>>643590Nah, if you want to carry a blade you either need a "good reason", usually related to your profession or specific activity or it needs to have a cutting edge under three inches and be "readily foldable"- Since most folks fall into the latter category it nice to have a slipjoint that's as close to a locker as possible whilst still being one.
Mind you I've had a few friends lose some quite expensive knives to customs who claimed they were "gravity knives" because the could flick them open with a good solid wrist flick and nothing else. Benchmades spydercos, you name it. Where as I can sleep fairly soundly importing a GEC or similar knowing that some twat that works for the UK Border Agency is going to pull a muscle trying to flick them open.
>>643698Victorinox and Wenger are great. I prefer the Alox models myself but I don't know if they really fit in to the "traditional" category.
