SLIPJOINT LOVERS OF THE WORLD TELL US YER FAVORITE PATTERN

[Steve-O]

My dad has a few Case Sunfish...can't stand 'em! Talk about big ugly! Give me a wharncliffe whittler anyday, wish someone made a canoe with a wharncliffe opposite a clip. (go Danbo!)

Steve-O

 

[littleknife]

- serpentine stockman with square bolsters
- trapper
- doctor's knife with 2 knife blades (a smaller one instead of the spatula)
From the traditional patterns however I prefer the one bladed slipjoints over the multiblade ones:
- Laguiole type
- Texas/Arkansas toothpick
- several Hungarian sheperd's or horsmen's patterns (sorry but unable to post pics).
Their Hungarian names are
"kerek fejes" = 'round headed' (after the rounded, almost semiglobular front bolster);
and "maskara" (sorry, I don't know what would be a good translation): the upper line of the handle is more or less like on the serpentine stockmans, the lower line consists of two almost equal 'fingergroves'.
All these knives have massive brass bolsters and thick brass liners. The scales are usually made of stag (local, not sambar), hardwood or cattlehorn. Bone is rarely used nowadays. The blades are usually something between the California and the Turkish clip point types, the belly is slightly recurved.