Perhaps the best traditional knife design.......EVER!!!

Hey, you've got some real good carry knives right there!

Tomorrow morning why not drop your dad's stockman in your pocket and try a day or two with just that. A stockman is about as much knife for the size/weight relationship as you can get. Three blades in one pocket size handle. Think of how handy your dad found it.:thumbup:
 
seniordep2010 said:
Still gotta get one of my own though. Any suggestions on a good starter? I like the Barlow style and the swayback wharncliffe style, but I'm open to trappers and all the others.
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Check out the WR Case website, they have a decent selection. You might find one or two you like.
 
Get the one that catches your fancy. (Otherwise you'll get no end of suggestions and recommendations from this "unbiased" group. [cough]. ;)
 
jackknife said:
Hey, you've got some real good carry knives right there!

Tomorrow morning why not drop your dad's stockman in your pocket and try a day or two with just that. A stockman is about as much knife for the size/weight relationship as you can get. Three blades in one pocket size handle. Think of how handy your dad found it.:thumbup:
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I think I'll do that jackknife, I'm sitting here just admiring the stockman and the barlow. I just can't put them down...I think I like the tradtional knife world already. :thumbup:
 
What Blues and Jackknife said.

I would have to tote that stockman of your dad's. Looks like almost 6 inches of blade that folds up nicely in about a 4" package. Now that is something that is not found in one of the clipped one handers unless it is a Carson designed "cross lock". :)

That knife still has a lot of life left in it and it would be cool to use the one your dad used and maybe pass it on to a son of yours one day. Put a small drop of oil in those joints and work it a little, touch up the edges and your good to go for a few decades.
 
I like the look of that knife at the bottom, nice pale colour bone on it but I can't fix the pattern.Is it a Harness Jack, but it's a Dog-Leg shape..perhaps that isn't a punch blade but a well worn down pen? So much variety in Traditional knives, pocket-riches!
 
Bastid said:
I would have to tote that stockman of your dad's. Looks like almost 6 inches of blade that folds up nicely in about a 4" package. Now that is something that is not found in one of the clipped one handers unless it is a Carson designed "cross lock". :)
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That's about what I read in one of the knife magazines some years ago. They had an article on one of those 'what if' senerios, and they looked into what folding knife had the most blade per inch of carry package/handle.

They had some crazy formula, but it came down to the large stockman pattern. Three blades, somewhere around 6 or 7 inches of cutting edge, in a 4 inch package.

Can't beat that with a stick!:thumbup:
 
I'm not sure what it is, but I do think that that is a punch blade and not a worn down pen, it's a looker isn't it.
 
I can honestly say after getting out my dad's old knives, I don't even want to look at that all black modern folder I was carrying everyday. After seeing the beauty and craftsman ship of those old knives, it just makes that modern one down right ugly. I think the change has begun :rolleyes:
 
once you're out of the city slippies are the way to go.[i.m.o.p.] queens & gec are all i use when hunting ,fishing, or just tooling around in the bush. no clips or thumb studs just a great old timey using pattern.when you really consider it ,the attachments make a pocketknife ugly.
 
I guess I really never noticed how nice and useful these little knives are. I think simplicity is beauty and now I notice that in my knives, DennisStrickland is right, it is the attachments that make a pocket knife ugly, sure maybe more functional, maybe, but it doesnt make it look better.
 
seniordep2010 said:
I can honestly say after getting out my dad's old knives, I don't even want to look at that all black modern folder I was carrying everyday. After seeing the beauty and craftsman ship of those old knives, it just makes that modern one down right ugly. I think the change has begun :rolleyes:
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It sounds like you've been converted. Great decision!:thumbup:
 
That Dogleg Harness Jack:thumbup: is my favorite also. I Would love to see a few close-up pics of that knife if you get the chance.

You really can't go wrong with that group of knives, but since I don't see one in those photos, I would suggest you try a classic Clip/Spey Trapper. I prefer the 3.5" size, but if you like a bigger knife a 4"+ Trapper is a whole lot of knife.

You'll be knee deep in these Slippies in no time :D
 
FLymon said:
That Dogleg Harness Jack:thumbup: is my favorite also. I Would love to see a few close-up pics of that knife if you get the chance.

You really can't go wrong with that group of knives, but since I don't see one in those photos, I would suggest you try a classic Clip/Spey Trapper. I prefer the 3.5" size, but if you like a bigger knife a 4"+ Trapper is a whole lot of knife.

You'll be knee deep in these Slippies in no time :D
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Yea I can snap a few pics of the Jack, no problem at all.
 
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Seniordep,

I would recommending reading Jackknife's stories. It will change your life and open up a world of potential for traditional knives. I Highly Recommend it.

God Bless
 
kidwholaughs said:
Seniordep,

I would recommending reading Jackknife's stories. It will change your life and open up a world of potential for traditional knives. I Highly Recommend it.

God Bless
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Oh I've already started reading them, I think I've read about 10 or so. They are excellent stories, and everytime I read one I say to myself "Whoa I want that knife" then I read the next story and say it again. :p
 
Welcome to the dark side young one...

Yes, this is the dark side... they are adictive, and multiply on you, and you will spend all your time with them, shuned by the 'normal' knife world....

Great feeling isn't it? :D :D

For the record, some of us do like the mid folding hunter... once we have removed the (stupid too strong of a word? nope.) stupid lock. :) That frame; A 4" folding hunter with a normal clip blade from Case is a dream of mine.

G.
 
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