Man I’ve watched a few of your videos before in the past but just now subscribed to your channel. I appreciate the good content, especially on traditional knives. That’s all I’ve carried for years. Like you’ve mentioned, it just takes ya back to simpler times!
Really great points! I’m thinking about picking up a slipjoint as a backup myself for two of the main reasons you mentioned: it won’t freak people out, and it reminds me of my granddad. Thanks for the video, bud!
Great video! I have many modern folders ranging from budget to $300+ milled titanium super steels. I love them, but none are as beautiful to me as a good slipjoint with gorgeous bone or wood scales.
I'm sure you'd like the Otter Messer Anchor knife, I was buying my wife a neck chain at a Jewelers in UK, she wanted the sales tag cut off it, so I took out my Anchor knife and in a second cut the tag off , the salesman was not scared but impressed. Our UK knife laws are very strict too... but as a slip joint less than 3 inches it is legal.
👍🏼👍🏼I started carrying a slipjoint in my goat tool tool pouch. Inherited from grandpa. It’s an old Hammer Brand. I think from around 1945-1955 ish. Looks like a pickle. :) I love having one of my grandpas knives on me.
i saw SISAL ROOOOOPE....Also, i got a hedgehog bc of you...it's my first and probably last slippy but it's awesome and i can't wait to get my richter slip and start carrying it...
I edc my modern knife and I also carry my traditional trapper knife just food. Like when I have cut a tough steak at restaurant or when I’m at road side fruit stand and I have cut orange or peach. Like you say… it doesn’t feel threatening to other people and it slows you down to simpler times.
Just recently started to add in some slip joints to my collection. I got a Lionsteel Bestman for Christmas a couple years ago and I really like the modern traditional esthetic. For my birthday this year I just ordered a Boker Coffin slip joint in MagnaCut and a Reel Steel Gslip in VG10! And natural micarta. I hope to add more in the near future. Maybe some more traditional slip joints.
I always think of knives as tea.(ye im weird) The locking knives are all kinds of fancy teabags. But the slipjoint is loose leaf. It takes some work, some skill and often some shit is left behind in the cup but damn we cant help but love it.
Man I tried like hell to grab one of those yellow rose barlows but wasn't quick enough. I usually switch between a 23, 39, and 71 plus a few Case depending on the day. Definitely not a primary carry but a great secondary and almost like a worry stone in your hand folded up when you have some nice bone covers! Great video man!
@@doodysdaggers yeah I know, I've got a TC 15 Barlow in sawcut bone I'm selling now but I definitely wanted a yellow rose but all good, the hunt is half the fun!
See now this is good idea, so many people just despise slip joints for some reason without giving thought as to why. People should stop and think that with all the hubbub about the “minimalist” style in the knife community, slip joints are the OG! They can also be crazy cool or oversized or unique or plain. Every knife has it’s own appeal and these are no different. Thanks for sharing your reasons!
Most videos I see on UA-cam about the new slip joint craze. Tend to be more on the expensive side as far as Rosecraft, Jack Wolf knives excetra are there any budget brands out there worth considering really appreciate your time and effort on the channel keep up the good work 👍🏼
Rough Rider makes a ton of under $20 slipjoints. Obviously expensive varies by person, but I don't think of RoseCraft as expensive, rather exceptional high value for $44-55, very good quality and gorgeous.
@@doodysdaggers oh buddy I know, I've been trying for a while but my pockets aren't very deep and i'm outside of the USA so conversion plus shipping doesn't make it any easier
Heya Doody! I’m trying to find a video on how to install an easy open notch onto a slipjoint. Your favourite GEC has one that I believe that you installed…. is there a video demonstrating how you did this? I have a Boker Cattle Knife that is uncomfortable to open, but I don’t want to eff it up🤪 love to check it out if it exists….
I don’t have a video of me doing it. But it’s pretty easy, you’ll need a Dremel or some other rotary tool. And a carbide burr. Something like this: amzn.to/46xpYQN Then you just grind away until it looks good. After you get it roughed in, use sandpaper and hand file to get it nice and smooth
I keep mine in a slip case that also has a fisher space pen attached to it, which is really handy as a backup, but the main reason why I always keep it in my pocket is so that if I ever need to let someone borrow a knife, I don’t have to worry about them trying to figure out how to open or close it. Anybody who knows anything about a pocket knife knows how to open a slip joint and if they don’t, then they’re most likely not gonna ask for a pocket knife to borrow.
found one in a drawer the other day which got me thinking rather negatively about slip joints. and everything i came away with is essentially true. all the advantages are aesthetic, except for being not threatening, which does exist elsewhere. (such as in Opinels.) and legality, which in my particular case i basically consider aesthetic. (though indeed it may very well not be so in other's.) but like... eh. i think two kinds of people carry slip joints. people who just think theyre super neato and who like carrying them. in which case go for it, live as you like. and people who've been carrying them for 40 years or whatever, in which case it's clearly been working just fine. frankly I might start getting and carrying some slipjoints myself just for y'know, shits and giggles.
