Have your opinions and preferences ever changed unexpectedly?

Hickory n steel

Hickory n steel

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Yesterday that big retailer in the mountains hooked me with an email and I wound up ordering a Case Barlow, then today out of the blue I remembered that there was something I hated about Case's Barlow before.
I couldn't recall what I disliked, but remembered that I definitely disliked it before.
I went back and looked through the thread that was started when they reintroduced them, and I just do not see what I saw in them before.
Apparently I didn't like the shape of the blade, and I hated the overall proportions of the frame.
Yesterday the knife I saw in that email looked great to me and the blade in particular really appealed to me, the other examples in that thread look just fine to me as well.

Compared to a GEC Barlow sure I can maybe see what I was thinking before, but compared to the ubiquitous Imperial Barlow the Colonial Ranger Barlow and to the Schrade 506 I now have thanks to Old Hunter the Case Barlow look perfectly normal.
Then comparing it to the B&S Barlow or RR Barlow well those abominations ( the large B&S looks fine ) make the Case look like a GEC.
I don't think I've had this happen before where I really couldn't stand a particular knife then my opinion somehow changed enough that I completely forgot about my distain for it and just didn't remotely see what I saw in the knife before.


I won't know till I get the knife whether I actually like it, but
 
Yup the muskrat pattern even after spending alot of time skinning pelts,for whatever reason 2 blades the same made me not look twice ,but i recently bought the 81 muskrat (my son's nickname, at birth a trapper in Northern hospital said in cree that my son had muskrat eyes)because I had zero yellow boned knives,now I truly find the 2 Turkish clips a great pattern and have searched for others.
 
Oldy said:
Yup the muskrat pattern even after spending alot of time skinning pelts,for whatever reason 2 blades the same made me not look twice ,but i recently bought the 81 muskrat (my son's nickname, at birth a trapper in Northern hospital said in cree that my son had muskrat eyes)because I had zero yellow boned knives,now I truly find the 2 Turkish clips a great pattern and have searched for others.
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I still don't like having 2 blades of the same length on a knife let alone 2 that are the exact same , and don't expect that I ever will.
The trapper, 2 blade folding hunter, and the moose are three very classic patterns that will always be cool and visually appealing but just aren't for me.
 
Yes! In the beginning all I knew was the stockman pattern. I though that WAS the pocket knife. Later I discovered the Wharncliffe blade and started collecting swayback gents and swayback jacks. First time I saw a muskrat I thought it was a silly concept. It was a strawberry bone Rough Rider at the local knife shop. But for some reason, ever time I went into the shop I was strangely attracted to it, and would go look at it. Finally I bought it, just to satisfy my curiosity. Not sure what was next, maybe my yellow Delrin CV muskrat. It was just so slim and smooth, and I wanted the CV steel, which has since taken on such a nice patina. Then there was the pocket worn whiskey bone CV muskrat, a perfect companion to my pocket worn whiskey bone CV tribal lock. Then a couple more in SS with interesting bone covers. And a Shatt and Morgan Hawbaker muskrat in fire oak bone. If I find another interesting one I imagine I'll buy it. And now I'm kind of bored with stockmans -- who needs all those blades, anyway? 😁 (And it looks like today's carry is a Buck 112 at home and a Schrade (USA) LB5 while out and about.)
 
Yes, too..! Back in around 2010/2011, distinctly recall turning down offers to buy Lannys Clip folders - I mean, good grief, they were just plain ugly.

What was I thinking..? Must've been male menopause 😵‍💫 Anyway, now have a half decent collection.

The fondness for multi-blade knives has grown, some years ago wouldn't touch 'em.

Guess it's a lot to do with familiarisation..........but I do know for sure, I've far more knives than I ever expected to own. And that's a big club to belong to...
 
Chui said:
Guess it's a lot to do with familiarisation..........but I do know for sure
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I remember a time when the Buck 110 was the only clip point I liked when it came to folders.
This came from my main experience with clip bladed slip joints being a couple of frost cutlery knives my dad had bought me as a kid which really made an impression.
The blades were oddly shaped like a kid had drawn a picture of their dads pocket knife from memory, and that's what I pictured in my mind for slipjoint clip blades.

