What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

burnside said:
Beautiful Tony Bose Stag! I've been admiring the mini Wharncliffe trapper patterns lately, and yours looks close to perfection if not perfect. Thanks for sharing :thumbup:
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Thanks Jason! It's a great size, it's 3-5/8 closed. It carries like a bigger knife and will do anything a man needs in a days work! It's my favorite pattern to EDC! Thanks
again for the nice comments! Hope you get yourself one soon, You'll be glad you did!

Jason
 
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Sonnemann said:
Details needed!
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Nothing too fancy. I noticed that, unlike most of my slipjoints, the cam on my 31048 stuck out a bit past the spring, and I thought to myself that I could file a flat spot and give my knife a half-stop (and that if I screwed it up, it's not exactly an expensive knife to replace). I used a SAK file, which worked well enough on the soft CV steel. Some patience and a steady hand, and now it has a half-stop. The end isn't completely square (still rounded on the edges), but it's flat and broad enough to give it a fairly positive stop, fairly crisp, and without much wobble to speak.

I tried to take a picture of it, but I can't get it to show up with my cell phone and low light.
 
Planterz said:
Nothing too fancy. I noticed that, unlike most of my slipjoints, the cam on my 31048 stuck out a bit past the spring, and I thought to myself that I could file a flat spot and give my knife a half-stop (and that if I screwed it up, it's not exactly an expensive knife to replace). I used a SAK file, which worked well enough on the soft CV steel. Some patience and a steady hand, and now it has a half-stop. The end isn't completely square (still rounded on the edges), but it's flat and broad enough to give it a fairly positive stop, fairly crisp, and without much wobble to speak.

I tried to take a picture of it, but I can't get it to show up with my cell phone and low light.
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Sounds great, that is what I figured you would do. I am going to try the same thing on mine, probably with a Leatherman as I don't have any SAKs with a file. This remedies one of the only shortcomings I could find in the otherwise excellent slimline trapper. Thanks for the info!
 
Sonnemann said:
Sounds great, that is what I figured you would do. I am going to try the same thing on mine, probably with a Leatherman as I don't have any SAKs with a file. This remedies one of the only shortcomings I could find in the otherwise excellent slimline trapper. Thanks for the info!
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If you try it yourself, and you want a 90° angle in the half-open position, don't file perpendicular to the handle. Put a slight angle on your filing, just a few degrees, at the angle that would make you think that would make the half-open position slightly obtuse. Thankfully, since you'll be filing beyond your initial cuts, there's some trial-and-error on the angle that can be corrected without ruining it, as long as you make the full "grind" at the correct angle.
 
A buddy at work who knows im into old timey pocketknives gifted me a Case XX Trapper one dot today! It was badly rusted and dull as butter but I gave it a little bath and a sharpening and believe I will be carrying it tomorrow. I believe its a 89' model by the tang stamp but he swears its from the 70's. Ha!

 
Still hauling around this Le Compact by Chambriard...

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very sleek folder and still one of the keenest edges I've put on a knife...
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I'm feeling tribal.... The chestnut bone Case puts out is soooo nice. It reminds me of freshly melted sugar sitting on top of creme brulee.....


 
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