most used vs least used

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Hi all,

I was just wondering if you use one blade of your multiblade (i.e.stockman, trapper etc.) folder ALOT more than the others?

I find I use the sheepsfoot blade about 75% of the time when I carry my stockman. The clip maybe 20% and the spey blade about 5% (Only for flesh:eek::D). I just find myself using the sheepsfoot for everything from cutting plastic bands to cutting cardboard to cutting feed sacks. It's just a handy blade.

Same with the trapper. I use the clip blade 90% of the time and the long spey (don't know the real name) 10%.

I try and touch up my work knives once a week. Sometimes the sheepsfoot blade is the only one thats needs it due to it heavy use.

At this rate I'll have 2 allmost new blades on my stockman and one thats a handy toothpick (of course that at least a few years down the road, I don't sharpen it THAT much:D). Do any of you do this or do you try to "spread the load" evenly onto the other blades?

Sam
 
I also use the sheepsfoot the most. About 90% of the cutting I do is with it.
I find it the best all around blade.
 
With my trapper, I use the spay 90% of the time but with my stockman it is the clip blade, Go figure.
 
I'm in the same boat, Sam. I use the sheepsfoot more than the clip, and the spey the least. I carried the same stockman for over 20 years, and I had a knife with two very worn blades at one end, and a almost new spey blade on the other end. :(
 
on a stockman i use the clip 90%, the sheepsfoot 9.9%, spey .1%, on my trapper the clip gets the nod 99% with the spey at 1%. peanut, clip 75% and spear point 25%
 
I have a tendency to use the sheep's foot the most. For some reason, I enjoy sharpening them the most too. I am also a sucker for wharncliff blades on my slipjoints. When you have to pierce a tough material with a slippy, dress game or cut meat it is nice to have a blade with bit of a belly though. (Long live the multi-blade) ;).
 
Heck I use that sheepsfoot blade so much I ordered a Congress recently that has TWO - I've never had a congress before, but I'll probably like it alright since it has twice as many sheepsfoots as most other knives.
 
I'd say I use the Clip and the Sheepsfoot most, probably about 40/50 respectively. Clip gets the normal cutting chores, sheepsfoot the finer, more controled cutting. I do use the spey fairly often, but I keep it crazy sharp for fine slicing and flesh. As a dumb example, I used it to slice a little flap of skin off my thumb this afternoon from a nasty scrape on a machine, cuts like a scalpel. I also have an amusing (to SWMBO anyway) habit of grinding that little hump off the spey's spine. I'm a user, so if something makes me enjoy a knife a little more, or appreciate it esthetically a bit more, I'm not adverse to altering the grinds a little.

Anyone else do that? I know a lot of us reprofile the edge, but I mean for instance taking the hump off the top of the spey's spine, or smoothing the spine of the sheepsfoot to halfway between a sheepsfoot and warnny. I can't be the only one doing that type of thing.

Syn
 
I don't carry my stockmans all that much but when I do it's usually the clip blade that gets used the most. On my trappers the spey gets used the most, probably because it's easier to open since the nail nick is closer to the tip than the clip blade. On my muskrats and congresses it's whatever blade I happen to reach for unless there is a task that requires a specific blade. Whenever a nail nick is on the "wrong" side, that blade will likely get used less than the others.
 
lots of sheepfoot fans here :)
that's why I mostly carry a rigger knife with ONE big sheepfoot blade!

Next favorite is a spearpoint.

regards
surfer
 
I dont hesitate to do a little metalwork to make a knife suit me better. All spays I own is reworked to be spear or steep clip. An advantage in a stockman is that when the spey has gotten cliped it gives room to work the kick of the sheepfoot to make it ride lower in the handle without the spey being in the way for the nailnick on the sheepfoot. I also sometimes do light work on the handle to give more room for the nailnick. I have also because i,m lefthanded used my dremmel to make a new nailnick on the propper side for me in a trapper.

Bosse
 
I can see I'm the odd man out, here.


On a Stockman, I use the Spey the most, the Sheeps Foot Second and the Clip blade the least.
 
I almost never use the spey blade. My dog always looked at me a little funny if I opened it. Actually I prefer to have a stockman with a pen blade. I find it much more useful.
 
Stockman I use sheepsfoot the most.

Whittler I use the coping the most.

I don't get it... I think the position of the blade in relation to the handle is the only reason I go to them first.

I don't like speys on my trappers or much at all for that matter. If they're double bladed I'll opt for a wharncliffe as my second blade.
 
sierra11b said:
Stockman I use sheepsfoot the most.

Whittler I use the coping the most.

I don't get it... I think the position of the blade in relation to the handle is the only reason I go to them first.

I don't like speys on my trappers or much at all for that matter. If they're double bladed I'll opt for a wharncliffe as my second blade.
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I'm pretty much the same. I don't think it's the blade position, as I often find those placed awkwardly, yet they're the ones I use. In my case I like the flat edge and cutting tip of the Wharncliff or sheepsfoot.

With luck I'll have my 6207W Mini Trapper w/Wharncliff Real Soon Now (tm), and will see if I continue in the tradition.

-- Sam
 
I have a Muskrat so it doesn't matter :foot: :foot:

OK just joking....

I find myself using the easiest to open. Usually the Clip. I have a Queen Dog Leg Jack and both blades get time. The clip 75-80% more though.
 
i am pretty much in the same boat as F3X; whatever my fingers fall on pretty much, which means usually the main blade. that is, when i carry a multiblade. most of the time i pull out my opinel and don't have to worry about picking a blade.

i do find that i tend to use the clip blade for most tasks though, and save the spey and sheepsfoot blades for those special moments, and for whittling.
 
I generally carry a Case Texas Jack and really only use the clip blade. I keep the clip pretty much shaving sharp, but since it see's so much use, it'll often dull down to "normal" sharpness until I touch it up every few days. I grew up carrying a stockman pattern and was always taught to keep the spey blade like a razor for skinning critters and emergency use only. I've grown a liking to this Texas Jack more than a stockman, so I keep the pen blade in reserve for previously mentioned skinning and emergency uses only. I hate giving up the sheepsfoot blade as it is an outstanding utility blade, but I've also grown to really notice how it protudes into the palm of my hand while using the other blades of a stockman pattern.
 
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