My EDC includes a Vic Rambler SAK , which has a pair of scissors and a nail file and tweezers. It's my favourite SAK as it is very small - about the same size as nail clippers alone - but has the essentials. Knife blade and scissors, flat screwdriver and philips.

Would that be called a manicure overdose?
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Great news!

Nail clippers, cuticle clippers and nail files are back on the "thumbs-up" list for carry on per the TSA. Though I wonder if these knuckle heads are thinking emery board not the "pointy metal kind" when they say nail file?

http://www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/Permitted_Prohibited_9_6_2005.pdf

I'll have to strip my PSK for any airline travel. I may as well fill the extra space with a quality nail clipper and file.

Cheers, TR

KIndasorta off subject, but we flew a couple months ago for the first time in years. My wife is the worlds most nervous flyer, so she was well medicated by the time we got to the airport. Being in that condition made her forget all about TSA, and she just threw her key ring into her purse. In addition to a lot of keys, it contained one of her Navy dog tags, one of my Air Farce dog tags, a P-38, and a Cold Steel Mini Pal. TSA being what/who they are, the purse zipped thru without a hitch, but they almost stip searched her due to her underwire bra...