The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Just spent a little time reading back through this great thread! I now only have two folding knives left. My trusty purple delica 4 and an s30v wharncliffe D4. I really have found that I need nothing more than these two.
I also double up my D4 with a Vic farmer or sometimes a Swiss champ, and find that there isn’t much I cannot handle with these two.
The delica is truly the best EDC knife there it hands down.
I used to think I needed to carry a pocket knife that I could pry a door open with. But truth is, the delica handles 99% of everything I throw at it. And I’m not easy on these or any other knife I have ever had.
MMAR.......how’s it going? The delica still the pocket king for you?
Or another option would be to do the zip tie trick on the spydie hole so it’ll have the wave feature with self deployment when pulling it out of the pocket .I've had a Delica 4 Black in ZDP as my EDC for about 4 years and I still love it. Being a compulsive Wicked Edge sharpener, the blade is noticeably shorter than when new.
I recently recommended the Delica to a brother-in-law. He got the Green in VG-10 and loves it, but since he has a bad case of Rheumatoid Arthritis, he found he doesn't have the finger strength to open the blade one-handed with the thumb-hole. I ground a little bit off of the spring with a Dremel and now he's managing OK. Much easier to do than I expected. As his illness is progressive, I expect to grind a little more off the spring in the next year or two.
AbalutelyBump for posterity. The world must know and continue to know the Delica Domination.