Recently I bought a Maxpedition EDC Pocket Organiser online to organise my EDC (Every Day Carry). I spent a lot of time recently, reading about EDC and watching videos on Youtube on the subject before getting the organiser, pictured above. Regular readers will notice a couple of familiar items in the picture. From left to right, they are:- Pilot M90
- Spare Pilot ink cartridges
- Pilot Capless
- Laser pointer (since replaced as EDC by a black Lamy Safari)
- Uni Kuru Toga pencil
- Black Sharpie permanent marker
- County Comm 4-inch prybar
- Cheap ballpoint pen (although I despise ballpoint pens they can be useful sometimes)
- Nitecore D11 LED flashlight
- Small scissors
- Cheap disposable lighter
- Victorinox Sportsman folding knife
- Carton 10x power jeweller's loupe.
- Not pictured, but in there: a red Inova micro LED flashlight and a wad of 3x5 index cards.
Since the picture was taken, I have changed things around somewhat. I don't usually carry the laser pointer (which I use for astronomy) or the loupe, and instead carry a Snow Peak titanium spork and a couple more pens - a Pilot 78G filled with Private Reserve Plum ink and a Pilot V5 rollerball pen. Do you think I like Pilot pens much?
The EDC Pocket lives most of the time in my briefcase, or on my desk at work. There's only the one pencil, which I have not used so it may be rotated out. Pencils tend to live in a separate pencil case along with my eraser and sharpener. I usually move things around dependent on what I find most useful: hence the preponderance of fountain pens. If I worked somewhere other than an office, I'm sure the tools would be different.
One other thing I have done is to have an embroidered name-badge made which is stuck by Velcro to the hook-and-loop field on the front.
Anyone interested may like to check out a few videos on Youtube: here, here and here.
Very nice. I bought a Derwent Sketching kit (sketching tools being my prime need) but at 230*150*50, I never use it outdoors as it is too thick and bulky. I have reverted to a simple Derwent pocket wrap with a few wooden pencils + a Rotring 500 MP and a A6 sketchbook. The simpler and thinner my set up is the more I am inclined to carry it outside and sketch.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard about EDCs until I read this post-thank you! It really appeals to me as I am a pen and moleskine fanatic and need these on me at all times, or I feel lost!
ReplyDeleteNice to see your carry. Works well for an office worker or a writer. :) You have all the basic tools you need from knife, fire, light to pens. Excellent.
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