What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Anthony, I didn't mean for my gentle nudge (above) to be taken as some kind of scripture or to curtail the discussion of our carry knives. :confused:

Obviously, if there's a knife related question on the floor pursuant to your daily carry, please feel free to answer it here as others will always enjoy hearing your take. (As do I.)

My intent was merely to cut down on unrelated "chat" that is better taken to PM or email and that essentially clutters up the flow of the thread.

Thanks. :thumbup: :cool:
 
Blues said:
Anthony, I didn't mean for my gentle nudge (above) to be taken as some kind of scripture or to curtail the discussion of our carry knives. :confused:

Obviously, if there's a knife related question on the floor pursuant to your daily carry, please feel free to answer it here as others will always enjoy hearing your take. (As do I.)

My intent was merely to cut down on unrelated "chat" that is better taken to PM or email and that essentially clutters up the flow of the thread.

Thanks. :thumbup: :cool:
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I am sorry. You are right of coarse. Now that I re-read my post I feel quite silly for the original response.. My bad.:o

Let me fix this.
 
neeman said:
Anthony,
How are Schatt and Morgans as users?
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Hello neeman,

My apologies for the initial response!. Nothing to do with you, totally my bad.

I have found all of the several dozen purchases that I have made over the last 30-35 years of S&M's to be more in line with the quality of custom hand made pocket knives than with your typical factory produced slipjoint. And when the occasional problem arose, they always made it right with no additional cost. I have vintage Schatt & Morgans as well as new models that I will never part with. I find they always hold their value.

Thanks,

Anthony
 
Hmmmm. Today's carry. Started out with a Case peanut for work. Apples tremble in fear for their lives when I pull that vicious looking little critter out. Switched to a Schatt & Morgan English Jack that I carry in a clip-on belt sheat for a bit when I got home and was doing some food prep. Just swapped that for a Lone Wolf Loveless City Knife.
 
My Canoe has been seeing more pocket time than any other knife I own at this point in time. I've tried many other knives to replace the canoe, but I keep coming back to the canoe. I've got a medium stockman on it's way to me so we'll see if it rivals the canoe.

Here's some amature pics. I'm trying to get better at taking pics.

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I am carrying a Rough Rider medium Stockman in Saw Bone.

Since we have talked so much about this brand; I decided to carry it for some time as an experiment to see how it holds up.
I will post a rewiew at a later date.
 
I like quite a few traditional pattern knives, but am especially fond of canoe pattern knives. I carried and used a Camillus canoe for years but after reading about the current Queen D2 knives on this forum I bought an amber bone D2 canoe and I am very impressed with this knife.
I also bought a Queen SFO canoe in 1095 steel with strawberry bone scales and it is beautiful also. I think it is important that we support quality domestic cutlery companies. Perhaps I'm preaching to the choir on the last point?
 
Spectrum said:
I like quite a few traditional pattern knives, but am especially fond of canoe pattern knives. I carried and used a Camillus canoe for years but after reading about the current Queen D2 knives on this forum I bought an amber bone D2 canoe and I am very impressed with this knife.
I also bought a Queen SFO canoe in 1095 steel with strawberry bone scales and it is beautiful also. I think it is important that we support quality domestic cutlery companies. Perhaps I'm preaching to the choir on the last point?
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I'm planning on a Queen Canoe and have been weighing in on the difference between D2 and the SFO 1095. I like both steels. Do you prefer using one over the other? How thick are canoe blades? Thin like a Peanut, thick like a copperhead, or somewhere in between? I like thinner blades and edge angles. Thanks, the canoe's been a pattern I've looked at hard for a while now.
 
The Canoe is a hefty knife to hold.
The main spear blade is ground down to the same thickness as a Cooperhead but tapers off to being thinner.
The blade is quite short, shorter than a medium 3 1/4" stockman.
The secondary pen blade is very thin.

I only have Queens in D2, I have not yet gotten 1095, so I cannot compare.
I really like D2, it holds a good edge for a long time
 
Thanks, Neeman. It makes sense to me that a Canoe pattern is hefty, if the blade stock is thick like a Copperhead. My Queen Copperhead feels hefty in my pocket to me compared to a Mini-Trapper, Peanut, Senator or other of the small knives that I carry. I tend to like smaller patterns and thinner blade stock.

Now that I think about it, a Canoe is like a Copperhead with two of the snake bolsters--a double-headed Copperhead.

Since I like D2 AND 1095, I'll probably let the scales do the talking to me, and decide on my Canoe based on which scales call out to me.

Thanks for the description.
 
RobbW said:
Thanks, Neeman. It makes sense to me that a Canoe pattern is hefty, if the blade stock is thick like a Copperhead. My Queen Copperhead feels hefty in my pocket to me compared to a Mini-Trapper, Peanut, Senator or other of the small knives that I carry. I tend to like smaller patterns and thinner blade stock.

Now that I think about it, a Canoe is like a Copperhead with two of the snake bolsters--a double-headed Copperhead.

Since I like D2 AND 1095, I'll probably let the scales do the talking to me, and decide on my Canoe based on which scales call out to me.

Thanks for the description.
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The blade stock is thicker than a Copperhead, but it is immediately ground down to the thickness of a Cooperhead.
I know if I had a better command of the technical terms I could explain better.
The Queen Cooperhead is much thinner, lighter, and the blade longer; both at 3 5/8"
 
neeman said:
The blade stock is thicker than a Copperhead, but it is immediately ground down to the thickness of a Cooperhead.
I know if I had a better command of the technical terms I could explain better.
The Queen Cooperhead is much thinner, lighter, and the blade longer; both at 3 5/8"
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Thanks for the good information. It sounds like a Canoe is not what I want, after all. Copperhead blade thickness and heft are about as large as I'm want to go. I love the shape of a Canoe, but over the Web it's hard to get a sense of thickness and weight. I'll have to find a way to handle one in person before making a decision.

Today I'm toting a Queen Mini-Trapper in 1095. The blades are nice and thin, just right for cutting, and just the way I like them.

Thanks again for the explanation, it helped me avoid a mistake. :thumbup:
 
I got a new knife in the mail from SSK yesterday. It's a Doctors Knife with Orange Peel Bone scales. It's longer than the knives I usually carry, but it rides well in the pocket, and it is undeniably elegant.

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Going to work a half-day today, then get an early start on a weekend full of mushroom hunting out in the woods. So all weekend I'll be toting my official mushroom slayer, my yellow cv Sodbuster Jr.

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A pair of yeller handle Cases- a peanut and sodbuster jr. There will be a Swisstool in my pack.Going on a short trip to am amusement park with the kids.
 
GEC #73 Tidioute Beaver Tail Trapper Scout in white bone. This is becoming one of my favorite single blades.

-- Sam
 
I have a new "medium gentleman's knife" in my EDC rotation.

Found it in a local feed store along with a CV sodbuster that had been on the shelf for five years.

This one, too, had been on that same shelf, for the same five years. Five and a half, actually.

And so, without further ado . . .

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Introducing, for the first time ever in EDC, the Case XX John Deere Green Bone Medium Stockman!

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Eight dots, 2002 (the soddie is a nine-dot 2001)
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Yeah, it had a rough edge after sitting on a shelf in a feed store for five years, getting manhandled and molested by people who, while they would really have liked to take it home, blanched at the original $73 price tag. Half a decade later, marked down to $32, I brushed the dust off the gift tin and said, "hey, why don't you come home with me?"

A few licks with a diamond steel, a drop of oil, a good wipe down, and into the pocket.

Quite well behaved, actually. It's a real Deere.

 
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