Have used one of these since the early 90s. Never change a utility knife blade during a whole day of working drywall. Get my wife's Mac Knives razor sharp. So simple so good. Wish it worked on wood chisels and planes.
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pseudoid
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aliexpress would gladly sell you one of these:
Their leather-goods are darn good, especially for their prices...
Right after 911 I was travelling from a smaller city to Vancouver for 3 days of Panasonic product training. I had many sharps, dentist tools, pointy tools and airport security almost lost their minds. Anyway... Things where pretty hot at the time and so we finally decided after several telephone calls confirming I am a technician en route to training that the tools would ride baggage and I would retrieve them in Vancouver. I almost was denied boarding the plane.Shame on them!
Lufthansa used to have a policy where they would allow you to use a pouch-system before boarding and then returned item to you upon landing.
Which exact EDC would that be?
In case I run into your EDC in one of the TSA auctions...
BlackTalon
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Japanese Knife Import's YouTube page has a lot of really good videos.
It was a Kershaw Leek with CF scales. If you see any, TSA has two of mine.Shame on them!
Lufthansa used to have a policy where they would allow you to use a pouch-system before boarding and then returned item to you upon landing.
Which exact EDC would that be?
In case I run into your EDC in one of the TSA auctions...
I just bought a slightly shop-worn open-box replacement on ebay, which was priced about where they were a couple of years ago. New, they have risen up to nearly a hundred bucks.
This version of the Ken Onion-designed Leek has a CPM154 blade. That's the reason for getting the version with the carbon-composite scales, which I otherwise don't care about at all. My favorite scale material is micarta, but the CPM154 is easy to sharpen to a razor and holds an edge really well. The Leek is also very slim and doesn't need the pocket clip--it can ride down in the pocket. I usually reverse the clip on it.
My knives are kind of spread all over and I need to seriously gather them up. I don't at the moment know exactly where my Ace Biblio is, for example, and it's my most expensive knife.
I think it would be reasonable for the airport to provide a safe storage area so that things that had to be collected to get through security could be retrieve outside of security upon return.
Rick "it would be three at TSA but once had the time to run the knife back to the car" Denney
Nice indeed.
pseudoid
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giggles.gif I cut 3 articles from the newspaper, I opened a few packages, I cleaned under my finger nails, and put incisions on a banana for easy peeling. giggles.gif
And all those were done before noon but not in that order.
And all those were done before noon but not in that order.
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I keep one of these on my desk. The blades are nice and sharp, the scissors work really well and it has everything necessary to open bottles of booze. 
pseudoid
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@Count Arthur; in your above picture, I see three tools on the bottom part: An ice pick, a cork screw, and a... ?nose pick?
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@Count Arthur; in your above picture, I see three tools on the bottom part: An ice pick, a cork screw, and a... ?nose pick?
1. Is an awl, basically a pointy thing for making holes in wood. I believe the hole is to allow you to poke a thread through heavy canvas, or leather, that sort of thing.
2. According to Victorinox is a "multi-purpose hook"; personally, I've yet to find any purpose for it.
Yes, found this video showing how to sew leather with it:
Underrated comment.
pseudoid
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Now, all you need is the 'correct tools', allow me to show you some that are worth every [ahem] penny you spend on them:
and:
Yeah, I know, screen captures are from alixepress but similar tools can probably be found elsewhere...
You can keep your SwissArmy (AIO) tool - in your pocket- for emergencies.
Especially since your linked-video shows the SwissArmy's awl cutting quite wide slits on the leather (>5mm) <<no bueno!
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pseudoid
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I hadn't realized that I have the "variety pack"!
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Every backpack and/or luggage had one stuffed inside. There are probably a few more that I don't even know where they're hidden.
While gathering these up for this photo shoot; I realized that the best way to rid myself of these leatherman-type AIO tools is to take them with me to the airport and let the TSA folks have some fun w/an egg-hunt and then, keep them all.
I keep one of these on my desk. The blades are nice and sharp, the scissors work really well and it has everything necessary to open bottles of booze.
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Every backpack and/or luggage had one stuffed inside. There are probably a few more that I don't even know where they're hidden.
While gathering these up for this photo shoot; I realized that the best way to rid myself of these leatherman-type AIO tools is to take them with me to the airport and let the TSA folks have some fun w/an egg-hunt and then, keep them all.
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Here's the Spyderco PM2 Wharncliffe that I've been using lately. It started out stock but I put on custom CF scales and titanium hardware.
Beautiful knife... Lots of attention to detail there.
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I build a similar thing a while ago. I have to say while the scales look amazing, the ergo style is not big enough for my hands, so I rarely use this.
pseudoid
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IMO, the Spyderco's signature thumb-hole design has become antiquated?
Although I must admit I really like the Wharncliffe (reverse) edge design and your custom CF scales.
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I really like knives with "speedholes" but the way Spyderco does it requires a knife that is rather high at the end (or the beginning however you wanna see it). Other knives manage the same functionality (being able to flick it open) with much less space. My main EDC at the moment is this:
Ok, some items to fill out my knife/chisel sharpening extravaganza arrived today. I do enjoy a good technical system like the KME series. There's also Shapton's RockStar series (Japanese humour, obviously). But I went with a more traditional aesthetic/feeling.
I'm really more of a colour/shape person than a numbers person, so each stone has a different presentation and my brain has less cognitive overhead: there's #400 Imanishi Latte, #1000 Red Brick (Shingata Akamon) and approx #5000-8000 Irishima Ohira Tomae natural for finishing. Also a diamond lapping plate for stone maintenance, a small #1000 Nagura Irodori to raise slurry on the brick, a leather strop, and furry QC inspector. The stones from Chef Knives To Go in the US and the other bits (and a couple of chisels) from Japanese Tools Australia in Sydney. If I need to fill the sequence further, possibly the #220 Imanishi Pink, and a #2000 Green Brick (Naniwa Aotoshi) plus lapping plates to suit. But I think I have way more than enough to start with.
