Recent content by dr_clyde

Superior Abrasives 2” ceramic roloc is all I buy for my shop as far as grinding discs. I like SAIT for 3” cutoff wheels. Abrasives are for sure one of the places that you get what you pay for.

For construction prybars, I like Vaughan's Superbar, a Stanley gooseneck wrecking bar, the Marshalltown Burke Bar an Estwing cat's paw. For machinery rigging and moving, I have an old bar of unknown make that was my great grandfathers. It's a curved point pinch bar that's about 5 feet long...

My favorites are the old school screwdriver handled ones from Snap-on. They don't make them with that handle anymore, and I don't love the new round handles as much. They're fine, but not my favorites. I would most likely go with Snap-on again if I had to buy new, as I've had such good luck...

I still have the Leatherman tool my dad gave me 25+ years ago when we went on a family camping trip. That one means quite a bit more to me than any I would have bought with my own money.

I'll be honest, I'm surprised some kind of "rescue knife" isn't a standard part of gear for a first responder. I would have figured you'd be issued one that belongs to the fire department like the rest of your gear.

Spyderco makes specific "rescue" knives designed to do what you do. They're probably not great for EDC, but I suspect they're way more useable in an actual rescue situation. https://spyderco.com/products/rescue-79mm%E2%84%A2 https://spyderco.com/products/assist%E2%84%A2-salt%C2%AE Benchmade...

Are you attached to that blade shape?

They are in fact, excellent fidget toys. I have a Benchmade Precipice and have spent lots of idle time just firing it in and out. They're not the most practical EDC knives in my experience, the dual action mechanism is prone to jam with pocket lint or whatever debris gets into the handle...

I get it. I hoofed it a mile and change back to the parking lot to avoid giving my benchmade to the security guards at a concert I went to a few years back. Didn’t occur to me that they’d have metal detectors at this show and my knife is as part of my EDC as my wallet, keys and phone...

I feel like once you’re in the multi-tool world, a Leatherman or Gerber beats a Swiss Army Knife for everything except compactness. I keep a Leatherman in my bag in my truck, but I rarely need it. 95% of the time I just need a blade. I’m rarely more than a few steps from a toolbox if something...

I was mostly just listing some brands that I happened to own for a point of comparison, not necessarily ones that you can go buy right now, like Wenger. Buck has a few automatic knives, but they are meant to be in a leather pouch and don't have a pocket clip. This is a non-starter for me, as I...

Just because I'm curious, what other makers do you consider to be their competition? I'm looking at the $150-$350 bracket EDC knife bracket, for reference. I think Spyderco and Benchmade are fairly common because they have a fairly wide dealer network that puts them in front of eyeballs. When...

That's the secret. By spending a few hundred bucks on a knife, I'm much, much more in tune with where it is. I have lost several $30 knives, have yet to lose a $100+ knife to carelessness.

My current daily driver is a Benchmade Casbah. It has spoiled me to the point where I don’t think I could go back to a non-automatic knife.

Why does this surprise you? Both companies make a great product for a somewhat premium price, but are still affordable for a lot of guys. Were you thinking that a forum of tool enthusiasts would only carry knives that you can buy at the gas station or the flea market?