[S]Ya'll[/S] Y'all knives too thick

I was wondering if maybe the advancements are mostly in ultra hardness and carbides etc, hence they need to be a but thicker to guard against cracking and breaking, but that just doesn't seem correct, really.
 
I would say one or some of the followings.

(1) Market preference, "thicker is better"
(2) Manufacturer's perception of market preference
(3) Need to make the blade heavy for good flipping action
(4) Manufacturer's paranoia of increasing warranty service
(5) Manufacturer's inability to make thin frame/liner lock knives
(6) Less manufacturing cost
(7) Heft gives luxury and trust
 
miso2 said:
I would say one or some of the followings.

(1) Market preference, "thicker is better"
(2) Manufacturer's perception of market preference
(3) Need to make the blade heavy for good flipping action
(4) Manufacturer's paranoia of increasing warranty service
(5) Manufacturer's inability to make thin frame/liner lock knives
(6) Less manufacturing cost
(7) Heft gives luxury and trust
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Point 5 is very interesting. I think the error margin would be very much smaller with thinner blades than thicker blades as far as framelock/linerlock is concerned. With a very thin blade, there is really not much difference between 10% lockup and 90% lockup, and the chance of lock slip or over travel increases dramatically.
 
Yeah.
I guess the tolerance is going to be tighter with a thinner blade.
But it can be done.
Factor Equipment made their Bit with 0.07" blade and sell it at $150 ($100 now), although I don't own it and know how good the lock up is.
 
For pocket knives, the thickness of the blade is more or less depending on the overall size of the knife. smaller pocket knives will likely have thinner blades. Sure there will always be exceptions. Larger pocket knives will be used harder, while smaller pocket knives are lighter duty.
There are plenty of smaller and thin bladed pocket knives out there. An example pic:
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Both the smaller knives fit (handle and all) inside the handle of the large one.
 
What happened to the edge of the biggest one?
Anyway, I disagree with that there are plenty of thin blade options, particularly in the modern knife category.
I need more.
 
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Bigfattyt said:
I reground 4 blades from Queen.

Then the spring broke on the 3 blade gunboat....
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Well that sucks.

I reground my Gunstock (which is amazing now) and I've done a Stockman for someone else. Turned decent knives in to excellent cutters.

Too bad they're not around anymore. I preferred them to GEC (Heresy I know).
 
miso2 said:
What happened to the edge of the biggest one?
Anyway, I disagree that there are plenty of thin blade options, particularly in the modern knife category.
I need more.
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I think it is just a reflection of the next knife. Besides being dirty and having some pocket link, I did not see anything wrong.
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What I said was you are not likely to find a thin blade in a large pocket knife, but that you can find thin blades in smaller pocket knives. The larger the pocket knife, the fatter the blades. Pocket knives are all purpose knives, and putting a thin blade on a large all purpose pocket knife will result in many getting broken - as opposed to specialty knives like a large filet knife, with a thin and flexible blade, because it's only used for filleting.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Materials got better. User proficiency got worse.
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That's a brilliant comment, but I think it goes even deeper. The current zeitgeist is for manly men to use manly folders, the thicker and more overbuilt the better, or so it seems. Never mind what Dr Freud would say about it, the taste is for impractical, chunky, macho knives. I confess to owning a Benchmade Adamas - :oops: - which is a lovely bit of engineering and a very pleasing object, but it doesn't slice as well as a £20 Victorinox SAK, D2 or no D2. What can I say? I have loads of knives, but it is interesting how often I reach for a humble carbon steel Mercator, unchanged in design since the 1860's and beautifully slicey!
 
Pilsner said:
That's a brilliant comment, but I think it goes even deeper. The current zeitgeist is for manly men to use manly folders, the thicker and more overbuilt the better, or so it seems. Never mind what Dr Freud would say about it, the taste is for impractical, chunky, macho knives. I confess to owning a Benchmade Adamas - :oops: - which is a lovely bit of engineering and a very pleasing object, but it doesn't slice as well as a £20 Victorinox SAK, D2 or no D2. What can I say? I have loads of knives, but it is interesting how often I reach for a humble carbon steel Mercator, unchanged in design since the 1860's and beautifully slicey!
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Part of proficiency is choosing a good tool even when it's not a fashionable tool. :D
 
Pilsner said:
That's a brilliant comment, but I think it goes even deeper. The current zeitgeist is for manly men to use manly folders, the thicker and more overbuilt the better, or so it seems. Never mind what Dr Freud would say about it, the taste is for impractical, chunky, macho knives. I confess to owning a Benchmade Adamas - :oops: - which is a lovely bit of engineering and a very pleasing object, but it doesn't slice as well as a £20 Victorinox SAK, D2 or no D2. What can I say? I have loads of knives, but it is interesting how often I reach for a humble carbon steel Mercator, unchanged in design since the 1860's and beautifully slicey!
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So what you're saying is that, ironically, a SAK is a low-T knife? :D


...I'll just get my hat and coat...:oops:
 
katanas said:
Was that before or after watching "American werewolf in London"? :eek: ;)
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We’ll be popping into The Slaughtered Lamb for a pint, don’t you worry about that. ;)

There are two rival breweries in the area: Theakston and Black Sheep. Black Sheep was set up by a member of the Theakston family who fell out with them, hence the name! They both make great bitter.

Anyway, Sheffield is also in Yorkshire, so there is something of a knife tradition up there. ;) My family is originally from over the border in Lancashire, and the rivalry goes back to the War of the Roses. But my folks retired to Yorkshire! :eek: It’s complicated. :D
 
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FortyTwoBlades said:
Mecha Mecha -- I think you'll like a model I'll have coming out soon. It's a tough little 3" bladed utility fixed blade with a THIN grind. Made to be sturdy enough for hard use by folks who know how to walk the line of what a tool's able to reasonably handle while retaining an efficient cutting geometry.
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I like the sound of that.
 
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