Dedicated Knives for Specific Purposes
Dedicated Knives for Specific Purposes
Knives for painting, road-tripping or even eating out
Do you have a painting knife? Or a dedicated restaurant carry knife? Or a road trip knife?
For me, my dedicated painting knife is the Spyderco Endura.
This past week, as I was helping my in-laws with some interior painting, I was trying to figure out how long my blue Spyderco Endura has been by painting knife.
Every time we paint a room or hallway in this house there is no question which knife will be riding shotgun through the taping and masking and scraping and cardboard cutting, it’s always the Endura.
Why? I have no idea. It just started that way and has remained so.
When we load up the family and head out for a bite to eat at a restaurant, I always grab the Opinel #10 (modified by me). It makes a great steak knife with its thin, sharp, patina-lovin’ carbon steel blade and is just the right knife.
Sometimes I use other slip joints that I have in pocket, but if there’s the possibility of steak, the #10 rides.
Of course, the most celebrated of my personally-purpose-driven is my road trip knife.
Whether near or far, if I’m driving out of town I have my 2012 Microtech SOCOM Elite in my pocket. At this point, it’s a moral imperative. It was my first knife with a glass breaker, my first in S35VN, and my first folder with a bearing pivot.
With the SOCOM, my dedication to its role as the road trip knife has neared the superstitious like I need it in pocket to have a good trip.
I try not to believe in such things, but repetition can sometimes inspire such correlations.
All I know is that after years of being my road trip knife. when I hang up my spurs, I will enjoy contemplating all the places I’d been with that knife and how many good times it saw with me.
What are your personally-purpose-driven knives? Let me know.
Bob
P.S. Speaking of Spyderco, be sure to check out the mid-week episode on Wednesday when I go over my Spyderco collection — most of them anyway.
Shed Knives - The Knife Junkie Podcast (Episode 413)
Jack Billings of Shed Knives joined me on Episode 413 of The Knife Junkie Podcast. Originally started in 2018 as just a hobby, Shed Knives was started by three friends making knives on Saturday mornings. Two of the friends moved on, and now Jack is operating Shed Knives with a new crew — and 2020 was the first year Shed Knives had a clearly defined product release. That year they also got 10 stores to start selling Shed Knives.