12-01-2004, 15:56
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
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Question- Fixed Blade or Folding Knife?
Straight up question, not a test:
When you guys are in the field, do you prefer a fixed blade sheath knife or folding knife for your primary edged tool?
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12-01-2004, 17:17
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Both in the field, a fixed blade on my LBE and a folder in my pocket.
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12-01-2004, 17:22
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Both, and usually three or four of them.
TR
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12-01-2004, 17:55
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Gun Pilot
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Bill:
Can't carry much in a Cobra, but I had a fixed blade on my survival harness behind my seat, my 45 positioned in front of my nuts. Also carried a dayglo orange switchblade (Army issued with a sharpened hook on one end to cut through risers).
Terry
edited to add
And a Car15 behind my seat, the Cobra being only 36 inches wide there wasn't much room for long guns.
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12-01-2004, 17:56
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TS and TR:
So you don't consider any of them "primary"? 
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12-01-2004, 17:57
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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant
Both in the field, a fixed blade on my LBE and a folder in my pocket.
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+1 - me too plus a Leatherman
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12-01-2004, 18:23
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Mr. Bill,
Are you starting to hear an echo from an earlier conversation ?!?!?!
Fixed Blade on your gear, which makes the accessability of a "pocket knife" unaccessable, but a good folder to have if you need to dump your gear and also for use when you're not "saddled up", as in around the camp or while working on your gear !! I really wish Leatherman would put an S30V blade in his tools !!!
Later
Martin
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12-01-2004, 18:24
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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
TS and TR:
So you don't consider any of them "primary"? |
Depends on what the task is.
Primary for chopping down a tree is not the same as the primary for removing splinters.
What is your primary communications device?
TR
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12-01-2004, 18:26
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Originally Posted by Ambush Master
Mr. Bill,
Are you starting to hear an echo from an earlier conversation ?!?!?!
Fixed Blade on your gear, which makes the accessability of a "pocket knife" unaccessable, but a good folder to have if you need to dump your gear and also for use when you're not "saddled up", as in around the camp or while working on your gear !! I really wish Leatherman would put an S30V blade in his tools !!!
Later
Martin
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I have asked for the S-30V blade in the New Wave, Tim said that he would make me one.
Still waiting, though. Maybe several people should ask?
TR
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12-01-2004, 19:04
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
What is your primary communications device?
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E-mail
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12-01-2004, 19:11
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For voice commo?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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12-01-2004, 19:17
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
For voice commo?
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Telephone.
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12-01-2004, 19:27
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Originally Posted by Rougish Lawyer
Telephone.
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Land line or cellular?
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12-01-2004, 19:37
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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
Telephone.
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So the primary commo means depends on what you are trying to do with it?
Kind of like blades.
I will say this. You can make a big knife do small tasks a lot easier than you can make a little knife do big work.
If I could only take one, it would be a Leatherman or a big knife like the TR.
I usually have a Reeve Large Sebenza or the Harsey Tactical Folder and a Leatherman Wave or a Swiss Champ on me.
In the woods, I add an intermediate size knife on my second line, like a Yarborough knife or a Al Mar SERE Fixed Blade.
On my ruck, I will have either a machete, a camp axe, or a Harsey TR, and an E-Tool.
Can you really call one a "primary edged tool"?
TR
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12-01-2004, 19:59
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Originally Posted by Razor
Land line or cellular?
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In the field, cellular. On post, land line. 
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