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G'day all,
About 3 weeks ago, I had posted a thread elsewhere asking about the existance of a congress without a sheepsfoot or wharncliffe blade on it. I had been carrying my 3-7/8" Colt congress for some time, and fallen in love with the pattern-- It appears that my distaste for multi-blade knives was in fact a distaste for certain patterns like the stockman or whittlers i had tried. The congress is great, especially this one with one of the large blades being a spear-point, the two small being spear/pen shaped-- I have delegated certain tasks to each type. The reverse curve just handles sooo nice.
As an side note to the topic at hand; This particular knife with all long pulls and swedges that make all the blades nest together nicely, makes it thinner than other multi blade knives too, adding to my preference for it.
Now, at that time, I was only disliking it for its inclusion of a sheepsfoot blade. A style along with wharnies that I have always found utterly useless and a real bear to use for anything outside of whittling, and even then preferring the blunter copping blade shape.
At the time, between myself and several others, we didn't come up with any congress that fit the preference of no sheepsfoot, let alone in my desired size range, and preferring to keep the spear-point too..
Fast forward 3 weeks till now;
The last couple weeks EDCing this knife, I have used the sheepsfoot almost exclusively.
And not consciously either.
Lots of opening packages and cutting boxes/tape are the only tasks I can really remember but I'm sure there was other types of cutting/work. Don't know how it started, but it did, and I realized today that I was using that blade, and had been quite a lot...
Every time prior when I tried to use the style, and for the same tasks, it didn't agree with me. And I had really tried a lot, for extended time frames, when carrying single blade knives that were wharnie or sheepsfoot bladed.
*shrug*
apparently I can use and like using the style.
So, now this congress is about 99% perfect for me, I have a use for everyblade, and every blade gets used- something I've never been able to say about carrying anything with more than two blades.
Funny how stuff works out, and how our preferences change, ain't it?
This happened to anyone else, suddenly find yourself liking and using a style you previously hated? either blade shape or knife pattern?
G.
About 3 weeks ago, I had posted a thread elsewhere asking about the existance of a congress without a sheepsfoot or wharncliffe blade on it. I had been carrying my 3-7/8" Colt congress for some time, and fallen in love with the pattern-- It appears that my distaste for multi-blade knives was in fact a distaste for certain patterns like the stockman or whittlers i had tried. The congress is great, especially this one with one of the large blades being a spear-point, the two small being spear/pen shaped-- I have delegated certain tasks to each type. The reverse curve just handles sooo nice.
As an side note to the topic at hand; This particular knife with all long pulls and swedges that make all the blades nest together nicely, makes it thinner than other multi blade knives too, adding to my preference for it.
Now, at that time, I was only disliking it for its inclusion of a sheepsfoot blade. A style along with wharnies that I have always found utterly useless and a real bear to use for anything outside of whittling, and even then preferring the blunter copping blade shape.
At the time, between myself and several others, we didn't come up with any congress that fit the preference of no sheepsfoot, let alone in my desired size range, and preferring to keep the spear-point too..
Fast forward 3 weeks till now;
The last couple weeks EDCing this knife, I have used the sheepsfoot almost exclusively.
And not consciously either.Lots of opening packages and cutting boxes/tape are the only tasks I can really remember but I'm sure there was other types of cutting/work. Don't know how it started, but it did, and I realized today that I was using that blade, and had been quite a lot...
Every time prior when I tried to use the style, and for the same tasks, it didn't agree with me. And I had really tried a lot, for extended time frames, when carrying single blade knives that were wharnie or sheepsfoot bladed.
*shrug*
apparently I can use and like using the style.
So, now this congress is about 99% perfect for me, I have a use for everyblade, and every blade gets used- something I've never been able to say about carrying anything with more than two blades.
Funny how stuff works out, and how our preferences change, ain't it?
This happened to anyone else, suddenly find yourself liking and using a style you previously hated? either blade shape or knife pattern?
G.
