This channel focusses on urban, travel and countryside EDC and tips. I look at the small items that make a big difference in helping you navigate modern life in simple, confident competence.
By EDC - I mean - Everyday Carry, Everyday Convenience & Everyday Competence
EDC starts with pocket carry and extends out into useful tips, tools and toolkits. It includes anything that makes life a little easier. I show a range of equipment reviews and ideas to help better prepare for everyday and unusual situations that crop up as we go about our lives. This includes some everyday tech for non-techies as well. I am based in the UK so you won't see any guns or large lock knives.
As a modern man/traveller/Dad/Grandad I have a lot of life experience with some suitable and usefull ideas for everyone. I know that EDC is often more of a boy's (man's) interest and I will try to make sure that the videos interest women as well. I really welcome all comments helping me to get better.
Mark ....... you're a sadist , asking this of knife guys ! Ain't gonna lie ..... it's not for me , but if pushed the Vic lox no 7 would be a good choice . Did you dream this one up when under the influence? Utter madness ! Liked seeing your collection mate ........like it or not you're becoming a collector !
I will take you up on this Mark! I haven’t decided which knife it will be yet, but I will carry my hotoh screwdriver and fiskars foldable scissors to make up for not having a victorinox
Great idea Elan! I keep my Hoto in a tool pouch in my work bag always. I need to check out the Fiskars scissors. I think it will give you chance to really cherish the knife you choose for the month...
I carried a Victorinox Explorer for a whole month earlier this year. I was buying too many knives, too compulsively, and I needed to remind myself that something simple with a sharp edge is all that's really needed for utility, everything else is just flavour.
Despite having plenty to choose from, it's been a Marbles copperhead every day for getting on for a year. We just get on, and let's face it, it's expendable. So, challenge cheerfully accepted. Were I to swap, there's a Boker congress currently on pencil sharpening duty which would do nicely ... but I won't.
Thought provoking, thanks for another great video. If we define it as "one knife," I can cheat and carry a knife AND a Knifeless Rebar or a SwissCard Nail Care or Jetsetter or a Roxon S501U with a file or saw paired with the scissors. Even a Roxon Flex without a blade. I think you may have been thinking about it in terms of "one tool."
@@MB_EDC Tangent incoming. You can get A LOT done with the Milwaukee Fastback 6 in 1 paired with a Roxon S501U for scissors and file/saw and a pair of Knipex 100s or 125s. If I was limited to "one knife," I'd be VERY happy with this set up for September. Great little three tool kit with some spare bits. I REALLY like driving screws with that Milwaukee. Perfectly centered, locked in place and very ergonomic handle. And the utility blade is so easy to deploy. The Roxon S501U scissors are the best I have ever seen on a multitool. More like shears. Knipex makes incredible pliers of course. Every tool is exceptional save maybe the Roxon file and saw which are at least average. Throw in a Swiss Card NailCare in the wallet and I could go YEARS with that combination and not suffer any FOMO.
Did a Randy! Love it! No way can I carry the same knife for entire month. Too many knives and at my age not enough time, no knife gets that much attention. And I think you've picked a multitool not a knife lol
That's a difficult challenge! I don't see too many taking it! I have a buddy, Dirk Werrning, & he's carried the same knife for a year! He may continue to see how long he can do it. Personally, I like more variety! Thanks for sharing a good bit of your collection!
Victorinox Evowood 10. I love wooden handles and they are shaped nicely on this model. Don't need scissors as long as I have a blade but do need a cap lifter as a part time alcoholic. 😅 Just the right size for 5th pocket carry as it's not too heavy. Love the Alox range but find them too slippery when my hands get sweaty.😢
Great choice Ed. I don't have any of the wooden SAKs... Yet!! Even with my relatively minimalist EDC I seem to have 3 cap lifters on my person every day!! 🍺🍺🍺. Cheers.... I am hoping to start a live stream this week on EDC great and beer.... I'll put a post up soon...
@@MB_EDC 😂 Even if I were completely determined to do it, I’d still fail. What remains of my memory doesn’t even start kicking in until mid day. I’d give it a week before I forgot, and realize that I failed around dinner time.
I've never heard of anybody using water on a whetstone, they are known as oilstones for a reason. most engineers who know how to use one use oil. No mouldy residue with oil. you shouldn't use one dry as you need lubricant to stop the stone glazing. It's worked for me the last 60 years. PS soak the stone in paraffin or light oil for a few days before using, then you rarely need to lubricate, they don't need to be soaking wet.I'm not being Negative, but trust me water is no good. Originally whetstone's were lubricated with linseed oil, but, these days it's deemed too thick
There has been some confusion over this point. This is definitely a water stone - not an oil stone. The instructions with it day to soak in water. Water stones tend to have higher grit ratings than oil stones..
@@MB_EDC you'll probably find it is a translation error and is often seen in instructions from Chinese sourced products. It is highly probable that during translation whetstone was thought to have ment wetstone and so why they are telling you to use water. Having bought some years ago a Stanley chisel set with a whetstone, it came with light oil.
Oilstones and whetstones are both used for different things for sharpening tools like chisels and plane blades you would use an oilstone but for sharpening kitchen knives a chef will use a whetstone.
There are two varieties of stone. Some are used with oil, some are used with water. Whet stones are used with water. If you use diamond flats, you use water with those.
