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Does anybody not own a non-traditional folder?

Tried a few Kershaws to see what all the hub bub was about. Didn't work, back to traditionals and firmly stuck there. SJF
 
Only traditionals here. No knives or guns for that matter that wouldn't look at home in a western, or Bogart film noir P.I. flick.
 
I've never owned a modern folder and I don't plan on it. I have nothing against them, but I don't have a need that's not already being filled by a traditional.
 
I'm never without at least one traditional in my pocket, usually many more. Today for example I have a Case Redbone Peanut, a Case Swayback Jack in Chestnut bone, a GEC Congress Jack and a Case/Bose Sowbelly in Winterbottom bone scales and 2 modern folders.

The proportion in my accumulation seems to be about 7:1 so in shared to the OP, my answer is no, I think... :confused:
 
I'd say pretty much only traditnals for me. I don't currently own a frame or liner lock. I do have a Ka-Bar Dozier lock back sitting around somewhere, but not sure I'd really consider that a modern tactical. I used to be all about the tacticals and was really into customs for many years, but then lost interest. Traditionals have always had an appeal for me though and I still love them. Trads are a much better fit for my daily use and I just appreciate the craftsmanship and variety you can find in them.

Give me a 3.5" single blade slippie and I'm a happy guy.
 
I think i have two non-traditional folders. Never carry them and no interest in them really. Both were gifts in the past before I rediscovered these old classic slip-joints. I only carry traditionals now. Haven't missed the moderns at all.

I do have a basic Leatherman that I've carried on my belt for 20 yrs.
 
I wear a very thin modern knife clipped inside the waistband of my shorts when I ride my bicycle, otherwise my knives are appropriate to my age...traditional.

Ed
 
At work I can snap open a Lockback style knife with my right hand(sheath on right hip) but I need an assist for my left hand sooo AO in the LFP for me.
 
I've got a handful of modern folders but have stopped carrying them or buying new ones since I wandered over to this traditionals forum a couple of months ago. I just prefer the variety and character of trads.
Linus
 
I started with moderns but after getting my first traditional a couple years ago I very rarely ever carry a modern & have sold all but a few of the moderns I owned. A couple of them have sentimental value & the 3rd I just haven't gotten around to selling yet.
 
A little while ago I traded a stockman for a 'modern' folder with somebody at work, for the sole reason because I didn't own any modern knives! Even though I'm 20 years old, and interested in technology, and computers ect. It just never gets used. I seem to exclusively carry a 3 to 4 inch slippie.
 
I had three or four Benchmade knives, but I lost almost all my knives in a fire three years ago and just never bothered to replace anything that wasn't a slip joint.

James
 
I'm old enough that there were no tactical knives even I started carrying a knife, a modern knife was a brand new Case or Schrade Stockman or Trapper. The Buck 110, Schrade LB7 or a Kershaw Black Gulch were modern tacticals, they had locks. ;)
 
Well, my most recent 'modern' happens to BE a slipjoint, and looks for all the world black and tacti-cool. Its a Boker that opens with a thwack that would be the envy of most assisted openers. But takes a firm, committed effort to shut. There's only a couple of other OHO remaining in the mix, and by far have gone largely sak/trad.
 
Once I started to carry and use traditionals I gave away my moderns except one, the first I had bought. Kinda liked it but never carried it.

Lately I've had fingernail issues and bought a few budget moderns figuring on keeping one. So I had a few to try and it just reminded me how much I love traditionals.

At work in particular I can overlook much. It's a tool. So ease of opening was a plus which made up for many minuses.

It just kept coming back to me being more reticent to pull a modern out in public than a traditional. There were many things but that was the deal breaker. I'm a boy who likes to play with my toys.

So, anywho, gave moderns a try again and will carry to an extent but love traditionals.
 
I still have a few 'modern' folders tucked away in drawers. None of them is newer than 25 years old, and all were sent to me by the manufacturers. I reckon they'd also all be considered as 'classics' within their genre, and one or two even border on traditional (no clips or thumb studs). It's a good few years now since I carried anything other than traditional, and if I wasn't so utterly feckless I'd sell them! :D
 
I like...no, love...knives. All kinds. I'm 66 years old, grew up with traditional knives but fell in love with every single advance in knife design. I don't really distinguish between what's traditional and what's modern. They are all cutting machines and, if it appeals to me, it doesn't really matter if it's opened with a nail nick, thumb stud, flipper, blade hole or an automatic button. I remember when the Buck 110 was considered revolutionary and "modern". I loved it then and I love it now--now that it's considered as a "traditional". I was one of the first people around to buy a Spyderco Clipit when they were introduced in 1990. I love them still and I still carry one of the newer models most of the time. But I never lost my love of the traditional knife and I've recently rediscovered how useful a standard slipjoint can be. Not just useful but also aesthetically appealing to the eye and the hand. Virtually everything I need to do with a knife I can do with a traditional folding knife. But, in the end, they're all knives to me. I love them all and enjoy using them all to the exclusion of none.
 
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