Knife Chat: Slicing to the meat of all things sharp

[Red Tamarillo]

Other fixed blade EDC or APC options are Hultafors/Moras etc... Sometimes you need to put a bit of dark (if you wear dark pants) hockey grip tape on the end of the handle to cover up bright coloured handles. As small fixed blades can be borderline with showing in pocket carry (IPC). Depends on their overall length. Also can get serrated in these work knives. Not as good serrations as Spyderco, but fine. You can cut the clip off the plastic sheath to make them more streamlined in pocket.

Spyderco also make some options. The Street Beat and Enuff 2 for instance, plus some others. Just the right length for in pocket carry (IPC). I like serrated Spydercos. Some of their fixed blade options you can get serrated.

The Benchmade Steep Country is also in this blade length range. And cuts rope like a lightsabre.

Trouser/shorts selection is also important as some have deeper pockets than others.

[MacWa77ace]

There was always the Schrade Sharpfinger:

https://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/corners/michael/152OT%20Sharpfinger%20and%20152UH%20Uncle%20Henry%20Wolverine%20Research.pdf

Was this guy Codger at that link getting his doctorate in knife history or something?!? I've only seen that kind of file offered on research papers etc. not articles. They usually make up the body of a webpage.

Althought the site seems a little oldschool itself, https://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/ [free website builder? we don't need no stinking CSS] so maybe more of an archive, but still.

[Red Tamarillo]

Sorry, is there something wrong with the link?

There's this collector mentality, where they get obsessed on history and little details and variants. It's not uncommon.
I linked another site first but this guy seemed to have more detail.
Sometimes you end up bidding against a collector on ebay, and soon realise when you've been slammed that some specific detail about the item/maker has made them smash you, as they 'need' to get it for their collection (an addiction).

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I've actually considered getting a Schrade Sharpfinger a few times. Only Schrade fixed blade I own currently is a Golden Spike I picked at a "going out of business" sale a local store was having.

I think I paid something like 20 bucks for it at the time.

Also, I just spent the last 20 minutes looking for a small silver washer from my CJRB Pyrite button lock.

I'd taken the knife apart to clean it, wiped down the blade and then went to reassemble it. That's when I noticed the washer on one side and immediately thought "Oh crap, I lost the other one somehow."

I looked everywhere for the damn thing, but it turns out CJRB only puts a single washer on the clip side of the knife for some reason.

So I wasted 20 minutes looking for a non-existent washer my monkey brain made me think I'd lost it.

[Red Tamarillo]

The golden spike looks good. 5 inch blade with a guard. Realistically fits that role of 5 to 7 inch fixed blade well

The sharpfinger though through smaller length of blade can be an EDC (depending on local laws). When fixed blades are a certain (smaller) length they can be EDC in the pocket. EDC small fixed blade in pocket is easier to conceal than small fixed blade riding on your belt.

The fun thing about the sharpfinger is that through it's design it has multiple 'fidget' ways of handling it. You can do hammer grip, you can do sabre grip, you can do icepick obviously. You can rotate and do a grip on each slab left or right, you can place your index finger near the end of the blade inside an animal (knowing where the end of your blade is because it's not long), you can put your thumb on the end of the blade to peel an apple (that is your fingers doing multiple movements between these two). You can also put your index finger on the first unsharpened part of the blade to help with delicate work i.e. it has lots of flipping between the fingers. The designer did a good job, even against decades later.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Local Walmart didn't have any Sharpfingers when I stopped by this morning, but I did manage to score a couple SOG Power Pint multitools that were on clearance.

Normally they're like 40 bucks or so and today they were around 20. Friend of mine that works the Sporting Goods counter sometimes told me she grabbed three of them (two for Christmas gifts and one for herself).

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Stopped at a local thrift store on Saturday and saw they had a few small knives in a display case.

Most of them were the usual cheapos, but one ended up being a nice Case slipjoint. I figured the price would be high like most things there, but it wasn't.

The Case knife was only 2 bucks, so needless to say that sucker came home with me.

I may have to keep checking that store and see if I can score more Case knives or other name brand knives for cheap.

[majorhavoc]

Stopped at a local thrift store on Saturday ...

The Case knife was only 2 bucks, so needless to say that sucker came home with me.

I may have to keep checking that store and see if I can score more Case knives or other name brand knives for cheap.

Ah, that's what we call the thrill of the hunt! 

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Stopped at a local thrift store on Saturday ...

The Case knife was only 2 bucks, so needless to say that sucker came home with me.

I may have to keep checking that store and see if I can score more Case knives or other name brand knives for cheap.

Ah, that's what we call the thrill of the hunt! 

Yep. I'm hoping I'll find more there at some point.

The store is always getting stuff and I'm sure there'll be more knives amongst the other items.