Slipjoints

Great Eastern Cutlery (GEC) seems to be the most popular in this forum. Good luck finding a pattern you like that isn't sold out.
 
Welcome to the forum! I have 2 and they are the nicest knives I own. I can't find a flaw. You'll pay a little more for the quality.
 
Collector Knives sells the LionSteel slipjoints that he has special ordered. You might take a look. High quality and better steel than most traditional makers in the US.

GEC stuff is good. There are periodic releases of Northwoods slip joints (through KSF) that are made by GEC. They usually sell very quickly. Go to the Great Eastern web site and you can see pictures of many of the knives they have made.
 
csc is back from the dead too, who knows maybe queen will rise from the ashes as well...
 
You can't actually buy a new Canal Street Cutlery knife if you missed the preorder.
 
Rough Rider makes a good slipjoint, in both common patterns and in a lot of patterns others don't make, and have a pretty good reputation here.

They let you try different patterns without bankrupting the bank. If you decide you like a pattern, you can always "upgrade" to a higher name brand, if you choose to.

Check out this thread on them.
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/rough-rider-related-slipjoints.582468/
 
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PaulS. said:
Great Eastern Cutlery (GEC) seems to be the most popular in this forum. Good luck finding a pattern you like that isn't sold out.
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Pretty much in my world it s CASE.
I keep trying to buy other folders but they suck when I get them and I send them back . . . or I have to overhaul them and make them from a knife shaped object into a knife. What is he talking about ? = blade rap, weak springs, goofy colored handles nothing like the catalog photo and literally rounded dull / never sharpened "edges". On $70 knives ! ! !
I would pay $170 if I could find what I want.
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as was mentioned I see what I want and can't get one the same year it was made . . . none available. What a load of BS that is.

So yeah . . . I keep looking for something "better" or more expensive and I keep buying Case knives because they know how to deliver a very good tool at an unbelievably good price (for a USA made knife).
Mostly I have a pile of CASE Trappers and I just bought two single blade Slimline Trappers that are way better, ergonomically, than I ever thought possible.
CASE dude :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
Wowbagger said:
Pretty much in my world it s CASE.
I keep trying to buy other folders but they suck when I get them and I send them back . . . or I have to overhaul them and make them from a knife shaped object into a knife. What is he talking about ? = blade rap, weak springs, goofy colored handles nothing like the catalog photo and literally rounded dull / never sharpened "edges". On $70 knives ! ! !
I would pay $170 if I could find what I want.
or
as was mentioned I see what I want and can't get one the same year it was made . . . none available. What a load of BS that is.

So yeah . . . I keep looking for something "better" or more expensive and I keep buying Case knives because they know how to deliver a very good tool at an unbelievably good price (for a USA made knife).
Mostly I have a pile of CASE Trappers and I just bought two single blade Slimline Trappers that are way better, ergonomically, than I ever thought possible.
CASE dude :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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I like Case knives just fine, but I think they wrote the book on “goofy colored handles nothing like the catalog photo.” :D
 
The old Fightn' Rooster and Bulldog slippies were German made on American patterns and of very high quality. The Black Box Winchester's made by Queen for Blue Grass Cutlery in the late 80's and early 90's are also great quality and usually at an affordable price when you can find them--KV
 
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