What knife are you carrying today?

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A Benchmade model 710 McHenry & Williams. Apparently the first axis lock that bench made ever produced.

I mentioned on another form that I participate in that any Benchmade was well beyond my price range. So another member gifted this to me.

Actually, he "sold" it to me for a nickel because of a Superstition that a gifted knife will sever a friendship.
 
Night Rider,

I always give or get a penny for a knife got or given, started with knives i got from my grand parents, cant stop now, dosent seem right without.
DD
I've only seen it the one time. I wouldn't do it if I was gifting a knife but I returned his Nickle when he gifted that one to me out of respect for his tradition.
 
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A Benchmade model 710 McHenry & Williams. Apparently the first axis lock that bench made ever produced.

I mentioned on another form that I participate in that any Benchmade was well beyond my price range. So another member gifted this to me.

Actually, he "sold" it to me for a nickel because of a Superstition that a gifted knife will sever a friendship.
Mine is a lot more beat up than yours but I carry a 710 every day. I got it a long time ago.

I've stopped buying folders thinking I'll find something better.

I've stopped buying small fixed blades because the 710 does everything a small fixed would do (for me)
 
I'm carrying the same, long discontinued full sized Benchmade Ascent that I've carried for years... In my vehicle the back-up is an Al Mar eagle, in my boat (which has three knives for fish cutting already, the backup is a full sized Benchmade Griptilian, brand new condition carefully lubed to keep it that way and in a plastic sleeve.. It comes with an improvised lanyard since working on the water a dropped tool is just gone...
Each one of the knives mentioned has a combo edge, partially serrated for ropes and lines that might need to be cut - in a heartbeat to keep me breathing in good order.... Just nothing like the Everglades...
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and no... that's not an alligator - it's a medium sized saltwater crocodile - and that sign is about fifty feet from where I launch my skiff most days...
 
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