How to configure my stockman?

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Well, previously, my only slipjoint experience was with SAKs and I never really did much with them. However, I had been intregued by a classic slipjoint, and was in walmart the other day and picked up a Buck stockman. It is 4" closed with Chinese 420HC. Yeah not much but for $20 it works for me (esp considereing it has wood handles, not plastic like the bucks I have seen online).

Now, I am a locking folder guy and the multi blade concept is new. This 420HC, as soft as it is, is just asking to be reprofiled. I am asking you guys what type of edge and what tasks you guys think is best suited to each. This is for suburban carry with a little bit of outdoors, though i can always grab a tougher knife or a fixed.

PS. if this is commonly covered, sorry, I tried a few searches and did not come up with the answers I was looking for.
 
The Last Confederate said:
The steel in the 370 series Buck slipjoints is not "chinese 420HC", it is 440C.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=335878&highlight=Chinese

I have found these to be a good buy for the money, but I have to say that the last few I have examined in the stores seem to be getting "rougher" and lesser quality than the ones I bought when they first came out.
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ahh, what a plesant suprise. Mine is a 371 and then it looks like a sideways T that has been rotated counter clockwise. (|-). I was looking at the 301 on their website and saw the 420HC and assumed.

EDIT: The fit and finish on my knife is good but not excelent. The bolsters and pins are a bit higher than the wood, although you can only feel this. The blades fit togather excelently. The liners match up pretty well, but not perfectly to the wood. Most annyoing, to me, is that the springs are not even. The clip points spring drops about a mm near the blade and it annoys me when i touch it.

Overal, I think it was a good $20.
 
Clip blade, I like either razor-fine or medium. I usually go about 40 degrees, and stropped. Spey, razor, at about 30 degrees- only for fine cuts. Sheeps? 40, extra-coarse. It's my beater edge.
 
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