I'll bet this starts some trouble!

[cdf]

For me its plain laziness , its easier to whip out a clipped one handed folder to open a package . The old skool way is to dig in yr pocket like you are scratching yr A$$ , get the trapper and or stockman out and two hand it open . Sounds like a long way around the barn to me !

Dont get me wrong , my first good folders were slippies SAK , and a Case trapper ( in the sixties they were well built ) . When Sal came along in the eighties , I was hooked , never looked back .

I would no more go back to the old stuff (except as a sheeple knife ) , than I would stop using my modern cordless drill , an go back to a brace an bit .

Chris

 

[Evil Eye Earl]

I like 'em all ...normally have 5 knives on me at one time 3 lock blades,two slippies,sometimes 6 when I add a fixed blade.....the Boy Scout "motto"always be prepared.At least one custom....it makes me feel good .....no loaners ..but I will cut something for 'ya if you don't have a knife.

 

[navihawk]

If I need a one hand open I reach around my belt for my Wave.I always have a small traditional slipjoint in my pocket because, well, that's what pockets are supposed to hold.

 

[Upstream]

Do a lot of you fight your way home from school every day through radioactive landscapes and apocalyptic scenarios filled with mutants, zombies, terrorists, and drug-crazed killers of every other known persuasion?

Thats about an average day is SW DC, where only the criminals are allowed to own guns.

 

[lamech]

Hey folks have you all noticed that the person who started this squabble has NOT posted since everyone got their haunches up?
I happilly carry a Case slippy in my left front pocket and a Spyderco in my right.
Does that make me a codgerty old zombie fighter, or just confused?
To each his own.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

For me knives and motorcycles have one thing in common, I love them all, modern, traditional, and classic.

The magic's in the owning and using, I'm never happier then when I'm either on a motorcycle or playin' with an old knife in nice shape.

 

[cdf]

Sadly , most old skool handle materials dont do too well on a jobsite . Some woods are a narrow exception . FRN , G10 ,and Ti simply outlast an outperform . Modern steels are better than the old stuff . The list just goes on an on .

Chris

 

[joh]

cdf,
agreed, horses for courses. I would never think of using my 110 customs on the job site, but for edc I definately prefer a more traditional looking knife, maybe with pocket clip but definately with a thumb stud or hole of course.
I love my 110s but still attach thumb studs to them

 

[G. Scott H.]

Do a lot of you fight your way home from school every day through radioactive landscapes and apocalyptic scenarios filled with mutants, zombies, terrorists, and drug-crazed killers of every other known persuasion?

That sounds like my days off. Don't even ask about work/school days... Heck, I like all kinds of folders, from the earliest springless friction folders, to the latest, greatest, high-technomological, uber-tacticool models. It's all GOOD. :thumbup:

edit: However, I find one hand openers with pocket clips easier to use for many day-to-day tasks than more traditional designs.

 

[Bors]

You ever think maybe they carried SHEATH knives which could be accessed with one hand?
Hey, if you want "traditional", at LEAST go with a sheath knife; although to be REALLY traditional, it should be made of stone/obsidian/bone/fire-hardened wood.

of coarse I did.....


Riggers knife (fixed). knives like this have been used by sailers since there were sailers.....

Riggers knife "folding" Note the absence of a hole or thumb stude for "one handed" opening. Knives like this have sailed the seven seas for well over a century......

 

[Lycosa]

I just ordered a no-lock folder from a maker. I will trust my experience with this knife. It is a friction-folder. Can't wait ti get it.

 

[yablanowitz]

Why isn't this in Whine and Cheese? Dr. Mudd certainly started this thread in a manner much more suitable for that venue.

 

[Keith Montgomery]

I don't really have a preference for folders with or without locks. For most of what I use knives for, slipjoints work just fine. I have never had one come even close to closing on my fingers.

 

[Horn Dog]

Well I am an old guy. Hell, I was even checking out some strange knife from Dark Ops the other day. Never in all my life have I seen so many cool knives to play with. I think it is great!

 

[Bors]

Well I am an old guy. Hell, I was even checking out some strange knife from Dark Ops the other day. Never in all my life have I seen so many cool knives to play with. I think it is great!

You got that right HD.....

:thumbup:

 

[Lycosa]

HornDog---Tell Jerry Busse to get with it and make a folder!!

 

[Bors]

HornDog---Tell Jerry Busse to get with it and make a folder!!

Or Dan...........

 

[wh4f]

You can't open a slipjoint on a ladder.It all started when some guy tried to open a "slippy" one-handed on a ladder...and dropped it.
The he thought hmmm.."How can I safely operate this tool one-handed?"

Exactly!
I work with a guy who "carried" a Buck slippy when it fell 2 stories through the catwalk, the guy down below walked off with it

Its very difficult to use a slippy on ladders or in a construction scenario sometimes. With the pocket clip the knife is always readily available, gloves or not! If I could carry the fixed blade I would, but I can settle for a quality lockback or liner lock. I have a few Buck 110's and also the newer assisted knives. There is a time and a place for each! To each his own.

 

[SR_matt]

well im in the middle of the basic and the modern stuff. personally not a fan of slippies just from my experiences and from seeing others have issues with them. i like pretty simple modern knives though (i carry a sog twitch 2 and a kershaw leek) but at the same time i like the assisted openers mostly because if i need a knife more than likely i only have one hand free. complicated blade shapes are IMHO stupid, a real "tactical" item should be easy to keep up any way so not only are they stupid but the are misnamed.

half of the things people go after knives now of course are going to be just like how everything else weather its cars, electronics, etc: sleeker, cooler, sexier, spiffier.

-matt

 

[fudo]

Simple answer: A Case sodbuster can't be opened easily with one hand into a locked position, used to cut something, then unlocked with one hand and placed back into a clipped position on my pocket.

Not only that, but the sodbuster doesn't have enough of a point, for me.