Well, hello guys (Opinels)

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HFinn

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Nice to see you again. I wonder what I was thinking when I put all of you in a box in the cellar. Guess I thought that more high tech and modern knives were somehow cool, that they do their stuff (cut) better than you. Sure, you need to be wiped after use and need maintenance more than more modern ones. So do I. :)

Thanks for the second from left for showing I was wrong. And the middle one, you did a great job in the garden a year ago. Are you ready to go to work again?

The first one left is going in my pocket today. And the one on the right, we had such a good time hiking at Canary Islands. You did anything I asked of you very well, cutting anything that needed to be cut. And all of you weigh next to nothing in my pocket. I barely know you are there, until I need someone of you. And the second from right, you were one of my first folding knives. Please don't cut me for neglecting you, my humble apologies.

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Student762 said:
Shame on you for straying from them! Nice to see you have come back on the good path. :p
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I'm repenting my sins. The nr 7 on the left might lose the lock ring, I consider it a bit unnecessary and would make for less bulk. Just snug the pivot with hammer. Maybe also slim the handle from the sides a bit.
 
You're right Finn. Nothing cuts as wel as a freshly sharpened and stropped Opinel.
Fine no nonsense pocket knives.
Time to put this trusty modded number 6 back into my pocket ;)

 
Hi guys, i can not think how i ended up with so many Opinels one or two i have had for thirty or more years although my crappy picture wont help you, i know the last one i bought was a #06 for carrying where confiscation is a possibility, but as i am an old man the likelihood of a body search is remote, but i am still not chancing one of my GECs. I really do fancy trying out some of those body mods you are sporting, do i need power tools ?

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OK they are the top two.
 
HFinn, you may have packed them away. But, they look to have been be well used before that.

That's a heap of Opinels, OMR.

I only have the these two.

 
HFinn said:
Sure, you need to be wiped after use and need maintenance more than more modern ones.
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Welcome back to your Opinels. :thumbup:

I still think the maintenance factor is over stated. We just got back from a trip to Barcelona. I carried my carbon no. 8 all over the place, cutting up snacks for the kids mostly, including fruit on Barceloneta beach, and using it for cooking chores in the apartment we rented. No rust, and no pivot problems!

-- Mark
 
The3 Opine is one of those knives that I can't seem t leave alone.

I've had a love/hate relationship with them since I got my first one in 1982, and it's been a going thing since then. I'll carry and cherish one, then get tired of the fine tuning them and chuck it in the kitchen drawer. Then a while later it will be back in my pocket, and I swear I don't know how it got there. They do cut like the dickens, and they do have that old world funky charm that I am a born sucker for. I'll aways take an Opinel along the times I go to someone else's house and I know I'll have some kitchen duty. They do go camping with me. And I just love the Opinel saw. Goes through tree limbs like a beaver on crack. But it's been a on agains-off again thing with me. I love them. Sometimes.

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The Opinel saw needs to be tried to be appreciated.
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Carl,

I agree. There is a certain je-ne-sais-quoi about the Opinel that continues to make it feel so foreign to me. I do love the Opinel, I really do. Functionally, it's better than any knife I own and in every single way.

But there's a reason my EDC rotation always seems to have a lock back in it. I grew up with lock backs.There's something about the click maybe? The heft?

But then again, the Opinel is a better knife. I'm doing yard work today. I'll carry the Opinel. When I somewhere and only one knife come on the trip, I bring the Opinel. It's an odd thing.
 
oldmanrunning said:
Hi guys, i can not think how i ended up with so many Opinels one or two i have had for thirty or more years although my crappy picture wont help you, i know the last one i bought was a #06 for carrying where confiscation is a possibility, but as i am an old man the likelihood of a body search is remote, but i am still not chancing one of my GECs. I really do fancy trying out some of those body mods you are sporting, do i need power tools ?
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You never know, if you put them in the box they might start making small Opinels, like nr 2 that will grow, if fed right, into nr 12 :p Sure you can modify the handles without power tools, thats the beauty of them. Just wood rasps and sandpaper and the finishing material of your choise, I use Teak oil.
 
Here is a couple of pictures of my Opinels. First is a couple of Effiles , a ten and 15. Second is six and a twelve. Steven, the twelve is as close as I can come to yours.

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Love 'em all! Though the N°13 is pretty much a machete, who doesn't like a machete? Reminds me of the massive folders carried in Andalusia in the 18h and 19h centuries (I was only a kid then, but I remember seeing them in the streets) :p. I recently bought a bundle from a member here and it's been a chore to rotate them all but I'm having fun trying. I've taken to using the N°12 in the barn this week (my clients can be perplexed by the nylon sheath holding my BK-15) for its size and ease of opening. But it's a bit slippery so I've painted the handle and will post a pic tomorrow.

Zieg
 
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