After getting into traditional folders and hanging around here enough my eyes were opened, now most of my knives are slipjoints with clip point main blades.
 
Unexpectedly? sure, those recent 39s in two blade really got my attention. interestingly i usually dont chase two bladed knives, and if i do i buy two so i can delete one and keep the other stock. Single blade clip and end cap is usually my mantra. Its the reason why my collection tends to be fairly repetitive, but I love em all each and every piece in there, even the repeats. Case wise, i learned long ago that they will never fix their blade to handle ratio so i never bought another one and will most likely never consider them seriously. They seem to have more of a mcds approach, more knives solds!
 
Sure. I never gave Case knives any thought, but I've thought of them two or three times this year.
 
dsutton24 said:
No, that will require more thought.
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This will br my 1st Case purchase in over a year, because I don't like their polished SS blades and they do very little CS or ground finish SS at all let alone in the patterns and cover options I like.
I'm a fan of Case but it seems I'm just not the type of customer they tend to target most these days.
 
Hickory n steel said:
This will br my 1st Case purchase in over a year, because I don't like their polished SS blades and they do very little CS or ground finish SS at all let alone in the patterns and cover options I like.
I'm a fan of Case but it seems I'm just not the type of customer they tend to target most these days.
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I'm just being a goofball. I carried a Case Muskrat for a couple of years, but I'm more of a honkin' big Stockman guy. I do own a few Case knives, but they represent 1.5% of my collection.

How do I know it's 1.5%? I'm a goofball.
 
One morning, a few years back, I woke up and realized that the douk-douk's scimitar blade (previously thought of as ridiculous looking) didn't bother me anymore, so I bought one. I still like it!

That said, in general, clip points with no swedge kinda upset me a little. It's partially the aesthetics, partially the missed opportunity. 🤷
 
its a very generic swedge ill admit. im currently compiling various swedge options before i grind down that spey on the 39, so happy to see more
 
mrknife said:
its a very generic swedge ill admit. im currently compiling various swedge options before i grind down that spey on the 39, so happy to see more
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I just don't like how it starts with a very crisp square plunge line instead of following through the clip and tapering off, I dislike it on pretty much every blade shape except when done just right on a sheeps foot.
 
Have my opinions and preferences ever changed unexpectedly?

Yes, when I started to like traditional knives. Just a few years ago, I thought they were old fashioned, impractical and boring. Now, they are my favorite and I'm saddened I missed out on using them for so long.
 
I am like Bloodloss Bloodloss , until around 2016/17 I thought slip joints were for nostalgic old timers, and it seemed like a waste of money to buy a folding knife that had no locking mechanism. Then I bought a GEC 78 as a gift and discovered the beauty, wisdom and utility of the slip joint.
 
Hickory n steel said:
I just don't like how it starts with a very crisp square plunge line instead of following through the clip and tapering off, I dislike it on pretty much every blade shape except when done just right on a sheeps foot.
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its likely cost, existing dies and things like that that play a factor in why some companies just have the same swedge for many of the models. for example look at the company who purchased all the old queen equipment. Quite a bunch of those runs had passed through my hands if you look at the old threads. theyre probably gonna use those dies until they fall apart because that spear design and their long pull has not changed in anyway. I want to say queen/schatt and morgan were probably circling the drain by the late 2000s especially after Bill left. At some point they were just putting things together out of whatever parts they had left in storage
 
When I was first getting into the traditional arena, I did not care for 3-blade stockman patterns. I don't know why per se, I think they just looked kind of crowded and jumbled with the blade spines all sitting at different heights and what would you possibly want all of those different shapes for anyway?

Of course, after I tried one, it became one of my favorite patterns and I have pretty much every size and blade variant there are for them.

Swiss Army knives were another one of those things that I had owned once as a kid but really did not have a great fondness for - I never need a corkscrew on a pocket knife, nor do I open cans that way, and the red plastic handles I remember (from childhood) seeming kind of cheap feeling.

However the textured alox handles opened up a new appreciation for them, and I even have a couple of the red-handled versions that I don't hate. An alox SAK is an indispensible part of my daily kit now and I don't quite know how I got by without one. Still don't open cans or wine bottles with them, though.
 
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