What is your favorite pull on a barlow?

What is your favorite pull for a single blade barlow?

  • Standard Crescent

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  • Crescent Matchstriker

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  • Long Pull

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  • Long Matchstriker

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And on a jack a long pull looks really slick behind a nail nick pen. Something about those proportions.
 
Long pull behind cut swedge, as below:

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Me thinks there's an SFO in the works. :D :thumbup:
I voted Long Matchstriker.
 
black mamba said:
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The clip on my 78 is very similar to this and made me go long pull. I'd usually prefer a nick, but the NF barlows are a bit classier and I think a long pull matches that well. The pull on my 78 kind of creates a ledge at the top of the clip that makes it very easy to manipulate just by pinching the blade. I'm hoping that the new single blade NF barlows are pinchable. This is why I went against my normal tendency and voted for long pulls.
 
I find the long pull on the earlier Charlow's preferable over the current, or what was current, nail nick on the end of production TC's.
 
I voted match striker as well but a long pull just looks great and is always useful. Simply easier to get to without thinking about it.
 
Depends. I like how a long pull looks (though I agree it seems a little fancy for a Barlow) but I like a crescent nail nick for a user. My nails are curved and I find a nail nick mutch more forgiving and comfortable...those narrow and straight long pulls tear up my nails more.

I voted crescent.
 
Long pull for clips, spears, and sheepsfoot if it was all about aesthetics. I must admit that I would pick a long pull even though I would be giving up some reliability in opening the knife. I just tested what others have said about a nick being more useful and and it appears to be true for me as well. I am a sucker for the looks of the long pull...
 
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Long pull. Followed by long pull matchstrike. Followed by any other type of long pull. ;)
 
Some handle materials like rough stag hog all the glory anyway and a pull as decoration is irrelevant.

On a warncliffe, clip or spear as the primary blade I very much like a long pull and generally like the little added visual texture of a matchstriker. All of these blades have a change of direction of the spine part way down the blade and the long pull helps the straight portion of the spine accent the curve or kink of the blades backbone.

On a spey, sheepfoot or razor, I find I like the nail nick a bit more. These have a long straight spine and the crescent shape of a nail nick works to bring the attention of the eye back to the middle of the knife. (Hey these knives are, after all works of art, no?)

All of this supposes that the pulls are well positioned and cut to function with good mechanical advantage to do the job of opening the blade.
 
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Love the long pull! Particularly on a spear #85 and any of the Barlows.

Peter
 
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