Lone Wolf Project: Post All Your "Experiments" Here

I decided to play with this a little bit, and carried only my old Tinker yesterday. I realized partway through the day that one of the handle scales is wobbling, and the toothpick is loose in the handle. It's been a lot of miles with me. I put it back in the safe last night, though.

Back to the three I've been carrying lately -- SAK Executive, because I like having a real file to use on my fingernails, and I just love the little slivers of blades, Case 6232, and Case Wharncliffe Copperlock. Honestly, most days, I know I could get by with either of the two smaller ones, but I just like having more. I grew up with a little two bladed jackknife like the 6232, and I like having gone back to one as my right-front pocket knife, but then there's the fingernails. And the scissors for the stray hairs poking out from my beard. The Copperlock is just too cool to leave home all the time. I guess I'm not cut out to be knife monogamous.
 
jackknife said:
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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Strange, isn't it JK, how we don't always choose which knives become ours. Sometimes they choose us. I mean, i chose my Peanut for this, but the SAK came back to me. You chose a VERY competent knife, yet the Wenger returned to you. I'm sure your father never said he wanted to carry a Peanut all his life. It's just the way it worked out. I guess this applies to ALL aspects of our lives. We don't always pick who we will be friends with. Heck, the best friendships are ones that just "happened". Same goes with spouses, jobs, etc. Sure sometimes things go the way we want them to, but many times they go the way the should, whether we want them to or not.


And I think Musashi would follow his gut.
 
jackknife said:
Okay, I'm switching ...

Okay, 11 months and one week to go with the Wenger SI.
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LOL. Guys, as lovingly and as gently as I can put this: You have failed in The Experiment. Doesn't make you bad guys: FAR from it. Doesn't make you weak, etc. But -- for reasons I understand 110% -- you weren't even able to make it a month with one knife. Again ....... I say this lovingly and in the spirit of support and brotherhood. Me thinks if you're going to switch knives, you have to re-set the clock back to day 1.
 
mnblade said:
LOL. Guys, as lovingly and as gently as I can put this: You have failed in The Experiment. Doesn't make you bad guys: FAR from it. Doesn't make you weak, etc. But -- for reasons I understand 110% -- you weren't even able to make it a month with one knife. Again ....... I say this lovingly and in the spirit of support and brotherhood. Me thinks if you're going to switch knives, you have to re-set the clock back to day 1.
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No Mulligans?:(
 
mnblade said:
LOL. Guys, as lovingly and as gently as I can put this: You have failed in The Experiment. Doesn't make you bad guys: FAR from it. Doesn't make you weak, etc. But -- for reasons I understand 110% -- you weren't even able to make it a month with one knife. Again ....... I say this lovingly and in the spirit of support and brotherhood. Me thinks if you're going to switch knives, you have to re-set the clock back to day 1.
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Very good point, mnblade, and I concede. The day I switched was January 27th, so I will now continue the experiment until January 27th, 2009.
Is that better? LOL.
 
ElCuchillo said:
Very good point, mnblade, and I concede. The day I switched was January 27th, so I will now continue the experiment until January 27th, 2009.
Is that better? LOL.
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You have done the honorable thing, sir. (Incidentally, I don't just mean in re-setting the clock to Day 1 .......... I also tip my cap to you for the respect you showed your lady in switching over to the knife she gave you, rather than hurt her feelings. I suspect that, like me, you got a good one! They're our better halves for sure. :) )

jackknife said:
No Mulligans?:(
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WWMD?

(what would Musashi do?) :D
 
Okay.

Untill February 2d of 2009 I will only carry my Wenger SI.

Now it seems as if I have come a full circle. Dad gave me a scout knife when I was 12, and now I'm going back to essencially the same thing as my old Camillus scout. Well, it served me from 1953 to 1967, so it will be old home week. Or year.
 
sm2 said:
Just, I don't feel part of the community here, and it seems best I not share anymore of the old ways or stuff we used to do.
Others can better do that around here anyway that are more part of the community.

I will continue the experiment , just most likely not share as I was.

Regards,

Steve
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I hope you will change your mind sm2.
I for one, and I'm sure many others here, see you as very much part of this community, and enjoy and learn much from your posts.
 