Most traditional slip joint patterns have been around for over 100 years for a reason. You can learn a lot about how a pocket knife is an actual tool from when men used them as such.
I was so fixated into tactical stuff that I didn't carry any folder. Then I got into tactical folders...then slipjoints. Now, there are days that I only carry a titanium spike and a slipjoint. Slipjoints are beautiful and do their job better than other folders. If we do put aesthetics above all when choosing shoes and clothing, can't we do the same with knives? Aethetics and tradition are fundamental parts of life and of a healthy psyche. I think slipjoints are: TOOLS, FASHION AND HERITAGE. But...they're not harmless also. The spanish navaja was originally a friction folder and it's fighting techniques can be applied to slipjoints.
I grew up with slipjoints/traditionals and modern knives were fairly rare. I find most (not all) moderns a little samey and just don't get the same charge buying most moderns as i do traditionals. Entirely irrational but that's how it is.
There is no practical reason, if legally permissible a modern folder or fixed blade is better in every way. Traditional folders are basically jewelry, nice to look at, and you can accessorize them with a small leather purse as well. If you carry a knife for style/feeling it really doesn't matter what you choose, but if you live a lifestyle that actually requires you to use your knife and must deploy it from carry 30,40,50+ times a day the extra time messing with slips and nail nicks adds up, slows you down, and makes a mechanical failure all more likely. I don't think the actual hard-users are the people funding the current market trend in modern traditional folders however. I think they are primarily being purchased and carried by hobbyists, collectors, and hipsters.
Theres about 30 reasons why you SHOULD NEVER CARRY a slip joint. Heres just some off top of my head. This vid is the most ridiculous reasoning to carry a dangerous and mostly worthless tool (except for opening letters maybe) I’ve ever heard. Unless you live in a country where its illegal to carry a locking knife, why in the world would you carry a slip joint? A knife is a TOOL, probably the most important tool you can carry…… it never fails, if you carry a junk cheap knife or a slipjoint, you run into a situation where you need a strong, well made, lock back. You can still carry a small locking knife like a dragonfly and its not intimidating. And you can get plenty of lock backs with thin blade geometry, like most flat ground spydercos….. and the leather slip….. why? Thats just one extra thing clogging already crowded pockets…. with phones and flashlights, and vapes, and keys and whatever else one carries in their pockets. Deep carry pocket clips are the way to go. What if you are stuck in your car, flipped, trapped, and gotta cut your seatbelt….. you gotta try and maneuver your slipjoint out of its leather and then open it possibly with one hand if you hurt or pinned….NO…. Its dumb af. You want a pocket clip and a knife made to open with one hand. Now I get you wanna protect your knife from getting scratched up by keys and whatnot with the leather, but as far as knives go, theres the daily users….. and then theres the collection and nice knives that rarely get used. The daily user is gonna get scratched, beat up, dirty, etc…. Its what is supposed to happen. When i was a kid, i damn near chopped my index finger off with a slip joint and had to get 13 stitches and it still has nerve damage to this day…. I can touch embers or a glowing hot stove burner…. And it just tingles….. i cant hardly feel with it at all. While it doesnt happen often, if you actually use knives for work or live on a farm or whatever case may be, theres going to be a time when it gets stuck or you have to lightly pry with it, or you gotta stab it kinda hard into something to get through it, or puncture a hole into some leather, etc. Any of those things could cause the blade to close on your hand. Honestly, ideally the best knives for actual use are fixed blades. And you can get small fixed blades that clip sideways on your belt that you dont even feel…… but folders are more convenient and easier to carry and smaller. So youd want to use a folder that is the closest to a fixed blade as possible, and that is a locking knife. Knife tech has come a long way since the 1800’s, and theres just no reason to carry a knife for use and emergencies with so many disadvantages. If it comes down to a real emergency where you need to use the knife quickly…… you may as well have no knife at all and it would be about as practical as carrying a slipjoint.
