Pic Request: Carried and USED Custom Slippies

[Rick]

I've recently accumulated a few custom slip-joints for EDC, but I admit it: I treat 'em like they're made outta spun sugar and moonbeams for the most part. If I need to cut something much more demanding than an envelope or a loose thread, I pull out a comparatively inexpensive 'beater' lest I in some way mar those beautiful hand-finishes. I keep telling myself that life is too damn short to baby a solid, functional, cryo'd super-steel cutting tool, but...they're just so...pretty.

Help me overcome my hesitation, would ya? Post some pics of custom slippies whose blades have logged some real mileage.

 

[kc custom]

I beat the sh&# out of mine and I can't even afford one of my slippies.
Ken.

 

[Rick]

Don't mean a thing without pics, Ken. :grumpy:

Besides, you can always refinish your own work in short order, or just build another one!

Now, if gazing fondly at a knife could somehow wear it out, that shadow toothpick you made would be toast by now...

 

[duckman1]

Here's a Tony Bose trapper I use.

 

[Rick]

Here's a Tony Bose trapper I use.

*ahem* Open, please.

 

[Mike Robuck]

The fun is in carrying them and using them. If I had a Porsche I'd drive it.

 

[duckman1]

 

[wagglebee]

Mike, who made the top knife (the only mark I see is a fish)?

 

[duckman1]

Nice matched pair Mike.

 

[kc custom]

OK maybe I do treat mine a wee bit rougher than most folks this one's been in
my pocket every day for like a year and a half. Yea if I need to ream pipe with it I do.
Ken.

[/IMG]

 

[Blues]

Mike, who made the top knife (the only mark I see is a fish)?

Don Hanson. :thumbup:

 

[wagglebee]

Thanks Blues.

 

[Mike Robuck]

Here's a more recent scan of the Hanson. It's W2 carbon so it's OK that it has changed color a bit.

I dropped the Bose swayback on my kitchen tile floor and had to send it back to Tony to get a new tip, but then again a "friend" of mine used it to pry open a plastic bucket before that happened.

 

[Rick]

Beautiful knives - you guys certainly have some heurvos. I really gotta lighten up and go with it. There's something strangely appealing about those scars...

Were there tears following the first real scratch? Maybe just one that you were careful to hide while muttering "bah - just got somethin' in my eye" ?

 

[Mike Robuck]

Rick, I was the same way for a long time. The first Bose knife I bought was a desk knife. The day I got it I went out into my garage and broke down a stack of cardboard boxes so I would never have to worry about using it again.

But with that said, I still have some custom knives that I treat like my firstborn.

 

[Durwood]

The Hanson slippy with looks fantastic with a little mileage on it:thumbup:

 

[Rick]

OK maybe I do treat mine a wee bit rougher than most folks this one's been in
my pocket every day for like a year and a half. Yea if I need to ream pipe with it I do.
Ken.

[/IMG]

So, uh, where's the 'after' pic?

The finish looks just like your new knives...

 

[Mike Robuck]

The Hanson slippy with looks fantastic with a little mileage on it:thumbup:

It's a hard one to put down since Don's steel cuts and holds an edge so well.

 

[waynorth]

Rick, I looked up in my email, that my friend in Rhode Island sent me this knife on 21JULY2008!
I picked it up at the P.O, put it in my pocket, and it's been there ever since!
Darn near one year.
I have picked packing tape out of it, and other guck, and I'll use it to slice up an apple, or strip some heavy plastic sheet so I can inspect a crawl space, but I won't open any paint cans with it. It whittles a mean toothpick, and will still slice a ripe tomato super thin. I touch it up only occasionally.
The bone is getting nice and mellow!
Another 50 years and it'll be just perfect!! When you are 64 (yeah, she still loves me!), you just don't beat up a knife as much.

P.S. You can see I love the wharncliffe blade!

 

[Rick]

Rick, I looked up in my email, that my friend in Rhode Island sent me this knife on 21JULY2008!
I picked it up at the P.O, put it in my pocket, and it's been there ever since!
Darn near one year.

You know, Charlie, you really outta change your pants a little more often.

I have picked packing tape out of it, and other guck, and I'll use it to slice up an apple, or strip some heavy plastic sheet so I can inspect a crawl space, but I won't open any paint cans with it. It whittles a mean toothpick, and will still slice a ripe tomato super thin. I touch it up only occasionally.
The bone is getting nice and mellow!
Another 50 years and it'll be just perfect!! When you are 64 (yeah, she still loves me!), you just don't beat up a knife as much.


P.S. You can see I love the wharncliffe blade!

All of these knives actually look great with a few miles under their belts - these pics are going a long way toward ameliorating my fear of finish damage - but there's something about that Bose 'as ground' finish that just swallows up the scratches and scuff marks.