Road trip knives.

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strategy9

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So often we see people asking what they should bring with them on a road trip, so as a decisive fellow who happens to be embarking on a road trip, here's what I'm bringing.



2 fixed blades: bk11 and a Mora companion
2 folders: s30v karambit and D2 mini Harley davidson edition BM
2 leathermans: wingman (pliers) and Style cs (scissors)
1 congress slippie
 
That's a handful of knives.

My knife choices depend on where I'm going and what I'm doing. Usually a stout locking folder with a decent sized blade and a Swisschamp. If I'm travelling to a more restrictive location or I'm otherwise limited in my options I like a Dragonfly2 in H1 as it's small and easy to maintain.
 
I always take a SE Pacific Salt with me. Such a versatile knife. I also take another folder or two and a fixed blade. This plus what is already on me and in my pack.
 
I keep a cheap, but strong folder and a Leathernan in the tool roll that lives in my trunk. The folder is currently a Meyerco Lightfoot Catchdog. It's there to do rough work, like scraping rust, cutting exhaust hangers, and other junk I wouldn't want to subject my EDC to.
 
Which ones are truly "road trip" and will be on your body? For me it's a Matriarch for mean dogs and a Sunfish Forge heavy duty warncliffe trapper in O1, with a convex edge.
 
I always have a good size folder and a SAK. Went to the smoky mountains last summer with my CS Voyager and trusty Vic Pioneer.
 
brownshoe said:
Which ones are truly "road trip" and will be on your body?.
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The 5.11, bk11, Congress, and both leathermans are all on me or easily accessible right now as we drive.

In my bag, the Mora is purely a backup, (I almost always have a spare Mora close by), and the BM is for casual carrying when we get to where we'll be staying.
 
Either a SA or small traditional folder, and a small fixed blade with a two or three inch blade.
 
I'm out travelling with the family now actually. Brought a Victorinox Hardwood Spartan and a Boker Mini Ti Kwaiken.
 
I usually go light. Last trip up to Arrowhead I only took a Wenger SI. Didn't really use it much, except to open as beer. Going to San Luis Obispo, Disneyland, and Great Wolf Lodge in the next two months, and will likely only take a SAK Classic.
 
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Getahl said:
I usually go light. Last trip up to Arrowhead I only took a Wenger SI. Didn't really use it much, except to open as beer. Going to San Luis Obispo, Disneyland, and Great Wolf Lodge in the next two months, and will likely only take a SAK Classic.
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That's kind of the 800 pound gorilla in the room truth, isn't it? That in todays modern times, traveling by car across the country, not much knife is needed at all. In the past few years, we've travels from the east coast of the U.S. to the west coast and never needed more than a SAK classic to open plastic food packages. Interstate highways or state roads, didn't need to fight off any hostile injuns, skin any buffalo's, or blaze a trail through forest. In the past year I've driven from our new home in Texas back to Maryland to visit old friends and family, and driven to Mission Viejo in California to visit family. The most important tool on the road was the books on disk to listen to while cruising the interstate.

Can you get into Disneyland with even a SAK classic?
 
jackknife said:
That's kind of the 800 pound gorilla in the room truth, isn't it? That in todays modern times, traveling by car across the country, not much knife is needed at all. In the past few years, we've travels from the east coast of the U.S. to the west coast and never needed more than a SAK classic to open plastic food packages. Interstate highways or state roads, didn't need to fight off any hostile injuns, skin any buffalo's, or blaze a trail through forest. In the past year I've driven from our new home in Texas back to Maryland to visit old friends and family, and driven to Mission Viejo in California to visit family. The most important tool on the road was the books on disk to listen to while cruising the interstate.

Can you get into Disneyland with even a SAK classic?
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I was just at Disney. The metal detector policy is strange, I walked right around the detectors a few days then on the last day I was asked by security to go through one.
 
It depends entirely on the trip taken for me. I can usually get by with a small slipjoint folder and a multitool on my belt. I'll pack a slightly bigger one hand folder if I am traveling where my carry permit isn't recognized.

Of course, I always have a khukuri in my truck and one tucked way back in the trunk of my wife's car. Because when you need a khukuri, you REALLY need a khukuri:D

But seriously, my family roadtrip chores usually revolver around cutting down a drinking straw, cutting tags off of toys, or using a tool to fix said toy when it breaks. Disney was a cake walk. I had no need for anything, but I packed a Leatherman Piranha because it made me feel better to have SOME tools at hand. I get anxious if I can't fix stuff:o
 
I will travel with the same stuff I always do:

- concealed carry firearm
- large locking folder
- SAK Farmer

Open a beer, cut a steak, shoot a beer can off a fence post out in the middle of nowhere, I'm covered.
 
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