Okay, since the last post on blade shaped degenerated into a med, I want to ask a simple question. Not being provocative or trolling, but I'm actually genuinely curious. I admit I'm an old fart right up front, and like most fossils my age, sometimes there's a lack of understanding of the younger generation.
My question is, what do most of you with the modern one hand folders that clarify as a tactical knife, do with them? In you daily life in and around modern suburbia, what do you cut, what do you see as the mission for what I've seen some of you describe as your pocket tanks? What do some of the more outside the box blade shaped offer that the traditional blade shaped do not?
I understand the quest for a better steel, and more rugged materials, really I do. But the shaped and design of some of the modern knives leaves me totally bewildered. In everyday life, what does a tanto blade do that a spear, clip, drop or sheep foot blade will not? Let alone some of the stranger blade shapes I see on modern knives.
Being born in 1941, I never saw a lock blade knife until I was a teenager. Then it was the Italian style switchblades of the James Dean era. Not exactly a good role model in the view of my mentors of the time. I remember when Buck came out with the 110 and set the knife world on it's ear, and the black belt pouch became the uniform of the day no matter what you were dressed in. By then I'd already grown up using scout knives and slip joints in general, and couldn't see why a person would carry a big heavy knife with only a single blade. Growing up, if you needed a knife that wouldn't fold over on you, then you used a sheath knife. I guess I still have that attitude and have trouble seeing why do some people carry way they do.
So, enlighten me. Tell me what you do with your knives on a day to day basis.
Carl.
My question is, what do most of you with the modern one hand folders that clarify as a tactical knife, do with them? In you daily life in and around modern suburbia, what do you cut, what do you see as the mission for what I've seen some of you describe as your pocket tanks? What do some of the more outside the box blade shaped offer that the traditional blade shaped do not?
I understand the quest for a better steel, and more rugged materials, really I do. But the shaped and design of some of the modern knives leaves me totally bewildered. In everyday life, what does a tanto blade do that a spear, clip, drop or sheep foot blade will not? Let alone some of the stranger blade shapes I see on modern knives.
Being born in 1941, I never saw a lock blade knife until I was a teenager. Then it was the Italian style switchblades of the James Dean era. Not exactly a good role model in the view of my mentors of the time. I remember when Buck came out with the 110 and set the knife world on it's ear, and the black belt pouch became the uniform of the day no matter what you were dressed in. By then I'd already grown up using scout knives and slip joints in general, and couldn't see why a person would carry a big heavy knife with only a single blade. Growing up, if you needed a knife that wouldn't fold over on you, then you used a sheath knife. I guess I still have that attitude and have trouble seeing why do some people carry way they do.
So, enlighten me. Tell me what you do with your knives on a day to day basis.
Carl.