Old Slip Joints

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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I know everyone carries an LCC, Emerson, Spydie, BM or some other production/collaboration, Or custom, tactical.

How many of you folks carry a simple slip joint like a Case, Queen, Schrade, Boker, Roebson, Remington, or any other older folder on a daily basis?

Also are you more apt to use the non offensive slip joint for lighter tasks,like opening envelopes and such, rather than whip out the BM,or Seebie, just for effect.

Like my dad always said,"Right tool for the right job" :)
 
I carry two EDC's. The first is a A.G.Russell Featherlite and the second is a Camillus Silver Sword slipjoint model 802 with a 1 5/8" blade.
 
I have been using my Queen D2 cattle king stockman with Cocobolo scales quite a bit often. It has been finding my pocket more than the high tech tacticals. I am on a slipjoint kick right now, I just love them. I will be getting, any day now, my Schatt & Morgan swaybelly trapper in ats-34 steel. I am confident it will blow away my Queen in quality, even though the Queen is a beautiful, well-made piece.

Slipjoints, you got to love 'em. Just drop them into your pocket and forget about them until you need to cut.
 
My standard folder is a large Sebenza clipped to my righthand pocket. My lefthand pocket holds my A.G. Russell Cattaraugus. I look for reasons to pull out the Cattaraugus. :D

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I allways carry a tactical clipped to my rt. pocket, but my left pocket is home for a s/j - and there are many jobs the little s/j is more suited for. I'm currently carrying a Kissing Crane, yellow-handled whittler with carbon steel blades. Am doing so 'cause I managed to put some really scary edges on it using some ultra-fine emery cloth I found in my toolbox. Cuts like a razor!!
 
I'll take the hit on this one...

No slipjoints in my pocket, or even in my house for that matter. I don't like them really.

The thread about only old-timers buying old-timers applies to me. Though I'm no whipper-snapper...:D

I would much rather use a nice custom folder for everyday tasks.
 
My "EDC" is one of three stockmans: cocobolo Queen, stag-bone Queen, or Camillus carbon series, and almost always have my leatherman Wave on my belt in a horizontal kydex sheath made my Normark.
If I ever need anything tactical, I guess I'll have to rely on my "inner Berserker" to get me through.
 
I carry either a Camillus Trapper with tortoise shell celluloid scales and carbon steel blades, or a vintage Schrade-Walden stockman with jigged bone scales and of course, carbon steel blades with that beautiful aged patina.

I have an appreciation for the convenience of pocket clips, one-hand opening, and so forth, but slipjoints have a charm of their own.
 
Buzzbait, I covet your knives. Your taste is impeccable. Slipjoints are my favorite.
 
Clipped to left pocket is a CRKT Contrail...in my right pocket, a Hen & Rooster stag junior stockman.

Where I work, pulling an AFCK out of my pocket would raise too many eyebrows...even the Contrail has gotten some hesitant looks.
 
My Bulldog stag bone Stockman is always in my pocket, along with a Wenger SAK. Clipped above them, is my small Sebenza.
Nothing I can't handle with this trio.
Funny, though, I look for reasons to use the Bulldog, or just pull it out to look at it.
Lenny
 
Usually have my Kissing Crane stockman with me - not much it can't handle. I find slipjoints get less "jeez what a scary knife" and more "ooh what a cool knife" comments from non knife knuts - though that isn't why I carry them. Have a few BMs though which I like a lot. Thats the cool thing to me so many knives: balisongs, axis locks, stockman, trappers, autos, fixed blades, neck knives, lockbacks, frame locks, ceramic blades, damascus, stag handles, G10, micarta. So many knives, so little time (and money)
 
I dont' carry one, but I use Case knives for whittling and wax carving. Couldn't imagine using anything else.
 
Originally posted by Buzzbait
My standard folder is a large Sebenza clipped to my righthand pocket. My lefthand pocket holds my A.G. Russell Cattaraugus. I look for reasons to pull out the Cattaraugus. :D

Damn Buzz that is a sweet knife.:mad: all my slipjoints are old excellent condition yard sale/estate auction knives, well except the two Case yellow delrin 2 blade trappers/3254 I just bought at a wal-mart close out at $4 each:eek: , now thats a great deal. :D :D
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Another reason I like slipjoints is performance--they really cut well, at least most of them, after putting on a proper edge.

Slipjoint blades tend to be ground thin enough to be real cutters. They don't make good prybars, but that isn't why I carry them.
 
I carried a case 6318HP that I bought in 82 for a long time until I thought I had lost it,found it in the cushion of my reading chair.That got me to thinking and I bought a case just like it ,except it has yellow composition scales instead of bone,it has the chrome vanadium blades,which i really like.Some times I carry a buck 307 premium stockman for a change,this knife has skinned several deer.Since my father gave me a john primble 4 blade serpentine stockman it is in the rotation also.I really love medium serpentine stockman patterns with rounded bolsters.I don't own one of them so called tactical knives,if I need something that i can open one handed i've never had any trouble opening a buck 110 that way by carrying it tip down in the pouch with the spine of the blade forward,pull it out gripping the blade,flick the wrist downward and there it is ready for duty.Admittedly this takes a little practice,but so does isshin-ryu,to be effective.
 
I usually have a Spyderco Calypso Jr ltwt in my right pocket, and a slipjoint in the left. Now it is the Queen cocobolo stockman, sometimes it is a Kissing Crane canoe or stockman, Boker stockman, Puma Prospector, or Eye Brand stockman.
 
I carry a Scrade old-timer middleman stockman. Cuts much better than any tactical folder I've owned.
 
I ALWAYS carry:
Cocobolo Queen Whittler in D2
Shrade Uncle Henry premium stockman
Case baby butterbean
Buck 301
KaBar 1097

I rotate these, usually one at a time. I always carry a leatherman pulse, and on occasion will add A Spyderco Viele or neck knife.

The 301 and 710 are early models. 70"s I think? They were my Grandfathers.
 
I carry two different knives, all depends on which I grab first.
Buck #305 and my trusty little 3 blade robeson shuredge #632319, I found it at a swap meet for 3.00 and I loved it, easiest little thing to sharpen. the buck I like to, but not as much I found it laying on the sidewalk one day a couple years ago.
 
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