Traditional vs. Non-Traditional

[TLARbb]

Modern traditional

I vote for "modern slipjoint" as opposed to "traditional slipjoint".

I think we have branched from "folders" and "fixed" blades into more classes.

That's where we get kind of mired down trying to decide if some of the modern versions of old classics fit into our traditional genres.

Anyway, that's why I asked a while back about some of the older Gerber designs such as the '"Folding Sportsman" series and the "Silver Knight" series might fit. I spoke too about the "Paul" knife. It is easy to see that the Paul is not a traditional knife, but it is not a modern tactical knife either. (Notwithstanding Lone Wolf's Defender with a Paul lock). So, there is always going to be gray areas when innovation brings a new mechanism to folders.

I guess I'm rambling again. I do that sometimes....

Ed

 

[jacknife]

Using Blues's reasoning, that I will know it when I see it, this looks fine to me, it seems to have something classic in its design, in fact I really like it. It looks like a real workhorse.

I feel it's mostly the pattern that decides if it's a traditional to me.



For some reason this one does not speak to me as being Traditional.

 

[navihawk]

I vote for "modern slipjoint" as opposed to "traditional slipjoint".

I think we have branched from "folders" and "fixed" blades into more classes.

That's where we get kind of mired down trying to decide if some of the modern versions of old classics fit into our traditional genres.

Anyway, that's why I asked a while back about some of the older Gerber designs such as the '"Folding Sportsman" series and the "Silver Knight" series might fit. I spoke too about the "Paul" knife. It is easy to see that the Paul is not a traditional knife, but it is not a modern tactical knife either. (Notwithstanding Lone Wolf's Defender with a Paul lock). So, there is always going to be gray areas when innovation brings a new mechanism to folders.

I guess I'm rambling again. I do that sometimes....

Ed

Modern Slipjoint makes sense. When I was reading this thread I was thinking of the Rolox. Not traditional but goes in the history as a classic.

 

[hunterfisher808]

Very interesting thread. My 2 loves in life are hunting and fishing. I carry a traditional slippie with me on every hunting/camping trip, but carry a Spyderco Pacific Salt while fishing. This choice is based solely on the blades H1 steel which is totally corrosion proof. On every fishing outing I have wished that someone would make a traditionally patterned knife with H1 steel. It would be the cats meow...well to me anyways as I could then feel free to use a slippie in and around saltwater. Modern traditional.....yeah there's place/niche for it in todays world

 

[cnas122]

Well, my opinion is 1) that is an awesome knife, 2) it is 100% traditional and 3) I WANT ONE!!! In my opinion, a traditional knife is any type of knife my grandfather would have wanted to carry. And my granddad would have been damn proud to carry a Lanny's Clip. A chisel ground Emerson linerlock tactical in ivory, nickel silver and carbon...the materials might fit the bill but it's not traditional. A titanium (or micarta, G10, G11, carbon fiber) slipjoint with a clip point blade made in the spirit of the old knives....now that's traditional.

Subcategories just give me a headache because it's something else I have to remember and my pea brain is running out of storage capacity.

 

[neeman]

Today's modern is tomorrow's traditional.

It is a dynamic definition restrained by nostagia and poor memory.