Day 21 [ Quoting of attachment images from other messages is not allowed ] A Gerber EZ-Out is as close as I can come to a mini challenge entry. I am sure there will be some interesting posts from the other members here. Thanks to friend WECSOG for stepping in and playing the game. Best wishes. G
Day 21: The only Automatic knife I currently have, a Hogue Sig Sauer. It's definitely fast, and well built.
Closest thing that I've got to an autistic... I don't mind a fast opening knife but I always worry about a spring breakage. I picked up this el-cheapo Ozark trail last year. No flipper but the thumb stud opens it fast enough.
Day 21I don't have any automatic knives, but I have a few spring-assisted flippers. These three were handy enough to grab for a picture. two of these are Kershaw Speedsafe models. The black one is the model 1940. It kind of looks funny, but it is very comfortable in my hand. The silver one is the model 3871 which looks like every other Kershaw design but it's all metal and that makes it feel quite heavy and durable. I pulled both of these Kershaws out of the Sos Surprise Giveaway Box which any member can sign up for, and you can receive it more than once. The last knife is one of those generic rescue knives that I found nearly 20 years ago and despite having a provenance that likely begins in a gas station, it has been pretty good.
Good looking auto, Barry! That's pretty much the same blade profile as my Benchmade.
Day 21Carrying the Peanut and Kershaw Federalist today. Where I live gravity knives and assisted knives are verboten. So, I grabbed a framelock flipper to share today. Bonus points since it has a Micarta show side scale. Happy Micarta Monday awl!JonesE
Day 20: Decided to just go to Sam's Club to buy groceries instead of Walmart. I normally don't do 1:18 (1:43-1:64 for cars and trucks--1:32-1:64 and smaller for farm equipment), but this '53 Studebaker was surprisingly well done for twenty bucks. Went with only a Classic SD today, and didn't need anything more. Used the scissors to snip off some plastic banding. [ Quoting of attachment images from other messages is not allowed ]
Day 21Monday mini-challange "Automatics"So here's 4 of mine that were handy, "Milano" classic steletto, some odd Panther/puma logo SA SO with wood handles, a no name DA OTF made out of the softest zmak & steel this side of a letter opener and a gas station SASOBut my featured knife isn't an Auto, but an obscure Auto Alternative... a Jaguar gear drive. I remember seeing these sold in the ACC catalog 30-35yrs ago as "the legal switchblade". It's trick is the sliding gear bar attached to the bolster on one end and enguaged with teeth cut in the blade tang. It's rough, loose and jankey, but clicky addictive to snap open & closed holding between thumb & index w/ pinky in the beed chain loop. And the blade is surprisingly crisp & sharp for how bad the rest of the knife is.
in spite of the disparaging remark that "a canoe is a poor man's yacht." The canoe editor of Forest and Stream pertinently says, "we may as properly call a bicycle 'the poor man's express train.'" But, suppose it is the poor man's yacht? Are we to be debarred from aquatic sports because we are not rich? And are we such weak flunkies as to be ashamed of poverty? Or to attempt shams and subterfuges to hide it?
In a word, act coolly and rationally. So shall your outing be a delight in conception and the fulfillment thereof; while the memory of it shall come back to you in pleasant dreams, when legs and shoulders are too stiff and old for knapsack and rifle.
All the "awlmost autos" are pretty cool. Someone could write a whole article on different mechanisms.Day 21I have a few autos, but my favorite (and I think first) is this Schrade-Walden MC1 Parachute knife. (Stockman for scale or something.) [ Quoting of attachment images from other messages is not allowed ] [ Quoting of attachment images from other messages is not allowed ] I got it in a trade with our very own Farmer X, so this is a fitting fill in since he had to take some time off and missed the challenge.To the best of my understanding, the idea is that you kept it in the breast pocket of your flight suit with the cord dangling out and the hook deployed. In the event of a parachute in tree or similar emergency, you could pull it and use the hook blade one handed without hurting yourself. The clip point can be deployed via the button one handed as well, but wouldn't be safe to leave deployed.And a double Nessmuk since I forgot again:Don't be a weak flunky!And, finally, one of his last pieces of advice from the end of the book:Don't panic is probably the best piece of advice you can have in the wilderness, and one that Nessmuk repeats over and over.
Day 22 Still doing Opinels. This one is posed in front of a trumpet vine. This stuff tries to come through cracks in walls and grow inside buildings. Ants like it for some reason. Every part of the plant is poisonous. Leaves, vines, roots. Even the seeds are poisonous. Pretty though. Let's see, I think I am signed up for another challenge after this one. Keychain maybe? Sak-alike challenge after that, I think. I never officially got my moniker on the list for that one for some reason. We will see how things go after another 8 days or so. I might drop both of them for lack of an interesting tool to carry in each. Best wishes. G [ Quoting of attachment images from other messages is not allowed ]
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