Hey all you slipjoint knuts...

[Mongo]

Greetings everybody, I just finished reading Mr. Cheeseboro's thread on fave slipjoint patterns, and I have to confess some ignorance on alot of these. I am familiar with the stockman, trapper, doctor, peanut and canoe patterns. However, I haven't seen what an elephant's toe or sunfish looks like. Any pics anyone?
Also I have questions on the actual blade shapes themselves. Why for example are there three blades on the stockman? Does each blade have a specific use? What makes a whittler pattern a whittler? Is one of the blades specifically for that? Lets see... we have sheepsfoot blades, penblades, spey blades, even a marlin spike. What the heck is a marlin spike?
I currently have on order a doctor's pattern, the one with the spear blade and spatula, I also have the carbon series stockman from camillus on order. I shall post in due time my impressions of these two knives. It seems to me that getting slipjoint fever is even worse that Bowie fever. Way too many different types to collect!
Thank you all in advance for your replies.
Off to go pine away for the Brown Truck of love.... Mongo

 

[Bastid]

The oval shaped ones (vertial) in this picture.

 

[Tightwad]

Nice pic of some beautiful knife ,mate. THAT'S why I love my
slip joints. There is no way I'll every get tired of seeing all the
different kinds made. Just to many. And they think tactical knives
are so darn good ....Phooey!!

Why does a stockman have three blade? One ,the clip main blade is
for gereral work, the sheeps foot is for leather (harness work) and the
spey.......well it's for castrating animals. This knife is truly a farmers
or cowboys knife oirginally. I find that the blades can be used for different
things now just as well. You just have to take time to learn what all the
blade shapes were made for to identify todays use. I carry one everyday.

There is one thing for sure about slip joints that NO tacitical can claim.

They are way more useful because they have more than one blade and more
than one blade shape to offer.

 

[TorzJohnson]

A Marlinspike is that thick metal spike you see on a sailor's knife - it's used to separate strands of line while you're working on it.

 

[Ebbtide]

Bastid,
That Toothpick is just toooooooo
Insert drooling smiley here!