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I'll bet this starts some trouble!
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You are a professional door stabber?
Just razzing ya.
Reasonable point. For me a tanto point works good for scraping and I feel more comfortable, due to the thicker stock of the blade, applying a little more torque when cutting plastic banding.
seems to me knives are like food {bear with me i have a point and i'm a fat guy} there really is no best it's a subjective kind of thing. The best is what you really like and brings you comfort, to some it's very small amounts of food whose names you can't pronounce and to others it's a $5 pizza. The same is true for knives, if you were raised around slipjoint knives that's what you'll probably feel comfortable with and use, if you're around tactical knives with the latest steel of the month then that's what you're comfortable with. The statement earlier that our forefathers built a country and fought wars with just simple slipjoints is true but who's to say they wouldn't have used a cqc-7 on D day if it was available. as a friend of mine said it's whatever blows your skirt up, I like slipjoints and feel no need to justify this pattern as being better than any other, the next person may feel the same thing about his tactical, it's what works for you.
btw sodbusters rule.
btw sodbusters rule.
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Wow, you sure showed me. Thanks! I had forgotten that the death rate at sea "for the last several millenia" has been so low, that we shouldn't improve on any safety device. Right.........
Averaging a centuries os so worth of data over several millennia is probably why the death rates are so low.......
This person isnt surprised they know fully well technology advances tools after all there cell phone is an improvement over the phone booth and a lot easier to carry.
I agree this is clearly a moving the spoon in the pot thread.
So did I and I also came up with all kinds of ways to open my slip-joint with one hand as a kid. I also bought a one handed when they started to become popular..
You didnt, I think I was just having one of those piddle and vinegar moments.
Technology has done a lot for us, Im sure your boats are a little better than they were in the early 20th century.
In reality my needs can be handled with any folding knife but I choose to carry a slip-joint.
I carry a one handed knife as well as back up and for the rare times whet its just easier to access it rather than one handing the slip-joint. Also in my work environment I might get arrested for a 4" locking knife.
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Rare, as in every single time? Perhaps you can clarify, but I would think that in every instance, a knife clipped to the lip of a pocket, with a mechanism designed specifically to be manipulated by one hand, is going to be easier to open than a slip joint. What you would rather use is a different issue; but the ease of retrieval and opening seems pretty clear, even if subjectively considered minor.
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Rare as in I can't remember when I "really" needed a one handed knife over a slip joint.
How many times in the last month "have you really needed" to open your knife with one hand?
Perhaps you really need one however, the one handed feature is used more for convenience than necessity buy the vast majority of those who carry them.
Good slippies are now hard to come by . The Case stuff of today would have been rejects back in the sixties . There are some great customs . Victorinox probably produces some of the most cost effective slippies out there . These tools are very usefull , I own a squad of them . Im tempted to try Schrat & Morgan from Queen , but have never had a chance to inspect one .
I think I have an open mind ,but for what I do in the real world -make mine a one handed clippie .
Chris
I think I have an open mind ,but for what I do in the real world -make mine a one handed clippie .
Chris
I have far more "tactical" type knives than slipjoint traditionals but I enjoy them both. When I have a more formal function to attend I have found a great compromise in carrying a case mini copper lock. It is small enough to fit in my pocket, locks up solid, enough blade for most chores or defensive use and has the traditional look that does not scare as you all call them "sheeple"
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I'v been happy with S&M and Queens.
SAKs have been carried to every point on the planet both High and Low. And are std issue on the Space Shuttle along side a one hander I believe from Emmerson. People still carry revolvers along with the Auto's so they may be old but they still get the job done. There is a place for both perhaps that's why I carry both.
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I don't remember, but after the years of carry, I have gotten quite used to holding whatever I need cut with the off-hand, taking out the folder, opening, cutting, closing, placing back in pocket. Never had a life or death incident, but fumbling around with items, working offshore, lying under a car, etc., it sure is handy.
I just polished up the edge on a new CV sodbuster Jr. that I carried around yesterday. Only thing I cut open was a pack of unsalted nuts. My last five folder purchases were slipjoints, but my main EDC is a Ritter Griptilian, along with a Leatherman Wave - love those one-hand accessible tools on it
Yes, Well said!QFT(Quoted for Truth)
Personally, I consider all folders, locking or not locking, non-knives. To me, they're somewhere between scissors and letter openers. The only real knives are fixed blades - certainly they are the most traditional of all knives, and the most versatile in use. How's that for starting trouble?
If I may expand on this a bit. I think that most of us can agree that a fixed blade is by far the superior tool. It's stronger, safer to use, more accessible, more reliable.
Folding knives are a compromise. They make the knife easier to carry (basically cutting the size in half), safer to carry (less chance of stabbing yourself during a fall, etc), more sheeple friendly (I wish this were not an issue, but it is).
Modern folding knives have the best of both. They have the small size, safe carry, and sheeple friendliness of a folder, but they are also almost as easily accessible as a fixed blade and some of the modern locking systems are almost as safe.
If you want to argue the merits of the way a slip-joint looks or of their nostalgic/historical value, that's fine.
But I don't think you can argue that modern knives are functionally superior (whether any of these advantages are necessary or not).
Maybe you don't NEED to open a knife with one hand, and with proper use, most of the time you shouldn't NEED a locked blade, but let me ask you this....
Can you think of any situation where a slip-joint is a BETTER knife than a modern fixed blade? Is there anything a slip-joint can do that a modern knife can't?
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no, however if anything like that happens, i for one do not want a sod buster.
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looking forward to seeing it!
Over and over as I read many of the threads here I keep wondering if I and Jackknife and a handful of other "old codgers" are the only ones left who truly appreciate folding knives that don't come with locking blades made of exotic steels, springy little pocket clips, weird finishes, strange handles, and oddly shaped blades. I mean, what is it that so many people are doing or planning to do with their knives that a simple Case Sodbuster won't do? 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?
If someone likes slipjoint knives, that's fine. I grew up with them but, I prefer one hand opening knives, that lock. They are easier to open and you don't have to be so careful
if you are poking something.
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