I always have my Leatherman charge on my belt and a buck assited opening in my pocket. I love the charge and use it every day but if i need a knife i usualy need one right away ,so i always keep some type of folder in a pocket. The assited opening knives are great. i do have a big cold steel but i don't EDC that one. Its a little scary to most folks.
If i go off the farm I will usualy leave the charge at home and take the SAK and the buck.

I try to keep the blades on my LM Supertool unused, because have great edges on them now, and I don't want to screw that up if I don't have to. I have the blade in my Micro for day to day abuse, and I carry on of the hawkbilled Smith and Wessons.

Suprisingly, that later takes a pretty good edge. I picked it up becuase I was doing a lot of stuff where I was breaking down carboard and breaking up big chunks of packing foam, and I found years ago that a pruning knife works well for that kind of thing. I've got it set up so it is almost as fast in my hand, with winter gloves, as an assisted opener would be.

As for the why- the tools in a multitool, IMO, are for backup. I carry a real knife for day to day cutting.

Lost my Kershaw Whirlwind on an outing - wish I'd tightened that clip as soon as I noticed it was getting loose. Replaced it with a Blur. Haven't decided how I feel about all of the differences, but the angled thumbstud was a nice change.

Here's my take on the motivation:

My LM Wave cost me @$70 new. It is handy as heck for all the other things besides the knife blades. Still, the knife blades are the primary use of the tool without a backup blade, and if something happens to the knife blades, then I have to do without the whole bloody thing when I send it in to get repaired (the same could be true of any other tool on the Wave I suspect, but none so critical to my everyday use).

So for most of my actual cutting work, I like to carry around a little $7.00 Ka Bar folder. If I break it, I still have the wave for backup, and I can go down to the corner store and pick up another cheap replacement without much inconvenience on my part.

So I guess the convenience of having a multi-tool at hand is offset some by the inconvenience of breaking a piece on it and having to send the whole thing in or (gulp) buying another one. I don't see much point in owning two when all I need is just the blade, so there you have it.

I carry a Leatherman Micra on my keychain for everyday duty such as opening polybags, and other such small things. I carry a Buck 110 and a Maglite in a Nite-Ize pouch on my belt for almost everything. I have a Kershaw 1660 clipped inside my pocket as a self defense weapon in the event I ever need it and for some light duty stuff. I carry a seperate keychain in my manbag/purse with a Leatherman PSTII (I customized it), BSA firestarter, compass, whistle, airhose tubingstuffed with cottonball tinder with the ends heated closed. My next goal is to have a custom leather sheath made to hold the Buck 110, Maglite, and the Leatherman on my belt. I carry a total of five knives at all times, sometimes six if I take my 6" Bowie also.

You cannot have too many knives...

Well, that might be a slight exaggeration <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I carry the SAK that I just found (it had been lost for months, in some cranny of a couch we just moved out to sell) along with (sometimes) a Cutco pocket knife along with a Micra. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my RSK with M2, to replace the inexpensive, yet surprisingly useful Gerber Paraframe I lost during a snowball fight with my children... I'm starting to see a pattern of losing knives develop <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Anyway, I use different ones for different jobs. Some work better for certain jobs, and some, I don't want to risk my favorites on.

More blades=more better <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

got the surge heavier than the rest but reminds me of the original lm not bad no complaints and i carry a ken onion

I carry multiple for a similar reason. The most use my blades see is opening boxes. I have a small Spyderco Jester on my keyring for that - quick to deploy, open box, fold up. LM Core on my belt for the tools (most used are pliers and phillips head). I have a larger Gerber folder that genrally stays in pocket as backup, rarely used.

I ended up going with a second knife. I opted not to replace the Kershaw with a Kershaw and picked up a Beretta. I'm not a big fan of their guns, but I've only heard good things about their knives and I like the way it felt. I picked up teh Beretta Airlight II Medium with a straight blade. So far, it's a great knife, I like th eidea of having a dedicated blade and haveing the Charge TI as a back up blade and primary for tools.

Thanks for all of the input!

I always carry a knife as a concealed weapon. I´s La Griffe-Style and I realy love it.

My second knife is a "gentleman"-folder that´s not too big to let my colleges rise their eyebrows when I get it out to cut my breakfast in pieces. Additional to this it´s much more convenient to handle as my Leatherman.

Finaly my Leatherman is my workhorse. It´s hidden in a leather pouch on my belt an only comes out when needed - no rised eyebrows in the office, you know.

That´s my basic blade-set.

Depending on the tasks and the environment to be due I change my gentleman-folder against an other type or take some more specific knifes with me.

Yes, I´m a knife-nut ...

Molf