Whats your most useful slipjoint

somber said:
The one in my pocket!
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You got that right.
When circumstances call for a sharp bit of steel, any knife is welcome!
Every man Everybody should carry a pocketknife, or keep one close by.

For general purposes I just carry whatever looks best to me that day, but I think a two blade Clip/Pen or Clip/Coping combo runs a close second to a standard Stockman for out and out usefulness. The Stockman is the standard though, tough to beat without carrying one of them folding tool kits ;)
 
I'm in the Stockman group for most useful slipjoint. Size is up to you. Get one, and enjoy it's many uses.
 
I started a thread a while back asking what everyone's most useful blade shape was. I had in mind a Wharncliffe for a knife I'm going to have made for me. After reading input and giving consideration, I sure like the Zulu spear, or what's referred to as a modified Wharncliffe (parabolic shape on the spine, and gentle arc on the cutting edge). To be useful, a blade has a cutting edge and a tip. The tip has to be useful for picking slivers and penetrating things to be cut. The clip style blade can have a sharp tip if done right, but I don't care for the swoop on the spine from the line from the tang to get to a sharp tip, especially if a sharp point is left at the transition point on the spine between the two lines. T A Davidaon makes some clip points that look planned, with a rounded transition on the spine. All personal preference on the looks, but a useful blade is a must.
 
Another vote for the Remington R-4. Also love the Vic Farmer and Trekker.

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555 makes a helpful distinction, and I seem to be with him on both blades-only (stockman) and otherwise (scout or Vic).
I carried an alox scout knife until the red wore off, and then carried a smaller celidor version until the corners of the handle crumbled off. Actually I stuffed epoxy-putty in the corners and kept carrying it.
Since it penetrated my scull that I can carry more than one knife, it's usually the biggest stockman I'm comfortable with, and the largest Vic SAK I'm comfortable with, plus the Vic executive on a snap-hook on my keychain. Probably only the exec and a pen-knife if I'm going formal.
One knife for everything everywhere, should that awful choice ever have to be made, possibly my newly discovered SwissBuck.
 
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Buzzbait said:
The Vic Farmer or Pioneer is hard to beat. But the Remington R-4 is equally awesome. Gotta love the spear and coping blade, plus all of the extra tool goodies.

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Hard for me to quibble with the Farmer or R-4, Buzzbait. :) Just to add another slippie to the conversation, though, I'll go with my Great Eastern #25 baby Barlow -- right blades, right size. :cool:

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Haha. Im still waiting on the rr peanut to see how i like it. Im leaning heavily toward a gec #66 calf roper jack. Or maybe a case pocketworn teardrop jack. Who knows? Both my birthday and chrismas are comming and i gotta give my girl some ideas;)
 
Fishcakes, between those two (Case Teardrop or GEC 66) I would definitely go with the 66 Calf Roper Jack.


fishcakes said:
Or maybe a case texas jack? Theres too manny freakin options!!!
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Yes, that is the problem with traditional knives. There are quite a number of choices, most of them perfectly good choices. If you have a lot of money, it's not a problem, it's an opportunity. :D
 
Honestly, i prefer a drop point blade. i cant seem to find many slippies with em. But from a sheer utility standpoint, a clip point is pretty hard to beat, so maybe thats for the best
 
"The one in my pocket" of course. But that of course changes depending on the day. I have to say my Northwoods Broadway Jack (GEC) spends the most time in, (and out) of pocket. However my GEC Beer Scout sure is a handy little friend, not just for cracking a beer after a day of using the bad either. The screwdriver has been especially useful. I'm now waiting on a Northwoods Everyday Barlow, spear (Queen). It will displace the Broadway for an unknown length of time...Also I always have a SAK Vagabond on my keys and gets used countless times, usually the scissors or the screwdriver and of course the package opener.
 
knarfeng said:
Depends on what I am doing. I've been known to carry three different knives in one day, one at a time.
For working in the cube farm 7-5: Peanut.
For around the house in the evening: Case Teardrop.
For Saturday working in the yard: Some sort of stockman
Sunday go to meeting: something nice
Sunday afternoon: See Saturday.
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I have been carrying two everyday, but in the last few days I have switched out one or both for others, on my days off of course when I'm at home. I've done this because I have so many I want to use but feel silly if I carry more than two. Usually I carry one long bladed lock, and one short bladed (multi bladed) slippie.

Actually this whole week has been a bit of an anomaly though. For some reason I caught myself pocketing my Farmer Lock and a PM2. Strange paring today for sure. No slippie. Oh wait, I did switch them both out for my SBJ late in the evening.

Might be the weather that can explain my odd carry habits of late, who knows.
 
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As far as i can tell from reading these answers i am like most of us knife fans , i have a reasonable collection of knives, some French mostly American , GEC and Case Peanuts being my favorite , just now i have gone back to my SAKs and have rediscovered what great little knives they are. Now i am an old geezer i could probably carry any type of knife without fear of Stop and Search but the truth is my SAK Manager takes care of most of my daily tasks and a 84mm or 91mm handles the bigger jobs like breaking down cardboard boxes and some food prep and of course the other tools come handy. I dont doubt that one day i will get a hankering for one of my single bladed or more likely a Peanut, but isnt that what makes our hobby so great ?
 
oldmanrunning said:
As far as i can tell from reading these answers i am like most of us knife fans , i have a reasonable collection of knives, some French mostly American , GEC and Case Peanuts being my favorite , just now i have gone back to my SAKs and have rediscovered what great little knives they are. Now i am an old geezer i could probably carry any type of knife without fear of Stop and Search but the truth is my SAK Manager takes care of most of my daily tasks and a 84mm or 91mm handles the bigger jobs like breaking down cardboard boxes and some food prep and of course the other tools come handy. I dont doubt that one day i will get a hankering for one of my single bladed or more likely a Peanut, but isnt that what makes our hobby so great ?
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Yer darn right!! That is what makes it great, that we can have a collection to draw on and change it up a bit as we feel the need to. As much as I love the peanuts, I like to carry a handy SAK now and then for the tools, or a stockman once i a while for the wider blade choice. You could get by eating a vegetarian diet, but a nice burger or steak is a great thing now and then. Sometimes needs and wants pull us in different directions. In truth, I can get by most days with a 58mm SAK, but it's just fun to carry something else too!:)
 
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