Lone Wolf Project: Post All Your "Experiments" Here

Considering a switch. I've really enjoyed the congress pattern and it's done well for me. As mentioned, though even the longest blades are really small. I'm having peanut withdrawal I think. That main blade is longer and just about perfect. I went with the congress originally to have more than two blade choices. I'll keep you posted. That patina is coming in nice though I must say.
 
I've been kinda considering trying the experiment out at some point, but on a 1/52 basis...that is, trying a single knife for one week and seeing how that goes. But then, the dilemma is, which one? Yeah, I know the key is to simply jump in, pick one and begin. But aaaarrrrhhhh.....;)
Jim
 
ElCuchillo said:
Hey pd308, since I'm the one that started the experiment, I feel I am qualified to say that it is not late in the game. This is a personal journey for all of us, even though we are taking it together. When I originally started this, I wasn't recruiting. I was just embarking on my own personal journey and people just decided to join me. However, remember, it's YOUR year of learning and growing. And again, it's not late in the game, as we are all playing our own games. Your year, if you choose to go this route, starts today and ends January 30th, 2009. If you drop out or don't make it, it's all good. You were not competing with anyone, just yourself. A year? Six months? Two weeks? It's your call, and your personal goal.
Just remember, the journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.
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Thanks for allowing me to join you gents on this journey. I have be struggling to simplify and this has really inspired me. Most recently, my EDC knives have included a SAK (usually a Handyman or Ranger, sometimes a Soldier), a Large locking folder (Sebenza, Griptillian, Calypso Jr. if traveling "light"), and a Slippie. Sometimes a necker, too. Mind you, I wear scrubs Monday thru Friday. As of tomorrow morning my EDC blade will be:

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Schatt & Morgan Harness Jack in green jigged bone. 1095 steel. It's spankin' new- just received it today. It ought to patina nicely in the next year! I'll post pics every now and again to show the natural patina process.

HERE WE GO!

todd

BTW, I just put a Craftsman 4-way on my keyring. Hopefully it will help with the SAK withdrawls!
 
pipedreams308 said:
Thanks for allowing me to join you gents on this journey. I have be struggling to simplify and this has really inspired me. Most recently, my EDC knives have included a SAK (usually a Handyman or Ranger, sometimes a Soldier), a Large locking folder (Sebenza, Griptillian, Calypso Jr. if traveling "light"), and a Slippie. Sometimes a necker, too. Mind you, I wear scrubs Monday thru Friday. As of tomorrow morning my EDC blade will be:

SchattMorganGreenboneHarnessJack-1.jpg


Schatt & Morgan Harness Jack in green jigged bone. 1095 steel. It's spankin' new- just received it today. It ought to patina nicely in the next year! I'll post pics every now and again to show the natural patina process.

HERE WE GO!



todd

BTW, I just put a Craftsman 4-way on my keyring. Hopefully it will help with the SAK withdrawls!
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That is one friggin GORGEOUS knife, pd308. Man oh man, with that beauty, we'd BETTER not hear you longing for another knife!! LOL.
Welcome aboard, son. May you find what you are looking for.
 
jackknife said:
hey freezeer, I thought anything more than a vic classic is a problem over there. Is there some circumstances that one can carry a lockblade in England?
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It's a bit more complicated than our friends have replied, but basically you can carry anything sharp as long as you have good reason. It's up to the officer questioning you (should that ever happen) if they agree with your good reason.
According to Parlimentary law you can carry any folding knife with an edge (not blade, edge) 3" or less in length.
However, case law has ruled that a locking knife should be treated as a fixed blade. So for now you need good reason to have a locking blade on you. Use at work covers that.

To be honest though, the police generally don't seem to be too bothered by people minding thier own business - you see many workers with a multitool on the belt for e.g.
Basically the idea is to stop the scrotes from carrying blades for nefarious reasons.

If you are out hiking, for e.g. & have a fixed blade in your backpack, you are incredibly unlikely to get into any trouble. However, in the same instance if you have it on your belt, the police may well take a dim view - lpossibly because they have to come & deal with you becasue some idiot has gone all panicky & reported some rambo sword wielding nutter in the back field to them. ;)
 
ElCuchillo said:
That is one friggin GORGEOUS knife, pd308. Man oh man, with that beauty, we'd BETTER not hear you longing for another knife!! LOL.
Welcome aboard, son. May you find what you are looking for.
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Thanks, for the kind welcome. It sure is a beauty. I figure this will go down easier if I start off in style! :D

Last night I put my other knives in storage and sharpened up the S&M. As I type this I'm getting ready to walk out the door for work with the lightest pockets I've had in years!

todd
 
Well, as of last night me and my knife had a little "bonding" experience, and my resolve to complete this experiment has been strengthened even more. I was slicing an apple up at work for a little midnight snack, and apparently I underestimated just how sharp the blade on my stockman was, as it sliced quickly out the bottom and ran a small cut up the meat of my palm (luckily I always carry a couple of band-aids in my wallet). This is the first time I've been cut by one of my knives in quite a while, so the way I figure it, I've paid my dues to this knife for a years worth of carrying.
 
