Nathan- What do you personally carry for a fixed blade and a folder if you carry one?
Thanks
The knives I use the most:
Usually when I use a fixed blade around the shop or home I use a prototype EDC in 3V at HRC 62. It's sharpened 15 DPS.
For fine/precision tasks needing an extremely sharp blade such as shaving fine burrs off plastic parts we machine I use a D2 skinner at HRC 61 that's hollow ground almost as thin as a straight razor. It's sharpened around 13 DPS. I also use this for skinning and disassembling deer.
In the kitchen I have three potato knives that are all ground different. There is a standard that Jo and I use on vegetables, a special thinner standard with a 48" hollow grind on the back I use on fish, and there is a thick one with a flat saber grind I use as a beater knife (pitting avocados etc). I also use an "Old Hickory" carving knife that I reground with thin 36" hollow grinds. There's also a very thin J knife in VG10 I use to skin Salmon.
For a pocket knife I carry a modified Reate folder that I thinned and Nathanized the blade shape. It's S35VN at HRC 60, sharpened around 18 DPS.
Around the yard I use a convex ground Racing Chopper sharpened 15 DPS that can remove limbs from trees and bushes like you're flicking a light switch.
Most of my own knives are thinner than most people use, and I use them hard. But, I'm not averse to repairing or replacing a knife if it gets damaged.
Nathan, boxers or briefs?
boxers
Raspberry with dark chocolate
tea
Favorite beer: Stone Self Righteous Black IPA
Favorite Scotch : Laphroaig (10 year, not the fancy stuff)
Favorite smoking pipe: Missouri Meerschaum
Favorite rifle: Jarrett Beanfield rifle Rem 700 7mm
Favorite cat: N/A