Non Traditional Folders

pmew said:
I like modern steels, the designs and the engineering involved - but I live in the UK. Which pretty much rules out anything like the above. Mostly due to the size and the lock, but It's not just the legality of it (which is important to me) it's the perception here. The UK has a serious problem with knife related violence. When I take a peanut out of my pocket, an SAK, a congress or an older small pattern; it isn't observed with nervous suspicion in the same way as something more modern is - I tried carrying a Spyderco UKPK many years ago and got nothing but grief.

The main point though, is that I like traditional patterns more. I love the look and the feel. The walk and talk of a well made slipjoint and the character of them.

To me, many modern patterns are quite sterile - perfectly engineered, each identical to its sibling. Traditionals have soul.
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Well put.
 
I carry mainly fixed blades as my workhorses, either strong side or scout carry on my belt.

However, I always have an SAK in my left front pocket (Thanks Paul!), and I always have a nice traditional pocket knife in my right front pocket.

I use them all for different tasks. They ALL get used, and used well.
 
I'm not closed towards any knife style in itself...but I do carry traditionals and SAK's only.
They serve me well, and I like them. :)

Fausto
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Typically I have an alox sak pioneer, a GEC 15 HJ, and a Spyderco UKPK.
The spyderco is non locking, their version of a slip joint. I use it for opening packages at work.
Sak gets the dirty work, with the big flat head and awl getting 50% of the work, the 15 gets the rest.
 
I like traditionals for quite a few reasons. Lefty friendly, thin blade stock usually easy to get to a razor edge, the list goes on.

I get a modern occasionally and miss my traditionals for various reasons whenever I do. I just found a modern I liked quite a bit. The blade is about 3.25" and I figured it would make a good work knife anyway. I carry a svord peasant mini now. I'm a machinist, so factory work. Still, the first time I got it out and opened it with one hand (no "flip", no "clack") my co-worker jumped back, eying the knife.

Once there's no flack you can never go back I guess.
 
100% traditionals only. I need something that looks purty while being used.
 
I used to carry a traditional and a modern one handed opening knife together. Most of the time I ended up carrying three on me. A Case of some sort in my pocket, a Buck 110 or 112 on my belt and a modern knife clipped to another pocket. Never really dug that, so I got one of those aftermarket thumbstuds and started putting it on my Bucks. They look horrible, but they do the trick....
 
JD Bear said:
I used to carry a traditional and a modern one handed opening knife together. Most of the time I ended up carrying three on me. A Case of some sort in my pocket, a Buck 110 or 112 on my belt and a modern knife clipped to another pocket. Never really dug that, so I got one of those aftermarket thumbstuds and started putting it on my Bucks. They look horrible, but they do the trick....
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Have you tried opening the 112 or 110 with your thumb but without the thumbstud? Ive always done that with lockbacks since i was a little kid. Only recently have i realized im almost completely alone in doing this
 
fishcakes said:
Have you tried opening the 112 or 110 with your thumb but without the thumbstud? Ive always done that with lockbacks since i was a little kid. Only recently have i realized im almost completely alone in doing this
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I used to do it with my 112 all the time, but not the 110. So I'm there with you. That thumbstud doesn't look quite as bad on a 110. They really are handy, if you don't mind a little eyesore. I stopped caring about the looks since it really doesn't matter. Except when I carry my custom 110. Then it does matter....A LOT :cool:
 
Traditional slippie comes out for most cutting tasks. Spyderco Delica 4 with half-serrated blade stays clipped to my pocket, mainly for emergencies. Call me crazy, but I think even the frontiersmen would have appreciated the ease of one hand opening for cutting yourself out of horse reins, or whatever else you might get caught in.


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When I carry the 110 (rarely) I pinch the blade and with a little wrist flick, it snaps open.
 
I always have a traditional in my pocket and about 3/4 of the time I add a one hand opener with a pocket clip. The modern blade is handy for some things, but it can come and go depending on the situation. The traditional is always available.
 
I'm also a huge fan of the waved endura, glockten. I grew up with slippies but got back into knives after not carrying them for years with these new modern folders... I got a kershaw on sale and then bought a benchmade 940. Then I traded and sold probably 20-30 knives before landing on the few I still possess. but it wasn't long before I realized I missed the old style. I carry a slipjoint and either a folder or fixed blade, usually a necker (esee izula or BRKT adventurer I). But I just recently sold my 2 sebenzas to make funds for more slip joints and fixed blades... I guess what we like is always changing with new things that come out but also how we grow as people and users of knives.
 
I prefer traditional slip joints because they're sexy. Modern knives are just tools. Good ones though. I sometimes carry a Kershaw Leek... good steel and a very useful blade shape in a one handed opener. In hunting season, I bring a Reinhard Muller, designed in Germany, made in Italy, and sold in Canada. It has a tiny bit of soul, Ironwood scales, pocket clip, CPM S90V. It's a workhorse, and deserves to be with me in hunting season. My best friends are slip joints though.
 
No joke about them being our best friends... I've seemed to misplace my beer scout and it is causing me an unexpected level of stress :confused:
 
PNWJimbo said:
No joke about them being our best friends... I've seemed to misplace my beer scout and it is causing me an unexpected level of stress :confused:
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I had a day missing one of my knives last week. I thought I'd put it, still in it's box, in the old tackle box that I keep some knives in. I went looking for it and it wasn't there. I tore apart my office and bedroom looking for the thing. It turns out it was in the tackle box, it was just under a couple of knife rolls and I didn't see it when I initially looked in there. For a good 8 hours there I was pretty upset though. (I was doing other things during this time and looking when I had a free minute here and there, I didn't spend 8 full hours looking)

I'm hoping you find your knife and can return to enjoying it soon.
 
Cory Hess said:
For a good 8 hours there I was pretty upset though. (I was doing other things during this time and looking when I had a free minute here and there, I didn't spend 8 full hours looking)

I'm hoping you find your knife and can return to enjoying it soon.
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Yes this is exactly me right now, doing work and tearing apart the apartment whenever I have a free moment, triple checking places I know I've already looked. It's a crazy feeling lol, thanks for the kind words of encouragement :)

EDIT: Found it! It was on my multi colored rug, must have fallen out when I was petting my dog. Massive sigh of relief. Thanks again Cory :D
 
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Hey Hey!! Congratulations! We normally do find them, but it's pretty devastating when somebody reports that the knife goes missing and isn't found.
 
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