What's your signature pattern?

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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I'm more inclined to buy a pen, congress or trapper, I like the two blade large trappers 'cause they're great for eatin' my dinner.

But the ones I have the most of, (outside of the SAKs) are the pens, they're usually more affordable on the secondary market.

What pattern is your favorite by choice or default?
 
The stockman. I have five stockmen. My only other slips are a Laguiole and a sodbuster.

I think I need to buy some more knives.
 
Folding hunter and copperhead are my two favorites. I also like the "Remington Bullet Knife" style single blade jumbo trappers, like the 1306 Rem. or Queen/Schatt & Morgan Mountain Man. However, my MOST used knife is a Victorinox Alox Pioneer Harvester, it's my work knife. I open cartons, scrape paint, open up paint cans, saw off sticks, trim wood, sharpen pencils, cut string and thin wire, etc with it.

I would like to have a custom built one of these days. I'd like a 4" long equal end with four blades, like a big camper sort of. Three inch clip point main blade with long pull and swedge, a saw, a 1.5'' short clip blade to pick splinters, clean fingernails, etc, and the fourth a tool like the Victorinox combo tool that is a can opener/bottle opener/screwdriver/wire stripper notch all in one. Cutting blades of something fancy like ATS 34 or S30V, other tools can be whatever is considered best for the job. I guess it would cost a hunk 'o money to have built though, so probably never happen. :o
 
Ok, my knife indentity seems to be living in a state of flux. Mostly because as I try different patterns, some appeal to me more. Still love the Barlow, Stockman is certainly useful, but I have a trapper on the way, will see what that is like.
 
I've used so many different patterns I'm not sure I have a signature model. But if I count the years of carry for patterns, I've carried a stockman more than the others like sodbusters or barlows. From 1967 to 1990 or so I carried a Buck 301, and now three out of five of my edc rotation are stockmen.

Maybe I'm a stockman person with an identity crissis.:eek:
 
I find single blade trappers or something similar finds it's way into my pocket, more often then not. Sometimes a small Wharncliffe trapper.

Gary
 
My wants and desires ebb and flow. :D

I gather a little of everything, but Doc knives are my primary thing (prefer spatula replaced by a blade).
 
Although I'm a SAK man now, and can't see myself going back to a knife that only cuts, if I HAD to pick a regular knife, I'd say I'm a Peanut guy. I've carried Stockman, Sodbusters, Pen knives, Trappers, Barlows, all kinds, but the one knife that was useful AND handy for me was the Peanut. I still have it, and occasionally carry it WITH my SAK.
 
I wish I could choose a pattern and stick to it. I switch around a lot depending on the things I have to do each day and the other knives I'm carrying.

Lately I've been favouring trappers.
 
I favor two, the stockman (esp "Cattle King" size) and Dr. w/ spatula patterns. However, I'm open to others... I have a couple of whittlers, one 4-bladed congress, and like a bunch of others.
 
Canoe.

Close behind would be the mini-trapper.

I enjoy others (stockmans, whittlers, congresses, mostly); but I most often have a canoe or mini-trapper in my pocket.
 
I find them to be more acceptable in the wrok place when I open up a box or cut up my pork chop.
 
I'd say my signature pattern is the pliers-based multitool (yawn). They have no real aesthetic qualities, but I have more of them around than any other type of edged tool, and I usually edc one. They sort of accumulate as I search for the "perfect" one (right now it's the Vic Spirit).
 
Stockman, although my taste seems to change every so often. Right now my favorite is my copperlock, and I am leaning toward a muskrat.Always had a soft spot for trappers. I like the full center liner and how the blades almost itersect when they're both half open.
 
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