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Jabames Interfector Viris Spurii Offline :3 Posts: 1880 Alaska Gender:	Slipjoint knives Jan 6^th, 2025 at 6:39am Any of you fellas EDC a slippie? I got into slipjoints maybe 8 years ago or so, and recently have been using pen knives, barlows, and stockmans for gutting salmon. Used my case large stockman in carbon steel for some moose skinning lightly along with my mora kansbol and my late brother's Estwing leather-stacked hatchet for biger tasks.
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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 796 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Slipjoint knives Reply #1 - Jan 6^th, 2025 at 12:30pm I carry a victorinox Officer Suisse. Everything useful with no excess weight. The blades hold a remarkably good edge. 😁👍
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Jabames Interfector Viris Spurii Offline :3 Posts: 1880 Alaska Gender:	Re: Slipjoint knives Reply #2 - Jan 6^th, 2025 at 1:41pm xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Jan 6^th, 2025 at 12:30pm: I carry a victorinox Officer Suisse. Everything useful with no excess weight. The blades hold a remarkably good edge. 😁👍
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Re: Slipjoint knives
Reply #3 - Jan 6^th, 2025 at 4:32pm

I always carry a Victorinox "Hiker" Swiss Army Knife that my dad gifted me. Keeps an edge, holds up really well, and doesn't really have many downsides. I've only had one issue when prying with the large blade and it closed on my middle finger, cutting through the nail and the nailbed. Now I carry a sheath knife* as well, for more, uh... Knife based tasks, or tasks where a folding knife could close shut and very quickly.

*sheath knife mentioned being a Cold Steel Roach Belly. Cheap little knife, has a bit of an ugly sheath, but very durable and very useful, and holds an edge remarkably well.

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Re: Slipjoint knives
Reply #4 - Jan 7^th, 2025 at 1:54am

Caspian wrote on Jan 6^th, 2025 at 4:32pm:

I always carry a Victorinox "Hiker" Swiss Army Knife that my dad gifted me. Keeps an edge, holds up really well, and doesn't really have many downsides. I've only had one issue when prying with the large blade and it closed on my middle finger, cutting through the nail and the nailbed. Now I carry a sheath knife* as well, for more, uh... Knife based tasks, or tasks where a folding knife could close shut and very quickly.

*sheath knife mentioned being a Cold Steel Roach Belly. Cheap little knife, has a bit of an ugly sheath, but very durable and very useful, and holds an edge remarkably well.

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Re: Slipjoint knives
Reply #5 - Jan 8^th, 2025 at 2:49am

I have a Victorinox Hercules my dad gave me when I went to uni, 15 years ago, and he had it for almost 10 years before that.

There's not a thing wrong with the 20+ year old knife and we use it around the apartment almost every day.

I have just been using the smaller phillips screwdriver in the past few days to open battery compartments in baby toys and Christmas decorations (every single one has a small screw for some reason). I used the saw on the knife to carve the Christmas tree to fit into the base. The scissors are finer than regular household scissors and perfect if you need to cut something small.

Back at the house we have a fixed-blade Cold Steel SRK Carbon V model my dad got from an acquaintance somehow.

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Re: Slipjoint knives
Reply #6 - Jan 8^th, 2025 at 8:49am

RhonanTennenbrook wrote on Jan 8^th, 2025 at 2:49am:

I have a Victorinox Hercules my dad gave me when I went to uni, 15 years ago, and he had it for almost 10 years before that.

There's not a thing wrong with the 20+ year old knife and we use it around the apartment almost every day.

I have just been using the smaller phillips screwdriver in the past few days to open battery compartments in baby toys and Christmas decorations (every single one has a small screw for some reason). I used the saw on the knife to carve the Christmas tree to fit into the base. The scissors are finer than regular household scissors and perfect if you need to cut something small.

Back at the house we have a fixed-blade Cold Steel SRK Carbon V model my dad got from an acquaintance somehow.

awesome, I remember my first knife was a swiss army knfe I borrowed a lot from my dad when I was 5 more or less, learned to respect it as I got the blade closed on me a few times lol. and accidentally lost my dad's Leatherman pst, the model without a lock in the late 90s.

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