Howdy pipedream, welcome to the best dang forum on the planet :thumbup:

Love the equal end harness jack. What size is it?

BTW, I don't know why, but I'm cheering you guys on your "1 knife crusade". While you are doing without so to speak, you can live vicariously thru us who will be using more knives than you can shake a stick at. :D
 
I'm almost ready to give it a go. My problem is that anything bigger than a peanut in dress pants for work is an irritant, and since I'm pretty far from being jacknife's dad, I don't think I can do a year with a peanut alone!

I got a neat Wenger SI alox in the mail today as part of a swap; that one could be a contender . . .
 
So far its been pretty easy to carry just one knife. I have had a little craving now and then to fondle the old ones that are packed away at another location, but in day to day use I have not had real need of any other knife.

But...

I have a little feeling if I had to make this desions again, I may have picked my Wenger SI. I miss that knife a little, as I've needed a screw driver a few times, but the Sears 4-way one on the keyring has worked. But I'm a little surprised at the knife I miss having available the most.

My little Victorinox classic on my keyring.

I did not realize how much I used that little cutter till I did without it. Since it hung on my keyring that in turn hung from a belt loop on my jeans, it was very out in the open and was used alot in the course of the day. The other day I found a tick on Pearl the wonder Corgi, and I missed the tweezers. It always opened the mail, the thin little blade whispered through the envelopes. I even had use now and then for the little sissors trimming things like the knot on a fishing line.

Oh, I'll get along with out it, and work around it, that's the point of the experiment. But now I know if I had a Mulligan, I'd pick a scout knife or my old Wenger SI. If I cold sneak my classic back on my keyring, that would be gravy for the potatos.:)

I'll continue on with the Buck cadet, but I miss the little sak. Just thought I'd vent.:)
 
Well, second day in for me. No problem, so far. I've not needed anything beyond the spear point of my harness jack. I have also found that the awl is excellent for opening boxes at work- saving gumming up my main blade with tape gunk. I miss the reassuring feeling that I get from carrying my SAK, but I've not needed it(I picked a non-SAK for the experiment specifically because I have carried one daily for many years). I don't miss the Lg. folder yet. Since I wear scrubs, it's actually much more comfortable with the lighter load.

todd

BTW, The Harness Jack is starting to patina nicely already.
 
I know what you mean about missing that little Vic Classic Jackknife. I somehow misplaced mine about a month ago, and there for the first little bit it was a pain. I kept reaching for it only to remember it wasn't there. I was actually ready to pick a new one up about the same time I decided to do this experiment and decided that I'd better wait. I can hold off on carrying other pocketknives, but I don't know if I could keep that little Classic out of my pocket.
 
Hey guys, the whole point of this experiment was not only to see if we could go a whole year with only one knife, but also to see how little we could use to get by. However, there is something else emerging from this experiment. Some of us are starting to notice what is really important. For me, it was bending for the sake of my wife and going with the SAK she had given me as an anniversary present, which worked fine with me because it had been the knife I had been EDCing prior to the experiment and I had grown extremely comfotable and familiar with it. Maybe, Jackknife, you're noticing that, even though you're a great big traditional knife fan, your heart just might be with that Wenger of yours. Who cares that it is a SAK, generic compared to the stag, bone, jigged handles you are accostumed to. You carried that knife for years, used it hundreds of thousands of times, and basically made it an extension of your hand. Like the samurai of old, you put your heart and soul in that knife, and it's become YOURS. It might have become the "Peanut" you own that was once your dad's, and that just oozes history, nostalgia, and stories attached to him. I know you carried a Stockman for years and you feel it's your roots, but the SI is basically a Scout knife. It's connection to you, not only in the fact that it's been EDCed by you for a long time, but that in a distant way has connections to Mr. Van and to your formative years speaks volumes as far as I am concerned. You wrote a thread a while back about how you've noticed that SI was a part of you, remember? You remember. Well, I think, as part of the learning experience that is this experiment, you should switch back to it and finish off the year with that. After all, like Mr. Van's Remington and your dad's Peanut, this is YOUR knife.
That, or maybe keep the Stockman and replace your Sears 4-way, or P-38 with the classic, and to keep in the spirit of the experiment, not use it's blade. Just it's other tools. As you've said many times, our forefathers only carried one knife, but they DID EDC other practicle tools as well.
Just something to think about.
Something interesting I've learned from this experiment?
Apparently Jackknife has become a SAK lover!! Not only because they are practicle. Just because he friggin loves them!! LOL!!!!!!!!!:D
Amazing.:cool:
 
jackknife said:
I'll continue on with the Buck cadet, but I miss the little sak. Just thought I'd vent.:)
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The knife I'm missing the most right now is my SAK mini-champ. I used that pen everyday. Same with the scissors. I feel your pain Jackknife:).
 
