[average_shooter
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As a kid I was gifted the Schrade I posted earlier, various SAKs and knockoffs, and other no-lock knives. In my teens I started to think every knife carried needed to have a lock and serrations to be useful.
Then I started carrying that Stockman again and realized how useful it is to have a nice little pen knife on hand. Cutting out tight patterns, cutting small cord or webbing, digging out that sliver... all difficult to do with my 3" Gerber, just due to its size being overkill for small tasks. And a small sheepsfoot blade is so easy to sharpen, I tend to use that and the pen blade even more than the clip. And the Schrade fits in the watch pocket of my pants, so it's always handy, yet securely out of the way.
Can't wait for my Case Stockmans to show up in the mail.]
You're gonna love that Case, shooter.
It sounds to me like you're rediscovering how useful one of those "old time"pocket knives are. I don't think ti's an accident of fate that our grandfathers, and their grandfathers before them used these kinds of knives for a real working life on the farm. This was way before office cubicles came about. Passing strange that the so called modern tactical knife only came about in the last 25 years, when most of us live in suburban if not urban areas, and more people work in office environments than ever before in America's history. That stockman in your pocket is a product of working mans 1870's environment of a working cowboy. Can't get anymore real world cutting performance than that.
And somehow our grandfathers and those before got by just fine without a lock on the blade. I know my garndpa's had all their fingers.
I wonder how much of what is sold these days is an artificial market created only for the manufacturer's sales and profit margin.
Carl.
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