Aside from classy and beauty, slip joints were designed for the job they did. Like the stockman and cattle knives es of the cowboys, the trapper for skinning of game, the Barlow for the hard working guy in almost any situation. The Barlow knife was, according to the old records of trading posrts and factories, the most sold pocketknife from 1850 to 1870. Modern so called "tactical" knives are a joke designed for fantasies of adventure, not real world cutting. If you need a lock on the blade to feel safe, maybe you shouldn't be carrying any knife?
My favorite reason is how classy and nostalgic slipjoints are I love the modern traditional ones and the old school traditionals! They are all nice.
They have charm, history and definitely nostalgia factor.
Man I’ve watched a few of your videos before in the past but just now subscribed to your channel. I appreciate the good content, especially on traditional knives. That’s all I’ve carried for years. Like you’ve mentioned, it just takes ya back to simpler times!
Exactly!
Thanks buddy, glad to have you 🤠
Really great points! I’m thinking about picking up a slipjoint as a backup myself for two of the main reasons you mentioned: it won’t freak people out, and it reminds me of my granddad. Thanks for the video, bud!
yeah i'm convinced for sure
Great video! I have many modern folders ranging from budget to $300+ milled titanium super steels. I love them, but none are as beautiful to me as a good slipjoint with gorgeous bone or wood scales.
Yes exactly! Thanks man 🤠
I have been hooked for a while now!
I'm sure you'd like the Otter Messer Anchor knife, I was buying my wife a neck chain at a Jewelers in UK, she wanted the sales tag cut off it, so I took out my Anchor knife and in a second cut the tag off , the salesman was not scared but impressed. Our UK knife laws are very strict too... but as a slip joint less than 3 inches it is legal.
I’ll take a look!
I always carry a slip joint.. usually my backup.. great video Dood! 😎♿️. Today I’m carrying a RCB Appalachian Jack with pry bar end. Great tool!
I had never seen that one until I just now looked it up! What a cool idea!
👍🏼👍🏼I started carrying a slipjoint in my goat tool tool pouch. Inherited from grandpa. It’s an old Hammer Brand. I think from around 1945-1955 ish. Looks like a pickle. :)
I love having one of my grandpas knives on me.
Pickle knife!!
That’s awesome man, it always feels good to carry something so special from grandpa
@@doodysdaggers 👍🏼👍🏼
i saw SISAL ROOOOOPE....Also, i got a hedgehog bc of you...it's my first and probably last slippy but it's awesome and i can't wait to get my richter slip and start carrying it...
Woooooo! Awesome dood, glad you went for a Hog
Awesome thanks for the recommendation of the ORJ. Can’t wait to get it
Let me know how ya like it!!
I’m a fan of “cool old shit” which includes slipjoints! There’s something very tactile about using one of them.
I edc my modern knife and I also carry my traditional trapper knife just food. Like when I have cut a tough steak at restaurant or when I’m at road side fruit stand and I have cut orange or peach. Like you say… it doesn’t feel threatening to other people and it slows you down to simpler times.
That’s perfect!
Just recently started to add in some slip joints to my collection. I got a Lionsteel Bestman for Christmas a couple years ago and I really like the modern traditional esthetic. For my birthday this year I just ordered a Boker Coffin slip joint in MagnaCut and a Reel Steel Gslip in VG10! And natural micarta. I hope to add more in the near future. Maybe some more traditional slip joints.
Rad! Welcome to trad world!
Thanks!
That belt buckle is beautiful.
Nicely done.
I always think of knives as tea.(ye im weird) The locking knives are all kinds of fancy teabags. But the slipjoint is loose leaf. It takes some work, some skill and often some shit is left behind in the cup but damn we cant help but love it.
Amen!
Great work on making your own slips! ❤
Great pitch. I agree with you. Slip joints are great to carry. Have a great weekend!
You too Dean!
Thanks, DD. I carry at least one modern and one traditional everyday (along with a necker and/or a Milwaukee Fastback utility).
Right on! Me too. It’s a great combo
Thanks for watching bud 🤠
Well said!!
Good reasons, specially the last one 😁 !
I especially like the old Imperials that were made in the USA back in the 1950s. Hardware stores used to sell them for 88 cents.
Very well said.
Man I tried like hell to grab one of those yellow rose barlows but wasn't quick enough. I usually switch between a 23, 39, and 71 plus a few Case depending on the day. Definitely not a primary carry but a great secondary and almost like a worry stone in your hand folded up when you have some nice bone covers! Great video man!
Thanks man! I know dude they sold out so damn quick it was nuts
@@doodysdaggers yeah I know, I've got a TC 15 Barlow in sawcut bone I'm selling now but I definitely wanted a yellow rose but all good, the hunt is half the fun!
