There Can Be Only One (Traditional knives, please)

[Jack Black]

I had a girlfriend who found The Kurgan attractive! Disturbing!

Edit - Though I have to say, if you met a bloke in the pub who said, "It's better to burn out than to fade away", you'd think, are you still living with your mum mate?!

 

[oldmanwilly]

If the Kurgan was really coming after my knives I'd take the following steps:

1: stash my entire collection in the nearest church (since he can do no harm in a place of worship).
2: stop by said church for a daily "devotional" to rotate through my carry of the day.

If that doesn't work I suppose I could get by with only my Northfield #73 trapper in brown horse-cut(?) bone. I wanted to pick a mid-sized fixed blade as my "one and only" but realized I am lacking a suitable traditional fixed blade in my collection. Darn, it looks like I'll have to start shopping around for a new fixed blade...

 

[Mitt]

If I had to pick a folder it would be my GEC 43. If I had to pick a fixed blade it would be this titanium alloy blade my grandfather made. If I had to pick between the two it’s the fixed blade.

 

[Prester John]

I haven't got a blade long enough to cut off his head, so I'd fill him with lead from my Walther Creed, and then while he was temporarily out, I'd saw his head off.

You know a .44 Magnum, "the most powerful handgun in the world," could "blow [his] head clean off," according to Dirty Harry, anyway.

 

[veitsi_poika]

I'm surprised he would want to take my old celluloid knives, hope he stores them away from y'alls NICE knives

 

[veitsi_poika]

I'd probably go with my stainless Ulster scout... wish it said "SPAM CAN OPENER".

 

[Wowbagger]

DANG IT
I did it again.
Sorry guys / gals.
I got to rethink this.
I'll get back to you . . .

Well I've been thinking about it. I like the "idea" of my 110 but to be honest, for a user, I would have to go with my Case Genuine Stag full size Trapper with the spay blade removed.
I love the extra full handle.
The steel, though SS, seems to be a point higher hardness than my many other Case Trappers
The blade shape is perfection for me. I know you are all tired of my ragging on GEC but honestly I would feel like I was going down a step if I had to loose this Case blade shape to the GEC Trapper clip point.
so . . . yeah . . . THIS !



Here's the other side (old photo with spay blade in place).

 

[Wowbagger]

Thanks. I probably should have thought about it, but I guess I just assumed since it was a "traditional" forum and all.

No it is entirely my fault. I get to looking at the list of new posts and just click on it and respond before I see it is the Traditional forum. I get so used to just conversing whether it is the Maintenance forum or the General forum or the Spyderco forum that I forget where I am and that gets me in trouble only here. I'm glad there is a forum devoted to Traditionals.
I can't guarantee I won't fall on my face again.

 

[Prester John]

I'd probably go with my stainless Ulster scout... wish it said "SPAM CAN OPENER".

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Good choice. Looks like my first knife (about 1970).
SPAM doesn't need an opener, though. It comes with a pull-top. I think several decades ago it came with a key opener (a metal key you could roll back the lid with; younger people may not have seen that).

 

[Getahl]

It’s a Great Eastern Cutlery Texas camp knife. They come up on the exchange here or the auction site every so often. There was also a cattle knife and a whittler they did on the same frame too. They’re all really well made. 4 7/8ths closed length, so they’re big.

Thank you, kind sir. That's a very pretty scout knife, for lack of a better description. Nearly five inches is a bit large for my tastes, though. A beauty, nonetheless.

 

[veitsi_poika]

Good choice. Looks like my first knife (about 1970).
SPAM doesn't need an opener, though. It comes with a pull-top. I think several decades ago it came with a key opener (a metal key you could roll back the lid with; younger people may not have seen that).

True, but then again a Kurgan isn't really coming to take my knives so it's all hypothetical... in this scenario, my SPAM needs an opener

 

[Will Power]

You know a .44 Magnum, "the most powerful handgun in the world," could "blow [his] head clean off," according to Dirty Harry, anyway.

This should settle the matter.....

 

[Old Biker]

That's easy my Swiss Champ. I have had one of these, or it's forerunner the Champion, in my pocket everywhere I went for the last 40 years. Usually paired with a buck 110 or some other easily accessible cutting blade/s. The other knives get all the glory, this one just quietly does it's jobs.

O.B.

 

[Will Power]

What kind of pockets do you have to carry that hulk about? Surprised it has dropped out straight away

 

[Old Biker]

Just the left front pocket of your standard Wrangler brand Genes.

O.B.

 

[Travman]

I think I would save this one .

 

[JPricey82]

Featherweight hunter for me:

 

[Prester John]

Featherweight hunter for me:

Beautiful knife. All you really need, I guess.