Josh K
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I recently received a Sodbuster from Keith Johnson and decided to see how a week would go without any other knife. In reality this is the first slipjoint I've carried since my "official" BSA knife when I was ten or twelve.
I plan on updating this as the week progresses and it should be interesting.
Tuesday, April 14th. Day One
Normally all my knives are one handers. I'm opening a jar of salsa, and it has that plastic wrap you have to pull off. So I pull it and of course it rips this narrow little hole. I pull the other side, an even smaller tear and no luck. Now my one hand is covered in salsa, and my right hand is digging in my left pocket. Hard to open this thing with one hand (actually I cheated and used my teeth). Once open, it cut a very nice slice around the plastic. The blade is thinner then what I normally carry, and that probably helped some. I did end up using it a bit more that day. One package in the mail, a couple of envelopes, and a banana. So far I like it a lot. I'm not missing the lock all that much, it keeps the knife simple.
Wednesday, April 15th. Day Two
Today went well. I opened a couple more boxes, picked my nails a bit, some mail. I don't normally hard use my knives, and I feel that this slip is really nice because it's not overkill. Glides through everything and holds a nice edge. Small in pocket as I mentioned.
Thursday, April 16th. Day Three
Not much use today. Really liking how it fills my watch pocket and doesn't take up a whole corner like my clip knives. It's a beauty to play with, love the micarta. I'm still a sucker for synthetic handles, I doubt I'll ever get into bone or stag as a handle material.
Friday, April 17th. Day Four
Decided to update today as well. Just a minor point, but the sodbuster blade shape, as much as I like it, doesn't have much of a point. I was stringing some water bottles up and decided to punch a hole through the bottle cap, feed some paracord in and tie a figure eight to suspend it. I couldn't quite get the tip in, so I used an awl to ream out a larger hole. One downside but the upsides are great. Lots of belly to work with, especially up at the tip.
Saturday, April 18th. Day Five
Had a lovely Saturday at work. As it's been mentioned, carrying this knife really makes you think about what you're cutting and when. I feel it makes you more prepared because you're laying out the cut ahead of time and preping for it. Perhaps I'm over analyzing opening mail or boxes?
Sunday, April 19th. Day Six
Normally I toss my T-Mag in my pants for the sunday best dress, but not today. The slip carried very well loose in my slacks. No sharp corners or snags.
Monday, April 20th. Day Seven
And now I've come full circle. There are definite aesthetic advantages to owning a simple slipjoint, and there are also definite mechanical disadvantages. In my normal day to day activities, I realized fewer of the mechanical ones and a lot more of the aesthetic ones. Perfectly flush lockup, lovely scales, flush pins. Just something much more pleasing to the eye then a CRKT M21. I think that I'll be adding this to my EDC rotation. The only draw back I really noticed was that the Sodbuster design doesn't leave much of a point. Similar to the Spyderco Lava. For cutting cord and string, it works wonderfully.
Tuesday, April 21th. Bonus day.
So I forgot to add any other knives to my pockets, and realized that now I'm in the eighth day of carrying solely a slipjoint. I like it.
That's the week. No attacking car doors or trees that needed to be batoned apart, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.
I plan on updating this as the week progresses and it should be interesting.
Tuesday, April 14th. Day One
Normally all my knives are one handers. I'm opening a jar of salsa, and it has that plastic wrap you have to pull off. So I pull it and of course it rips this narrow little hole. I pull the other side, an even smaller tear and no luck. Now my one hand is covered in salsa, and my right hand is digging in my left pocket. Hard to open this thing with one hand (actually I cheated and used my teeth). Once open, it cut a very nice slice around the plastic. The blade is thinner then what I normally carry, and that probably helped some. I did end up using it a bit more that day. One package in the mail, a couple of envelopes, and a banana. So far I like it a lot. I'm not missing the lock all that much, it keeps the knife simple.
Wednesday, April 15th. Day Two
Today went well. I opened a couple more boxes, picked my nails a bit, some mail. I don't normally hard use my knives, and I feel that this slip is really nice because it's not overkill. Glides through everything and holds a nice edge. Small in pocket as I mentioned.
Thursday, April 16th. Day Three
Not much use today. Really liking how it fills my watch pocket and doesn't take up a whole corner like my clip knives. It's a beauty to play with, love the micarta. I'm still a sucker for synthetic handles, I doubt I'll ever get into bone or stag as a handle material.
Friday, April 17th. Day Four
Decided to update today as well. Just a minor point, but the sodbuster blade shape, as much as I like it, doesn't have much of a point. I was stringing some water bottles up and decided to punch a hole through the bottle cap, feed some paracord in and tie a figure eight to suspend it. I couldn't quite get the tip in, so I used an awl to ream out a larger hole. One downside but the upsides are great. Lots of belly to work with, especially up at the tip.
Saturday, April 18th. Day Five
Had a lovely Saturday at work. As it's been mentioned, carrying this knife really makes you think about what you're cutting and when. I feel it makes you more prepared because you're laying out the cut ahead of time and preping for it. Perhaps I'm over analyzing opening mail or boxes?
Sunday, April 19th. Day Six
Normally I toss my T-Mag in my pants for the sunday best dress, but not today. The slip carried very well loose in my slacks. No sharp corners or snags.
Monday, April 20th. Day Seven
And now I've come full circle. There are definite aesthetic advantages to owning a simple slipjoint, and there are also definite mechanical disadvantages. In my normal day to day activities, I realized fewer of the mechanical ones and a lot more of the aesthetic ones. Perfectly flush lockup, lovely scales, flush pins. Just something much more pleasing to the eye then a CRKT M21. I think that I'll be adding this to my EDC rotation. The only draw back I really noticed was that the Sodbuster design doesn't leave much of a point. Similar to the Spyderco Lava. For cutting cord and string, it works wonderfully.
Tuesday, April 21th. Bonus day.
So I forgot to add any other knives to my pockets, and realized that now I'm in the eighth day of carrying solely a slipjoint. I like it.
That's the week. No attacking car doors or trees that needed to be batoned apart, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.
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