Traditional EDC

Of all my slipjoints, these three get carried the most:

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To day Queen brown delrin Dogleg Jack
Yesterday Hen & Rooster red picked bone small Stockman
Tomorrow, ????
 
Don't have any photos, digital camera is dead temporarily, but I carry a Case red-bone medium stockman from the mid-1990's, and occasionally a Case amber-bone mini-trapper.

Stockman's are my favorite pattern, I buy more of those than any other. It's comforting to see so many pictured here . . .

thx - cpr
 
ilbruche said:
I usually have this Fox N Hound stag lockback on my belt.

But today the pocket carry was a yellow Case Copperhead CV EZ 49 Wharncliffe.
Tomorrow it might be something else.

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Fine looking lockback there:thumbup::thumbup:

Can you state some approx sizes please?
 
neeman said:
Do you have any Queen's in maple?
if so how does it compare to Cocobolo?
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I don't have any in maple. I have two stockmans in cocobolo - #26 as seen above, and a #9 large stockman - and a two-blade folding hunter in cocobolo. I like cocobolo.
 
The one knife I carry the MOST is probably my nicest red bone case - which is a USA era mini trapper

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If I am headed for the woods, I will carry a trapper - usually this MM with nice stag. Skinned my son's first deer with it a month or so ago.

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Hey all,

A Trapper of some sort and I, are typically joined at the hip on any given day. Its one of the all time great patterns with multiple uses. I have about a bakers dozen or so last count but I recon that may change any day now since they are hard for me to resist purchasing when I see one that tickles me.

Here is one that I love to work hard. She crept into my sheath last evening whilst I was a cooking for the kids and Mama in the middle of a B~B~Q.. She help me to test the venetian back-strap(tenderloin of Bambi for you city dwellers:D) I was cook'n to make sure it was just right and wouldn't poison anybody..;):).. An old Schrade Walden a dear friend traded me whom is now long deceased, but not forgotten.

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I edc lots of stockmans, mini-trappers, canoes, pens, ect.. but Trappers are my mainstay.
 
for me it is an Old Timer 8OT most everyday sometimes switch it out for a Case CV Tiny Trapper. On my belt is a Leatherman Wave (not very traditional, i know).
 
Zip7,

What's that knife on the top? I haven't seen any mini trappers that look like that.

Sunnyd,

That's a nice trapper you have there. It looks like it would have some stories to tell if it could talk.
 
Chris,

It's a Case mini trapper (6207) made between 1965 and 1969. The old configuration was a short pen blade instead of a spey. They made them that way at least through the 70's.
 
I got me some slight patina on my MM stockman. Sliced up some roast at lunch. Took a ceramic slab to it when I got home and smoothed up the edge. I dulled it some though. I think I need a strop or something.
 
Zip7,

That explains why I've never seen one like that before. That's a nice looking patter.
 
Zip7 said:
Chris,

It's a Case mini trapper (6207) made between 1965 and 1969. The old configuration was a short pen blade instead of a spey. They made them that way at least through the 70's.
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Sounds like a bigger, more comfortable Peanut!! Cool.
 
Yes - they have a full middle liner - the frame is like a trapper in every way - just 3.5" long.

I have a couple of them - that one and one from the 70's.

They are a pretty solid little knife - most of them have strong springs and tight blades. Never seen one with a lazy blade. They have half stops too. Feel much sturdier than the modern case mini trappers.
 
I recently bought a Case mini-trapper after years of not buying any new traditional patterns. I was surprised how good it felt to do so. Sure, I love my "tacticals" and still EDC my Sebenza, but there are times it's such a pleasure to pull out and use an old-fashioned pocket knife pattern and put it to work. Actually, this mini-trapper also has half-stops on the blade tangs, and the out-of-box edges are far better than on the Case knives I've bought up to a decade ago. It's also rock-solid. In fact, the edges on both the clip and spey blades rivals my sharpest tactical-style knives, even my Spydercos. Which is a surprise, because in the past, I've almost always had to touch up edges out of the box, or remove wire edges, on many traditional patterns.

Now I'm considering more traditionals. Maybe a 2-blade pen, or more stockman knives. I pulled out my old red bone canoe and used it for the first time in years.

As a side note, the traditional patterns are more fun for me to "fiddle" with while relaxing or watching TV than the modern knives. I often run my fingers over the unique jigging patterns in the bone handles and such.
Jim
 
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