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- Thu Sep 17, 2020 5:18 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: What "Other" is in your pocket???
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- Fri Sep 04, 2020 10:56 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: What "Other" is in your pocket???
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Re: What "Other" is in your pocket???
Another look at the 29. Photo courtesy of Knives Ship Free
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 10:48 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: What "Other" is in your pocket???
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Re: What "Other" is in your pocket???
https://thephotohost.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/img_1354-1.jpg?w=1024 My Great Eastern Cutlery 62 Easy Pocket Congress in Red Jigged Bone, and the 29 Stockyard Whittler in Autumn Jigged Bone. Outstanding examples of the traditional cutlers’ art. These two are my every day knives soon to be joined ...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:46 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
Re: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
In that sense I agree. I had old slip joints when I was young (I will be 78 in a couple of months) and was quite happy with them. The Navy introduced me to small fixed blades as an actual work and safety tool whilst working deck sea detail or replenishment evolutions. Then in the early 70s I bought ...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:18 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Odds of more choil-less designs
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3495
Re: Odds of more choil-less designs
I like choils. They provide more security and control and the few fractions of an inch you have to give up on the edge is insignificant in comparison.
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:44 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Spyderco Photo of the Week Contest!
- Replies: 10211
- Views: 1453741
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:40 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: "Laser milled Spider" on Watu blades
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1845
Re: "Laser milled Spider" on Watu blades
Thanks for those replies. I also think that Watu is so specific and produced as small batch, that it won't be counterfeited. Thanks all for taking time to answer and thx for picture Pstone. Definitely the fact that your bug seems to be not as defined as others, tends to confirm my impression and re...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:39 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: New here & just bought 3 knives
- Replies: 63
- Views: 5248
Re: New here & just bought 3 knives
Good choices. The first of many I am afraid to tell you. :D
Welcome to the forum. Good to have you here.
Welcome to the forum. Good to have you here.
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 8:07 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Would you be interested in a smaller version of the Respect (FB44GP)?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1262
Re: Would you be interested in a smaller version of the Respect (FB44GP)?
I don’t think so. The Respect is a tribute to the iconic Bowie knife. By all accounts the original was a large butcher type knife. No one today knows what it actually looked like but knives that were made during and right after that time all have the iconic big clip blade. Trying to make a mini-Bowi...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 6:14 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:01 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
Re: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
I merely started it. You all took it away so thanks to everyone!
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:35 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
Re: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
It's interesting to bring Kuhn into this. IMO, the idea of a paradigm shift can't work when we're talking about a tool. It goes the other way around: tools are artifacts of paradigms. That is, the closest thing we've seen to a paradigm shift in the knife industry is the shift from knives as tools t...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:29 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
Re: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
I don’t get your point. Can you please clarify?VooDooChild wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:21 amEinstein was educated in math and physics. Just because his job wasnt in a position in those fields, doesnt mean his research was outside of those fields. He didnt come up with relativity theory by studying poetry.
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:31 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Long-term pakkawood scale use?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2603
Re: Long-term pakkawood scale use?
Pakkawood is supposed to be very stable stuff. I haven't noticed any changes on my delica or dragonfly, and I live in a very humid area. It looks and feels as nice as it did on day one, imo. Excellent. Thanks for the quick reply! Do you perform any regular proactive maintenance? Mineral oil, etc?
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:27 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Dragonfly vs Lil' Native
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6189
Re: Dragonfly vs Lil' Native
I like the Lil’ Native far better. I love the compression lock and hand no issues with it on the Lil’ Native. Just takes a bit of getting used to. I also prefer the wire clip.
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:23 pm
- Forum: Spyderco Picture Gallery
- Topic: Macro & Close-Up Spyderco Pictures
- Replies: 60
- Views: 38504
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 1:43 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
Re: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
The core definition of “paradigm”. Not from a dictionary but from the man who discovered it: “For well-integrated members of a particular discipline, its paradigm is so convincing that it normally renders even the possibility of alternatives unconvincing and counter-intuitive. Such a paradigm is opa...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 9:56 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
Re: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
It is obvious that my use of “innovation” was way too broad. Perhaps, “revolutionary change” is better. As detailed in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions all major scientific revolutions (plate tectonics, physics, cosmology, chemistry, etc,) are created by people who work outside ...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 9:16 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:53 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
- Replies: 116
- Views: 19776
Re: The perceived need for instantaneous one hand operation has driven folding knife design into a dead end
Implying better, safer transport.