- Location
- Ledbury, Herefordshire
recommendations for a good pocket knife
- Thread starter Kate040
- Start date
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
This is my knife. There are many like it but this one is mine.
Only knife you need. Lambsfoot blade. Sheffield steel. Cost £7.
I've tried various types but I always come back to a Lambsfoot.
Only knife you need. Lambsfoot blade. Sheffield steel. Cost £7.
I've tried various types but I always come back to a Lambsfoot.
My grandfather would keep his until there was only about 3/4 of an inch of the blade left. Though still ludicrously sharp, they would be retired to the drawer full of things "useful in emergencies"
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
i know im out in the sticks & at the arse end of the world, but ive never seen or heard of Opinel, apart from tff
- Location
- Huntingdon
One of the few that arnt stainless steel, meaning you can sharpen them on a brick and if you snap the blade using it as a prybar / screwdriver you can weld it back together and save yourself £6
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
One of the few that arnt stainless steel, meaning you can sharpen them on a brick and if you snap the blade using it as a prybar / screwdriver you can weld it back together and save yourself £6
my Schrade “Old Timer” has carbon steel blades.
VERY popular “farmers” knife here back in the day, with the pick & tweezers ( stored in the handle ) & 2 blade shapes.
Love this old knife ( I’ve probably had it 35 years ? ) but the extra features & versatility of the Leatherman means it is now my “everyday” knife & couldn’t live without
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
As a very rough generalisation, the two main knives people carry here would be either an Old Timer or a Leatherman. . .
They're french. Come from the Alps originally, but ubiquitous in France for decades. Proper peasant knife.
The 'original' is a carbon steel blade with beech handle. Costs about a tenner.
Nowadays you can get them with stainless blades and all manner of handle materials; plastic, exotic wood etc.
We like the originals because they sharpen well and hold an edge better than stainless. Plus when you lose it in a pig shed, the pigs eat the handle and the blade rusts away to nothing.
- Location
- Scottish Borders
And after a few more sharpens, and screw driver impressions, they look like this !
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Originally the pen knife of the French peasants. I was first introduced to them over 60 years ago in Provance, South of France. Nine old pence each in the local French street market. But I own two Victorixs.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
. Are there any with a loop on the end to attach to a belt - I bet he wouldn’t put it in a pouch even if he had one..
Had an Opinel, need's two hands to lock it or pushing it across with your thumb which is fiddly, and if you don't lock it it comes shut too easily, the point at the end points up rather than down, so its crap at opening bales, the wooden holder the blade sits in is too tight so any crud stops it shutting again and also bad to open. I have a lambs foot knife which address's all of these issues
2wheels
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
Looks just like a CK one. No
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
I like them for nostalgia sake but I do agree they are pretty crap. I have several and the oldest one is over 50 years old, Dad bought it while we were on holiday in Brittany to cut up bait while fishing in the harbour.
My most recent one and I do like it is a slim line version, good for filleting and an excellent camp knife for slicing bread etc.
Tomr10
Member
I like the weight of them
Jimfandango
Member
Expensive knives get lost just as easily as cheap knives.
Bogweevil
Member
I expect you make your own out of broken hacksaw blades and duct tape.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
haha, seeing as the two of the most expensive knives pictured so far on this thread are mine, I doubt it
although I have made fixed blade knives out of old crosscut saws
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