Defensive Daily Carry (DDC) vs. EDC

"EDC" has become a ubiquitous term, and as it relates to knives is used to describe knives that are part of one's daily carry. It has taken on the implicit meaning that these EDC knives are there to perform a wide range of functions, from cutting your apple into snack-size slices to fending off zombies Rick-Grimes-style. But we all know that opening Amazon boxes is the primary function. An EDC knife can certainly be used in self-defense, and we’re not knocking that contention, but the reality is that most so-called EDC knives are sub-optimal for defense.

The reasons for this assertion are many, including but not limited to blade size and shape, locking-and blade opening- mechanisms (for folding blades), and carry mode. The bottom line is that most EDC knives work absolutely fine for apples, zombie-killing fantasies, and box opening but completely or partially suck if you need to deal with a violent shithead.

That’s why we make a distinction between blades for general-purpose daily carry use (EDC) and blades that are expressly and even exclusively for defense. We call the latter Daily Defensive Carry (DDC) and we think it’s worth noting why, so we made this video a while back to discuss our views on the subject.

The Beckwith Covert was our first production knife we made, and its express purpose is a DDC blade. And since there are a range of threat-types and defensive blade skill-sets, with preferences for power-slashing/power-cutting (Beckwith Covert) as well as for thrusting/stabbing, we have more DDC blade designs in the pipeline. Stay tuned!

/Chas Fisher