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8 December 2021, 04:59
The key to using a standard pocket knife for wood craft is that strong back spring and selecting the proper tool for the job.
Plus there is the training in using the spring back safely and efficiently.
We always got big doses of that because the non-locking folders were all that was available, other than a fixed blade, and you could not drop a fixed blade knife in your pocket and forget about it until you had to peel an apple.
I was an adult before Buck came out with the 110 folding hunter. That was the first good quality locking folder on our market, and suddenly a rash of others appeared.
I still remember first seeing them. I wanted one badly but the $25 US was above my budget. Equal to around $250 today, when Minimum pay was $1.50 hr ! I was a broke university student working part time.
I got hold of a German Kat knife somewhere and hung that on my gear. They were pretty good knives, still are. They now cost as much as the Buck used to.
Odd thing was, I still had a Shrade 3 blade stockman in my pocket and used it for the real knife work.
Same thing when I was in the service; combat knife on the web gear, pilot survival knife on the trouser belt, 4 blade utility knife in the pocket and most used.
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Plus there is the training in using the spring back safely and efficiently.
We always got big doses of that because the non-locking folders were all that was available, other than a fixed blade, and you could not drop a fixed blade knife in your pocket and forget about it until you had to peel an apple.
I was an adult before Buck came out with the 110 folding hunter. That was the first good quality locking folder on our market, and suddenly a rash of others appeared.
I still remember first seeing them. I wanted one badly but the $25 US was above my budget. Equal to around $250 today, when Minimum pay was $1.50 hr ! I was a broke university student working part time.
I got hold of a German Kat knife somewhere and hung that on my gear. They were pretty good knives, still are. They now cost as much as the Buck used to.
Odd thing was, I still had a Shrade 3 blade stockman in my pocket and used it for the real knife work.
Same thing when I was in the service; combat knife on the web gear, pilot survival knife on the trouser belt, 4 blade utility knife in the pocket and most used.
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