Do you have more modern knives than traditional?

Mine would be about 50/50 or there abouts as I started with traditional knives and then when Spyderco came along I stayed
broke there for awhile and buying everything they had but then I went through the Custom stage and really knew what broke was and now I just buy whatever I like and at the time it is Spydies and GEC ~~ and a Custom here and there ~~ect.****
 
I'm without a doubt a modern folder guy, I have a few traditionals but modern knives outnumber them atleast 10:1.
 
I'm another modernist, I guess. Though I do carry a traditional slipjoint in my pocket for those occasions when I need to cut something, have all day to do it, don't need either hand to hold what I'm about to cut, and don't want to potentially terrify any vagrant civilians who might happen by during the process. I've not used it yet. But, I'm ready!

For all other occasions, I use a one-hand opening modern folder of one sort or another. Today, I'm carrying the ZT0600.
 
I have 17 traditionals, and 11 moderns. Next week it will be 19 traditionals and 12 moderns.
 
For me traditionals out number my modern folders by about 5 to 1. Keep this in mind though, I am over 50 so the bulk of my collecting occurred during a time when the modern folder was just beginning to really evolve.

Another reason is because of my location I've been lucky enough to find a couple of hundred traditional knives in flea markets estate sales and yard sales.
 
Traditional 8:0, they do all cutting jobs as effectively as any modern and I can use them in public without scaring people. Just because you can flick the knife open doesn't make it superior. I bet most non knife people (the majority of people in the world) prefer that you use knifes that don't open in a blink of an eye as it can be pretty intimidating in a public scenario. That being said I have nothing against modern knives. To each their own, it's like comparing apples and oranges.
 
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... I bet most non knife people (the majority of people in the world) prefer that you use knifes that don't open in a blink of an eye as it can be pretty intimidating in a public scenario.
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I think your wrong about the "...most non knife people" comment.

I'd be willing to bet that there are more people using knives as a daily part of their lives than not. In most third world countries knives are the most basic tool you can have and everyone carries one.

It's the civilized nations where carrying knife becomes an issue, it's countries like the the UK and US where most things are prepared and processed by someone somewhere else and its the big cities where the issue of carrying a knife become even more absurd.

Honestly, I believe that the farther you have to go to get your beer and cigarettes, the less likely you'll be bothered by laws made by paranoid politicians, if you can walk down your stairs into a bodega and get most "anything" you need or can get 10 different types of cuisine within 2 blocks of your front door, you'll probably get arrested for even having a "scary" knife in your own home.
 
Not sure if my Mora is traditional or not since it's one of the rubber handled ones, but the only knife I own that I truly consider traditional is my grandfather's fillet knife, and I have lots of modern folders, so there you are, I guess.
 
I have a couple of each. Not much use for modern G10 locking options in the office, and to be honest a small fixed blade is a better option hiking, backpacking, etc.

a sak or traditional, or al mar haek gents knife gets 99.9% of my pocket time. this kind puts me on the fence I guess, but I am not in the frame lock, liner lock camp. They work, and are convenient, but less convenient than a FB when strenght is a concern, and less friendly overall when pullin gone out in front of sheeple. I am more of gents knife guy in general, so i appreciate a wide array. To be honest a sak alox gets 80% of my 99%. They just work, and I enjoy having some simple tools on me all the time. I suppose any scout pattern serves that need.
 
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I have more modern by far, even if you count things like SAKs, Douk Douks, and Higo No Kamis as traditionals.

And I don't care if my modern knife intimidates people, though frankly, even living in a big city, nobody seems to care what I carry, they've sure as hell never acted like they were intimidated by my knives, even when I carried something like a Cold Steel Spartan or Ti-Lite(okay, one person seemed kinda shocked at first by the wave opening of the Spartan, but immediately afterwards they wanted to see it cause it was "badass"). I've gotten asked a couple times if my assisted openers were switchblades(along with a "hey man better not let the cops see that") but once I explained the difference they were like "Oh okay, cool", and that was the end of it. Other people have said things like "Hey nice knife" or "Oh cool knife, what kind is it?", or just went about their business. I guess Texans just don't get intimidated by knives.
 
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T. Erdelyi said:
I think your wrong about the "...most non knife people" comment.

I'd be willing to bet that there are more people using knives as a daily part of their lives than not. In most third world countries knives are the most basic tool you can have and everyone carries one.

It's the civilized nations where carrying knife becomes an issue, it's countries like the the UK and US where most things are prepared and processed by someone somewhere else and its the big cities where the issue of carrying a knife become even more absurd.

Honestly, I believe that the farther you have to go to get your beer and cigarettes, the less likely you'll be bothered by laws made by paranoid politicians, if you can walk down your stairs into a bodega and get most "anything" you need or can get 10 different types of cuisine within 2 blocks of your front door, you'll probably get arrested for even having a "scary" knife in your own home.
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Traditionals 20:1 With all due respect I live in Brooklyn and have a scary looking face and have no trouble carrying way more knives than I need around the city. None of them are over 4 inches but neither are my pants pockets so no problem there. My friends a public defender though and she says the cops are constantly busting people for carrying legal knives. The charges get thrown out but it's still a pain in the butt. But she says that's more a case of profiling. But I agree it doesn't seem like knives are used in that many violent crimes these days.
 
More traditionals. All my moderns, save one, were gifts from people who had no idea what I want in a knife. That one modern I once carried and beat the crap out of for a couple of years. It did not age well. The others I haven't carried.
 
All traditional here. I sold off my modern ones.
Now I'm starting to sell of my new traditional knives in favor of my older traditional knives.
The old knives are best.
 
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