What do YOU use a pocket knife/pocket tool for?

Sparrow said:
... I still use a Swann-Morton knife for masks and stuff, but it's best not to keep it in one's pocket, and I have a thirty year old Solingen penknife somewhere that I used to sharpen pencils in the pre-Corel and Adobe days
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The handles are OK: it's the blades you need to worry about...

The very thought makes my eyes water.

Cheers,

R.
 
I dont have one. But I do see a lot of those old Pocket Knives with the tool for picking small Children out of Horses hooves.
Has anyone actually used this particular tool?

I use my Pocket Knife for cutting up Pork Pie mostly.
Bowring Butchers (Melton Mowbray) "extra Pepper" being my particular favourite at the moment.
They do a very good "Home made" Black Pudding as well.

Sharp & long for the Asparagus this time of year!
 
mostly with a leatherman:

peeling apples
spreading jam
tighten eyeglass screws
cutting rope & line
opening shackles
opening plane's access panels
rigging leaders & lures
removing hooks from smaller fish
pulling fuses
stripping wire
opening cans (swiss army are best)
opening cotter pins (trailer axles, remove airplane door, cable clevis pins, etc.)
cutting lobster pots from prop shaft

It's almost never the 'right' tool, but they get the job done.
 
I've used the original Leatherman (first model, first batch) since it came out.
Removing nails from shoes
Cutting/striping wire
Repairing bent lens cap rims
Taking backs off old radios and the like
Tighten screws on eye glasses
Opening cans
Filing soft stuff when I'm to lazy to grab a big file
Match strike (file)
Prying off paint can lids Cutting apples

Schrade MC-1
Cutting 550 cord
Cutting cargo straps with jammed ratchet mechanisms
Letter and package opening
Turning big sticks into little sticks
Embarrassing servers by using it in restaurant to cut steak when their knives are to blankety blank to use
 
More than once my Leatherman has saved me quite a bit of trouble at work. Before I retired, I installed and repaired telephone lines. I would strap on all kinds of pole climbing gear and safety equipment and "usually" a tool pouch. I would fight my way thru the prickle bushes, to get to the base of a pole, pushing branches out of the way as I climb the pole to get up to the wires. Then I would reach for my tool pouch only to discover it was still in the truck! My Leatherman saved me the trouble of returning to my truck.
...Terry
 
I no longer carry a pocket knife in NYC - too much hassle. I only carry them when I go hiking or I'm out in the countryside. I have had pocket knives since I was a kid.

Buck 110 is my favorite: just the right size, feels good in the hand, classic look; it is my most often carried knife and I keep it sharpened for peeling fruit, cutting cheese & bread on picnics, for gathering porcini mushrooms, cutting rope, cutting and carving saplings to make walking sticks for those hapless 'hikers' that insist on tagging along, etc.

Swiss Army (have a few). I keep one in my camera bag and it has come in handy for tightening screws on various pieces of gear. I used to carry a leatherman for this but found it to be somewhat of an overkill for my purpose.

I am looking for a good folding pruning knife for use in the vegetable garden. I am looking at the Opinel and some others... suggestions are welcomed.

On my belt loop I also carry a Dakota Clip Watch with a magnifying glass and a tiny light - very useful.
 
Renato Tonelli said:
I no longer carry a pocket knife in NYC - too much hassle. I only carry them when I go hiking or I'm out in the countryside. I have had pocket knives since I was a kid.

Buck 110 is my favorite: just the right size, feels good in the hand, classic look; it is my most often carried knife and I keep it sharpened for peeling fruit, cutting cheese & bread on picnics, for gathering porcini mushrooms, cutting rope, cutting and carving saplings to make walking sticks for those hapless 'hikers' that insist on tagging along, etc.

Swiss Army (have a few). I keep one in my camera bag and it has come in handy for tightening screws on various pieces of gear. I used to carry a leatherman for this but found it to be somewhat of an overkill for my purpose.

I am looking for a good folding pruning knife for use in the vegetable garden. I am looking at the Opinel and some others... suggestions are welcomed.

On my belt loop I also carry a Dakota Clip Watch with a magnifying glass and a tiny light - very useful.
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Definitely Opinel among all the reasonably easily available ones I've seen.

Cheers,

R.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Definitely Opinel among all the reasonably easily available ones I've seen.
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On a global scale, only Victorinox/Felco have similar presence. A bit more professional, at a price (but accordingly available in a variety of sizes exactly matching any hand, and in left-handed versions) would be Otter and (best, but highest priced) Tina knives, but I don't know whether these are distributing beyond Germany. There probably will be more makers and local variations of the knife patterns around - I've seen Austrian and Croatian vintners use tools unfamiliar to me.
 
sevo said:
On a global scale, only Victorinox/Felco have similar presence. A bit more professional, at a price (but accordingly available in a variety of sizes exactly matching any hand, and in left-handed versions) would be Otter and (best, but highest priced) Tina knives, but I don't know whether these are distributing beyond Germany. There probably will be more makers and local variations of the knife patterns around - I've seen Austrian and Croatian vintners use tools unfamiliar to me.
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Indeed: that's why I mentioned availability. Most such knives I've seen (in Hungary, for example) are very primitive: like Opinels without the locking collar.

Cheers,

R.
 
I have a 'Kobolt" brand knife.... it has 2 locking blades..

  1. Box Cutter blade Stanly style blades... To open any Box from my Photographic Orders, and other things a Razor Blade is handy for.
  2. Standard 4" or so blade for? Don't use that side anymore.
 
I keep a multi-tool in my camera bag, or occasionally a straightforward knife (I have a traditional Finnish birch-handled hunting knife that I am rather fond of), but I rarely use them.

Nevertheless I keep them to hand, and have done so ever since me and my wife were caught out during one of our photographic expeditions some years ago; we had somewhat underestimated the time required to safely return to the car after a long day of walking and photographing in fairly remote terrain, and were forced to build an impromptu shelter and spend the night outdoors in quite poor conditions. My wife's Victorinox proved indispensable for cutting scrubby vegetation to make our makeshift 'tent'.

So my use for my knives/multi-tools is to an extent precautionary, but nonetheless essential for me.

For tasks around the house or car I prefer to use the proper tool for the job, as it's generally available and is in my opinion often more effective.
 
let's see, so far today:
i used a machete today to "mow" the back yard (i use the term "yard" loosely).
i used a mora classic no. 1 to strip inner bark of a white oak root for future medicinal purposes.

whittled a bit this afternoon with a condor bushlore, and a gromann's no. 1 canadian belt knife - gift - that came in the mail today.
 
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