Pen Blade on a Dink, Really?

Thanks, meako, that's why I bought the single blade amber bone myself.

Dma1965, your congress whittler is a beauty, but you kinda' make my point-- it is definitely not a dink at 3¾" closed, and the main blade on most dinks is as small or smaller than the pen blade on your congress. That's small enough for me.
 
To be honest, I rarely use pen blades on any knife. I guess that's why I've gravitated more toward single blade jacks or two-blade jacks with two full-size blades like my favorite #48:

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I love having a pen blade for a secondary. It's small size lets me reach into tight spaces and apply the edge exactly where it will do the most good.
 
I don't use the pen blades on my folders that often, but they are nice to have for opening letters, cleaning fingernails, etc. I also like to keep them absolutely laser sharp, and know that if the main blade ever starts to get dull, and I'm not in a position to sharpen, I have a second blade that I know is crazy sharp.

Off topic, but my beagle is named Dink.
 
I'd probably snaffle a teardrop jack if the red bone came with a single blade.Unfortunately there are too many others on the menu that I'm hankering for .
This one has a good sized secondary-
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Heck yeah, use them all the time. Sometimes no other blades but the small ones will do. I use them to get finer control when using my knife as an emergency wire stripper to strip fine wire. I use the smaller blades to trim molding contours for a perfect fit where my larger knives just won't go. Very fine material removal requires a very fine blade. I even "V" notch my cigars with the small secondary blades.

Since I almost always carry a large work knife, my secondary is most usually a smaller traditional knife of some sort.

I own very few single blade knives. For me, when I did more office work I had a EYE brand mini canoe that I carried with my other knives for years. It was a tiny power house. Too small do use on a job site for sure, but did all manner of everyday tasks (using both blades) with ease.

Robert
 
Hello, my name is Steven and I enjoy a good Dink knife, there it has been said. To be honest I tend to use the secondary blade at least as much if not more that the primary. Be they of the pen or Warnenclif variety I find them very useful and I save the main blade for serious cutting.
 
There's some knives, like the GEC 47 Hayn' Helper, or the S&M Congress where the "pen" blades are every bit as large (and thicker) than the main blade on a Case Peanut or similarly small knives. Frankly, I've always thought the pen blade on a Case Peanut was silly. The main blade is thin and small and pointy enough to cut whatever you'd expect a blade of such size to cut. The only thing I found the pen blade on a Case Peanut was good for was nicking my fingers accidentally.
 
black mamba said:
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SO . . . you users of peanuts and other "dinks"-- if you do use the tiny pen secondaries, what do you use them for? And if you don't use them, like I don't, then fess up so I won't feel like a pariah! ;)
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Well I think I'm disqualified from answering since I usually carry 4" or larger. But I have to think that those small pen blades would do a great job on fingernails :D

Mark
 
That's what scissors are for.

For most mundane urban tasks, those narrow little 1.5" pen knives, honed to a shaving edge, are wonderfully well suited. I've used them for soft fiber and synthetic ropes up to 3/8 inch thick, poly bags, lightweight cardboard, tape, envelopes, clamshell packaging, and the inner seals on medication and coffee creamer bottles. Their big failing is they're too small for food prep. Consider them oversized scalpels rather then undersized knife blades.
 
Woodrow F Call said:
I use the big blade for food stuff. The small blade is reserved for non food tasks. If it's sharp, it'll do most anything I need a knife to do...... cut open a 50lb bag of cat litter, cut open blister packs, cut rope...... it's just got to be sharp. A sharp little blade can do quite a bit.
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This would be me. The larger blade does food duty primarily... Slicing my morning apple, Pork chop, steak, chicken, etc. The small pen or coping blade opens packages, mail, etc.
 
arizonaranchman said:
This would be me. The larger blade does food duty primarily... Slicing my morning apple, Pork chop, steak, chicken, etc. The small pen or coping blade opens packages, mail, etc.
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Main blade on my Swayback Jack is used for food - fruit, tomatoes, (cooked) chicken, etc. So the little blade does all the work - packages, tape, letters, wire stripping, fingernail cleaning and so on.
 
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