Favorite: Stockman or Friction Folder (includes Opinel) [bracket]

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I've got to go with the Opinel in this round, even though one of my first few knives was a Stockman. I probably own more Stockman pattern knives than Friction as well, but the ones that I currently use every day are my Opies...
The top three knives pictured reside in my kitchen knife drawer...at least one of them gets used every meal that I prepare. The bottom one gets pocket rides, and the "fish tail" is my primary fruit knife...it just sits on the table in the TV room waiting for its daily apple or pear.
 
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I'm gonna have to go with the friction folder. It's such a simple thing and yet the variety of designs is astounding.
 
Well, this is shaping up to be a good solid thrashing.

Current tally

12: Stockman
5: Friction folding peasants knife (includes the Opinel)
 
Another vote for the stockman-- three blades, all of which feel good in use (Case medium stockman, serpentine frame), hard use-able with style. I like Opinels very much, but if given a choice between one blade or three different kinds in one happy package? Stockman.

(Pinnah, have any of the knives you've personally voted for won, yet!? ;))

~ P.
 
P, the Opinel made it through the first round!

I'm used to being out of step with others though. It's all good.
 
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Stockman for me. Partly prejudice, because I've thought that it was THE pocketknife since I was a kid, but partly the choice of edges and the smaller handle than the only friction folder I'm familiar with, which is the Opinel.

The big Op. was my outdoor dining knife many years ago when I did more of that. I must have kept it in my briefcase/backpack. The one with the tapered handle is in my pocket now as an experiment. It's a lot of blade for the handle and it's very light.
But if I had to have one or the other pattern exclusively, it's still the stockman.
 
This probably would have been a difficult decision for me before I got this knife:

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The Craftsman small stockman has completely changed my view on the pattern. Guess I'm in with the majority on this one.
 
Stockman for me. It's an all around knife for me. Part of it could be it's just what I recognize first when talking about a traditional pattern.
 
Well, this is a tough choice.
On quarter-final I voted for peasant knife but... In this case I have to make a differentiation between uses, for field uses which means cutting a lot of wood and using the knife for longer periods of time I'll stick with opi's and similar because I find stockmen, specially bigger ones, uncomfortable when using the main clip 'cause the sheepsfoot hurts my fingers.
On the other hand, for city stuff stockmen are perfect, you have the main for food, the sheepsfoot for various tasks and even a spare one which you can keep razor sharp or maybe as a scraper keeping it dull.
In the end as I live on a town(not by preference but... ;)) I'll vote for stockman, more usefull at this time and nicer too
See you folks
Mateo
 
My mind changes with the direction of the wind. I suspect, as with many of you, my fancy can turn on a dime. One moment I am enamored with the lightweight of the Opinel and its friction simplicity. The next, I am enthralled with the multiplicity of blades of the Stockman. Oh, the multiple "I"s within. Does one really have any unity. Is the "state" dependent on the object or the object on the "state". I wonder, but I guess that is the necessity of contemplation and non-attachment. Riding the crest of the wave of Reality. Neither one milli-second behind the crests ( or its my past habits that drive me) or one millisecond before ( and it my future preferences that drive me). I or "I' want to work towards true activation of Presence,but then I am of no help here.

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Genonvich, best post of the entire series. Role and object constancy as it relates to categorization is a topic of professional interest to me, as it turns out. Zen and the Art of Knife Sharpening, perhaps?

In any event, it appears that most people are enacting the role of their inner cowboy.

Current tally by my haphazard count:
19: Stockman
7: Friction folding peasants knife (includes the Opinel)
 
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