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Mushroom wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:49 am

There are folding knives and there are fixed blade knives. We can't reinvent the wheel.

How about the airplane?

Looked at another way, the modern one-handed opening knife strives to be a fixed blade when open and a folder in your pocket. If one frequently encounters the need for one-handed opening knives in work, why not attach a suitable fixed blade to the ladder or toss one in the tool box? That argument d...

Let’s get way outside the the container for a moment. The year is 2031. The combination of shrunken government and advances in AI and nano-technology have brought us a completely malleable and reasonably intelligent base material substance, that can, when instructed, assume many forms and characteri...

Pokey wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:23 am

As far as I can tell once you've mixed and matched all the variables above, that's it, there's nothing new under the sun until someone invents a new way to do the above.

Exactly.

I’ve heard biologists say that crocodylians haven’t evolved very much over the last few million years because they were already so well-adapted to their environments that new mutations were merely deviations from their optimal builds. I suspect that the contemporary folding knife is much the same. ...

FYI, here https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.knife ... ade/%3famp
Is a good discussion of the origin of the Wharncliffe. The accompanying illustration shows early Wharncliffe knives being definitely sway back.

Looked at another way, the modern one-handed opening knife strives to be a fixed blade when open and a folder in your pocket. If one frequently encounters the need for one-handed opening knives in work, why not attach a suitable fixed blade to the ladder or toss one in the tool box? That argument do...

It’s interesting that the OP brings this up considering his critique of the Swayback. https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=87377 The OP says, “The Swayback was designed as a one-handed knife. It didn’t meet even that basic requirement.” I have a two-handed swayback slip joint which, i...

Every modern folder design must have these elements: bearings or washers of some type, an opening and closing mechanism that can be operated with one hand, a lock (in the majority of cases) that can be released with one hand, some kind of pocket clip, and a single blade. Battles rage about the best ...

If I was smart I’d buy all my knives in bright colors.

But, I’m not.

https://i.imgur.com/4iUSG5p.jpg Isn’t that a Great Eastern Cutlery Conductor? By the time I realized they had dropped, they were long gone. 😕 One of my friends is a Great Eastern Cutlery dealer. He got a decent number of Conductors in stag. I checked with him about an hour after he released them. H...

For a few people who don’t live close enough, or can not afford to travel, it seems (although things are not always like they seem) that getting a number of seconds through the post is a great idea. I think it is rife with issues, many of which will not appear until after the fact. Considering some ...

I have my eye on one. Again. I had one a few years back when I knew much less about knives than I thought I did. Seduced by more “modern” designs I let it go. But now, being older and I hope wiser I’m zeroing in on another.

I liked mine. The liner lock is solid and easy to open if you just take a bit of time to see that you have to get the edge of your thumb, or thumbnail on the release bar. Easy but very difficult to accidentally close. A design feature from Mr Bradley.

When doing the lockbar mod on the Chaparrel, does the spring reliably stay in the new location, or is it necessary to insert a spacer to prevent it moving back? It stays in place. It’s under enough tension so that it doesn’t move around. I move mine up as far as possible so that all still works as ...

Sadly, I lost my #92 Talon 2 weeks ago. That knife had a story to tell, not to mention thousands of hours of pocket time. I am pretty sure I left the slip laying on the checkout counter of our local pizza shop and obviously the next person in line liked it enough to keep it. When I went back an hou...

That mod is easy and makes a big difference.

It is probably just me and my inability to make good decisions most of the time. I have noticed that I will buy a knife and then after using it and keeping it and carrying it and really liking it, I somehow end up moving it along. Much later after due consideration and remorse, I end up buying that ...

I’m expanding my little collection (we knew it was going to happen didn’t we, Precious). Adding a Great Eastern Cutlery 62 Easy Pocket Congress in unicorn ivory, and a 33 Conductor (clip main with a pen secondary) in Sambar Stag. Photos later. Well, finances dictate otherwise. If anyone gets a Cond...

Funguy, exactly. Stuck around this is a good place and we need more folks like you.