The Best Hard Use Pocket Knives | Week One Wednesday Ep. 8

Knives in order of appearance:

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[Thalanox]

One of the golden rules is to never bring anything to a work site that you're not prepared to lose or have destroyed.

[handmade]

Peasant knife, 15 bucks. Best knife I’ve ever had.


Also, who using a butterfly knife at work?

[grantfitz]

I have carried a Benchmade Griptilian 550 daily for 9 years. It has been from Alaska to Afghanistan and back and all over Europe. It has opened MREs, skinned moose scrapped seals on engines and a bunch of other things. I love that blade.

[dieseldabz]

PROUDLY raised by a truck driver! Arguably the best trucker there ever was, an honest and hard working man that would give the shirt off his back and the type who didn't complain about anything. My father taught me so very much in my life and I wish he hadn't passed away days after my 31st birthday. He was also my best friend and I could talk to him about everything. I worked side by side with him for 16 years from middle school until left for military at 17 and again later after coming home. I'll be 42 in January and I still miss my father every single day and often wished I could talk to him.

[Enlowra]

I've had the cold steel recon 1 almost 11 years ago. Great work horse and I wouldn't change it.

[hossman]

The recon 1 is such an underrated knife. Everybody hypes all these 200-300 boutique knives, but when a 100 knife can outperform know you are just paying for hype.

[T-Bone-nkng]

Ain't nobody got time for using a goddamn Balisong for work.

[jameswilson]

My father's a truck driver and he's carried the same case sodbuster for most of his life. He definitely taught me what a difference a good quality, sharp knife can make.

[Jays_video_watcher]

Ontario Rat 1
Esee Izula 2
Leatherman Wave
Leatherman Skeletool
Leatherman Squirt
These are the knives that I'll have one or two with me at all times.

[ktcaray]

If I hear the word “work horse” one more

[jefferybradford]

I know I’m going to take flack for this but my work horse knife is the Spyderco tenacious. I’m in materials at a GM plant and I use it for everything. Cheap and tough so I’m perfectly happy with it

[alecbarnett]

As an aircraft mechanic in the Air Force I absolutely cannot say enough about the entire M16 series. I started out with the -02S classic, have since transitioned to the -12Z, and also have the -14DSFG and haven’t had anything but positive experiences. I do love my Benchmade 154CM, but I always find myself reverting back to an M16 for every day use.

[smorris]

Love seeing new knives and love seeing what everyday guys and gals are carrying. You should do an episode on what the men and women in service carry overseas. Have them send in pics and go over them. That would be a great idea for real crazy work conditions

[Mikey]

I'm a hydrogeologist and have worked in and traveled to more places than the average person, mostly doing geophysical surveying and water sampling. My work knife of choice in the field is a Leatherman Wingman. I wouldn't know what to do without it. It's so handy, but if I lost it or it was stolen, I wouldn't cry. I'd just go pick up another one or similar model. In my travel bag I kept an Opinel No. 9 for kitchen duty and a SAK Spartan because it's just useful to have around. Work knives need to be useful but also replaceable. If you see a $500 knife as a replaceable work knife, then good for you. Use it

[blackrifle]

Ive had my Recon 1 tanto for years now, nothing beats it IMO. A knife you can slam through the hood of a truck, split logs, and use as a pry-bar. The older coating is trashed but the knife its self is like new.

[patrickc]

For “working knives” you sure did pick a lot of ones that are a substantial investment for a simple tool. Most “working knives” are from Walmart in the real world. I don’t know a single working/trade person that uses a >$100.00 knife. Once you get close to $100, you’re really not gaining anything functionality wise for a work knife. Gerber, CRKT, case, old timer, leatherman, etc are seen many many times more than any Benchmade. When you’re talking about something that has a good chance of getting broken, damaged, lost, etc. the quality vs cost ratio has to be better than most of what you showed. Cheap $5-$20, decent $20-$35, nice $35-50, good $50-$90, expensive over $90. Unless my life actually depended (not possibly could depend) on my knife, I will never buy a $90+ knife as a working man. It’s a tool that take a lot of wear and occasionally a little abuse. I could buy 5 or more knives and replace them as needed, for the price of some of your knives. That one expensive knife isn’t going to last 5x as long or take 5x the abuse. I’m not buying a Pakistani flea market knife that dulls cutting butter, but over $100 for something that you can do almost as well for under $50 doesn’t seem like a good idea. I’m not a knife guy, but I appreciate a good knife. The better it does the job, the easier my life is. Edge retention/durability/ease of sharpening all play into a decision, but price is the biggest factor as long as it meets the needs.

[davidmcelroy]

I’m a hydrovac excavator, and tbh after destroying 2 bench made knives, I finally decided to switch to the cold steel spartan. I know that probably sounds crazy but I’ve carried it every day for 6 months and I couldn’t be happier! I have a little over a hundred knives and the spartan is by far my favorite work knife

[robertthompson]

I used the Kershaw Blur tanto blade for a year and half as a marine diesel mechanic and dropped it in salt water many times and it held an amazing edge and was super easy to sharpen and never rusted. So far one of my favorite edc knives, hands down.

[edclevel]

The Civivi Elementum is a *great* knife, and at that price - a no-brainer. I just got mine a couple days ago, and am absolutely loving it.

[coltonluker]

As a firefighter I like cheap knives cause u either lose them or they melt