Advice on slipjoint knife to buy

[12GA00buck]

Evening Gentlemen,

I've lost my spyderco and need a new pocket knife. I've lost my taste for modern looking knives; I want something highly functional that is also aesthetically pleasing. Anyhow, I think I've settled on a Case trapper with the chrome and vanadium blades. I was wondering if anyone knows about the steel properties of the chrome vanadium steel; i.e. Rc?

I'm also considering the canal street moon pie trapper (440C) and the Boker Cinch trapper (1095) and the queens cutlery trapper with D2.

All the models seem to have flat ground blades; does anyone have an opinion as to which knife is superior.

Does the spey point blade make a good skinning knife?

As an everyday carry and sometimes hunting knife, are there any other traditional looking folders people recommend over the trappers?

Thanks in Advance...

 

[sm]

http://www.agrussell.com/knife_information/steel_guide/index.html

I feel and do others, Case Chrome Vanadium is one of the best steels.
It has Vanadium which translates to "cut" and Manganese which translates to "strength".

It is a proven steel and continues to prove.
1095 carbon is great, just the vanadium adds a bit more.

The Trapper is a proven design, and is still proving, whether in the full size or the Mini-Trapper.

Some things just "are" just a Ayn Rand wrote "A is A".

Trapper, Stockman, Sodbuster, Peanut are proven knives, some of these go back to the early 1900s in the Case line, some the 20's, some the 40's.

 

[Valkman]

I'd get all 4 trappers and rotate them!

 

[sixgunner455]

You will do well with the Case CV. Depending on your pockets/method of carry, the full-sized trapper may be perfect, or may seem a little big to you. Seems a little big to me, but one of my students the other day pulled out a familiar colored yellow knife -- a Case Mini Trapper. That's what I'd get for a two blade trapper EDC.

The spey blade is designed for skinning and other such chores. It does a good job at it.

Case CV steel is 1095CV -- basic tool steel with some Chromium and Vanadium added. Good stuff.

 

[12GA00buck]

I did not realize chrome vanadium was a alloyed version of 1095 carbon; thanks for the link sm. I went ahead and ordered the Case Trapper

Thanks everyone

 

[Zeke/PA]

My daily carry for the most part is a case trapper in a belt sheath.
The sheaths for full size trappers with Case logo are available on line from Smokey Mountain.
They pay shipping too!
CV is a great steel, the Chromium content making it somewhat rust resistant but not as hard to sharpen as a D-2 blade.
Zeke