Is this considered a "traditional" knife?

[Jack Black]

I've got one of those and it's still traditional because it's got a slotted screw!

:thumbup: Had this one a long time (mine has Normark covers), and don't carry it too often these days, but I've always considered it traditional. The screw is on the pile side, so it usually doesn't get photographed.

 

[brownshoe]

I'm including a quote that defines the limits of the thread;
Guidelines for defining the "fine line":
Modern materials - OK - we do those anyhow.
Modern shapes - maybe.
Pocket clips - nope
thumb studs or other non-traditional opening devices - nope

To me that expresses the problem in a nutshell...trying to define something by what it is not.

Why not try the better way and define what a traditional knife is. It's a knife that is made with traditional or modern materials, but the basic knife design and mechanism must have existed before 1950.

However, unfortunately this would allow in automatic knives, which is "not traditional" per some mods, but certainly are old well established "traditional" patterns.

 

[Peregrin]

To me that expresses the problem in a nutshell...trying to define something by what it is not.

Why not try the better way and define what a traditional knife is. It's a knife that is made with traditional or modern materials, but the basic knife design and mechanism must have existed before 1950.

However, unfortunately this would allow in automatic knives, which is "not traditional" per some mods, but certainly are old well established "traditional" patterns.

There is a sub-forum for automatic knives, so that is a more appropriate place to post and discuss them. You'll see one occasionally get posted in this sub-forum. Personally I don't recall coming unglued over it. If it's more then occasionally or a thread starts, it'll get moved.

There's already a definition of traditional knives posted in the guidelines. Our charge, as moderators, is to maintain the intent of those guidelines, not to change them. Frank's points are intended to supplement that, not to replace it. No one has to agree with that definition but as long as you're posting here, it's the definition that should be adhered to.

Now that we're all clear this one gets closed, since it's kind of off topic anyway.