Pocket knives: number of back springs

[ddb123]

My Buck stockman-style pocket knives have three springs (one per blade), and my Old Timer stockman knives have two springs. I've been unable to discover the purpose behind using two or three springs. It does not seem to effect the function of the blades. Are there any pros and cons between these two styles?

 

[gsganzer]

I carry a J.A. Henckels 4-blade stockman. It has a spring for every blade. The 4th long thin bladed drop point comes in real handy for "poking things" out of tight places.

I've carried a pocket knife since I was probably less than 10 years old. It's as important to me as having my wallet and car keys and I can't leave the house without one. I've even gone so far as to pay the $25 dollar checked baggage fee, just so I can bring a pocket knife with me when I travel. I'm always amazed at the number of people I work with that don't carry a pocket knife.

 

[tcreeley]

-Just a thought, is one spring per blade used so that the blades not in use stay closed in place, Could be that the spring position for the locked open blade is not the right position for the closed blades.
If your blades don't lock open, I imagine that there is more leeway.

My pocket knife is a Buck 503. Sometimes (often) I carry my Leatherman sidekick (from my son) in the other pocket.

 

[Bird]

I carry a J.A. Henckels 4-blade stockman. It has a spring for every blade. The 4th long thin bladed drop point comes in real handy for "poking things" out of tight places.

I've carried a pocket knife since I was probably less than 10 years old. It's as important to me as having my wallet and car keys and I can't leave the house without one. I've even gone so far as to pay the $25 dollar checked baggage fee, just so I can bring a pocket knife with me when I travel. I'm always amazed at the number of people I work with that don't carry a pocket knife.

I know I've always had one in my pocket since I was 6 years old in the first grade. But fortunately, I've not had to fly on a commercial airline since they started their silly so-called security.

 

[k0ua]

I carry a J.A. Henckels 4-blade stockman. It has a spring for every blade. The 4th long thin bladed drop point comes in real handy for "poking things" out of tight places.

I've carried a pocket knife since I was probably less than 10 years old. It's as important to me as having my wallet and car keys and I can't leave the house without one. I've even gone so far as to pay the $25 dollar checked baggage fee, just so I can bring a pocket knife with me when I travel. I'm always amazed at the number of people I work with that don't carry a pocket knife.

I am the same way, I have carried a pocket knife since I was about 5. I went to New Jersey. (a strong hold of .. well you know) I left the knife at home.. felt like I had left my pants off. I don't know why designers of knives, have different designs... different strokes for different folks? After all the folks in NJ will put you in jail for having cartridges in your pocket. Folks in Arkansas and Missouri will say.."you got any .22 in there?:laughing:

 

[k0ua]

I know I've always had one in my pocket since I was 6 years old in the first grade. But fortunately, I've not had to fly on a commercial airline since they started their silly so-called security.

Speaking of that, I went through Security in Springfield, Mo, and I got the thorough going over Luggage gone over, CPAP machine taken out and swabbed down, with some kind of nitrate detecting patch's. Laptop out, shoes and belt off. hands over your head, empty you pockets. stand on the foot places, blah blah blah. And sternly warned to take out that CPAP Machine each time I went through security. So on the way back at Philadelphia, I started to take the CPAP out and was told "don't do that", I started to take off shoes and belt,. "don't do that, just put your cellphone in the tray. just walk thru a gateway. No belt off, no shoes off, no wallet out, no unpacking, no swabbing, just get the heck out of our way so we can go back to talking to each other. Which is what they were doing before I came into the line.

There was a "noticeable difference in the protocol's":confused3:

 

[DuckSlayer1017]

I carry a Benchmade mini barrage and do't ever leave home without it. I really like the one handed spring assist opening, it comes in really handy when you need your knife and one of your hands are full.

 

[k0ua]

I carry a Benchmade mini barrage and do't ever leave home without it. I really like the one handed spring assist opening, it comes in really handy when you need your knife and one of your hands are full.

Spyderco's are my everyday blades, but I have a couple of Benchmades too when I want to carry an Expensive Knife!

 

[Marveltone]

My favorite EDC is my Schrade Uncle Henry 897UH Signature Premium Stock. It's the old, pre-Taylor Group, made in USA, Schrade+ steel original. Three blades and two springs.

A couple years back and was rummaging through a shelf full of pocket knives at the local hardware store. They had taken away their Schrade display a while back, after the company closed their doors. Apparently, they were restocking, now that the Taylor group has bought the Schrade/Uncle Henry name, but moved the manufacturing base to China and chose to use cheaper materials. Naturally, I was curious.

I Picked up a couple knives and recognized the shapes and patterns as stuff I knew from years back, but noted they just looked and felt cheaper. Then something caught my eye. One of the pocket knives just looked better! The scales had a deeper tone to them and the steel had that slightly different sheen to it. I picked it up and examined it carefully. New old stock! It was a holdover from their old display that had been packed away in the back and brought back out. Best part is, it had the new, cheaper $26 made in China price tag on it, over the old $38 tag!

Mine! :cloud9:

Sometimes, a guy gets lucky.

 

[ddb123]

My EDC is an inexpensive Buck 373 that my parents gave me for Christmas around 10 years ago. As a child, I committed the unforgivable sin of losing the first knife my dad gave me. I now cherish this one. I have a few others just for fun.

In regard to my original question, the only thing I can think of concerning pros and cons is that my two-spring stockmans have the blades at an angle so that they can be on the same spring and still fold down next to each other, whereas the three-spring stockmans allow the blade to stick straight out, in line with the handle. But as a tradeoff, the three-spring stockmans are a little thicker.