There are lots of good quality knives. I have also always carried a pocket knife since about age 6.
For many years I would not buy a Swiss Army knife. I just didn’t think they were a good idea. I finally bought one and realized they actually were very useful. The one I carry most often is a Super Tinker. I probably use the tooth pick and scissors more than any other tool except maybe the knife blade.
I guess I must have at least 30, nearly all of them Victorinox tho Wenger are OK. I probably also have 20 or more multi tools. I never carry one but I do have one in each of my vehicles along with a regular tool box. Probably the most useful one I have found is an older Schrade which actually is a vice-grip but with knife, etc just on one side. That needle nosed vice-grip is extremely useful.
I’m a little short on knives these days because I think I’ve lost or broken more than I currently own. But I carry a lightweight Gerber (LST?) 2 3/4” cam lock blade or a Kershaw Ken Onion Assisted open. Have two Victorinox “Officer” models they don’t make any more, but a nice compact knife. I Also have WWII Marine Utility knife my father won off a Marine in a card game when he was in the Navy, his Navy Knife, a Gerber two bladed folder, and an antique gold penknife/cigar cutter that was my grand father’s. Throw in about another dozen assorted cutting devices (mostly inexpensive knives people have thrown my way) and 3-4 sharpening systems I mainly use to fix other peoples knives since I keep mine razor sharp on a very hard stone. People think I’m nuts until they need something cut. I keep telling my wife if I had some more money I’d start collecting knives, but she gives me the look. Of I forgot the original Leatherman, I think I want to get a new Leatherman Juice C2 this weekend.
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