Trying something new

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I'm going to try and carry only a couple of slipjoints and see how far I get. I have always carried a large "tactical style" knife in my right front pocket for the past 20 years. I mainly carry that knife for show, as it gets very little use, but I enjoy carrying a knife that is a well built one, and unique to nonknifers.

The two slipjoints I am going to carry are a Hammer Brand 4-bladed Canoe pattern, and this will go into my right front pocket, and a second slipjoint, Steel Warrior Cigar Whittler pattern, that will go in the pouch that is built onto my wallet. The wallet is a Bills Cases Urban Wallet and has a couple of pockets on the outside ot the wallet.

Going to see just how long I can go doing this, and this alone! Btw, this should give me a really good idea of how well these knives hold up to day to day use.:thumbup::)
 
... and another one is very soon down the slippery slope with rest of us... That's how it begins... :D Just test carry and soon you carry nothing but slippies... :D
 
I see your on the beginning of slipe and slide. Slipe the knife on the counter (or into your internet shopping cart) slide the money outta ya wallet. :D
 
You'll be ready for anything carrying two. I carry one that I don't worry about (scratches or dropping it) and another for show and tell.
 
Carrying two, one for show and tell... Reminds me of a story. As Plant Engineer and Maintance Department manager at my place of work in the 80's and 90's, I inherited a policy that if a person's pocket knife was damaged or broken in the course of their work, the company would provide a replacement (also extended to personal tools, which the company required the employee to furnish) and this policy was abused by some of the employees. Anyway, an employee had brought me a knife with two blades broken out of it and I had put it in my pocket with my "good" knife.

My brother knew I always carried a nice knife and I had just pulled it out to do some little task and put it back in my pocket with the junker that he didn't know about. Now, in our part of the south, it was not unusual for folks to "drop knives". This amounted to each person holding his knife in his closed fist over the palm of the other person. On the count of three, both would drop the knife in his hand into the palm of the other. In the scheme of things, you usually wound up about even. But in this case my brother had seen the knife I was using and he says "Let's drop knives", to which I, of course, answer "okay", so we both reached into our pockets and got our knives. What he didn't know was in the pocket with the good knife he had just seen was the junker scheduled for the trash can. So, you can imagine his surprise when the swap was made. He won't drop knives with me anymore.

It isn't unusual for me to carry a nice knife and a well used one at the same time so that the used one gets the uglier tasks.

Ed
 
I started out the same way. Carried high end titianium tactical style folders exclusively up until about 8 months ago. When my father passed away I ended up with his traditional knvies that included a few well used Case and Schrade knives. I started with a Case CV peanut that he carried all the time and found that for such a small knife I was using it all the time while my Sebenzas and Hinderer stayed at home in the drawer.

Now all I carry are traditional slipjoints. Thre is something about the design that just has "soul".
 
Cutter, I don't think you will find yourself having a cutting situation that the knives you're carrying now won't 'cut it."

In fact, between the two knives, you probably have more inches of cutting edge than on your other modern knife. With one blade set aside for rougher jobs, you may end up with more sharper edge available than before. It's nice to have a spare blade on hand without having a whole other knife in the pocket.

Carl.
 
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