Two modern midsized slipjoints I like. one with a fathersgift story.

[NirreBosse]

I like this size of knifes. Much flater than my american slipjoints as the swayback jack or buck 303. Plenty of knife to do edc cutting. The red one is modified to grip the screws on my riflescopes and a few places on the bicykle and the orange peeler has now become a screwdriver for glasses. The silver moneyclip can easy be cliped to a shirtpocket. As I so like my cases, bucks and schrades they seldom get used but newer the less They could be the only knife In a mans life without problem.

(and sometimes they are.)

I bought a few of the reed ones and I have given them away to friends that just got fathers for their first time and at least one of them, a friend and coleage at work has now carried his for 9 years every day. Didnt become a knifenut but a frekvent knifeuser. And his boy referes to their knife as a heirlom already.
Also gave the son a Mora scoutknife this year so he gets the chanse to cut a little.



Bosse

 

[jackknife]

I never did appreciate the lobster pattern until I go old enough to have some common sense. Lobster patterns make for a number of blades/tools in a very flat package. And SAK's do make fine gifts. I've lost count of how many I've gifted out to the non knife carrying members of the family and friends. They may not have become knife nuts like us, but they did become edc knife users and carriers of small lobster pattern SAK's. Just too handy to leave home without once they become accustomed to having it with them. And alox is a very nice touch.

Carl.

 

[NirreBosse]

Im not familar with the lobster pattern. Is it small knifes with tools bouth ways and dual internal springs.
Then the different variations of the classic also categorice as lobsters?



Bosse

 

[quattromori]

Yes Bosse, you are right about lobster patterns. And even if some might consider it a bit too modern (compared with the old Sheffield models), there is no doubt that the Victorinox Classic is the all time bestselling lobster knife
Personally, I'm quite a fan of smaller SAK's as well. Weird as it may sound, the tool I use less is the blade, although I recognize that it could handle 99% of the tasks I face day by day. As a sidenote, and as much as I like alox, I will keep with plastic handles and retain the tweezers.
I have to be honest, I often wondered how nice it would be to get a more "elegant" version of a SAK on my keys: wooden handles, tools of choice, maybe slightly harder steel, 3" long...yes it's good to dream

Fausto