See now this is good idea, so many people just despise slip joints for some reason without giving thought as to why. People should stop and think that with all the hubbub about the “minimalist” style in the knife community, slip joints are the OG! They can also be crazy cool or oversized or unique or plain. Every knife has it’s own appeal and these are no different. Thanks for sharing your reasons!
Yes exactly! Disliking them for no good reason is dumb
Most videos I see on UA-cam about the new slip joint craze. Tend to be more on the expensive side as far as Rosecraft, Jack Wolf knives excetra are there any budget brands out there worth considering really appreciate your time and effort on the channel keep up the good work 👍🏼
Rough Rider makes a ton of under $20 slipjoints. Obviously expensive varies by person, but I don't think of RoseCraft as expensive, rather exceptional high value for $44-55, very good quality and gorgeous.
Ya man. I’m right there with you.
what knife is that brown one in the beginning
I can’t remember. It’s a GEC but can’t remember the specific model
👍. Well said.
wish i could find a GEC at msrp. I have a slipjoint from enigma knives i'm pretty happy with and it's often the only knife i carry during the week
I’ve gotten all mine used on Instagram or FB groups. They’re so hard to get new!
@@doodysdaggers oh buddy I know, I've been trying for a while but my pockets aren't very deep and i'm outside of the USA so conversion plus shipping doesn't make it any easier
What brand is that yellow Barlow knife?
Great Eastern Cutlery
What are some affordable good slip joints
Rough Ryder makes very affordable stuff. Sub $20
A little 2 blade Old Timer is my EDC.
I’m in desperate need of a solid leather slip for my Case sodbuster jr.. any recommendations?
I happen to make slips. Is it synthetic handle or bone?
@@doodysdaggers it’s bone. It’s the bluish kinfolk model sod buster jr
@@oHawksun okay nice! I can make you one. Hit me up on Instagram or email
@@doodysdaggers I shot you a email man!
@@oHawksun I haven’t gotten it yet.
kevindoodyvideos@gmail.com
Heya Doody! I’m trying to find a video on how to install an easy open notch onto a slipjoint. Your favourite GEC has one that I believe that you installed…. is there a video demonstrating how you did this? I have a Boker Cattle Knife that is uncomfortable to open, but I don’t want to eff it up🤪 love to check it out if it exists….
I don’t have a video of me doing it.
But it’s pretty easy, you’ll need a Dremel or some other rotary tool. And a carbide burr. Something like this:
amzn.to/46xpYQN
Then you just grind away until it looks good. After you get it roughed in, use sandpaper and hand file to get it nice and smooth
Thanks so much! I imagine those bits will work good for both the bone handles as well as the stainless liners? Hope you have a great weekend!
@@pocketknives_and_harmonicas yeah they will grind through everything. Good luck!
I keep mine in a slip case that also has a fisher space pen attached to it, which is really handy as a backup, but the main reason why I always keep it in my pocket is so that if I ever need to let someone borrow a knife, I don’t have to worry about them trying to figure out how to open or close it. Anybody who knows anything about a pocket knife knows how to open a slip joint and if they don’t, then they’re most likely not gonna ask for a pocket knife to borrow.
Absolutely !
You have some nice lookers here.
You forgot to mention it puts hair on your chest.
Oh that’s why it’s been growing like crazy!
Sold
found one in a drawer the other day which got me thinking rather negatively about slip joints.
and everything i came away with is essentially true. all the advantages are aesthetic, except for being not threatening, which does exist elsewhere. (such as in Opinels.) and legality, which in my particular case i basically consider aesthetic. (though indeed it may very well not be so in other's.)
but like... eh.
i think two kinds of people carry slip joints. people who just think theyre super neato and who like carrying them. in which case go for it, live as you like. and people who've been carrying them for 40 years or whatever, in which case it's clearly been working just fine.
frankly I might start getting and carrying some slipjoints myself just for y'know, shits and giggles.
Yeah man why not give it a try? 🤠
Most traditional slip joint patterns have been around for over 100 years for a reason. You can learn a lot about how a pocket knife is an actual tool from when men used them as such.
I was so fixated into tactical stuff that I didn't carry any folder. Then I got into tactical folders...then slipjoints. Now, there are days that I only carry a titanium spike and a slipjoint. Slipjoints are beautiful and do their job better than other folders. If we do put aesthetics above all when choosing shoes and clothing, can't we do the same with knives? Aethetics and tradition are fundamental parts of life and of a healthy psyche. I think slipjoints are: TOOLS, FASHION AND HERITAGE.
But...they're not harmless also. The spanish navaja was originally a friction folder and it's fighting techniques can be applied to slipjoints.
