What's your "Sweet Spot"?
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What's your "Sweet Spot"?
As related to closed length and number of blades. Mine is 3¼" -- 3¾" and I'm pretty much a two blade guy. Just something about that size (especially in two blade knives) that makes my eyes shine.
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"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
Good topic - I like a 3.00” blade which (based on pattern) typically translates to 3.25” to 3.50”. These days my sharp needs are limited and I like a single blade Wharncliffe.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
3.5 to 4 inches. 3 blades. Case 047 or Schrade 881 for example. Seems like I use either the sheepfoot or the spey blade most often.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
I generally like something around 2 3/4” to 3 3/4” & 2 blades. That usually means two knives with 2 blades each. One knife is shorter & one is longer.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
I would have to say 3 5/8"-3 3/4" with either 3 or 4 blades. Several patterns would fit into this spec. Camper/ Scout, cattle knife, stockman, and others.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
I'm with Ken - 3.5 to 4 inches with 3 blades.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
The 4 1/4" Queen 49 and any Case 75 plus the 4 1/8" Case Trappers and my #11 Queen trapper, they fill in the sweet spot for me.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
Tom, you're whistling my dance tune...give me a 3½" frame with a single Wharncliffe blade and I'll 'cut a rug' all night long.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
Just thinking, right now I’m carrying a Case 64047P. So the size I posted previously but four blades counting the punch.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
I like knives between 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 inches or 6 - 9 cm. A shorter one (6-7cm) in my left pocket and a longer one (8-9cm) in my right pocket. I like knives with any number of blades but I find three blades fits good for me. Usually stockmans. I like Clip & Sheepsfoot blades best. Clips for opening and cutting things and sheepsfoot blades for cleaning my fingernails. And of course stag or bone Hits my sweet spot as well.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
Between 3"-4". Preferably, 3 3/8" to 3 3/4" closed.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
That's certainly a sweet one!!
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
2 1/2 to 3 1/2 and in a Whittler with a coping blade as one of the secondary blades.____Dave
Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
I'm with Ken and Steve, on the 3.5-4".
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
My sweet spot has way to many variables.It all depend on what I'm doing that day, length and patterns can make the variables change especially in lockbacks and modern knives.Standard r&r days will find a 34ot or a 303 size stockman most likely in my watch pocket with either a sheath knife or a modern knife clipped in a pocket with a 3.5" or 4" blade.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
That is exactly what I like also Jerry. For some reason, I thought you would have been favoring a longer length.jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:16 pm As related to closed length and number of blades. Mine is 3¼" -- 3¾" and I'm pretty much a two blade guy. Just something about that size (especially in two blade knives) that makes my eyes shine.
Maybe we had been competitors on eBay!
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
I'm in the 3-1/2 to 3-7/8 inch closed slot. My fave patterns are the muskrat, 47, 07 and 32. I'm a white collar stiff, and rarely carry anything smaller than 3.5"
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
I like the size specified in O.P., and 2 blades, with one spring = pen knife.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
3- 1/2 to 3- 3/4 bare head two blade jack with clip and pen. Jigged bone and or stag. GEC, Robeson and Case xx preferably.
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
Put me down for 3 5/8" to 3 7/8". Spear, preferably a swedged Saber grind, and a traditional pen.
Like this one-
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
3" closed give or take 1/4"
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
3-3/8” to 3-3-/4” COAL, prefer a Clip main and a Sheepfoot secondary - not many of them in two blade (I have four or five) mostly carry a Medium Stockman. OH
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Re: What's your "Sweet Spot"?
I like big old fat ones 3 3/4 " and above, and little fat ones 3" to 3 3/4" in my pockets, and little fellers in the watch pocket. When I've got car keys with me I have two of the little saks on there.