I haven't forgotten about the jetsetter, I'd just like a full-size (91 mm) without a knife that I could carry to school, shopping, etc. With me. Scissors, pliers, bit driver, package opener... My intend wouldn't be to fly with it so small blades wouldn't be a problem, just knives. There's a market even without knife laws, people are complaining or sad for nothing.
Correction: The BEST Victorinox knife you aren't allowed to carry in the UK. You absolutely can, and I'm sure plenty of people do. Life is too short to live at the convenience of tyrannical politicians.
@@joshklaver47 I get your point. I choose when to carry this sort of knife. It's when I am on my property or doing work that requires this. Then I get to carry it and stay within the law. I have just got the Farmer X which is fully legal carry and adjust as capable as this one...
@@MB_EDC Wouldn't say... I draw a clear line between pricy and expensive. I paid 23€ for my new classic SD when getting into SAKs. Not very pricy and definitely not expensive when accounting that it's Swiss made and comes with a warranty and the excellent quality and comparing to other quality brands. Then for example anything for 500€ is very pricy but you wouldn't call a really good car (Ferrari or something ridiculous) for 500€ expensive. 500€ for a SAK is definitely extremely expensive and impossible to justify utility wise, maybe as an investment. See what I mean? "Priciness" is purely based on price, "expensiveness" on price per value. Sometimes something can be extremely cheap but still way too pricy. Imagine the worlds grandest manor and its surroundings for 1 000 000€£$.
I guess so...I see them as good value. They tend to be cheaper here in Europe than in the US. Where you can get some great knives and tools for a similar price...
I think if they bite the bullet and make a full size 91mm multi too with as many tools as the swiss champ ( without a blade ) it would sell like hot cakes.👍
I've just ordered one, my daughter took my rambler on her D of E and has been loathe to give it back! I've bought a Jetsetter for flying, so fingers crossed! I also bought a Rally for 5th pocket carry as it was on sale, I'll see how that compares to the rambler!
I carry one daily along with my Sparten. The knife can't come to work with me as I work with minors. So the Jetsetter bridges the gap as well as adding scissors to my EDC.
I expect airports will still regard this as a weapon, they don’t allow manicure sets. You could carry a prepaid Jiffy bag with your home address on, just incase it gets confiscated. That way you have an even chance of getting it back, if they would post it back to you?
Have one on my keychain with a pen scale. It used to have a lite scale too, but I broke that. Pairs nicely with a leatherman Bond/rebar/supertool because you get scissors and a small Phillips. You can use the scissors opened as a knife/package opener in a pinch too.
The Jetsetter is a perfect compliment to my Waiter, Recruit or Climber. My only gripe, is that i usually remove it from my keyring, to use the phillips. Victorinox should produce this (and the Rambler) in Alox.
Definitely, I was looking for an alox version but they don't do one unfortunately. An alox rambler with it's more durable scales would be a perfect keychain tool
Love the Jetsetter. In Denmark, the law is very strict: you can't even carry a Classic SD into town, on penalty of a large fine were the wrong person to notice it; so the Jetsetter is a great tool. But an 84 or 91mm with the classic opening tools, scissors, corkscrew and hook on the back, and plus scales would be ideal!
@@MB_EDC Yes - and curiously, just across the bridge in Sweden, where I live, there are very few constraints on pocket knives, so I always have an Opinel no.7 in my bag. One just has to be careful when popping over to Copenhagen!
@HenryKing-hc2ou I was there for a weekend back in spring and was flying. This was before I had the Jetsetter. I didn't take and knives, just my Gerber Shard..
Great video. I like the Jetsetter. I added pen scales to mine. I wish it had a nail file. Note, the Leatherman Rebar bit adapter fits on the JetSetter Phillips, allowing you to use any 1/4" bits. Since Jetsetters look like a knife, you are likely to be delayed during security and there are reports of TSA taking them. I prefer to travel with the Victorinox SwissCard Nailcare. It adds a lot of features the Jetsetter doesn't have. Larger 74mm scissors, nail file, mag glass, pen and pin. The best part is that it doesn't look like a knife. I have never been questioned about it.
I like the idea off the Pen scales... Great addition... I have the standard Swiss Card and could take small knife out before traveling... Good call on the Nail care card.
@@harleyandguns Thanks!The yellow bit kit was with a cheap "L-shaped" but driver on Amazon. There is a better double-ended bit kit with the Steinwhale not driver. Check out my video in it. I have a few more mini-toolkit videos as well...
It is not a "wet stone", meaning that you are supposed to wet it before use; it is a whetstone, the name of which is derived from the obsolete word "whet", meaning "to sharpen". Having said which, yes, of course it needs to be made wet in order to sharpen something, but this fact has nothing to do with its name. As for the rest, I wouldn't know - and I wouldn't buy a thing like that from LIDL anyway.
Lets be honest, uk knife law doesnt make a bit of difference to law breaking. Unless you want to criminalise a 50 year old white bloke who owns a lock knife
wash and heat the Base to remove all the mold heat your oven after washing it. oven warm. then and turn it off add base to kill mold this way you do not Burn the base.
I do strop afterwards...I forgot to sure here as I was focused on this water stone. Check out my videos on stropping... They're in my sharpening playlist.
ALWAYS pull back on the blade, If you push the blade into the stone you stand the chance of cutting the stone rather than the blade, also you do not create a good bur. Concentrate on ONE SIDE ONLY to make a bur on the other side then lightly do the other side BUT only enough to remove the bur, your blade should look like a chisel end when finished, and not a " V ", that way it keeps it edge longer. Just look at any new kitchen blade.
