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Cutting chorizo?Ladies, never let a man cut your apple with his pocketknife. You don't know where it's been.
That, and horses' hooves, and blisters, and getting fish hooks out. Wiped on the trousers in between times.Cutting chorizo?
Hi! Being Swiss and living in the center of Switzerland (the Jakobsweg passes my place of work), the Swiss Army knife plays a minor role in my life. So here's my question: if you could design the perfect pocketknife to take with you on your camino, what would be included? My suggestions involve:
- a flashlight (already included on many knives)
- a pair of tweezers (for ticks and facial hairs)
- a pen (already included on many knives)
- a good knife for cutting bread
- a pair of scissors
- a corkscrew (already available)
- a screwdriver (also already available)
- lightweight!
-Perhaps an external charger for a mobile phone?
- Engraved with your name on it
- a key chain
- a mini-spring carabiner
What have I missed or what do you feel isn't needed? Thanks for your feedback.
Hi! Being Swiss and living in the center of Switzerland (the Jakobsweg passes my place of work), the Swiss Army knife plays a minor role in my life. So here's my question: if you could design the perfect pocketknife to take with you on your camino, what would be included? My suggestions involve:
- a flashlight (already included on many knives)
- a pair of tweezers (for ticks and facial hairs)
- a pen (already included on many knives)
- a good knife for cutting bread
- a pair of scissors
- a corkscrew (already available)
- a screwdriver (also already available)
- lightweight!
-Perhaps an external charger for a mobile phone?
- Engraved with your name on it
- a key chain
- a mini-spring carabiner
What have I missed or what do you feel isn't needed? Thanks for your feedback.
The Opinel is a locking knife...so in the UK not an EDC...an arrestable offence to carry one.
Hi! Being Swiss and living in the center of Switzerland (the Jakobsweg passes my place of work), the Swiss Army knife plays a minor role in my life. So here's my question: if you could design the perfect pocketknife to take with you on your camino, what would be included? My suggestions involve:
- a flashlight (already included on many knives)
- a pair of tweezers (for ticks and facial hairs)
- a pen (already included on many knives)
- a good knife for cutting bread
- a pair of scissors
- a corkscrew (already available)
- a screwdriver (also already available)
- lightweight!
-Perhaps an external charger for a mobile phone?
- Engraved with your name on it
- a key chain
- a mini-spring carabiner
What have I missed or what do you feel isn't needed? Thanks for your feedback.
The Opinel is a locking knife...so in the UK not an EDC...an arrestable offence to carry one.
"Arrestable offense" means it is illegal.I don't know what this means.
"Arrestable offense" means it is illegal.
That we got, but EDC?"Arrestable offense" means it is illegal.
Either you put it in your check-in baggage, send it via mail or buy one. Same on returnSwiss Army knives are great! However when one goes through airport security the knife will be confiscated; at least daughter's was in Italy. I would hate to lose mine so if all believe this is something needed on the Camino where do you suggest purchasing one once back on the ground? Thank you.
I know what arrestable offense means. I don't know what EDC means.
Unless it weighed under 50 gms I wouldn't carry it
I have a swiss army knife with a toothpick, a saw(which i use for making walking sticks)a phillips screw driver and slotted too ,the scissors are really important, for taping the feet and trimming the nails and of course the tweezers, also a can opener is handy but the top most important tool is .....drum roll ...the painkiller opening device more commonly called a corkscrew.Hi! Being Swiss and living in the center of Switzerland (the Jakobsweg passes my place of work), the Swiss Army knife plays a minor role in my life. So here's my question: if you could design the perfect pocketknife to take with you on your camino, what would be included? My suggestions involve:
- a flashlight (already included on many knives)
- a pair of tweezers (for ticks and facial hairs)
- a pen (already included on many knives)
- a good knife for cutting bread
- a pair of scissors
- a corkscrew (already available)
- a screwdriver (also already available)
- lightweight!
-Perhaps an external charger for a mobile phone?
- Engraved with your name on it
- a key chain
- a mini-spring carabiner
What have I missed or what do you feel isn't needed? Thanks for your feedback.
Either you put it in your check-in baggage, send it via mail or buy one. Same on return
You can buy all sorts of knives including Victorinoxes and Opinels in Spain.
