Gentleman's Folder

depending on your budget, william henry's are beautiful. about as gentlmanly as you get, also mcusta's, they're much less expensive. depends on what you're looking for specifically i guess
 
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Dnullify said:
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SanRenMu 710.

Great gentleman's folder at around $10 shipped.
Really well made, strong, and probably close to as sheeple friendly as you can get without wooden inlay/handles.
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I just bought one off Ebay, several for sale there at $8 or so.
 
DennisStrickland said:
frontline29 i was studying that very knife last week . thought it would be a great sunday knife.dennis
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This is my Sunday knife. Goes in my right front pocket when I go to church. It's a prototype called the Hybrid. Reese Weiland made it originally for Nate3993 but I traded him an IKBS DDR Gunhammer Tanto for it. Nate wanted a knife styled after the Emerson Horseman but broader. The knife is constructed much like a Strider... integral spacer on the non locking (CF) scale. Lock side is bead blast Ti. Blade is CPM3V @ 63 RC. It's my churching knife because while I'm in the house of God, I don't need a waved folder, and this is my only non-waved manual tactical folder I own. Reese is also a "lay" pastor. I will never part with this one... or any of my other Reese's Pieces.

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I dunno who actually makes them, but anything from AG Russel is always cool.
 
Fpooner said:
Hey CM do you own one of these? TI Frame Lock and 154cm for $70 sounds awesome. Do you know who makes these?
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It's a nice knife. The opening and closing on them isn't exactly silky smooth. At least not on the second I have. It's solid though. The lockup is early and there is zero play. I too wish it was tapped for tip up carry though.
 
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One of my all time fave gents folders is a model Dick Atkinson made back when he still made knives. For those of you not familiar with Dick he was a Guild member that actually made knives the working man could afford and they were quality done in most cases. He has since retired only doing 1911 grips now but back when these were available they were just over $100 for a classy little full blown custom in 440C done right! I've owned two (the blue sheepsfoot and Wharny ones ) for some time and made the one into a Wharncliffe shape giving it a better splinter picker point and a better edge and put a pocket clip on it for tip up carry removing the one for tip down that came on it from Dick (who always used Spyderco clips by the way)

The last two I found showed up at one of my favorite places to shop for customs now and then, Jay's knives. I got both of these for about $20 more than I saw these going for when Dick made them and I've seen others show up a time or two on other sites for $125 or so but they were sheepsfoot models which I already have. These knives have neat file work like all of Dick's knives did. Here you can see my Dick Atkinson collection. I have more of Dick's customs than any other makers. The bigger ones shown are my lock backs by Dick but the smaller four are the ones I'm talking about in the way of gents knives. I have one of every shape now. Clip point, Drop point, and Sheepsfoot. My Wharny which is equipped with some textured grip tape sees a lot of use. Its my 'PJ' knife for my after shower around the house pants. Its been to church a few times too though. ;) Truthfully I carry that little gem quite often with some pants. Certain of my pants have very small pockets and one thing I hate is when the knife has to be pulled out to get my keys.

These little gems each weighs between 1.2 and 1.4 ounces. They are sporting 2.5" blades and equipped with a full spine which the blade connects to when opened instead of a stop pin. They are small frame locks not liner locks and made out of .060 titanium. Length closed is 3 and 1/4" making them nothing less than a gents knife. One other little known feature incorporated by Dick in these models is this. There is no detent ball. Instead in the locks Dick used one of the small screws like those seen holding the body together. These are 080 screws with button heads. The head was rounded off some leaving the wrench fitting and Dick simply threaded the lock and screwed the button head down making that the detent ball to hold the blade tip down when closed. They work exceptionally well too! To my knowledge Dick is the only maker I've ever seen do that.

STR
 

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SteelSnob said:
Those are cool STR! I'm going to look in to one of those.
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Glad you like it. Here are two of my fave carry knives I consider Gents folders. My old stand by Buck 501 Esquire as it was called when this one was bought in earlier years. I lost my first two of these. That one shown is my third bought when I lived in Illinois so I can only say its probably a 70s or early 80s model with the micarta scales and script logo. I think it was one of the last knives I bought from J.C. Penny's there in Fairview Heights Il. before they stopped selling knives. I recall buying a whole display of Case knives that day also. That turned out to be a gold mine later I can tell you that. ;)

Anyway, funny I never put my finger on what I liked so much about the Atkinson until setting both of these knives shown beside each other. Then why I liked the Atkinson so much all came to me when I noted looking at it that Dick basically incorporated just as much cutting edge in his model as Buck did in a knife I carried for literally half my life! Of course most of that carry was back when I had not heard of or thought of a pocket clip and thumb stud option being added to the knife. I took care of that promptly once I learned though. :D

Thats a well used Buck right there let me tell ya! Great gents knives too to this day and still available for just a few dollars out of pocket. The older ones seem to be easier to open when you add a stud to one though compared to these new ones. Not sure what Buck is doing different but the new ones have more resistance to getting the blade moving from the closed position once you install a thumb stud. I have seen the same thing in the older 110s and 112s from Buck. My old 112 from the early 70s with no nail nick opens like it has always been a thumb stud equipped model. Go figure.

STR
 

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