Traditionals: Your favorite blade pattern.... has it changed over time?

Toddwalla, that is a very nice Schrade.

I like stockmans, sodbusters, I like them all.
Whatever the blade shape on the knife I'm holding is fine.
 
Markesharp said:
This blade is deceiving from the looks of it.......Clip pattern? yes... Spearpoint functionality?....yep

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That is one cool knife!

I vacillate between drop & clipped. I should try a spear (justification for buying even more knives!)

My favorite knife is the Buck 500, so I guess a drop. I sure wish Buck would turn some out with clipped or spear points.

Can anyone recommend a spear-point along the lines of the Buck 500 series? I am a die-hard lock back man.
 
jamestap said:
That is one cool knife!

I vacillate between drop & clipped. I should try a spear (justification for buying even more knives!)

My favorite knife is the Buck 500, so I guess a drop. I sure wish Buck would turn some out with clipped or spear points.

Can anyone recommend a spear-point along the lines of the Buck 500 series? I am a die-hard lock back man.
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ms3902 said:
I used to be all about the spear point but over the years I have grown enamored with the clip point. I find the usefulness of it to be perfect for my needs. And if it has a swedge and a long pull it just don't get any better.
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^^^ he said it. my sentiments exactly. The only blade I don't like as a main is a sheepsfoot or wharcliffe. I love them as secondaries but as a main they don't work for me.
 
I would have to say; yes my taste has changed over time.

I've swayed between many different patterns trying out all sorts of different blade shapes. Generally I tend to carry two bladed knives. I like the secondary to be a pen blade. I use it for all sorts of things and often it will see more use than the main blade. For my main I'm less particular but have been leaning towards either sheepsfoot or clip blades.

For reasons unknown to me, I have never been able to get on well with either wharncliffe or spear mains. I use them from time to time, in the form of whittlers and SAKs but they're not my first choice at all.

Paul
 
My favorite pattern would be the stockman, it has covered all the bases for a few generations now.
But. That is the wrong answer to your question, so i would have to say a spear blade would cover my needs. A few years ago i would have said a clip blade.
 
I am obviously the oddball around here :D When I started using pocket knives, drop point and clip point were my favorites. Then I learned to appreciate the spear point, but now I clearly prefer the spey, sheepfoot and wharencliffe, even as single blades.

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Mike
 
I think I prefer a clip. But it really depends on a lot of things. Mainly what I'm cutting.
 
Interesting question.
I grew up with clip blades (sort of, anyway) and drop point blades. It wasn't my favourite. It was the only blade shape :o
Then I discovered spear/pen blades on SAK's. While I was never a fan of them, they seemed to fit in there. For years and years I wouldn't imagine a spear blade on a "regular" pocket knife.
Getting into multibladed slipjoints helped me discover other blade shapes (mostly straight edge ones). Now my preference goes for a straight/curved combo. The sheepsfoot is by far my favourite straight blade, while the clip/drop still rules in the curved blade cathegory.
For single bladed knives, I still prefer a clip/drop, although the zulu spear caught my eye more than once. Still have to try it out though :)

Fausto
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I've come to realize I do like a selection available to me, so have migrated from a "single blade" die-hard to a Stockman fanatic. I've grown to really like the Sheepfoot and Spey blades. The Stockman gives me both of these and all in one pocket knife. Throw in an SAK and I'm ready for almost anything! :)

I also for awhile I didn't like the Clip point blade. Now I'm fine with it and there's one in my pocket every day (Stockman again).
 
I always change up between blades and knives and love the stockman.... nothing wrong with liking variety. I am just talking about which one would it have to be? ;)
 
I grew up in the world of the SAK. As a kid MacGyver was my favorite show, and I always had a SAK in my pocket. My dad always had a traditional lock back or stockman on him, and I really did like the look of the big clip blades, but I was always more drawn to the spear. When I was a young collector of SAKs in my teens I read somewhere that the SAK used a spear point blade because it was passive looking. This intrigued me, because a knife was a tool to me and not a weapon. When I started getting into traditionals I experimented with them all and have found a love and appreciation for each and everyone of them. Although, If I had to pick today...I think would lean ever so slightly towards the clip blade. It came as a surprise to me, but I really find the belly and sharp tip useful. There have been a couple of occasion where I had to use precision to dig something out of a small place, and the spear wouldn't have reached like my clip did. I don't know if I'd call it an evolution though, because no matter what knife is on me, I always have a SAK as well.

Here is a very common pairing:

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same here, the only knives of reasonable quality were saks where i grew up and as a mcgyver fan i loved to carry them (and for their versatility-put that in first place) but as they are perfect as pocket knives their spear blade is very uncomfortable for food handling- so for quite a time i carried a sak (85 or 91 or 93) and in addition a bigger single bladed clip point knife. now i carry a stockman (medium or jumbo) or texas jack but have yet to find a knife with the perfect blade combo- for me i think it would be a jack knife with a large clip (broad like the jumbo stockman or the gec #81 abilene not as slim as muskrat-dont know the correct term) and as a second blade a fat sheepsfoot (like in the jumbo stockman just a tad longer - about 2/3 of the main blade)
b
 
"Has it changed over time?"

Yes, but only because a clip used to be the only blade type I would buy but now I no longer have a "favorite" since I now find many different blade profiles useful. I guess I lost my bias.
 
I have always been a big fan of clip point blades but in the last few years I have found the warncliffe to very useful. The big surprise for me is how much I like the trapper blade that comes on the GEC 73.

I am still not a fan of spearpoints.

I guess the answer to the OP question is that my blade shape tastes have expanded a bit.
 
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