The Opinel is a locking knife...so in the UK not an EDC...an arrestable offence to carry one.
Locking the blade makes it illegal - it can't be folded if it is locked and so is not a folding a knife. I don't think I'd use one without locking it so it's a paperweight really. In the UK context is everything even with "legal" knives, so you can still be arrested with an EDC if a police officer has questions about your intent.According to this https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives a lock knife is defined as one that;
Lock knives are not classed as folding knives and are illegal to carry in public without good reason. Lock knives:
An Opinel clearly isn't covered in point one and point two's use of the word "can" makes it next to pointless as pretty much any Swiss Army/Leatherman type multitool could be covered.
- have blades that can be locked and refolded only by pressing a button
- can include multi-tool knives - tools that also contain other devices such as a screwdriver or can opener
I've bought an Opinel specifically for the Camino as on my previous trip I saw others use it and it proved super useful, primarily for food prep but also bandaging/boot modification etc. That link further goes on to say that (assuming the blade is less than 3 inches) if you can demonstrate a good reason for having it you're ok, who knows if going walking in Spain is a good reason or not.
Hi! Being Swiss and living in the center of Switzerland (the Jakobsweg passes my place of work), the Swiss Army knife plays a minor role in my life. So here's my question: if you could design the perfect pocketknife to take with you on your camino, what would be included? My suggestions involve:
- a flashlight (already included on many knives)
- a pair of tweezers (for ticks and facial hairs)
- a pen (already included on many knives)
- a good knife for cutting bread
- a pair of scissors
- a corkscrew (already available)
- a screwdriver (also already available)
- lightweight!
-Perhaps an external charger for a mobile phone?
- Engraved with your name on it
- a key chain
- a mini-spring carabiner
I'm just taking carry on so most of this I wouldn't be allowed.
Locking the blade makes it illegal - it can't be folded if it is locked and so is not a folding a knife. I don't think I'd use one without locking it so it's a paperweight really. In the UK context is everything even with "legal" knives, so you can still be arrested with an EDC if a police officer has questions about your intent.
And just because why are in the 21st century... Men, never let a lady cut your apple with her pocketknife...Ladies, never let a man cut your apple with his pocketknife. You don't know where it's been.
According to this https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives a lock knife is defined as one that;
Lock knives are not classed as folding knives and are illegal to carry in public without good reason. Lock knives:
An Opinel clearly isn't covered in point one and point two's use of the word "can" makes it next to pointless as pretty much any Swiss Army/Leatherman type multitool could be covered.
- have blades that can be locked and refolded only by pressing a button
- can include multi-tool knives - tools that also contain other devices such as a screwdriver or can opener
I've bought an Opinel specifically for the Camino as on my previous trip I saw others use it and it proved super useful, primarily for food prep but also bandaging/boot modification etc. That link further goes on to say that (assuming the blade is less than 3 inches) if you can demonstrate a good reason for having it you're ok, who knows if going walking in Spain is a good reason or not.
I have a very tricky trick for halving apples. no need for a dirty skungey knife. But i would need to show you in person.Ladies, never let a man cut your apple with his pocketknife. You don't know where it's been.
Now I'm confused re EDC concept. I almost always carry a small pocket knife. When I travel as in trips to Spain, Great Britain, Germany I avoid taking a knife with me on the airplane but purchase one soon after arrival. I bought a small Opinel as in the picture in a hardware store in Canterbury prior to starting English portion of the Via Francigena. No problems purchasing it - they had various sizes, steels. I mailed it home afterwards and it is a nice souvenir of my trip.
a needle for bursting blisters...
now how long will it take before the medical experts will decry my suggestion,
made of ceramic so we can pack it in hand luggage....oh dear now I will have the packing and security experts
a cockel shell motif on the handle
Ladies, never let a man cut your apple with his pocketknife. You don't know where it's been.
I thought that was to get Boy Scouts out of . . . perhaps not.A thing for getting stones out of horses' hooves.
No, they do one with the corkscrew now, it's better.
That's a British joke indeedI thought that was to get Boy Scouts out of . . . perhaps not.
. . . . or licked.That, and horses' hooves, and blisters, and getting fish hooks out. Wiped on the trousers in between times.