ElCuchillo, you're definitely right about this experiment being about more that just seeing if we can go a whole year with just one knife. There's definitely many layers to it. One thing it's done for me is improve my motivation to learn. I promised myself that I'd learn to sharpen freehand this year, and only having the one knife is a good inspiration for that. Before, if my edc got a little dull, I could switch out and carry another one until I could get up to my father-in-law's and get him to sharpen it for me. Now, without the option to switch out, I've decided that I really need to learn to sharpen if I'm going to continue this.
 
Many layers. Good way of looking at this thing, freekboi. It reminds me of the classical Japanese arts. There was martial arts, flower arranging, the tea ceremony, oragami..... all these arts were a means to an end. The Tea ceremony, for instance. Sure, you're making tea. However, the ritual itself, the attention to detail, the monotony of doing it exactly the same time and time again, and the discipline it takes to not only DO the same thing over and over again, but to perfect these very same movements leads one to self improvement and, hopefully, enlightenment. You not only learn how to make tea, or arrange flowers. You learn about yourself how to concentrate, how to truly see yourself, and how to better yourself. All the classical Japanese arts have this in common. This experiment is turning out to be something like that. It not only tests your ability to be monogomous to a knife, but all these other layers are also coming out.
This is getting very interesting.
 
ElCuchillo said:
Hey guys, the whole point of this experiment was not only to see if we could go a whole year with only one knife, but also to see how little we could use to get by. However, there is something else emerging from this experiment. Some of us are starting to notice what is really important. For me, it was bending for the sake of my wife and going with the SAK she had given me as an anniversary present, which worked fine with me because it had been the knife I had been EDCing prior to the experiment and I had grown extremely comfotable and familiar with it. Maybe, Jackknife, you're noticing that, even though you're a great big traditional knife fan, your heart just might be with that Wenger of yours. Who cares that it is a SAK, generic compared to the stag, bone, jigged handles you are accostumed to. You carried that knife for years, used it hundreds of thousands of times, and basically made it an extension of your hand. Like the samurai of old, you put your heart and soul in that knife, and it's become YOURS. It might have become the "Peanut" you own that was once your dad's, and that just oozes history, nostalgia, and stories attached to him. I know you carried a Stockman for years and you feel it's your roots, but the SI is basically a Scout knife. It's connection to you, not only in the fact that it's been EDCed by you for a long time, but that in a distant way has connections to Mr. Van and to your formative years speaks volumes as far as I am concerned. You wrote a thread a while back about how you've noticed that SI was a part of you, remember? You remember. Well, I think, as part of the learning experience that is this experiment, you should switch back to it and finish off the year with that. After all, like Mr. Van's Remington and your dad's Peanut, this is YOUR knife.
That, or maybe keep the Stockman and replace your Sears 4-way, or P-38 with the classic, and to keep in the spirit of the experiment, not use it's blade. Just it's other tools. As you've said many times, our forefathers only carried one knife, but they DID EDC other practicle tools as well.
Just something to think about.
Something interesting I've learned from this experiment?
Apparently Jackknife has become a SAK lover!! Not only because they are practicle. Just because he friggin loves them!! LOL!!!!!!!!!:D
Amazing.:cool:
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You make some good points, ElCuchillo. Maybe just the fact that I carried a stockman from 1967 to 1989ish does not override the scout knife I carried from 1953 to 1967, and the sak that was carried in addition to the stockman from 1970ish to the present. Thats alot of years and miles of camping and other outdoors activities. I never did bond with the plastic handle tinker I would carry now and then, but the old Wenger SI was like an extension of the basic Camillus scout knife I carried and later gave to my youngest son, Matt. (who is still carrying it.) It kept sneaking back into my pocket or belt pouch when I wasn't looking. No matter what sodbuster or peanut I was carrying in my pocket, there was the old Wenger in the belt pouch with the AAA Dorcy.

Okay, I'm switching from the stockman to the old Wenger. In a very odd way it's comforting to have it back in my pocket. Maybe I just like the way I can have a lanyard attached to the bail with the knotted end tucked under my belt for easy retrieving from the pocket. I once lost a knife overboard because of no lanyard.

Okay, 11 months and one week to go with the Wenger SI. Back to a basic scout type knife, maybe its my karma.

WWMD?

(what would Musashi do?)
 
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