I recently found myself in the market for an almost every-day carry knife. Most days I still carry the small folding knife that I bought myself with store credit that I earned working as a counselor-in-training at a Boy Scout camp a long, long time ago. It's a great knife - sentimental, well-loved, and still in great shape. The knife that I'll someday hand down to my son.
I somehow talked myself into having a second option available for those days when I might want to carry something a little more substantial. I did my research, laid hands on lots of options, and in the end chose a Benchmade Griptilian. One of the things I really liked about the Griptilian is that it is a part of Benchmade's custom knife program, meaning that you can get it customized from the factory more-or-less the way you want it, for a small premium over the MSRP of the standard Griptilian.
