutdown Spyderco southard wit LSCF scale / LBS some guy from Europe made. I’m not really into ocollecting but if I was ever looking for showing off knife / collector’s knife (cause they’re to wide for me to EDC, I’ve had a stock one before) I would get one and cut it down like that. that guy did.

A Spyderco Southard preferably. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a custom come up when I’ve searched in the past.

I just got this knife today. I've been agonizing whether to put out the money for a while, but it kept gnawing at me.

Gayle Bradley Air

A true gentlemans folder, with M4 steel, titanium liners and woven silver glass scales.

This knife really feels like air at only 1.3 oz. Almost weightless. I'll be carrying this every single day in my pocket, along with whatever blade is the EDC du jour.

I just had to have it.

Here it is beside its big brother, Gayle Bradley Sr.

Kershaw CQC-4K came in today and I tried it out. Someone on bladeforums did a mod to the cut out on the G10 because for whatever reason the cutout doesn’t match the thumbdisc and it is harder to flip the blade out. Also shown with the CQC-2K I got last week. Overall, the 2K is easier to flip the blade out using the thumbdisc, but the 4K is easier to press the liner lock in. The pocket clip also was not as grippy on the 4K, the 2K I had to play with it to try and loosen it up so it would be able to go ON to the pocket and come off. 4K just slipped right into my pocket….maybe too well.

That little Gentleman's folder had me looking as well. The larger one, albeit spoken highly of by CK, I just can't like it due to it's lines. The handle shape, yeah, blade shape, sorry, no can do.

I did, however, bite the bullet today on my very first Spydie... the Sage 2 with Titanium scales, framelock, and S30V blade is now on it's way home. ;) I'm just a sucker for Titanium, can't help it.

Had the Gayle Bradley M4 utilized Ti liners, I probably would have gotten it and learned to like the blade shape. So very difficult to find all the prerequisites in one knife...

DBCstm.

I had to think about the wharncliffe blade since I've never had one before, (except for a larger sailing knife). Thinking about it, I figured it would be perfect for all the tasks asked of a 2.55" blade. It's got a great point, and that even blade will be easy to sharpen. I'm wondering if I should force a patina onto the M4 steel. ...and it's weightless.

You'll love that Sage 2. An all time great.

I also got a Caly 3 CF with ZDP-189 steel today. It was like Christmas.

I started the weekend with this Y-Start in my pocket:

Today I'm carrying my new Caly3 CF ZDP-189. I've got my Bradley Air in another pocket.