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I would have to go with a folder. I just carry folders 99% of the time. The $200 would go to one of the upcoming new Spydies coming out.

Well I guess I'm in the smaller minority....Most of my folders sit and look pretty and I carry more fixed blades than folders and they always see more use....The ratio of FBs to folders that I own in my collection is about 4:1....four FB for every one folder....hmmmm....I have 424 Spydercos alone, mostly folders....I have way to many knives, ya think?....Doc :D

I've never owned a fixed blade. It hasn't been a problem so far.

waco kid wrote:I've never owned a fixed blade. It hasn't been a problem so far.

No kitchen knives?? Steak knives?? Butter knives?? ;-)

I'd get a Fb, just cuz I don't have any nice ones :)

.357 mag wrote:No kitchen knives?? Steak knives?? Butter knives?? ;-)

Ha ha. While we're on the subject, I use my Spydercos in the kitchen a lot. Why go looking for a kitchen knife that might be dirty or misplaced when I have a sharp, clean :spyder: in my pocket? :D

As recent as a year ago I would have voted for the FOLDER option. But in the past few months I've really been using my Spyderco fixed blade Temperance 1 model and it's been a real workhorse of a blade. I have the Temp 1 in PE & SE both. Both of them are real great blades.

I'm looking so forward to getting the Temperance 2 as soon as I can scrape of the $$ to get one.

Now please don't get me wrong because I absolutely adore all my Spyderco folders but I trust my fixed blades far more for hard work jobs. Spyderco's folders locking systems have never failed me.

I've been learning a lot about the subject of "survival" here in the past 3 to 4 years and almost every survival manual I've read preaches that fixed blades are better for survival because of having fewer moving parts. Especially the full tang fixed blades. This is a tough one in a way because I usually carry 2 or 3 Spyders everyday :rolleyes:

FB for me. I like both, but I find myself browsing the FB more. I own just a few folders that I carry. Love my spyderco EDC. They work so well I don't feel like I need too many. The 3 I have never let me down. So naturally I spend contrary to that logic with fixed blades. Different strokes I guess. I could never part with my Spyderco Temperance 2 or Bushcraft, or mule.

Somewhere in the basement are hiding my early 1960s-era bone-handled Case XX sheath knife (from my Scouting days) and my mid-1970s-era cherrywood Browning skinner (from a research stint with caribou-hunting Naskapis in the far north of Quebec). Another one might have been hiding in the basement, but, as I was leaving Vietnam in 1969, I gave to a new troop the Ka-Bar that an exiting Chief of Firing Battery had passed to me on my arrival there a year before. Wanting modern fixed blades, I acquired an Izula-II and an ESSE-6 earlier this year, so now I have all the fixed blades I need. My disposable cash shall support just (:rolleyes :) a Spyderco folder habit.

Folder. I like to put knives on the IWB, or in my pocket, and a fixed blade is just too long for those locations. And I've never seen the need for a fixed blade. My folder does everything a fixed blade does.

A couple of years ago this would of been an easy answer but I have really gotten to like and use fixed blades alot. I voted folder as they still get more use than my fixed. Ask this again and a year and who knows.

Wow i thought this poll would be alot different, Im surprised that fixed is at 50% of folders. Thought fixed would be alot less.

Folder all the way, although I can surely appreciate a fixed blade.

riot wrote:wow i thought this poll would be alot different, im surprised that fixed is at 50% of folders. Thought fixed would be alot less.

+1

I have both on me every day, fixed blade for most uses and folder for fondling as a fancy mechanical gadget. If I have to choose only one, I would take a fixed blade over a folder any day.

juggler wrote:I prefer a fixed blade for hiking, but a folder is much more convenient for everyday use. So I voted folder... even though for $200 I'd get both!

Ditto, get both. I take a folder for my right and fixed for left hand. Just in case, the poo hits the fan lol

When Im outside the house and not in town or at work I carry a fixed mora or fällkniven, only when I cant carry a fixed knife I choose a folder. Mostly because of the ergonomics, most folders have too flat/small handles to be comfortable after working a while. Despite this I have many more folders than fixed blades at my house. :)

The only need I have for a fixed blade is for hard work where I may need to beat the crap out of the knife. Something like hitting the spine with a piece of wood to drive the blade through another piece of wood. I can't remember the word for doing that. Other than work that will be potentially damaging to a pivot or lock I'll get a folder every time. Right now I have a SOG Seal Pup. It's very comfortable to have a beater whose appearance isn't important. Edge retention isn't important on this knife either. Other than that the other times I've used a fixed blade was for hunting/fishing and out in the woods stuff.


Jack

For convenience, pocket carry, and light duty the folder wins hands down.

Either would be fine for me. I can not vote with such restriction. :)