Actually, a slip joint has more daily utility than a "star wars" tactical folder.
Well said brother. 💯 agreed. Btw that Yellow Rose is super sexy.
It sure is, thanks man 🤠
I grew up with slipjoints/traditionals and modern knives were fairly rare. I find most (not all) moderns a little samey and just don't get the same charge buying most moderns as i do traditionals. Entirely irrational but that's how it is.
I get it!
There is no practical reason, if legally permissible a modern folder or fixed blade is better in every way. Traditional folders are basically jewelry, nice to look at, and you can accessorize them with a small leather purse as well. If you carry a knife for style/feeling it really doesn't matter what you choose, but if you live a lifestyle that actually requires you to use your knife and must deploy it from carry 30,40,50+ times a day the extra time messing with slips and nail nicks adds up, slows you down, and makes a mechanical failure all more likely. I don't think the actual hard-users are the people funding the current market trend in modern traditional folders however. I think they are primarily being purchased and carried by hobbyists, collectors, and hipsters.
Let me know when you’re ready to trade that yellow. I have a L collection of GEC.
Never! But I do have a #78 American Jack I am looking to trade
Reason number one: you hate your own fingers.
Slipjoints are romantic
That’s a great word to describe them
Ah yes non threatening knife while covered in hand tattoos lol...that logic works out.
Everyone has tattoos nowadays.. back when I got them it used to be mostly only punks, metal heads, or gangsters would get hand tattoos
That applies for regular tattoos not for hands neck and face. And thats coming from someone with quite a few tattoos.@@doodysdaggers
Theres about 30 reasons why you SHOULD NEVER CARRY a slip joint. Heres just some off top of my head.
This vid is the most ridiculous reasoning to carry a dangerous and mostly worthless tool (except for opening letters maybe) I’ve ever heard. Unless you live in a country where its illegal to carry a locking knife, why in the world would you carry a slip joint? A knife is a TOOL, probably the most important tool you can carry…… it never fails, if you carry a junk cheap knife or a slipjoint, you run into a situation where you need a strong, well made, lock back. You can still carry a small locking knife like a dragonfly and its not intimidating. And you can get plenty of lock backs with thin blade geometry, like most flat ground spydercos….. and the leather slip….. why? Thats just one extra thing clogging already crowded pockets…. with phones and flashlights, and vapes, and keys and whatever else one carries in their pockets. Deep carry pocket clips are the way to go.
What if you are stuck in your car, flipped, trapped, and gotta cut your seatbelt….. you gotta try and maneuver your slipjoint out of its leather and then open it possibly with one hand if you hurt or pinned….NO…. Its dumb af. You want a pocket clip and a knife made to open with one hand. Now I get you wanna protect your knife from getting scratched up by keys and whatnot with the leather, but as far as knives go, theres the daily users….. and then theres the collection and nice knives that rarely get used. The daily user is gonna get scratched, beat up, dirty, etc…. Its what is supposed to happen.
When i was a kid, i damn near chopped my index finger off with a slip joint and had to get 13 stitches and it still has nerve damage to this day…. I can touch embers or a glowing hot stove burner…. And it just tingles….. i cant hardly feel with it at all.
While it doesnt happen often, if you actually use knives for work or live on a farm or whatever case may be, theres going to be a time when it gets stuck or you have to lightly pry with it, or you gotta stab it kinda hard into something to get through it, or puncture a hole into some leather, etc. Any of those things could cause the blade to close on your hand.
Honestly, ideally the best knives for actual use are fixed blades. And you can get small fixed blades that clip sideways on your belt that you dont even feel…… but folders are more convenient and easier to carry and smaller. So youd want to use a folder that is the closest to a fixed blade as possible, and that is a locking knife. Knife tech has come a long way since the 1800’s, and theres just no reason to carry a knife for use and emergencies with so many disadvantages. If it comes down to a real emergency where you need to use the knife quickly…… you may as well have no knife at all and it would be about as practical as carrying a slipjoint.
The framelock was invented in the 80s. So everyone that used slip joints before that was stupid? How did they survive without locking knives ?
Aside from classy and beauty, slip joints were designed for the job they did. Like the stockman and cattle knives es of the cowboys, the trapper for skinning of game, the Barlow for the hard working guy in almost any situation. The Barlow knife was, according to the old records of trading posrts and factories, the most sold pocketknife from 1850 to 1870.
Modern so called "tactical" knives are a joke designed for fantasies of adventure, not real world cutting. If you need a lock on the blade to feel safe, maybe you shouldn't be carrying any knife?
@@Jackknife1951 great comment