hunters big two clip bladed slimjack.

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NirreBosse

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I own three jackknifes with the folowing blade configurations, clipbades and long eged, round belly, pointy tip, klipblades.

so what are they realy- Its a schrade 96 classic, a remington 1173 bullet and a Case mod 54, They are all modified trappers. I love the pattern but I cant stand the spayblades being without a point. I think one has to bee deep into american habits and tradition to apritiate a blade like that. Lucky enough a grinding wheel, 5 minutes and very minor removed metall makes them pointy and very useful. I infact prefere the reworked spay-clip to the normal clip in them. I do understand I damage the value of them severely by doing this but I ceep al my knifes anyway.

So do you think they now are big two bladed slimjacks:jerkit: or are they damaged trappers?

Damn good knifes anyway to bring out in nature.

Bosse
 
Hi Bosse, it's good to see you back. There are trappers with wharncliffe+clip, or clip+clip or spear+clip. I think it's good to modify the blade as you like to use them. I have question though. How you open your slip joints in the winter time? Do they freeze shut?

God Bless
 
It's not a trapper if it doesn't have a long clip and a long spey blade. That's a pet peeve of mine. "Single blade trapper" ==> swell center regular jack knife, the handle die of which the "trapper" (specific pattern with long clip and long spey blades) is built upon.

"A 'trapper' is a jack knife with two specific full length blades... a clip point with a long clip... [and] a long spey... [The trapper] is built on a swell center regular jack handle die..." Bernard Levine's Guide to Knives and their Values Fourth Edition, page 216.

I love the spey blade on trappers. Most of the things that I cut don't require starting a cut with a point. That spey blade just looks sooo cool.

But, as stated above, there are several patterns that are built upon a swell center regular jack die that do not have a spey blade.
 
hello. I was here now and then all the time, But in the summer I had my finger broken and the hand in bandage so writing was no fun. It was the indexfinger on my main hand so slipjoints was hard to open. Autumn is huntingseason so therefore lowseason for writing about knifes, more of cutting with them.

About the winter. I have never had one bfreeze for me, they just funktion as usual. To open them I have to take of my gloves, If not to cold I also use them without gloves. One adjust to cold wether so I dount get frozen to often. If im realy to work with a knife I use a fixedblade bouth summer and winter. I have made myself a workknife with a little longer handle that is good to use also with gloves.

Bosse
 
hlee said:
Most of the things that I cut don't require starting a cut with a point. That spey blade just looks sooo cool.
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I used to be a trapper hater - then I tried one.

A couple things occurred to me. First, as hlee writes, most things I cut don't need a point.

Secondly - forget the point. After all, it's just 5 percent or so of the cutting edge (at least on the yella Case trapper I have). And if you forget the tip for a sec, what are you left with? A very long, straight, very sharp edge - something that's mighty useful. Think of the other 95 percent of the spey blade as a big a$$ sheepfoot blade, if that helps.

Then again, NirreBosse, there's nothing wrong with modifying knives to better suit your tastes. :)
 
Mnblade, Im to much of a Scandinavian hunter and fisher to apritiate a knife witout a point. I think that a Sheepfoot has a point, much more so than the spay. I also do cutting that needs no point but I have never felt the point be in the way those times. But clearly tradition plays its roll here because a trapper is a hunter by trade and it must have been good in a trained hand even without the tip.
Mabye they by porpose used a lesser good blade to minimise the danger of kutting holes in the hides causing loss of money?
I wuld love a trapper style knife with less pointy clip and a sheepfoot

Bosse
 
I wuld love a trapper style knife with less pointy clip and a sheepfoot

Bosse[/QUOTE]

You might consider an Improved Muskrat or Hawbaker, this has Clip and Wharncliffe blades.

Then there's the CASE Humpback Stockman, Spear mainblade,Sheepfoot and small spey:thumbup:
 
Willgoy, Thanks for your sugestions.
There are not easy to get good slipjointknifes in Sweden so I most often is pleased by just looking and reading. Once in a while, far from every year I get a new one.
I love the looks of the wharncliffe but also belive i would think them to pointy. Not for the actual tib but for the lack of broadness in the blade just behind the tip. A Sheepfoot has a good enough tip for a straight edge and much sttel above the tip. It also got an oldfasioned look that appeals to me. I have considered making a new nailnick further back on the spay on the side that is free witch also would make it very suited for a lefty as me. this would make possible to remake the spey to a wharncliffe.

bosse
 
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