I would like to see the sheeps-foot blade from the Radio Shack Electrician on a Spartan or Tinker as a replacement for the small pen blade, or even as the only blade on a Compact or Walker.
Good reason for a two-blade SAK. One of the problems with the Classic is that it only has a large blade.
I would carry an alox electrician or apprentice more often if it had a key ring. I'm so used to using el pocket clip now it feels weird with out it. Have you thought about the electrician?
Quote from: El Corkscrew on August 24, 2018, 05:57:48 AMI would carry an alox electrician or apprentice more often if it had a key ring. I'm so used to using el pocket clip now it feels weird with out it. Have you thought about the electrician?a I like SAKs without the lanyard ring, but the TL-29 and hawkbill, both patterns traditionally carried by linemen and electricians have huge bails you can put any kind of cord/rope through (when I'm working around the farm, I usually secure them by means of a carabiner to my belt). So you'd think the Electrician and Apprentice would have a keyring to prevent loss, as they're largely intended for use by the same people as the TL-29 and hawkbill.
I don't use the small blade much but there are tasks that it performs better then the large. I like to keep it razor sharp for when I do use it.
Big for food, small for dirty stuff.
This plus a zillion or two!
I like to keep the edge bevel on the small blade ridiculously thin, around 6 degrees per side or less and hair-splittingly sharp. If used gently it makes a multitude of cutting tasks really easy. If it touches your skin though, you bleed
One more here for the small blade for primary use. I use the main blade for food...and mostly to cut sandwiches and burgers at picnics and BBQs. I think there should be more options for the the blades to be swapped. Small blades on the main blade side only need the proper spacer from the factory. I'd buy knives with a small blade and a pruner or electrician blade. Small + Pruner is on my list of upcoming mods now that I have a few donors in stock. What I'd really like is a gardener sized Hawkbill and the small pen blade.
How hard would it be to make a two layer with big+small and pruner+electrician with an awl on the back? That would be one heck of a lot of cutting utility in a small package.
Well, it wouldn't be SAK, but something like a Case Congress already packs four blades into one smallish knife. There are even a few 5-blade trappers and sowbellys floating around, but I believe they were all special runs.
DMT diamond hones for profiling and sharpening dullish edges and finish on a Spyderco ultra-fine ceramic that I lapped with a DMT fine hone to make it even smoother, crazy sharp.
Today I found the neighbour had chucked a chair out in front of their door. Totally collapsed but the wood was all unbroken. Just seperated at the joints. I knocked on and offered to put it back together for them, she's a single mother with 6 kids and I know money is very tight. Anyway back on topic, I used the little blade to cut and pry out the old glue and clean up the joints. It wasn't well put together to start with methinks and I needed to do a lot of work to get it all back together. It was dirty work, lots of old glue and lots of new glue all over the thing. Wipe off afterwards and still use the big blade to cut up buns and pickles for my hotdog supper.
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