What People Still Don’t Get About $200 EDC Knives

Best Damn EDC

This week, we break down a comment calling the Big Idea Design Overlook overpriced, dig into why that argument doesn’t hold up, and respond to the guy who thinks your lunch doesn’t deserve a pocket knife. Plus: a new Community Carry from an agricultural scientist, what's in my pockets, and another round of Up The Ante.

0:30 Community Comment
Is $220 too much for a Chinese-made titanium frame lock folder?

6:05 Missed the Point
Someone got upset about using a pocket knife for “food prep.”

9:38 Community Carry of the Week
@mz_christos shares a practical carry built for life in the field—including a Benchmade 940 and a few farming essentials.

• Xiaomi 14
• Benchmade 940
• Knipex Cobra 5"
• POSCA Paint Marker
• Nitecore NTP31
• Pilot G2
• Titanium Tweezers
• Carbon Fiber Wallet
• Xiaomi Power Bank 3
• Ray-Ban Folding Wayfarer
• Samsung Galaxy Buds2 Pro
• Victorinox Classic SD
• Gerber Shard

  13:32 What’s In My Pockets

• Big Idea Design Overlook
• Tactile Knife Co. Redhawk
• Leatherman Arc
• Best Damn EDC Topo Zippo
• Rustic Heirloom Hitchhiker Wallet Honeycomb
• Lumintop Frog
• RZE UTD-8000
• Funky Forage Industries Tetra-292

  14:32 Up The Ante
  Taylor and Rikki play The Knife Price Is Right

  19:46 Giveaways
  Winner of Civivi Clingman: ⁨@dchappell⁩
  Winner of Mini Bedlam: ⁨@mattbanner3032⁩
  Leatherman Wave+ instructions are in this week's EDC Weekly newsletter