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Do you feel the need to EDC a traditional folder?

by Emory Alexander

Jan 24, 2013

I grew up carrying traditional knives and though I now carry a Tac folder, (Benchmade Grip., Emerson Mini Com., or CRKT M1 usually) and a Leatherman Juice CS4, I feel like I should also carry a trad folder.  Currently I am carrying a Case Mid Folding Hunter in Gray Bone, which I love.  I switch it out with  other various Case and other brand trad folders as well.  I do it partly because I want to be able to take something out in public that won't scare people, nor make them think I am as much of a knife nut as I really am, but also because I just can't seem to break myself of the notion that a man ought to have a traditional pocket knife with a bone (or other natural material) handle on it.  Am I alone here or does anyone else feel the same way?

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    Clint Thompson

    Like David, I too carried one or more pocket knives all the way from grade school to this day. I gave a speech on how to clean a 1897 Winchester Shotgun in College. No one blinked an eye about me having this shotgun on the campus. After I graduated from Jr. College, I was employed as a LEO so I carried a firearm and knife (sometimes an auto knife) everyday for the last 46 years. The only violence at school or College was two dudes squaring off out of site of the ladies with other dudes to pick them up after the disagreement was settled. 

    Now we have different times with different influences on our youth. I truly think evil has worked its way into our way of life...starting at the top. We must do our best to battle this evil on election day, school board meetings as well as confronting it wherever it rears its head.

    David Gallup said:

    I carried a pocket knife to school every day from grade school through college.  I even took my shotgun to high school to give a speech on gun safety.  Of course the principal knew about and OK'd the shotgun.  I used to hitch hike 300 miles back and forth from home to college, always had a Buck 110 on my belt and a couple of times I had my shotgun too.  Never had a problem getting rides and nothing bad ever happened. 

    Back to the original topic; after a couple of decades of carrying knives with pocket clips and frequently assisted opening "tactical" blades, I've gone back to carrying traditional slip joint folders for EDC.  Currently rocking a Schatt & Morgan slim 2 blade hunter with buffalo horn scales.  I hardly know it's there.

    Emory Alexander said:

    Those truly were the "Good Ole Days!"  Of course I'm sure with all those knives and guns around there was lot's of violence in the school! ;)

     

    Jan 24, 2016

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    David Gallup

    I mix it up a lot but my current daily driver does not like pocket clips and I don't want to screw up the leather interior!  So I've been carrying a Schatt and Morgan slim trapper with buffalo horn scales.  It's a great knife, even though the blades are pretty good sized and closed it's about 4", it disappears in my pocket, I never know it's there.

    There was a period when I thought I needed a tactical folder, but they really don't cut any better than a traditional folder.  Once you've flicked the blade open a couple of thousand times, you realize a traditional folder does the daily stuff that you need a knife for just fine.

    Oct 8, 2016

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    Don "Grump01" Hunter

    Right now I have lucky 13 knives on me. Some food related and others for other tasks. I know, I know I'm a fool, but different blades for different uses......

    Oct 8, 2016