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No not a new handle style. I am having an indecisive choice of knives these days. For a while I was going smaller, like the sodbuster junior vs the regular size sodbusters, and 3-3 1/4 inch stockmen like Old Timer middleman vs the Old Timer 8OT senior stockman. Then after a while I go back and start carrying the others again. All my knives have a different size counter part. Like my barlows are matched by daddy barlows, large stockmen and small stockmen, regular soddies and junior sodies.

These days I seem to change my mind about every three weeks, and go back to the opposite of what I'm packing. Large/small and back again. I think I'm getting scitzoid from too many knife choices.

Any of you guys ever have trouble making up your mind what to carry?

Oh- off topic- I did a bunch of pan fish the other night with a new way. In the paper bag of flour and salt and pepper, I added a little cayenne and a pinch of cilantro. Used olive oil instead of vegtable oil to fry in. Gave the fish a whole new slant, flavor wise.
 
I have that problem. I love smaller and medium stockmans. I can interchange them, but I also find that I cannot leave a SAK at home; I often need many of the features on them. I also love tl-29s, and own about 7 of them, but almost never carry them; I keep thinking that they will be as/more useful, but they just don't work in many situations.
 
Well, you could do like I was doing. Peanut at work and the Daddy Barlow at home. That was until I got that danged Yello-Jaket 712Y congress and got the edges the way I liked em. That has become my single carry knife. Today I did slip an 82 era Case jack in my vest pocket that was given me by a fellow forumite. (Talk about walk, talk, and snap!)

I think it's just our way. I've tried to settle on one pipe tobacco blend, or maybe one non-aromatic and one aromatic. Every time I think I have found my perfect blend, my tastes change a little and the search is on again.

You should be okay until you reach the day where you find yourself standing immobile for hours, staring at your knives, totally unable to make a choice for the day. Thing might have gone a bit to far at that point. Now, if you are staring at them and meditating or taking in a peaceful energy gazing on them, that's different and good.

You could just start carrying a big knife in one pocket and a small knife in another. I "might" have done that a time or two, or three.
 
I couldn't decide which one to bring to a picnic on Sunday (and this is beside some good kitchen/food knives), so I brought three, and let 'em take turns!! Thank goodness I have 6 pockets on my jungle style shorts!
 
Waynorth the way I do it is my LB7 always on my belt,my SP2 loaner in my left front pocket,if you've ever worked a crew of men you need a loaner to keep them away from your good knife,and my favorite pocket knife a Schrade 18OT.Arnold
 
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