Gone the way of the slipjoint?

I re-discovered slip joints when I ordered a Canal Street, swell center jack in white Camel bone. A slip joint is now the only knife I carry and I don't miss the larger folders at all. I wish that I had made the transition to slip joints about $6000 ago. :(
 
umustbready said:
Am I weird?
Anyone else make this transition?
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Naw, just everybody. ;)

Seriously, you're not a Stepford wife or anything here. You haven't "changed". You've just learned that slipjoints are great.

Now for the next step, get a tiny, great looking slipjoint and keep it in your watch pocket (or where ever). Next time you are in a place where you would NEVER have taken out your liner lock, doctor's waiting room, wherever, take it out and clean your nails. Drop the dang thing "by accident". See, it's your destiny, you will be assimilated.
 
yablanowitz said:
I'd call that process "growing up". Congratulations.
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Probably I grown down :), I used to carry SAK for many years, but EDC mostly Spyderco for last six years. No plans to carry slip joint, unless I go to NYC. Still love and prefer natural materials for scales.
 
I used to own and carry large "tactical" folders. Benchmade 710, CK&T Brend D/A auto, Microtech SOCOM D/A and LCC autos, Severtech auto, etc. I realized I didn't need a knife that big, and my two favorite EDC knives became a Benchmade 940D2CF and a Spyderco Caly 3 CF/ZDP. Now, those just sit around collecting dust, and the knife I reach for to do daily tasks is whatever 2-4 blade slipjoint I fancy carrying that particular day.
 
I gotta say, I EDC my BM53 balisong too. Tell me that the balisong is not a traditional folder. I consider it to be one. Mine's for EDC, not dancing.
 
Not weird at all, I'd say like many others you just found a new way of spending tons of hard earned money.
I always carry both, mostly a Sebenza in combination with a traditional. The slip joints get used the most, but I still like having a larger blade for bigger tasks like cutting down branches. Yes, it often would be possible to do it with the slipjoint, but not as easy and comfortable.

And it is so much more fun to collect them, way more available handle materials, shapes and blade configurations. Modern stuff will seem utterly boring after a while, you'll see. Get out while you still can :D
 
There's certainly a lot you can do with a good slipjoint knife. I ALWAYS have my SAK on me, and I probably could do 75% of all my daily cutting tasks with it.
The one-hand-opening is mostly useful in work situations, when you're standing on a ladder holding something in your left that you need to cut for example.
Thats where a pocket-clip and a thumbstud are really useful.
 
Strange to me that some think that carrying a slip joint knife is a rite of passage into maturity. I started carrying one when it was gifted to me at 6 years old, over fifty years ago. Couldn't comment on my level of maturity then as I cut the daylights out of myself a few times as a kid...

I don't see how anyone can go through the day without a folder in their pocket. It is far more useful than my large work knives for everyday tasks and in the case of my larger slip joints like a large stockman or large copperhead, they will hold their own or best most of the large clip on knives.

Since the recent economic unpleasantness has changed my business model and I am now once again a hands on contractor, I added a large clip on work knife to the smaller traditional knife I always carry. An easy to deploy knife that you can use for every dirty task you can think of that spares your nice traditional is a must. At work, I always carry two knives, and traditional and a clip on.

I will be glad when things pick up and I am running the company without doing all the manual labor. The large clip knives will go in the drawer and will be buffed up and given to my nephew when his Dad decides he is ready. When I am not out in the field, on site, I have rarely found a task a medium slipjoint won't handle. I will be happy rotating through the box of them that I have collected over the years.

Robert
 
the toughest part of this "transition" is when you realize you dont have much for selection and you have to hit the bank account pretty hard to pick up a few nice slip joints.
im currently dealing with this as well, and ive let a few of my surplus "one hand openers" go to fund some recent purchases. i will admit, when i open up my felt lined box to admire my modest collection of traditionals ive recently aquired, it puts a big ol smile on my face.
 
noway said:
Haven't got one yet and being a nailbiter reduces my options. Nail nick NFG.
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im a nail biter as well....so i picked up a Case easy open tool for my keychain, and ive been buying pre 70 easy open knives on the bay
 
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