My stockman is my favorit.

[NirreBosse]

Last year I wrote some about my Queen #9 Stockman. I had some questions about the steel (D2) for example. The last year has prooven the Stockman design for me. Its very allround. Its like having a jackknife with my favorit blades: long clippoint and sheepfoot and a bonus short clip (yes I ysed the file on it). I still dont like the D2 very well but I live with the shortcomings of the steel. The clipblade is reground hevy. Its now flatground from spine to edge with a thin primary convexed edge. The etching is long gone.
The thing is this, att first I didn,t like it at all because of the edges and the shortcomings of D2, so I decided to us the crap out of it. And I did. Now after working with it for a Year, hunting, fishing, construktion, making food and wittling boats and whistles for the kids ,Its a knife I love to own. Why is it the knives you dont nurce that komes closest to the hart. Its the using and carrying that gives personal caracter.

Bosse

 

[Blues]

Congrats, Bosse on having truly made that knife your own. I agree with you that the stockman pattern is hard to beat.

 

[lambertiana]

The stockman has always been my favorite pattern. I started off with the Buck 301 in the 1970s. My current carry is a Queen #9, with the blades reprofiled and convexed.

 

[jackknife]

I've come a full circle in my life. I had a stockman back in the 60's, tried some of the modern stuff in the 70's, went back to a stockman in the 80's, gradually drifted to sodbusters in the 90's, and now am back to stockmen.

I guess if I had to pick just one pocket knife other than a sak as a go to knife, it may be a stockman. A 3 1/4 to 3 7/8 one, not bigger.

I once had the opportunity to watch a good old country boy do up a nice white tail with his Buck cadet in a very neat manner. I was impressed!