i just found my nice knife again after it went AWOL weeks ago!! this is a major W, i've been sorely missing it doing random pruning type stuff around the yard
if you have a nice knife too, please show me. that's what Nice Knife Friday is all about
*YouTuber voice* so I've got the Leatherman Signal as my normal always on me knife. I use that, plus a gerber EAB folding utility knife with serrated utility blades, most of the time.
I've got the opinel no8 because there's reusable cutlery that uses opinel no. 8s as handles.
I got the no 12f 5" fillet knife because, well, after that I wanted something with the reach of a steak knife, but I've used this thing to gut and prepare Bluefish and several chicken carcasses, it's pretty okay. get the no15 if you want a real folding fillet knife, this one has just barely enough bend to do it if you press hard. but when you're camping it works Fine, I Guess. I didn't buy it for filleting.
it also fits, on a total fluke, the utensils.
the leatherman signal I use way more than anything else, of course. not even as a knife, though the knife is a nice touch. It's a useful screwdriver handle; I carry the racheting screwdriver and a lightweight bit set with me in my overalls' cargo pocket, and accompanying it is a Leatherman Crunch folding locking plier (factory second, I just knocked the burrs off with a file and applied 0.3-0.05 micron diamond to it and it's great) and between the two of them that's how I keep my bike running about as well as my Linux install, which is to say just barely and but for the grace of dog. but it also means I actually do those small tasks around the house, since I can Engineer when the urge strikes instead of losing it by the time I get to the toolbox.
anyway the opinels are at least 3y old now and for twenty bucks they've served me better than any purpose-built folding knife; I can't one hand them or stab someone but I can't say I've had to do that with any knife, and for one handed tasks I have either the knife or the awl on the signal.
tl;dr opinel makes a folding sword (the no 20 doesn't count), I got the short sword, multitool does most of my knifing
