Traditional? Case Tri-Fold

[mqqn]

Hi Porch friends!
Our church holds a benefit rummage sale each year, and we volunteer at the two day sale.

This year I found a couple of gems in the sale that the other knife guy in the congregation overlooked.

A minty Case Tri-Fold knife. Designed by Blackie Collins as far as I can find info about it.

It has the stylized "S" and six dots, so 1994?

Anyway I wanted to share it with the Porch

 

[screened porch]

Very cool. I don't think I was ever aware of that knife at all. Thanks for sharing.

it probably violates our one rule of traditional folders: no thumbstuds.

 

[guy g]

Very nice! I have one in black, and no I wouldn't vote for it as a traditional. I'd photo it with a traditional and post it in the thread 'modern and traditionals'

 

[birdsbeaks]

Very cool. I don't think I was ever aware of that knife at all. Thanks for sharing.

it probably violates our one rule of traditional folders: no thumbstuds.

Looks to me like it violates it twice!

Perhaps the rule was written before even a cursory Google search could inform anyone interested that thumbstuds, and other one-handed opening devices, were relatively common dating at least as far back as World War I.

If that's not traditional, I've no idea what is.

Maybe it's time to put forth a more accurate description of a traditional knife, and if it's decided to continue to prohibit the posting of traditional thumbstud knives on the basis of just not liking how they look, then perhaps that could be stated more plainly.

 

[mqqn]

This one seems to me to appeal to the older folks, well it did to me anyway.





I had heard of a tri-fold before, but had never seen one.

l just wanted to discuss the knife, not ripple the rules waters.

I am a natural born troublemaker. ;^)

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

I also have a black Case tri-fold, and also Schrade tri-fold as well. Very cool little pocket trinkets.

Congrats on the score!

Edit. It is a Maserin Sghembo Tri-fold, not a Schrade. Had to go check.

 

[jc57]

Case Trapperlocks, of which I own two, are fine knives in the traditional style, but in the past the mods have not allowed them because they have thumbstuds and are liner-locks with no backsprings, and some even have the dreaded pocket clip!

So even though the Tri-fold and Trapperlocks are from Case, they don't fit the forum guidelines, at least not in prior discussions of them. Maybe things have changed, I am not a mod, nor do I play one on the Internet.

 

[knarfeng]

If you folks want to talk about this knife, I'm OK with that.
If you folks are going to argue over the rules, I'll just close the thread.