Slip joiny knives instead of tactical folders

[puukkoman]

If most of your peers are carrying modern or tactical knives, and you are carrying a traditional-style knife, well... that's one thing you have that obviously makes you cooler!
"Hey man, check out my new blacktical beast~! Dual thumb-studs, automatic-galactic super-lock safety, spring-actuated flipper grip, and tanto point!"
"Oh, yeah, that's neat..." you nonchalantly reply, with a stifled yawn, "If you really need that sort of thing to get by. Me? I do just fine with this nice jigged bone and these 2 scalpel blades." *puts dark shades back on*

 

[knarfeng]

I now like traditionals because you can get them super cheap and beat them up (rough rider) or get a good one that will fill many roles and last a lifetime (SAK), but mainly stick to modern knives.

He said he mainly carries traditionals, but his friends mainly carry moderns.

I was talking to you.
You should have already understood that. I left you a visitor message last night about it.

 

[rcoulas]

I gave my oldest son a Case medium stockman with amber bone scales about 2 years ago. He is now 18 and wouldn't give it up for the latest greatest modern style folder. I know because I asked him if he wanted one and all he said was why? I love my stockman.

 

[zippofan]

The first knives my sons received after their knife safety training in Scouts were traditional style. Yes, they (and I) use modern folders, but overall prefer our slipjoints.

Every year at our annual Scout Christmas party there are always knives that are put into the Sneaky Santa game. I've been making sure that my guys put in traditionals from Rough Rider instead of inexpensive tactical style folders. The Rough Riders have been quite popular, "stolen" more often than the modern style knives. When my son put in a No. 6 Opinel last year, one of my other Scouts took note of that particular package. When it was his turn, he pretended to make a fuss about what he was going to pick, while quietly grabbing the Opinel package and taking it back to his seat, waiting to open it until after a few of the other guys had their turns.
He knew it was going to be something good, and he was right. Now he takes the Opinel camping and leaves his former favorite one hander in his pack :thumbup:
Guess what kind of knife from us is going into the Santa game this year? Yep, another Opinel, and a couple of the guys already asked where they could get their own.

 

[B.F.U]

I was talking to you.
You should have already understood that. I left you a visitor message last night about it.

I can't read visitor messages on the app I use. I did just get online and look at it. Honestly, I have no desire to argue at all but let me point a couple things out; first, my original post had one sentence that mentioned moderns and one other that vaguely related to them. My post was vastly about traditionals and 100 percent supportive of the op's decision to carry traditionals. Second, you didn't quote me in your post and being that the op had more mentions of moderns than I and that if a post does not quote a specific previous post it is assumed to be in response to the op, I don't think it is out of the ordinary that I thought you were addressing the op. I was just pointing out that he may have mentioned moderns but his post was predominantly about traditionals, as mine was. Last, if your definition of trolling is to post something meant to draw negative reactions (as is the loose definition of trolling) I don't see how my post smacked as trolling. I may appreciate different traditionals in a different way than you, but I do appreciate them and did not say anything negative about them as a whole. Also, the only response I drew was from you.

Again, I don't want an argument. As I said earlier, I can't read or respond to visitor messages with the app I use. I wanted to present my point of view, and therefore had to do it in a post rather than a reply to your message.

 

[knarfeng]

ALLHSS, if you don't want an argument, then stop arguing.

Your next comment is likely to get an infraction.

Stabman and ALLHSS, your comments on non traditional knives are being moved to a separate thread in General.

 

[arizonaranchman]

I gave my oldest son a Case medium stockman with amber bone scales about 2 years ago. He is now 18 and wouldn't give it up for the latest greatest modern style folder. I know because I asked him if he wanted one and all he said was why? I love my stockman.

My son is 24 and was all into the modern stuff. I gave him a Northfield #33 Conductor in Blood Red bone and he LOVES IT.

 

[jackknife]

My son is 24 and was all into the modern stuff. I gave him a Northfield #33 Conductor in Blood Red bone and he LOVES IT.

I think that's a lot of it. They can't appreciate it if they don't get exposed to it. I see so darn many of the young guys these days, who for one reason or another, just have not been exposed to the outdoors, and/knives. Life has changed in America and lots of the rest of the world. More urbanized living, more single mothers from divorce, more absent dad's amiss in their duty to the child they helped bring into this world. More kids getting their info from video games and senseless action movies as to what's 'cool' and not. I know that I see a lot of this at the club where young guys show up wanting to join, wanting to learn to shoot and all they know is what the idiots at the gun shop told them to sell more high end guns and tactical gear.

Kids have a way of knowing a good thing when they see and handle it. They just have to be exposed to it, that's all.

Carl.