Or wiped on a dirty handkerchief. . . . or licked.
Basically the reason why that man designed the first Workmate folding bench - except he sawed through a kitchen chair!Exasperated by my scout's camping knife that would not have made any impression on butter, last summer I bought a beautifully serrated Victorinox knife en route. The knife not only cut effortlessly through crusty bread, but it also made a perfect surgical incision in my leg. It's the first time I've ever been in a position to contemplate a cross-section of my knee. Caveat viator!
You know men who carry a hankie? Clean or dirty, you ARE poshOr wiped on a dirty handkerchief
Hi! Being Swiss and living in the center of Switzerland (the Jakobsweg passes my place of work), the Swiss Army knife plays a minor role in my life. So here's my question: if you could design the perfect pocketknife to take with you on your camino, what would be included? My suggestions involve:
- a flashlight (already included on many knives)
- a pair of tweezers (for ticks and facial hairs)
- a pen (already included on many knives)
- a good knife for cutting bread
- a pair of scissors
- a corkscrew (already available)
- a screwdriver (also already available)
- lightweight!
-Perhaps an external charger for a mobile phone?
- Engraved with your name on it
- a key chain
- a mini-spring carabiner
What have I missed or what do you feel isn't needed? Thanks for your feedback.
Are you sure? There are 123 other definitions of the abbreviation EDC here -->> http://www.acronymfinder.com/EDC.html.From Wikipedia here is the answer.
Not sure of anything! I should have written above "here is AN answer". Mea culpa.Are you sure? There are 123 other definitions of the abbreviation EDC here -->> http://www.acronymfinder.com/EDC.html.
Given the number of suggestions it's already up to 5 kgs.
OK, I'm off to bed now but before I say goodnight, well it's just got to be done:
Introducing the Wenger SAK 16999 - you can (and should) read the reviews.
That looks like my long lost Joseph Rodgers - broke my heart when it wentMy old dad is a skilled toolmaker with over 40 years experience, and an outdoorsman to boot.
He has a knife like this and has had the same one his whole life.
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That looks like my long lost Joseph Rodgers - broke my heart when it went
Ladies, never let a man cut your apple with his pocketknife. You don't know where it's been.
My Opinel was confiscated at the security control of Valencia's railway station.
Olygirl -Hi! Being Swiss and living in the center of Switzerland (the Jakobsweg passes my place of work), the Swiss Army knife plays a minor role in my life. So here's my question: if you could design the perfect pocketknife to take with you on your camino, what would be included? My suggestions involve:
- a flashlight (already included on many knives)
- a pair of tweezers (for ticks and facial hairs)
- a pen (already included on many knives)
- a good knife for cutting bread
- a pair of scissors
- a corkscrew (already available)
- a screwdriver (also already available)
- lightweight!
-Perhaps an external charger for a mobile phone?
- Engraved with your name on it
- a key chain
- a mini-spring carabiner
What have I missed or what do you feel isn't needed? Thanks for your feedback.
This is a Camino pocket knife!
Hi! Being Swiss and living in the center of Switzerland (the Jakobsweg passes my place of work), the Swiss Army knife plays a minor role in my life. So here's my question: if you could design the perfect pocketknife to take with you on your camino, what would be included? My suggestions involve:
- a flashlight (already included on many knives)
- a pair of tweezers (for ticks and facial hairs)
- a pen (already included on many knives)
- a good knife for cutting bread
- a pair of scissors
- a corkscrew (already available)
- a screwdriver (also already available)
- lightweight!
-Perhaps an external charger for a mobile phone?
- Engraved with your name on it
- a key chain
- a mini-spring carabiner
What have I missed or what do you feel isn't needed? Thanks for your feedback.
And it's only $10,000!It already exists...
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The questions and reviews in that Amazon ad are priceless!And it's only $10,000!
Wenger 16999 Swiss Army Knife Giant - Most Expensive Item On Amazon - Amazon.com
Wenger 16999 Swiss Army Knife Giant - Most Expensive Item On Amazon - Amazon.comwww.amazon.com
It already exists...
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The Opinel is a locking knife...so in the UK not an EDC...an arrestable offence to carry one.
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