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Do you own many single blade traditionals?

Been fooling with one blade, folders as of late. The Opinel of course, is of great interest to me, and very much so one of my favorites, I'm not a big knife guy, but have been carrying a 3138, CV/yellow delrin Sodbuster. It's too much knife for me, but I still can't keep it out of my pocket. Still I enjoy Jackknives, and Barlows owning several, and making a point to carry them often.
 
All of my modern edc clip knives only have one blade. Most of my traditionalist have more than one. I like the variety. Either more than one type of cutting blade or different things like a SAK. In traditional I still have usually two blades. But I usually carry 3 or 4 knives so at least one is a single blade. I just love knives.....
 
I found when I carried multi blade traditionals I always favored the main blade; I prefer single blades and their nice slim package.
 
I have a few Opinel, and my Svord peasant, but the only other one I have I really consider in the class is my GEC/Northfield Ben Hogan. It's a lovely blade, and just the right size for some tasks, but honestly, I usually feel like you do, and prefer two or more blades in my traditionals. Barlows, jacks, etc., I almost never get the single blade versions. Not sure why, but they just don't do it for me.
 
I have plenty of both, and don't have a strict preference. Most of my carry knives have only a single blade.
 
Single blade spear point is by far my fav. Though i do have a single blade #15 Boys Knife with a Sheepfoot and like it alot. Only 2 of my 6 traditional folders (all GEC) are 2-bladed. The others are singles.
 
I carry most often a stockman of different sizes, from 3 1/4" to 4" so the package can be quite small
I also like thin single spring knives like the Canoe, Muskrat or my Half Congress
Then two bladed Jacks or Barlows

I do carry a Canal Street Half Moon as it is so thin and so sharp, when I will go on a public picnic and need to cut bread
 
I have a few single blade Traditionals. But I mostly have multi-blade traditional knives. Part of the reason I prefer traditionals to moderns is the ability to carry a knife with different blade shapes to use for different chores.
 
It depends on my mood, one day I prefer singles, the Next maybe a multi, as long as its sharp I am happy :)
 
I tried carrying multi blade traditionals when I first started. I found myself exclusively using the main blade, so I started collecting single blades. I love that GEC offers so many single blade options. I do have plenty in the two blade configuration and a few whittlers and stockman knives.
 
I love knives in all forms just like coffee and tobacco and sometimes women, if the personality is there I am intrigued. Most the time I have one of three of my favorites, northwoods Indian river jack, gec trapper, or my tuna valley stockman. So I'm all over the map and I love it.
Kindly, Chance.
 
Not having additional blades in the grip makes a big difference to me. I prefer the feel of a single bladed knife. I always have my Classic on my keys, so that is my backup blade.

BTW, I believe the small SAK blade is for "erasing" handwriting mistakes, before pencils proliferated and all you had was pen and paper. Of course you had to have thick paper to scrape off the top layer, which is hard to do with today's paper.
 
This is a bit embarrassing, I didn't realise things had got this bad, I can find 62 multi-blade traditional folders and 52 singles. Think I've probably got a few more knocking around too.
 
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The slight majority of my traditionals are single blades of which quite a few are lock backs. But even the patterns I own that are available in 1 or 2 blade versions, I opted for the single blade version. I have also ordered 2 customs and they have both been single blades. I would say I am partial to single blades but still love a nice jack or other multi blade.
 
I was introduced to a stockman pattern at an early age...That was 50+ years ago. I seemed at the time that the stockman pattern was a dominate pattern.
Almost all my traditionals are multi blade patterns. I think that out 40+ folders (excluding folding hunters) only three are single blade knives. I really don't much difference between a one and a two blade folder when it is in my pocket.

Tom
 
I enjoy both, but I think that usually you'll find a single-blade in my pocket. That's not to say that I don't ever carry multi-bladed pocket knives (I've got a 3-bladed whittler in my pocket as I type this)... but when I look at my accumulation of knives and start naming my "favorites," the top of the list is populated mostly by single blades.
 
Jack Black said:
This is a bit embarrassing, I didn't realise things had got this bad, I can find 62 multi-blade traditional folders and 52 singles. Think I've probably got a few more knocking around too.
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Where do you live again? I might need to make a, ahem, surprise visit. ;)

I carry mostly single blades, but then again, sometimes double, but then again they are mostly jack knives with a large and a pen blade. I hardly ever use the secondary. Then again, I love stockman patterns. I only have one, a small case from the 70s, and I never carry it because it is too sentimental, but I think an equal end cattleman in 3 1/2" ish size is about the perfect knife. Then again, I've been watching "The Real West" on the History Channel this morning, so that may be playing into it also. Who knows. I like knives. I like making them especially, but I have no plans to try a multi blade again anytime soon, so I guess I'll be carrying single blades for the foreseeable future.

Whew. Long pot full of run on sentences. It's been a weird morning over here.
 
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