Do you use your pen blades?

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silenthunterstudios

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After picking up a few slipjoints last month in a trade at a gun show, one of the dealers at the show remarked that no one ever uses the pen blade on old knives. I smiled and nodded, but begged to differ in regards to my old Remington barlow, the pen blade was a little nubbin when I bought it. I use the pen blades on my knives, more out of OCD than anything else. Who uses their pen blades?
 
I usually use my pen blades for tape. Such as opening boxes or other things I might get the blade gunked up on. That way I don't have to worry about cleaning my main blade.
 
If you're talking about knives in the 3.5" and bigger range (not talking about my peanut here), I tend to use the pen blade the most.

-- Mark
 
I guess I tend to use the smallest blade that will get the job done, so, yeah, I use the pen blades on my knives quite a bit.
 
I always use my pen blade first. It's thinner, so it cuts cardboard, blister package easier. Most jobs you're just using the blade tip anyway. Shorter blade is easier to control.
 
I use my pen blades probably as much as any others. I also have a preference for them to be very pointed. Enough for digging out splinters which I seem to get frequently:grumpy: Ken Erickson's for example is perfect:

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I like pen blades, on my peanut I use it when whittling, opening things, trimming fishing line and save the clip for food or gutting fish. I find it to be a good all purpose blade, strong point and some belly, I find on Jacks I use it more than the main blade.

Pete
 
I probably use my pen blades more than any other design, it's a good everyday design, and being smaller tends me more discreet when I'm doing things like walking down the street opening my mail :)
 
I tend to keep my pen blades sharper than any other blade. I use them a lot especially for the minor surgeries that I tend to do on myself digging out splinters and other things.
 
I use the pen all the time. In fact I think its one of the only blades that doesnt scare the snot out of my boss or offend most people. I also use it for whittling and its also great for self surgeries.
 
I use the heck out of mine, when I carry one with a secondary pen. It tends to be my work/utility blade. I use it so that I can keep a good sharp edge on my main blade when I really need it... or so that I don't have to get the main blade dirty. I would actually venture to say that it gets used quite a bit more than the main blade. Also good for indiscreetly cleaning your nails... or diggin out splinters, as someone already mentioned.

-Gabe
 
I use the pen blade maybe more than the main blade. for opening boxes, the pen seems to do better piecing and slicing open the top of a cardboard box. Opening mail, and those accursed plastic blister packages, the shorter pen blade gives me more control in the cuts.

Carl.
 
I typically follow the instructions I've given to my sons on knives. Use the smallest blade that'll get the job done safely. I use pen and sheepsfoot blades more than large clips/wharnies.
 
Pen is almost always the first blade I reach for, unless I am carrying a stockman, then it is the sheepsfoot.
 
Almost never, but that's because I prefer single blade knives. I do however when I have a double bladed knife.
 
I rarely use mine, I don't really have any knives with a really good pen blade, when I was whittling I used them quite often, but they are harder for me to open and therefore do not see as much use.
 
Yes and no. I try to keep the pen blade on any knife I carry extremely sharp. For those times when you need something that's sharper than sharp. Scalpel sharp, if you know what I'm getting at. So even if it's not a blade I use that often, it's one I like to have, just in case.
 
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