{"id":4210,"date":"2015-03-03T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2015-03-03T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T20:20:03","slug":"edc-knife-never-leave-home-without-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"EDC knife: never leave home without it"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was helping a friend pull an engine from the local junk yard for his truck this weekend.\u00a0 This typically means that you’re going to have to cut a couple hoses and a belt or two.\u00a0 It was also useful to push the valve to check to see if the A\/C system was still pressurized.\u00a0 Of the 4 of us there (which included an actually trained mechanic and a guy best described as a “maker”), I was the only one there with a knife at hand.\u00a0 I believe my buddy mentioned something about having some cutters somewhere in his tool bag, but I had the cutting job done before he could reach for it.<\/p>\n

It always amazes me at the number of folks that don’t carry a pocket knife with them.\u00a0 Whether it be a Victorinox Swiss Army knife, or something more sturdy and single purpose, like my Spyderco Endura<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m a big believer that, unless you’re in a location where carrying such things are barred by law, you should always have a good EDC knife on you.\u00a0 I know some people love carrying specialized fighting knives like the Kabar TDI<\/a> (I believe that’s what Erin likes to carry), which is great, but I tend to think of EDC knives as more multipurpose than that.<\/p>\n

My Endura has been used for everything from the example above, to opening boxes, to cutting up fruit, to cutting and serving a cake.\u00a0 While I haven’t been required to use it in self-defense, it is a favorite of the martial artists I know and I’m confident that it will stand up to that task.<\/p>\n

If you don’t already have and carry one, it’s one of the most useful things that you could possibly carry in your pocket.\u00a0 While you can spend big bucks on a Benchmade, high end Cold Steel, or Spyderco blades (hey, $70 is a lot to some folks.\u00a0 I know I resisted dropping that money on a knife), you can also get perfectly good blades for less (I’d recommend CRKT or Kershaw).\u00a0 I’d also highly recommend a locking blade, and, if you’re going to carry it in your pocket, you probably don’t want a blade over 4 inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was helping a friend pull an engine from the local junk yard for his truck this weekend.\u00a0 This typically means that you’re going to have to cut a couple hoses and a belt or two.\u00a0 It was also useful to push the valve to check to see if the A\/C system was still pressurized.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}