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You fall into the category where the knife is smarter than you if it folds on you, then your doing something wrong, I say this without sarcasm. Of course a knife can fold on you as any tool can cause injury when used incorrectly. I'm 58 and have carried a slipjoint since I was 8 as I bought my first with lawn mowing money. Worked in the trades for over 30 years and learned to use the right tool for the job and countless times improvised but never suffered from a slipjoint causing injury by folding on me. Been bit from a knife, absolutely, like having a plier pinch occasionally. Just makes you wonder how a tool like a slipjoint survived to this day doesn't it
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Ok you seem to want to troll,so I'll bite. First I do NOT carry knives as something as frivolous as "jewelry", certainly I have knives that are attractive and of quality materials. Here are some of mine, minus a couple of 23 liner lock trapper this is my entire GEC collection
As you can see they ALL get used, sometimes used hard. The 23's are users as well btw. I've been carrying this years forum knife all week and its done everything from sharpen my pencil to scrape paint. Secondly I happen to like lockback knives quite well,I even started a thread just for them. However I never feel at a disadvantage using just a slipjoint, or *gasp* a friction folder. The last time I had a slipjoint close on me during use I was 10 years old. I learned then not to do stupid crap with a knife. In the 31 years since I've used many slipjoints and well damn wouldn't you know it I still got all my fingers,go figure. Your entitled to your opinion, everybody else has one. But to enter a sub-forum thats 90% dedicated to slipjoint knives and tell all of us how stupid we are for carrying them and to do so with a smug attitude, I wouldn't expect a warm welcome.
David, your much more restrained then me
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O Old-Knife-nut
Ok you seem to want to troll,so I'll bite. First I do NOT carry knives as something as frivolous as "jewelry", certainly I have knives that are attractive and of quality materials. Here are some of mine, minus a couple of 23 liner lock trapper this is my entire GEC collection
As you can see they ALL get used, sometimes used hard. The 23's are users as well btw. I've been carrying this years forum knife all week and its done everything from sharpen my pencil to scrape paint. Secondly I happen to like lockback knives quite well,I even started a thread just for them. However I never feel at a disadvantage using just a slipjoint, or *gasp* a friction folder. The last time I had a slipjoint close on me during use I was 10 years old. I learned then not to do stupid crap with a knife. In the 31 years since I've used many slipjoints and well damn wouldn't you know it I still got all my fingers,go figure. Your entitled to your opinion, everybody else has one. But to enter a sub-forum thats 90% dedicated to slipjoint knives and tell all of us how stupid we are for carrying them and to do so with a smug attitude, I wouldn't expect a warm welcome.
And that’s exactly what that was, my opinion over half a century as a woodsman, but PC culture keeps people from speaking up. Honestly, I could fashion a primitive stone knife quick in the woods, and have, rather than a non-locking folder. It’s a gentleman’s, children’s design. Yes, some dumb people who hunt attempt to use them in the woods, but that’s not what they were designed for. So it’s more like the guys version of doll collecting. Sometimes they get used, but for the most part, very little it’s designed to do, but promises so much. The right tool for the job. This is like using forceps to unbolt something. From P-38’s, to saw mill blades, I’ve got hundreds of designs I’ve put through the paces if at all possible. The non-locking folder is a gentleman’s blade. A blade of grass will cut, but would you use it on tasks ? So goes the non-locking folder. Now, if you claim this is merely opinion, check any real woodsman’s choice. Though they may have an EDC folder for civilization still in their pocket, only an idiot would choose not to carry the right tool for the job. A total mess to dress anything with, if it doesn’t fold up on you, creating a possible issue with infection. Dumb ! Once again, I’m not a troll. I just can’t understand why ??? Not very bright, or experienced guy’s, unless it’s all about the money $$$. Collectibility creates profits for profiteers.
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Jesus ! Another Pansy loving their church talker. That means only what is agreeable. It seems like a majority of you people on here make this your business. You ought to just put that in the damn site title. That way normal people would leave you to your scamming.
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