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Why are there so many knives on EDC?

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What the fuck? I'm not going to carry a dozen knives and a flashlight every day.
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RayF
22220
Sep 9, 2020
And I’m not going to wear a dozen damn headphones today either!
It's an enthusiast site. Enthusiasts don't usually just buy one of something. They want to buy many. Compare their strengths and weaknesses. Find the elusive "one" that is the best. You could just buy a "surgical stainless" knife from the gas station, grab whatever flashlight and wallet is on sale at Wal-mart, use the earbuds that came with your phone and keyboard that came with the computer. Use grampa's old tent that weighs 30 pounds and use an army surplus sleeping bag and boots. That's what many folks do. The better question is, if that is what you want, why the hell are you here?
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RayF
22220
Sep 9, 2020
Notsurewhyibother Oh, and by that bit of rational, we can assume you’re here for your 27th folder, and 55th flashlight? You go girl!
RayFHow many watches do you own RayF? Do you wear them on both wrists and your ankles, 80's style?
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reswright
3850
Aug 29, 2020
The last nine drops in EDC: 5 battery powered lights, a wallet, a pocket doohickey, a keybar and a lockpick set. Lol, maybe they should change it to Every Day Breaking and Entering
reswright
3850
Aug 20, 2020
I know what you mean. Who needs a fuckin' flashlight? And while we're at it, why are there so many headphones, amps and dacs and specialized audiophile makes and models? I ain't gonna use a dozen of them at a time. And keyboards -- are you people eating your keycaps or something? What's with needing more? While we're on this subject why do they sell goddamn underwear in packs of three when you only have one ass to cover? You people got other asses out there or something? Is that what I'm missing out on -- an underground, stealth, triple ass phenomenon that y'all been keeping on the down low, Trebek? ******* About once every six months, someone makes this post nowadays. You're in good company. The thing is, the reason they sell all the knives isn't really hard to discern. It's that once they started releasing exclusive knives, not to put too fine a point on it but knife people started showing up and shopping here. For knives. Drop, being a business, is following the money. If you feel it's unjust, perhaps consider that there's doods checking Drop every day and on the days you're happy because it's all EDC stuff and no more pointy things, for them it's like 'Aw, shit, more leather notebook doohickeys and another goddamn Swiss pen, man, who TF needs this many pens?' You might be able to tell them a bunch of cool stuff about the pen, but they will no more GAF about that than you are going to be interested in them going on and on about coarse vs mirror edges with ultrahard steel and wrist action with a compression lock vs a plunge lock. If we were the sort to care, we undoubtedly likely already would, as we're both looking at the same products each day. I think the knife people AND the EDC people were both happier in some not-all-that-important-but-still-real way when we had our own independent communities, or at least different feeds for new gear. But Drop decided to merge the two. And lo, here we are. So now I page through a bunch of prestige granting desk doodads and battery powered lights and Camelbaks and tourbillon watches looking for my stuff and you have to deal with a metric dickload of knives as you trawl Drop, looking for the latest and hottest new EDC. And until they decide to change it back (if they ever do) every six months or so, someone else who likes EDC gear is gonna ask why they gotta endure all the knives. Mostly the knife people no longer ask why we have to see the EDC stuff, we've kinda resigned ourselves to the fact that Drop's business realities are less convenient for us than they used to be.
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Nullriver
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Aug 29, 2020
reswrightThis guy only has one pair of underware? 1st day normal, 2nd back to front, 3rd day inside out, 4th day front to back, 5th day make new leg holes, 6th day patch original leg holes, what do you do on the 7th day, rest?
T.willy
463
Jan 17, 2021
reswrightPerfect explanation. 👌
meltcow
2
Aug 19, 2020
Well, knives are pretty popular items. I haven't bought one on here, but I sure wish I could have a few of them. I'm just a bit cheap; otherwise, I'd have 4,000 knives and nowhere for my children to sleep. Instead, I'm carrying a very-mediocre old S&W knife I got at a garage sale. However, you raise a good point. Do people only carry knives every day? What about some other things? Such as some Knipex 4" Cobra Pliers? Because those really come in handy...
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SharpToolsEDC
4
Aug 26, 2020
meltcowSounds like your knife needs an upgrade to me, but I collect knives and have hundreds of knives... and also EDC like lights, pens and IEMs,.... I have seen some people that edc Knipex 5" plier wrench. It makes sense someone would carry a 4" cobra. Those wrench models are great! I have two of the larger ones of each type, and many other Knipex tools. They are very nice. I didn't know they had a 4" cobra though. I will have to check that little baby out!
reswright
3850
Aug 27, 2020
SharpToolsEDCWhen I was a line setup I carried channel locks much like the cobra you mention. Still in my toolkit.
RoosterCogburn
12
Aug 19, 2020
Well we’re not all game show hosts Alex! For those of us that work for a living,, because we’re too stupid or too lazy to get a degree, need to have tools on us all day to do our jobs. You seem so nice on tv, I guess that’s why they say,”never meet your heroes” they can’t live up to the pedestal we put them on. Well Alex is off the pedestal, Next...you guessed it putting that pussy on a pedestal. Because you should always put that pussy on a pedestal.
Kavik
5531
Aug 23, 2020
So, you carry a dozen 10mm wrenches on you? Or, you have dozens of wrenches, because even though each one does the same job of tightening and loosening bolts, each and every one is just slightly different and serves a different purpose? Same thing here man. I may only carry one or two a day, but own many more than that because they're different and do different jobs
RoosterCogburn
12
Nov 11, 2020
R.I.P.
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