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

Like alot of other folks here I switch pocket-knives frequently, but there are two knives that I can't seem to stay away from: my Victorinox Cadet and a Camillus yellow-scaled congress (yello-jacket 712).
I really dig the yellow delrin scales and I have'nt met anyone else who carries this specific model.

Good luck,
Allen.
 
I am a romantic and a nostalgic person, I love the beauty of the traditionals, they just don't light my fire. What you described as traditional reads to me "heavy, slow, slippery, no locks, rusting". My EDC is a small zytel one-hander (CRKT Skeeter) with the clip removed, since I don't think a clip fits with business casual dress.

To the guy whose only one hander is a EZOut - no wonder you're not impressed! I have one, and it's the least impressive of my bunch - it's relegated to beater duty (if I'm putting on a tool belt or grabbing my tool bucket, it's the knife I take along).
 
I've carried a knife of one sort or another pretty much everyday since I was 7-8 years old. Traditionals were it for many years until as an adult the modern "tactical" renditions began to replace those older styled slip joints. Today I have many of the "black majic tactical" models with G-10, micarta, ect...wonderful steels which reportedly don't rust and hold an edge forever, locking mechanisms which boggle the mind. Axis Lock, Liner Lock, Compression Lock, Rolling Lock, Integral Lock, heck some that open automatically (they used to call them "switchblades"!) They are truly wonderful users.
However, they lack one thing-character or "soul" for lack of a better word. My taste are swinging back toward my beginnings. Today, while I still use plenty of "tactical" type knives clipped in a pocket somewhere, theres always a classic slipjoint riding in the left front pocket. Give me a stag handle or jigged bone and carbon steel blades in a classic slip joint pattern and that knife seems to speak to me. It has a depth the other styles can't match. Moore Maker, Schatt & Morgan, Queen, ect...are names that are becoming more common in the knife safe. I'd love to find a dealer who handles the Marbles classic series pocket knives. Stag handles and carbon steel.....yeah man!
 
At the moment I'm carrying a Whitewing Warlock. It is absolutely one of my favorite knives. The Warlock isn't really a traditional design, but it has the soul of one -- lockback design with nicely matched premium stag scales and a wharncliffe blade (CPM 3V). Mine has a thumbstud, but sometimes I wish that I'd gotten one of the early models that were available with a nail nick.
 
Some of my daily carries.Been carrying slipjoints since I was a boy.Here are some of late.
 
Could not find a large wood handled one hand opener.
I am now having a CQC7A fitted with wood.
I just love the feel of wood.
Having lost a few knives due to the lack of a clip, I no longer buy them.
Keys and coins also play havoc with a knife if it is loose in your pocket.
 
Awsome collection, nifrand! I wish I had more bone-handled knives, but most of mine, alas, are delrin. Functional, but not as cool looking.

Steve
 
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