what's your favorite slippy pattern?

2 blade jack knife, I guess because my dad carried one and my grandfather carried one.
 
Moose.
Because it's got all the blades I need and it's got the balance to lie unobtrusively in my trousers pocket.
The fact that it looks good helps too... :)

/ Karl
 
Medium or large stockman. It's like carrying a couple different knives. I like the redundancy, but also the utility of having a couple of different blade profiles for different things. The spey can be thinned and kept razor sharp like a scalpel. The sheepsfoot is a great all around utility blade. The clip wins for food prep and those times that you just need a larger blade (or a real thin tip for splinter hunting).

I like the concept of 2 larger blades in the trapper pattern, but when it comes time to decide what goes in the pocket, the stockman will always win for me.

P.S. If I could find a decent way to carry a small flat and phillips screwdriver around, I don't think I'd even own an SAK. The many times that I need a screwdriver is all that keeps me from being a "one knife" guy.
 
My stockman clip is used alot for a scraper.pen for fine slicing and sheepsfoot for heavy slicing.
 
cortopar said:
P.S. If I could find a decent way to carry a small flat and phillips screwdriver around, I don't think I'd even own an SAK. The many times that I need a screwdriver is all that keeps me from being a "one knife" guy.
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May I make a suggestion?

Go get one of those flat half dollar size Sears 4-way pocket screw drivers that are ment for the keychain.. Take a small flat mill smooth file and bevel the corners of the smallest of the 4 flat screw driver bits. Keep trying it in a medium size phillips screw head. Stop filing when it fits in deep enough to turn the screw. Now place on keyring. You're now equipted to handle flat or phillips screws for a buck and a some change.

My dad did that.
 
Peanut. Not because it will be my only bladed friend for the next year, but because of it's size. I've tried SAKs, sodbusters, stockman, trappers, etc., and I don't like feel of a lump in my pocket. With the Peanut, it is so small I don't feel it. It is very comfortable, and the comfortable knife is the one that will get carried.
 
For me, Copperhead and Sowbellies :D

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I like slim single blade patterns. Have a Joe Allen swell center due in a few months...sorta like this one...

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A two bladed jack, on the small side I like the Schrade 33OT and my all time favorite is the Case 6292.
 
I would have to say that it's always what I last purchased. Due to the fact that if I buy a knife it usually jumped out at me and got my attention. I have only been a "knife nut" for a couple of years now and have not carried the majority of the patterns available. Like Yosimite Sam I started knife life as a toothpick man, but each knife that makes it into the rotation has earned it's keep except for the larger patterns which are bulky. My last purchase was a CASE XX barlow in red rough sawed bone. It is a BEEAUTIFUL knife. I like the large clip blade for general use as well as the pen blade for the small stuff. If someone told me today that all my knives were gone and I was stuck with this barlow forever I am fine with it TODAY. Only until that next user catches my eye and shows promise of being reliable and functional when I pick it up. All that being said I have not been carrying my Wharncliff copperlock because I have been trying different patterns as EDC and if I have it I won't reach for the others.

10-4 on the slim single blade JB I think that is why I always end up back with my copperlock. More blade / less bulk!
 
Have converted to Swayback as my favorite for daily carry.

Nothing fits the hand like a good Swayback - especially with Stag.

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I've been going back and forth on this. Not counting SAKs, right now my favorite slipjoint pattern is the stockman. And the stockman I'm carrying right now is my Case red bone pocketworn stockman, bought over 10 years ago, but carried little until now. It's a medium sized one, so is not so big in my pocket that it's bothersome, but just large enough that I can be aware enough that it's there. I simply like the blade combination, and liked them in the 1970s as a boy.

I also like the trapper and mini-trappers, esp. the mini for pocket carry.

I went to Ace Hardware again today and handled a Case "old red stockman",
which is a full-sized stockman. It was beautifully finished and edged, but I had decided due to budget to get a delrin-handled Case 2-blade pen knife. However, before too long I returned it. I decided I might eventually go back and get the large stockman if they're still there, another time. To me, that particular pen knife was just too small; it probably wasn't, but it felt smaller than my peanut. I really liked that stockman, though.
Jim
 
Medium sized two blade jack, I first started carrying them about 30 years ago. I think it was because they were cheaper than a Stockman and my funds were limited.
 
For EDC pocket carry at work: Yesterday a canoe, today whittler, tomorrow? But, if I could only have one, it would be my barlow. Two blades of different sizes, rides in pocket well, main blade is pretty stout.

I prefer diversity in blade size, hence, trappers are not my favorite. Also, I really don't really need more than two blades for EDC.

In a nutshell, thin and short but thick and stout, two blades - one big one small, a barlow.
 
1200S said:
Have converted to Swayback as my favorite for daily carry.

Nothing fits the hand like a good Swayback - especially with Stag.

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Tim sure finds nice stag...btw, your avatar takes me back to the late 60's in London..is the Ace still open?
 
the old elephant toenail, even though i dont have one:(.
(i can dream cant i!)
Just something about that pattern just grabbed me, i had never seen a pocket knife quite like it, when i stumbled on a picture started reading round here and the elephant toe collector site i was even more intrigued.
now its a quest to find one, hopefully theres one out there with my name on it:) that or i need to start buying lotto tickets
ivan
 
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