How To: Opening and using a traditional folder when holding something you need cut

I usually don´t open my slippies with one hand. But if it´s needed (to be opened one hand), I tried out Carl´s and Mark´s way to the job as well. Both worked very nice.

In Germany it prohibited going fishing without a long way through the authorities. So I don´t do that.

But with any other cutting jobs, when a slippie needs to be one-handed-opened I do it with the versions above.

Kind regards
Andi
 
LKJW said:
I agree, I'll gut a trout right away if I'm gonna eat it, but a good whack on the head makes it a little less cruel and a heck of a lot easier.
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If they're small ones, I break their neck with my fingers. A little bigger and they get the club:

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I usually have a one-hander knife around "just in case," but with traditional knives, I can open them one handed by pinching the blade and levering the handle open on my leg.
 
hlee said:
Yeah... "Honey, can you cut this please." At least, that is how my wife would handle it.
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LOL:) I'm thinking about the multi-tasking aspect.... given the man's ability to sus the technical detail we'll call it a draw.

Cop out I know;)

Sam
 
Why dirty up your knife with trout guts when we all know the best way?
#1.Simply bite off the head using the Bear Grylls/Gollum technique.
#2.Devour.

I like this thread but it may loosened a gusset on the applecart.
 
today i went to cut a trash bag and did this and due to my sweaty hands i sliped and the detent of the blade closed it and sliced my tumb t the bone
 
I always have a waved locker but I can't think of a time when one hand opening was critical, however a sharp, thin blade and comfortable handle is always important.

Humppa said:
In Germany it prohibited going fishing without a long way through the authorities. So I don´t do that.
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I find this disturbing.
 
Is it because you need a fishing license? Its the same here -unless you are accompanying someone under the age of 16 and using only one rod or line.
I do remember hearing about a catastrophic toxic spill into the Rhine a few months back-it killled a gigazillion tons of fish and poisoned the rest for human consumption.
Anyone remember that?
 
Nixelplix said:
If they're small ones, I break their neck with my fingers. A little bigger and they get the club:

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I usually have a one-hander knife around "just in case," but with traditional knives, I can open them one handed by pinching the blade and levering the handle open on my leg.
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What's the all steel folding knife? It looks like it has a spoon on one end.
 
There are the Kershaw Double Cross and Double Duty models-sort of traditional AND one-hand opening. Too bad they don't have a better grade of steel.
 
It's a Puma fisherman's knife. The sphere is a counterweight so that you can use the knife as a scale to weigh the fish. You hang the fish on the marked notches.

Here's mine:
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The Rhine spill was 1986-the one I meant was the Danube in Hungary 2010.
 
Also good for killing the fish quick although the spine of the knife, well aimed, works like a charm, too.

knarfeng said:
It's a Puma fisherman's knife. The sphere is a counterweight so that you can use the knife as a scale to weigh the fish. You hang the fish on the marked notches.

Here's mine:
PumaFishKnife.jpg
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knarfeng said:
It's a Puma fisherman's knife. The sphere is a counterweight so that you can use the knife as a scale to weigh the fish. You hang the fish on the marked notches.
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Cool! I never heard of that, I bet the scale would come in handy for other things too.
 
From year of working as an electrician carrying a T-29 and working on ladders

I hold the object in my left hand and my knife in my right hand
So I have a secure grasp on both items
I then move my right hand knife hand to the edge of the left hand thumb nail and open the blade
I do not have to loosen my grip on the object

The object could be the ladder I am gripping or something to be cut
 
When I worked as an electrician, I left the knife opened in my electrician's tool pouch, which holds all the tools vertically. Still carry it that way, though I don't use my pouch very much anymore. Meh, those West Coast tradesmen. We use funny framing hammers, too.

Never mastered opening a traditional knife one-handed. Nowadays I just carry a non-traditional knife for those occasions when I don't have both hands free. Don't need it often. Nice to have when I do, though.
 
Mmmm, largemouth bass...can't wait to go fishing! Our spring-like weather just went to a hard freeze overnight, ugh
 
Yes I love my Puma fishing knife! If I ever drop it in the lake, I'll have to go for a swim. The counter balance is my favorite fish whacker. You can see that the fish in the photo has a bit of a dent in its head.

Keeping an open knife handy when you know you're going to need it is a pretty good idea!:)
 
Django.cj said:
Can you expand on that? You can't go fishing?
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Well guys!

You need an extra training and you have to make a test, you get your own part of a stream or river or lake. This the place only YOU and no other can go fishing. Then you have to repeat the test every couple of years. It´s very tough and when do fishing without that test or with the test but in others than your "waters" you can be heavily punished by law. You have get an accord at the courtyard and possibly pay a lot of money.

I just know about 20 fishers here in Germany, in my town, though we have the river Inn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inn_(river) directly in front of your doors, just throwing a stone and it lands in that river. Most guys I know would like go fishing, but without that permission you can be heavily punished. Exactly the same with hunting.

Illegal hunting or fishing is called blackhunting or blackfishing.

Strange Germany, I know! :(

Kind regards
Andi
 
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