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00 Offline kirk13

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cLMf raised this as a question,and its worth asking:What MTs ans SAKs do you need to have here to prevent being banished?

It's nearly an unwritten law that you NEED to have a Vic Farmer,preferably many(2silver,one black,and one gifted elsewhere), but what are the other essentials to establish your ,er, 'credibility'?

I'd propose the venerable,wonderful,and still viable Leatherman PST!

What do you think?

Dare you confess to NOT having a Farmer? Or a PST?

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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #1 on: January 11, 2014, 01:52:01 PM
Happily enough, we are a warm welcoming community and don't banish people unless they come bearing copious amounts of spam.
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #2 on: January 11, 2014, 02:03:40 PM
It's a good thing this is done tongue in cheek, because I don't go in for plain knives. I'd be booted immediately. As for my top pic...

I'd say Vic Classic and/or Leatherman Micra.

There is no sane reason that I can think of for someone not to have one or both of them. Inexpensive, readily available used (but still in good shape), don't weigh you down, and both well worth both their cost and weight.


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #3 on: January 11, 2014, 02:09:40 PM
How about the Vic Spirit?
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #4 on: January 11, 2014, 02:26:21 PM
I'd say the standard is a Vic Spartan/Huntsman/Tinker/Farmer and a plier based MT, preferably made in China that is falling apart on you. At that point you start looking for more
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #5 on: January 11, 2014, 02:30:24 PM
I also believe everyone should have at least one MT that they purchased from a gas station/big box store that cost at/under $10, so they have a point of comparison for what junk is.

Bonus points if it was next to a plastic tub of beef jerky. :facepalm:

This will keep people from saying 'This is the worst tool EVER' about a LOT of pretty good tools.


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #6 on: January 11, 2014, 02:35:29 PM
I dont have a Farmer...


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #7 on: January 11, 2014, 02:36:33 PM
I dont have a Farmer...


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BANISHMENT!!! :twak:




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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #8 on: January 11, 2014, 02:56:12 PM
I don't owe a Vic Farmer or a Leatherman PST.    :o

Would a Vic Pioneer and a Leatherman Wave be good enough for you?    :whistle:

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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #9 on: January 11, 2014, 03:02:11 PM

I dont have a Farmer...


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I don't have one either... :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

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Atleast I have a Harvester, electrican, pioneer, soldier and SI. :D


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #10 on: January 11, 2014, 03:27:34 PM
I don't have a PST, have never had a PST and have no desire to have a PST. Sorry!

I wouldn't be as specific as a Farmer but I would say everyone should have at least 1 Alox knife, they're remarkably different to the 91s.


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #11 on: January 11, 2014, 03:31:06 PM
I have neither anymore as my collecting days are over  :D  In fact my tastes are pretty unfashionable these days  :P
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #12 on: January 11, 2014, 03:44:47 PM
I don't know if there really are any real "must haves" but I do think everyone should own a 91mm SAK of some kind, an old school Leatherman and (I'm perhaps biased here) a sliding headed Gerber.  Everything else is just gravy. 8)
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #13 on: January 11, 2014, 03:45:15 PM
at least one Opinel


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #14 on: January 11, 2014, 03:51:40 PM
at least one Opinel

Agreed. :tu:  Add a Mora of some description and you have 99% of any cutting tasks covered.  Two classics of the knife world that everyone really should try at some point, especially considering the low price point. :)
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Reply #15 on: January 11, 2014, 04:00:35 PM
at least one Opinel

Agreed. :tu:  Add a Mora of some description and you have 99% of any cutting tasks covered.  Two classics of the knife world that everyone really should try at some point, especially considering the low price point. :)

I also agree with you.  I found my first Mora at a flea market for 10 bucks.  It looks like a mini Viking sword at just over 7 inches long with a wooden handle and finger guard.  I have never sharpened that knife and it had been used on multiple tasks from making a fire to skinning a cow.  Still sharp. 

I have since added a Clipper with black and red handle.


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #16 on: January 11, 2014, 04:14:06 PM
My Mora #2 and Huntsman are my go to hiking and yard work knives. Mora has done everything from cutting sod, trimming errant vines and twigs, opening bags of soil, bark, and amendment, cutting roots, and, on a couple of occasions, digging out weeds. The Huntsman is really just there when I'm trimming branches on the two trees I have, and the hand pruner just isn't working.

My picks are a Mora, a SAK Classic, Vic Pioneer/Soldier/SI, Spartan, full sized Multitool of some sort, one with outside opening tools, one with inside. And a Smatchet.


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #17 on: January 11, 2014, 05:00:07 PM
I also have no Vic Farmer...

But I say everyone needs a full size Leatherman. That being the pliers-based medium duty tool that most people think of when they hear Leatherman. :)

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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #18 on: January 11, 2014, 05:14:31 PM
What is this multi tool you are talking about?!...

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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #19 on: January 11, 2014, 05:28:00 PM
I confess, I dont have a Farmer or a PST!  Is that weird? LOL

I have only one alox and it is a Wenger SI but I do have a ST300 and Rebar!


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #20 on: January 11, 2014, 05:31:26 PM
well since this is opinion... id have to say something alox... a swisstool of some sort, and throw in one leatherman for variety.  :D
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #21 on: January 11, 2014, 05:44:56 PM
You must have bought/played with/owned a cheap Rambo style knife.

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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #22 on: January 11, 2014, 05:47:40 PM
You must have bought/played with/owned a cheap Rambo style knife.

 :tu: A very important life lesson, there.


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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #23 on: January 11, 2014, 05:48:17 PM

You must have bought/played with/owned a cheap Rambo style knife.
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #24 on: January 11, 2014, 05:54:29 PM
Ok...so

Farmer/93mm Alox? Check
Leatherman PST/Micra/other? Check,several times over
Spirit? Check
Slidey head Gerber? Check several times over
Mora? check
Opinels? Check

Oh dear :facepalm:
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #25 on: January 11, 2014, 06:01:23 PM
I also believe everyone should have at least one MT that they purchased from a gas station/big box store that cost at/under $10, so they have a point of comparison for what junk is.

Bonus points if it was next to a plastic tub of beef jerky. :facepalm:

This will keep people from saying 'This is the worst tool EVER' about a LOT of pretty good tools.
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #26 on: January 11, 2014, 06:26:47 PM
Luckily the Farmer isn't a requirement, otherwise I'd have to ban quite a lot of you. >:D


and myself if I'm being honest ;)

Ok...so

Farmer/93mm Alox? Check
Leatherman PST/Micra/other? Check,several times over
Spirit? Check
Slidey head Gerber? Check several times over
Mora? check
Opinels? Check

Oh dear :facepalm:

We're safe, but what about everyone else?  Too many folks without a slidey Gerber I suspect. ;)  Ah well, I'll get the Banishment Bow out. :-\
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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #27 on: January 11, 2014, 06:31:32 PM
No MPs or PSTs here. :oops:



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Re: Multitools and knives you must have to prevent banishment
Reply #28 on: January 11, 2014, 06:32:32 PM
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