Help with slipjoint patterns

shaldag

shaldag

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As with most knife folks of a certain age, my first folders were slipjoints. Although now most of my folders are more on-handed military kind of stuff, I still have a soft spot for slipjoints, and have recently acquired a Queen D2 Cocobolo model. This has kindled a renewed interest in these knives, and I would like to ask you folks for a little help here.

I have never seen anything that describes and differentiates between the different traditional patterns- stockman, congress, etc. I am specifically referring to number of blades, blade shape, and orientation of blades. Does anyone know of a link to such a source, or is willing to take a minute or 2 to explain?
Thanks.
 
Well, this thread is a good place to start reading. There have been others, but this was the most recent. I can't think of any sites that go into detail about the various slipjoint patterns, but that doesn't mean anything. Hopefully someone else will know of one.

James
 
Pocketknife patterns.
If you take the time to set down and study the graphics in Levine's book on pocketknives you will see all the patterns in detail and many exceptions to each and every one of all those patterns. There is NO standardization except in the broadest sense of the word, and that is even stretching it a bit.
Sorry, there ain't no easy way out and it cannot be explained in a " a minute or 2 " here on the internet. You'll hafta do it yourself with a book, remember those?? , and when you're done you'll be like all the rest of us with a lot of " well yeh but " questions. This I will quarentee, you will be amazed, indeed flabbergasted, at how many patterns there are and the myriad of exceptions to every pattern.
 
I think Will summed it up pretty well.

By far the best resource is Levin's Guide.
 
There is allot of truth in what Will says. For example the "texas toothpick", has been called a "arkansas toothpick", "tickler", etc. Not too mention a arkansas toothpick can also refer to a fixed long dagger blade! There have been allot of patterns, and variations over the years. To list them all? Now that would be an almost "unending" job.
 
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