Stop with the half stops

[dundak]

I’m getting curmudgeonly. Tired of every knife having to have a half stop. I like a nice firm, smooth cam tang. I especially hate it on round bolstered knives and stockmen. It does not show better build quality. Just stop it.

 

[Hammer67]

 

[kamagong]

Plenty of spring knives without half-stops, unless you are focused solely on GEC knives.

 

[Blues]

I’m getting curmudgeonly. Tired of every knife having to have a half stop. I like a nice firm, smooth cam tang. I especially hate it on round bolstered knives and stockmen. It does not show better build quality. Just stop it.

Reese Bose: "They don't need half stops."

Tony Bose: "Yes they do."

Now a few less come with them. (And it's everyone's loss.)

I like 'em both ways. (Very occasionally on the same knife.)

 

[jmh33]

Half stops RULE!!!
John

 

[Jack Black]

All pocket knives originally came with half-stops. French cutlers introduced cam-tangs as a way of reducing wear to the spring, which causes the blade to rise in the well (when closed), and eventually for the knife to lose it's walk and talk. The invention was apparently slow to catch on in Sheffield, because Sheffield cutlers foresaw they would sell less knives, and they stuck with 'built-in obsolescence'

 

[jmh33]

Half stops RULE!!
John

 

[JohnDF]

Either way is fine with me.

 

[Blues]

All pocket knives originally came with half-stops.

I would argue that is not universally true as stated.

 

[Jack Black]

I would argue that is not universally true as stated.

I should have said all spring knives

 

[Blues]

I should have said all spring knives

Even then, I'm sure you know more than I do about their history...but it's hard to imagine that no one made a folder with a spring before they figured out how to build in half stops.

But...I dunno. So, further, affiant sayeth naught.

 

[CVamberbonehead]

Yeah, I am not a big fan of half stops either. It wont put me off of a knife I otherwise like but they are mostly pointless to me.

 

[Wharn]

I prefer no half stops. I cut myself pretty bad on a GEC 23 because of the half stop.

 

[The Amazing Virginian]

Couldn't disagree more strongly with OP. Every slipjoint should have half-stops. And for every blade or tool.

 

[hornetguy]

I’m getting curmudgeonly. Tired of every knife having to have a half stop. I like a nice firm, smooth cam tang. I especially hate it on round bolstered knives and stockmen. It does not show better build quality. Just stop it.

sooooo...... I'm sort of getting a feeling here, that perhaps you are against half stops... maybe I'm reading more into it than you intended, or maybe you should clarify, to avoid confusion....

 

[King of the Cheese]

How about we have a little from option “A”.. and a little of option “B”. People buy what they want, but the people without half-stops can use up all the bandaids.

 

[Blues]

How about we have a little from option “A”.. and a little of option “B”. People buy what they want, but the people without half-stops can use up all the bandaids.

Just remember...it's not the fall that kills you...it's the sudden stop.

(I am not advocating either method as stated previously. I own many of each.)

 

[Tyson A Wright]

I have (and even love) knives without half-stops, but every single one of them would be improved by adding half-stops.

 

[Hammer67]

I've been tirelessly advocating for quarter stops for some time now, to no avail.

 

[JohnDF]

I cut myself pretty bad on a GEC 23 because of the half stop.

I doubt that it was the fault of the half stop... were your fingers out of the way?