Difficultly liking trappers

Morrow

Morrow

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I just can't like this pattern no matter how hard I want to. I'm referring to the most common configuration with a clip and spey blade. It's the spey blade that turns me off....I just don't like it. I can't really explain why...I just don't. Why do I like redheads more than blondes? I don't know...I just don't.

I've seen several custom trappers with a clip and wharncliff that were near perfect knives in my eyes.

Does anyone else feel this way?
 
I feel the same way. I always have trouble with stockmans for the same reason. A blade without a point is almost like a blade without an edge.
 
While the trapper is not my favorite pattern, I can't ignore that the long spey makes a dandy peanut butter spreader!

Not too shaby with cream cheese on a bagel either.:D
 
If you skin a lot of critters and you learn to use that spey blade, it's great. For everyday use, I like a knife that has blades of different lengths, and for most tasks, the shorter blades are better. But for skinning a deer or a coon, say, that long spey is nice.

Somewhere in the world, there is a knifemaker who is going to someday have the brilliant idea of making a trapper that has the classic trapper frame, shortened to about 3 7/8" long closed, will include a turkish clip main blade and a wharncliffe about half to 3/4 the length of the clip. When that happens, I'm going to buy one!

Oh yeah - the handle will be Sambar stag too. And carbon steel blades. But my luck it will be somebody like Bose, it will be immaculate and perfect and beautiful and I will never get to have one cause they can't be bought, etc..:grumpy:
 
These are all good reason's why you need a warncliffe trapper!
-Vince
 
The trapper and saddlehorns are my favorites, but I have an irritation with stockmans and some sowbellies. I can't stand to feel the one blade that always sticks out a little further in the closed position. Screws up my grip.
 
VCM3 said:
These are all good reason's why you need a warncliffe trapper!
-Vince
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I know you have some......put up the pics. :)

I've never seen a production warncliffe trapper.......only customs. Am I missing something?
 
Here's one ,
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Here's another
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The spey blade drives me bonkers. I have just 1 trapper and just don't get it. It's probably me. I don't know
 
I like the large spey blades on some trappers and saddlehorns.

Those that dislike them should mail them to me for proper disposal.
 
Imagine this,a trapper with a clip & a second blade like this :
DSCF3855.jpg

That blade would be kinda like a variant,or a compromise,to a spey,IMO
-Vince
 
morrowj,You should try a Queen dog leg jack.It is the size of a mini trapper,with a clip main blade & a pen for the smaller.It is quite a nice pattern
-Vince
 
As much as I disliked trappers and stockmans because of the spey blade, I instantly fell in love with the pattern when I saw it with a wharncliffe. I recall Tony Bose saying that he put a wharncliffe in because didnt have any use for a spey in everyday use. Hard to beat a wharncliffe trapper IMO.
 
VCM3 said:
Imagine this,a trapper with a clip & a second blade like this :
DSCF3855.jpg

That blade would be kinda like a variant,or a compromise,to a spey,IMO
-Vince
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Vince- That is a sweet knife, I'm diggin' mine:D.......now imagine if that pen blade was a wharnie.......



Zip7...I have that knife on order, you have good taste!:thumbup:
 
I like spey blades for applications where you need to cut, but don't want a point to dig into the material underneath. When I worked in the warehouses off Bayshore Ave. in San Francisco 12 years ago, all the warehouse folks had either folders, or small fixed blades, with either spey or coping type blades. That was the last time & place I saw a spey type blade in use.

I do see the issue here, though. If there isn't much use for that type of blade now, I'd think the mfr's. would alter the pattern with a more useful blade type, like the Wharncliff. Love the photos of those here.

thx - cpr
 
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