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Everyday Carry. What essentials do you carry on a daily basis?

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The Victorinox swiss army knife is simply the best pocket tool! (Edit: no one tool is everyone's best)

@edc

The more I look at alternatives, the more I realize, nothing can give you this much functionality in this small a package, while being so high quality and reasonably priced. Popular (machine-assembled) versions regularly go for $25.

The one caveat is that it falls behind modern knives in terms of safety and ease for opening/closing. I'd love to see a next-gen SAK without nail nicks.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your use case, I carried one for years, and found it limited.
Switched to a Leatherman Skeletool and used it far more often, one of the major advantages is one hand knife opening (without a spring). If I'm holding something that needs to be cut, it's often inconvenient to have to put it down to get out a blade.
Best part is that it's really not noticeably bigger than a swiss army knife.

These days I carry a belt pouch with a Leatherman Signal, but if I'm going somewhere that a belt pouch would be weird, I have a Skeletool in my pocket.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@mipadaitu I honestly didn't consider how objective my title was, lol

The 91mm SAK is *one of the best* pocket tools in existence, certainly. But normally I wouldn't say something is THE BEST, because that's highly subjective.