Advice needed.

Which one would You choose?

  • Douk Douk

    Votes: 11 73.3%

  • Böker Atlas

    Votes: 4 26.7%
  • Total voters
    15
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CityFinn

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Recently I saw two knives that are very similar in concept. A Douk Douk Petit and Böker Atlas.
I like small and simple but also sturdy and tough slipjoints.
Can anyone tell me about yours exp. and knowledge to help me decide between them?
I know history and steel type for both of them so I would like to ask about your opinions on usage and feelings as an edc knife.
 
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Douk Douk is running older carbon steel which is perfectly fine and will patina nicely. The Boker Atlas knives run stainless and now D2 or 12c27 which are both vastly superior to the carbon steel that Douk Douk uses.

It really just comes down to preference though, Boker makes great slipjoints and Douk Douk is a great value brand.

Personally I'd go with the Boker.
 
The Douk Douk is a piece of history, the Boker is not. Douk Douks are very reliable and easy to keep razor sharp. I've had a full size one for 10 years and enjoy it, a real slim jim. I wouldn't buy a Chinese Boker w/o seeing it first, I had one, different model, that was poorly made.
 
The thing is that Douk Douk is more expensive and I'm not sure is the difference in prices would be also visible in quality. Sure Böker Plus is made in China, but...
 
CityFinn said:
The thing is that Douk Douk is more expensive and I'm not sure is the difference in prices would be also visible in quality. Sure Böker Plus is made in China, but...
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How much more expensive are we talking? I see you're in Poland, so our prices mean little, but from what I was just able to find the douk douk goes for about the same, or a little less than the boker. They're both gonna cut stuff.

Me personally, even if it was twice as much I'd rather spend my money with the French...
 
I'm sure the boker is a fine knife. That being said, at least in my opinion, the douk douk is a total that greatly exceeds the sum of it's parts. There's a reason the Cognet family is still making them nearly 100 years after it's inception. Much like Michaelangelo carving a statue, everything that isn't the knife is gone.

That's gotta be worth a few more shekels in the grand scheme of things maybe?
 
I missed this thread first time around. I’ve sung the praises of Douk-Douk for years. I’ve carried and used them. I’ve torture tested them. They’re everything I like. Indestructible, minimalist, inexpensive, historical, all metal, easy to maintain. I just saw a post about the Boker Atlas backlock and was intrigued and there is now one on the way. So my vote like a true politician and knife knut, I got both!
 
As I don't want to post a new thread I will ask here.
Can somebody put a picture of a Sodbuster jr next to Trapper (one blade only)? I have a choice between those two (from Zippo which is, as I pressume, a Case rebranded) but don't know about real sizes.
Thank You.
 
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As I don't want to post a new thread I will ask here.
Can somebody put a picture of a Sodbuster jr next to Trapper (one blade only)? I have a choice between those two (from Zippo which is, as I pressume, a Case rebranded) but don't know about real sizes.
Thank You.
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A regular single blade 54 pattern or the slimline trapper ?
 
I know it is single blade only, I dont think a slimelime but I'm not sure.
It is called a drop-point, but for me it's typical.
It is a problem with size of them.
As I understand Soddie is similar to sak in lenght with a lightly broader blade.
Trapper is full sized (something about the Böker Urban Trapper which I very like) but with slimmer blade.
I have a medium synthetic stockman and mini trapper (case in both) as I like them their blades are very slim and a bit short for me now as I went from downsizing to "normal".
So my most edc knife was Böker UT but I need something more classic and "vintage" and I moved to my stockman and mini trapper, but suddenly I see more cons then pros of such a narrow blade shape.
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With respect, the problem here is that you are considering two very different patterns that have few similarities.

The one you show does not have a Drop-Point it's a slim Clip to my eye. I don't have any info on Zippo versions nor do I have side by side pics but I do have these and hope they may help. I think most single-blade Trappers are in the Slimline form, thus it's a long slim swoopy knife about 4.25"/ 11cm similar in some ways to a French Laguiole type or Toothpick. The blade is narrow and long.

Whereas, a Sodbuster knife is a work-knife and has thicker rounded handle slabs, is shorter in length -very much broader in blade which is Drop-Point or Skinner type. I have pics of GEC 48 Trapper type & CASE Slimline and GEC Bullnose and CASE Jr Sodbuster. Hope they give you and idea of the profound difference between the two patterns.

Thanks, Will

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