NON-tactical, traditional, "classic", etc. ...

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Does anyone else out there occasionally long for non-tactical, traditional, and/or "classic" knife designs?

Does anyone else out there occasionally enjoy carrying say a Buck 110, or Case XX knife--with no pocket clip, no thumb stud/hole, no tanto chisel-grind blade?

Does anyone else out there occasionally enjoy feeling Stag or bone scales, instead of G-10, micarta, or titanium?

Just curious...

Happy Holidays!
 
No on slipjoints.
No on nail nicks.
Yes on nice scale materials.

On the low end, the Kershaw Double Cross is a good update.
On the high end, the Minandi is great.
 
I answer that call with Buck 110's from Pete's Custom Knife Shop. I can't take mine out anywhere without somebody "Man that's nice". The best materials, great workmanship, and they are beautiful.
Later,
Alex
 
Hi Ron, yes, we did the deal on the LMF.

I have replaced it in my collection with a Chris Reeve Mountaineer 1.
 
I carry A schrade Uncle Henry 2 blade pen everyday. I can't live without it. I also love the Texas Toothpick design. If somebody would make one with a thumbstud that would be perfect. Slipjoints are great.
 
I love more traditional, non-tactical (what ever that means) blade designs, but I do like the one-handers in a folder. Other than for the sake of returning to the "old designs", I don't see any reason not to carry a one-handed folder on a clip. Dressy or casual, I've never been a situation where there wasn't one to fill the bill. OTOH, most of my fixed blade utility pieces are of traditional design.

Never been much for bone handles, but I do love exotic woods. Yes I have a Buck 110, but I can't think of a situation in which I would carry it now as my primary knife -- unless all my others had been stolen or lost of course.
 
One of my favorites is a Randall model 3, India stag handle, thumb serrations, 4.5" blade, beautiful, and a good skinner too. For whatever reason I love stag handles. Next will be a custom 110. When every ounce counts I carry a Buck Selector with three blades, a lightweight 110. Would love a Cadet or Stockman in stag, someday I may find them.

Tom
 
I do prefer wood and stag handles but otherwise, I like the more modern designs in folders. For fixed blandes, I like things a little more traditional.
 
When I started becoming a knife knut, all I looked at a was tactical and strictly utilitarian designs. Fixed blades had Kraton handles, and folders were pocket clips.

Now, the pendulum has swung the other way and I find I'm seeking more traditional looking knives, especially those with wood handles or wood inlay folders.

Not that I'm getting rid of my tactical stuff - more knives, more knives, MORE KNIVES!! MMOhahahhahahahahahah!!!!! :)
 
I always have 3 knives (sometimes more) one of the always in my pocket knives is a Buck Trapper. I've carried it for 20 years and does most of the cutting work!
 
If its a folder it HAS to have a clip and either a hole, stud, or disc. I do however enjoy a set of nice looking scales!!
 
I guess my meager collection is resoundingly traditional. I carry my new Winchester wharncliff whittler or a Case yellow handled stockman every day. In my knife box are slipjoints by Schrade, Queen, Remington, Camillus and traditional type lockbacks by Buck, Kershaw and Gerber. The only one-hander I've got is an EZ Out, which I don't even really like.
 
Pretty much all my knives are "traditional", although lot of them have delrin handles. These are the ones that appeal to me the most. Fixed blade hunters, slipjoints, SAKs, and Buck 110-style lockbacks! I do have a Buck Odyssy and a Kershaw Whirlwind, which are nice knives, very handy for things like bicycling and jogging.:) But by and large, especially for work, hunting and fishing, I like the "traditional" styled knives.

Steve
 
I can certainly appreciate the convenience of features like the pocket clip and various one-handed opening devices. And I usually carry at least one knife of this variety--most often a Calypco Jr. Lt., but sometimes a BM 940, and sometimes a Kershaw Boa.

But I am NEVER without either a Stockman or Trapper pattern slipjoint. And if I am only going to carry one knife, it will usually be the slipjoint. I like jigged bone and carbon steel.

My favorite knife to carry hunting is a Marbles Fieldcaft. You can't get much more traditional than that.

I like the modern folders, and I'm going to invest in a Sebenza or a DDR EDC some of these days, but I will never lose my affection for the traditional patterns. Things usually become traditions in the first place because they work.
 
Eh sorry, the word i'm looking for is no...

I love synthetics, and IMHO for any kind of EDC application pocket clipped knives and neck knives are the only way to go, the closest I get to a "traditional" knife is my Camillus 154CM EDC, I don't even like most woods on my knives, except for several of the very nice "reddish" woods, but they tend to be found on folders of design for which I care not. I've got a couple buddies who are into amatuer(sp?) knife-making and at least one of em is gonna hook me up with a pretty good handmade with some red maple on it, but it'll be a large fixed sheath knife - so it probably won't find it's way into my EDC shelf, then again... I might adapt to belt knives, but it aint likely.
 
I'm partial to metal handles on folders.
V-nox SAKs for slip joints (love the Pocket Pal/Secretary). Gotta add a Soldier to the line up sometime soon.
The Buck 112 is one of the finest folding hunter designs in existance, if they would only put a titanium handle on it...

Paul
 
YES! Although I have a few of the tacticals, I much prefer the traditional designs with stag, wood, or bone scales.
 
Yep, my favorite knives are the giant Stockman patterns offered by some companies. My collection is probably 65% percent traditional. They just seem to work out better for me:).
 
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