What is your most used traditional knife?

The last two years its my Case cv medium stockman but all times its my first and for long times only folder, a yellow EKA 38.

Bosse
 
My most used pocket knife these days is either my damascus peanut or my Vic classic. Both are always with me, the classic on my keyring and peanut in my watch pocket. The classic is handy for the small screw driving capability and scissors, and the peanut is a out and out cutter. I don't seem to have much day to day use for anything bigger, now that I've reached the white dwarf stage of life.

Carl.
 
Some old white dwarfs just glow a little in the dark and others still shines on the world around them.

I can tell you all that talk about peanuts starts to get to me, if I had been an american close to knifestores I would have been like a rape fruit. Being the one I am I more long for a small case texas jack as its the smallest size I see work in a pineforest. Bouth this two longings has a hard time develop though, me being the one I am.

I reread the question and is ready to answer again. Last time I answered what I carryed most but when talking about using most its my homemade scandi knife that do most of the cutting when im in nature fishing, hunting, ficking berries and just hanging out.

Bosse
 
a KJ Eriksson #2 traditional Mora. (red stained handle & through rattail tang)
 
Executive whittler by far. Other than trading spaces with 2 stockmen I have. Yet to post it has been in my scrubs for the past year. No more blade etching now either
 
This is my most used/carried slippy, with a couple of close seconds:) bought it new when I was 8 years old.

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Paul
 
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That deep dark scarlet redbone is gorgeous!

Probably most carried and used is the Kerry Hampton trapper I have. Its thin blade just cuts so fine.
 
My mini copperhead gets the most pocket time but since most of what I need a knife for is cutting greasy, dirty stuff on and around my truck or things that will quickly dull a knife, it is one of my Old Timers that gets used. They are just so easy to resharpen and I don't mind getting them dirty.
 
barny said:
Case CV trapper in amber bone. Goes with me everywhere after school. Because of this knife, i have stopped buying folders altogether.
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You have good taste in pocket knives. My most used is my Case 3254 trapper. Here lately I have been using a Buck 112 alot tho.
Jim
 
Typically, I have a rotation every 2 or 3 or 4 months out of general restlesness. For the last year I have carried a Case humpack whittler in G10. Despite its thickness and weight, I have found it to be dang near perfect for my EDC needs from suit to shorts. The trusharp has a wicked edge and sticks around plenty long. My edc knife always gets a strop or so every 2 or 3 weeks so edge holding isn't a big deal.
 
A Case large Stockman and when that's to big a Case medium Stockman. I always also have a SAK Tinker with me.
 
pretty much carry my Vic Tinker daily, and classic on the keyring. Even if the other pocket rotates they always come with me when i leave the house
 
I too find myself going with a Schrade-USA 34ot. I have a lot of others that occasionally carry, but the 34 gets the most time. It just feels right.
Harold
 
Most of my life a Large stockman was there as the most used knife. Buck, Case or Queen.

My kids have been giving me knives as Birthday, etc. gifts here and there though out the years. So I make part of the week carrying time for what the kids picked out for me to carry.

I bought my first Bear & son knife last year to kick the tires for myself. (To me half the fun of knife collecting is test driving knives in the field under real conditions.) A yellow handle full size folding hunter with 1095 carbon blades. The fit & finish is poor, but the overall function of the knife was good with next to no blade play.

Thinking I wasn't going to own another Bear & son remembering Gus's, Life's too short to carry an ugly knife, the next thing I know I have 2 more B&S knives (folding hunter, trapper) to carry in stainless. So since my Birthday one of my most used knives has been a Bear & Son Rosewood 4 1/8 Trapper..

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The fit and finish was better on the trapper with a holy cow :D recurve on the spey and a ok recurve on the clip. I almost sent it back, but on second thought it was going to be a working knife and with wear and some creative sharpening the recurves are already fading away. :D
What has surprised me is how easy the bear stainless is to sharpen and how well it holds an edge.

Meanwhile I'm oiling the joints on the stockmans, it's almost friday, time the weekend EDC shift to clock in. :D
 
Brian, ALWAYS a good choice that one whatever the scales.

For me over the past month it's been a Tidioute Amber Bone 56 Dogleg, effortless use.
 
Can I get a definition of "Traditional?" I say USMC Ka-Bar. It's a 69 year old design, that's what I call tradition.
 
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