Today saw a pretty busy day for my Super Tinker. It was my "project" day at work, meaning I do no shows, wrestle no alligators, and handle no snakes. I just do all the odd chores that need to be done, as well as the normal maintenance an animal park requires. One of the projects had me replacing the shade cloth inside the trailer of an exhibit. I used the large blade on my SAK to cut the cloth down to size, and used the can opener tip to pull out old staples that had been holding the old shade cloth in place. From there we had to paint one of our enclosure's signs, so out comes the flathead screwdriver/can opener to use as a pry bar to open the cans of paint. A bit later I had to go fill up our bleach containers to clean out show areas and enclosures, and the syphon was all gunked up with old, crusted bleach residue, but it was nothing my reamer/awl couldn't handle. I even got to use the hook to carry a very heavy bucket that was killing my hand. My newest EDC got some use as well, as it was a very hot day, and even though I was wearing a baseball cap, the sun was realy beating down on me, so I wet my bandana, put it on under my cap completely open, and it kept me warm. I also used it to carry some nails I needed from one local to another. A good EDC day over all.
 
I'm not part of this experiment I'm not willing to set aside my other knives for a year. However I did have to laugh because I've been carrying only my Vic Cadet for the last month. My hat is off to you all who are commiting for a year.
 
jacknife said:
I hope you will change your mind sm2.
I for one, and I'm sure many others here, see you as very much part of this community, and enjoy and learn much from your posts.
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I don't get sm2 at all. I mean, he sounds a little angry and bitter. What did we do to make him feel left out? Does he feel we don't want him to mentor us? Even though his writing is in prose and sometimes hard to follow, I, and I'm sure many of us, enjoyed reading what he had to say. Oh well, to each his own. Good luck with your experiment.
 
mnblade said:
LOL. Guys, as lovingly and as gently as I can put this: You have failed in The Experiment.
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I don't see a change of knife at this early stage as a failure. That's too harsh.

I think it is a fine adventure they are embarking on and the least those of us without the stomach to try it ourselves can do is give them leave to carry a knife they will be comfortable with and give them our support.

Good luck guys.
 
jacknife said:
I don't see a change of knife at this early stage as a failure. That's too harsh.

I think it is a fine adventure they are embarking on and the least those of us without the stomach to try it ourselves can do is give them leave to carry a knife they will be comfortable with and give them our support.

Good luck guys.
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It's all good, Jacknife. mnblade's request was fair enough. EVERY action we take, good, bad, well meaning or not, has consequences. We DID go against the experiment, and these are the consequences. Another lesson that emerges from the experiment that mirrors life. We should all be held accountable for our actions. A very small price to pay, though. Not too bad at all.
 
ElCuchillo said:
It's all good, Jacknife. mnblade's request was fair enough. EVERY action we take, good, bad, well meaning or not, has consequences. We DID go against the experiment, and these are the consequences. Another lesson that emerges from the experiment that mirrors life. We should all be held accountable for our actions. A very small price to pay, though. Not too bad at all.
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We should also cut ourselves some slack sometimes :D

You got a good knife now....you're good to go. :)
 
Well it has been about 1.5 weeks carrying just my Texas jack. So far it has preformed very well. I honestly don't feel under knifed or miss any of my other blades. I have carried it for 30+ miles hiking and snow shoeing and ice fishing, and cleaned and skinned that Road killed deer with it plus the rest of my day to day chores. The more I carry just one knife the more I realize that knives are all more or less the same. Yeah some have different blades, or handles, or are larger or smaller, but if they are good quality they all cut. I feel kind of foolish now when I look at all the knives I have amassed. Do I really need 15 tl-29's , or 10 camp knives or 10 trappers. I think I may have to thin the herd a bit.

That said, I don't know if I will make it the hole year, and I kind of don't expect to. And while I have come to the conclusion that one knife would more than likely do every thing I need it to do, I also still appreciate the different patterns. When I think of the old timers that I have known it seems that while most had a knife they carried 90% of the time, but also had a few others that they would use time to time. Joe
 
I'm in, but can I be in with a muskrat? Two blades; clip & Wharnclife will handle what I want to cut most days. I've got a peanut, trapper, stockman, cannitler, barlow, but this Muskrat knife sees more pocket time than anything else at all. so I will stick with this one. Maybe Camo Kid is right, and time to thin the herd.

Durbin
 
Just started following this thread. Great idea! I know I could partially follow the experiment(with different style of knife, mind you), as I've pretty much done it in the past. Would it be cheating or going against the spirit of the rules by carrying a multitool at work? You see, I simply use my Leatherman too much around the firehouse to not see myself carrying it.
 
Interesting trend here the gravitation back to SAK's. Different reasons, but both Jackknife and Elcuchillo feel at home with their knives now. I'll tell you what that says a lot about the utility of that family of knives.

I'll keep holding out with the congress as long as I can. Any others still with their original selection?
 
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