A small bladed knife can make all the difference for DIY roadside/trailside repair. It’s also proved pretty useful when out and about on errands/spontaneous park beers (especially as it also has a good bottle opener on it).
Mine stays in my bag, but it lurks in the depths and looks more like a combination bottle-opener/multi-tool.
A good mini flashlight can be handy but many of us are using decent enough removable front lights that its not as necessary.
Absolutely
I carry a Leatherman Micra everyday and it is one of the most useful tools I’ve bought. I also have a Spyderco Ambitious which I don’t carry that often because the laws suck, and the whole guilty until you prove otherwise with our knife laws is ridiculous. You can just see in this thread that a heap of people have been brainwashed to believe that knives are all dangerous, which is obviously not the case.
I would like to upgrade my Leatherman to something bigger, but at this stage it works for what I need it for.
Everyday-Carry is an amazing website, I love going through the archives.
I haven’t been brainwashed to believe all knives are dangerous, I just know that a lot of people are fucked.
Yeh man, this x1000.
I have the same feelings about cars.
The problem is, people that are fucked are going to carry something and use it in a dangerous way, whether or not it is illegal to.
Then the rest of the population, who could benefit from using a multitool or knife in their day to day life for tasks and not as a weapon, are disadvantage because Joe Blow who lives in the suburbs with two kids and a cute wife doesn’t want to get a criminal record for carrying a knife he used for cutting apples.
can cooks carry around knives? ie meat cleavers etc?
my EDC is wallet, phone. Weekends i add a watch.
Although lately ive been looking for this
Yeah, I know what your saying there, and I think that our generation (and later ones) will always consider knives as weapons. Growing up I always saw old dudes with a pocket knives attached to their belts or whatever, and there will always be that.
I don’t know, I’ve never needed a knife on my person recently, but I can see how they would be handy. I don’t see myself carrying one though.
But it’s just my opinion. I’m not trying to start anything. I’m saving that for SK’s next build thread.
When I was living in Stoke Newington in London (reasonable area, mind) a young woman got attacked and I think raped while going for a run around the local park early one morning. The Police did a sweep of the park and found literally hundreds upon hundreds of knives hidden in the bushes and undergrowth.
People are fucked.
Yep, gotta be in a locked case though (how that helps if the cook decides to stab somone i have no idea : )
Mrs FROG has a wide variety of potentially deadly “weapons” she used to carry on the train daily 
My fave is at the top of page 5. Gold.
WTF is it with the guys that carry both a gun… and a knife?
never bring a knife to a gun fight…and you can’t cut an apple with a gun.
Where did you source this information?
read it here, Police search powers on a knife edge
found more here, Victoria Police - Weapons Search Areas
quite like this one
I like knives. I have a few around the house for various tasks.
I used to think I was a closest hillbilly, but this website has eased my guilt.
Same here… I have multiple hunting knives, 4 x Leathermans of differing sizes, 2x single blade foldouts, 2x swiss army knives, shit, thats staring to add up… All justifiable though.
Interesting… thanks.
I am slightly less indignant given they use a metal detector. I had visions of “Hello mate… empty your pockets”
Haha I’m a chef and I like hand forged japanise knives so sharp you can shave with em…
I like swords too but I am yet to acquire any 
