WHAT IS YOUR EDC KNIFE?

**Wiley** · 01-03-09, 23:13

CQC10

Wiley

**larry0071** · 01-05-09, 06:27

I carry CRKT M16-14ZSF as my work knife. It has a nice wood-type finish that works well with my dockers and cargo's. It has been around the world with me. China, S. Korea, Japan, Mexico, and a few other places. I never had issues with it tucked into my checked luggage. In the states I work at nuclear power facility and I go thru security each day with it. No one in security questions it... but my co-workers look at me like I have 2 heads when they see it. I also have an older M16-14 in composite grey that had done a great deal of traveling with me. I like to have a substantial blade hidden in my front right pocket when trolling the alleys and back streets in poor countries. You never know whats around the next corner.

Kit Carson M16 designs in diffferent sizes and styles with Desert Tan or Camo color schemes, all with AutoLAWKS® knife safety.
M16®-14ZSF:
Build: InterFrame with Zytel Scales
Color: Desert Tan with Bead Blast Blade
Blade: Combined Razor-Sharp & Triple-
Point Serrated Cutting Edge
Length: 3.875” (9.8 cm)
Thickness: 0.14” (0.35 cm)
Steel: AUS 4, 55-57 HRC
Closed: Handle length: 5.375” (13.7 cm)
Open: Overall length: 9.25” (23.5 cm)
Weight: 6.3 oz. (179 g)

Retired to truck door pocket:

M16-14: Combined Razor-Sharp and Triple-Point Serrated Cutting Edge.
The original Kit Carson’s production M16 with aluminum frame, premium blade steel and AutoLAWKS™ safety.

Blade: Length: 3.875” (9.8 cm)
Thickness: 0.14” (0.35 cm)
Steel: AUS 8, 58-59 HRC
Closed: Handle length: 5.375” (13.7 cm)
Open: Overall length: 9.25” (23.5 cm)
Weight: 5.4 oz. (153 g)

I really like these knives. Actually, the older M16-14 is easier to reach into the pocket with because it does not have the double carson flippers on the base of the blade. The double Carson Flipper digs into the pinky finger side of your hand when you rech into your pocket, but it does allow for one hand open and one hand closing of the blade. I like that part of the double flippers... but dont like the pocket pain! These blades can be flipped open as fast as an automatic and closed very quick as well. The safety on the newer knife also has the spring loaded automatic second lock, the older grey M16 has a manual secondary lock that I honestly never really activated....so the new automatic safety is safer because it ALWAYS engauges and it causes no problems closing once you spend a few moments teaching your hand how to deactivate the 2 safeties. Good quality, heavy weight blade, holds an edge, and not to expensive. I like them a lot.

**BAC** · 01-07-09, 12:32

An inexpensive Buck Ghost Rider I snagged while on sale for half off ($15). No spring retention, but it's a damn sturdy knife and perfect as my every-day work knife. I've [ab]used this knife harder than I've used any other I own: it's been soaked in every substance you can imagine in a restaurant, regularly breaks ice and pries frozen metal apart, took a momentary dip in the fryer (

), and cuts more cardboard than paper. Nearing one year and nothing broken yet.

It won't win any snob contests, but I'll be hard pressed to find another knife that takes abuse like this. Glad I picked up two.

-B