Your Top 5 LEAST favorite patterns...

Buck 110. Quality & iconic yes, but too bulky, loaded with brass (barf!) and much imitated by crap manufacturers.:rolleyes:

Canoe, far too much bolster and metal, poor in hand.:poop:

Full Congress, hard to take such an unwieldy and redundant pattern seriously...:poop:

Trapper full size, just no!:poop::poop:

Peanut. Too fiddly, vestigial Penblade is having a laugh surely?o_O

Cool way to vent without being personally offensive:cool: unless someone wants to be offended:D:eek:
 
1. Any single blade slipjoint.
2. Especially any single blade slipjoint with a clip point blade.
3. Muskrat.
4. Congress.
5. Trapper.
 
1. Trappers. I have a few, never carry them. Replace the spey with a straight edge and it might be a different story.
2. Muskrats. Improved Muskrat with a long sheepsfoot is a very different story.
3. Congress. Duplication of blades again.
4. Canoe. They look nice, and feel good as a worry stone, but a smallish spear and largish pen are just too similar.
5. Buck 110. Gotta have one, but it is too big to carry and I don’t care for the trailing point.

The above are all knives I have, but rarely or never use.
 
I guess some of the uncommon patterns that I really didn't think about until I read some other posts. Not in any order per se:
- Figural knives in general, leg knives in particular
- Cotton sampler
- Pruner/hawkbill/budding&grafting
- Hobo
- Bird hook / equestrian / fishing

Some of those are just too specialized for anything I ever need to do.

If you are going for more common patterns:
- Case's version of the toothpick (though I love the GEC #12 version)
- Canoe
- Moose
- Muskrat
- Gunstock
 
1) Anything over 4" long closed.
2) 2-blade jack knife with pulls on opposite sides.
3) Sowbelly - to me the pattern looks like a serpentine that got too hot and melted out of shape.
4) Melon tester - or really anything with super slender blades.
5) And just to be contrarian, GEC #15s.
 
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