When you think of big box places to buy items for your EDC. Places like Academy Sports, Dick’s, or Cabela’s likely come to mind. Target probably wouldn’t even make the first 15 or 20 places you’d think to look. But even with mostly empty shelves, Target can be a sleeper store where you can happen across surprisingly good finds (from time to time). Everything from pocket notebooks and tried and true pens to solid multi-tools and watches…
Read MoreWhether it’s a natural patina on a wallet or traditional knife or swapping the OEM hardware for custom parts, nothing sets off a carry quite like adding your own personal flair to your gear. And you’d be hard-pressed to find an easier way to partake in the latter than with Flytanium…
Read MoreThe world of everyday carry is bursting at the seams. As such, it’s really tough to keep up with everything going on and all the brands sprouting up seemingly overnight. Even with our ears to the ground, dozens of brands fly under our radar for months or years. However…
Read MoreThe James Brand is best known for its unique, svelte designs. They’ve teamed up with none other than Timex to bring forth not only a clean, minimal titanium field watch, but also an EDC box set that will equip your wrist, pockets, and belt loop with color-coordinated titanium goodness…
Read MoreEarlier this week, I hauled off into the woods with all the things I needed to survive for three days in the Linville Gorge Wilderness, a challenging yet beautiful place to hike in western North Carolina. By popular demand, I did a bag dump to show everything I took with me — except for food…
Read MoreI teamed up with Work Sharp once again to hide another gear drop. You won’t be able to just waltz up to this box, though. This time, instead of an island on a river, I hiked deep into the woods and hid the box in an even more challenging spot.
The terrain is tough. The location is remote. Can you find it?
Read MoreHolme and Hadfield offer quality display cases that allow you to show off, organize, and store your watches and knives. Their newest piece is their Knife Display Case, unboxed on Youtube in the video directly above. The Knife Display Case can hold up to six knives…
Read MoreEveryday Carry is a wide world featuring many creators making lots of different tools for varying purposes. As you dive deeper into the rabbit hole, you start to find items that — while not exactly connected to EDC — are adjacent to it and useful enough to warrant talking about. Some items listed here are indeed things worn and used every day…
Read MoreThis week, there are several knife pre-orders opening up, as well as more information on the Best Damn EDC topo edition of the Victorinox MiniChamp release. And after that, we’ve hand-picked eight incredibly clean and simple EDCs from the community to feature…
Read MoreEveryday Carry is typically about carrying the core essentials. From time to time, that gets conflated into carrying a bunch of excessive, overbuilt gear that weighs on the pockets and is sometimes useless. There’s nothing inherently wrong with carrying things…
Read MoreWe have covered plenty of everyday carries on this website and over on the YouTube channel, but the fact of the matter is that most carries keep the pocket bulge to a minimum. Well, here at Best Damn EDC, we want to see some insanity from time to time. Below we have compiled some of the heftiest carries, straight from the community.
Read MoreWhat is a grail? An expensive piece of gear you lust after shortly after acquiring your last grail of the week? No. A grail is something much more difficult to acquire, with a price tag several orders of magnitude larger than your monthly spending budget. A piece of gear that makes you question everything and keeps you up at night.
Read MoreIt seems pretty straightforward, but I get a lot of questions about how I maintain my pocket knives. I decided to break it down in a quick video to talk about the gear I use and a little knife maintenance kit that I’ve thrown together over the last year or so…
Read MoreI’ve chosen many different themes for the EDC Weekly over the years — everything from budget carries to Victorinox and Leatherman editions, as well as leather and brass themes. Before today, however, the EDC Weekly has never focused on the more expensive and luxurious carries within the community. That’s exactly what this episode is all about…
Read MoreBased in Bellingham, WA, Trayvax is a company dedicated to everyday carry, offering everything from metal and leather wallets to fixed blade knives and key organizers. Their products come with a 65-year heirloom warranty…
Read MoreWhen I started Best Damn EDC, my knife collection consisted of a Gerber 06 F.A.S.T. (the budget assisted version of the 06 Auto), a Spyderco Tenacious, and a handful of Kershaw knives. Suffice it to say…
Read MoreIf you were to buy your EDC all over again, in one fell swoop, how much would it cost? It’s easy to overlook just how much you’ve spent on your EDC over the past few months or years. Unless you’re conscious about the price of each item, it’s very likely that it’s well into the hundreds or even thousands of dollars…
Read MoreWhat is EDC? In short, it can be described as the stuff you carry on you every single day — be it just a knife, wallet, and a phone or the entire contents of your backpack. But everyday carry has grown and evolved over the last decade or so to be so much more…
Read MoreWhile we were passing through Boston, our good friend Michael Fisher of MrMobile was kind enough to dump his pockets…
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