when the better half is home. i had no idea how many pocket knives i had loose in that drawer. the second pic is an old wooden file box full of mostly Case XX with a Buck or two and one S&W. i think i counted 24 pocket knives. now how to organize them to where i can find them. not in the pictures are the hand made knives that stay in the safe. Lee

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Looks like ya got quite a quality collection there too. Unfortunately no drawer full like you but I started to add a few recently. Great fun lookin at all the offerings. Couple Bucks and a Sog for starters and that 66 made Puma Skinner I bought when I was 16 for under $30.

Lee, looks great!! Of course, I'm very partial to pocket knives. My grandfather gave me my first when I was six years old and I've been carrying one in my pocket almost everyday since then. Twenty-four knives, huh? Well, that's a good start.






Of course, I like fixed-blade knives, too.

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Looks like a reasonable start.

They make cloth rolls with elastic positioning straps that can organize any number of pocket knives. Go on a blade forum and you'll find them.

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Yep, I too have a knife drawer.

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You boys got it bad dontchya?

I have a bunch I've accumulated over the years in a drawer. Not counting my machete, the largest fixed blade is a KA-BAR (just like the USMC only without that marking; I wasn't a Marine). I've been looking for something like a printer's drawer, only larger spaces of course, to put them in and put on a wall; maybe with a plexiglass front on hinges or something for dust. I'll know it when I find it. I'm far from a wood worker, but maybe a couple shallow drawers from an old dresser with dividers or something. All the pics above have some nice knives, that's for sure! Mule Packer, you HAVE to have said it at least once: "That's not a knife. Now THIS is a knife!"

I think it was 75VETTE, or Vette75?, that had his pool table with a bunch of 44 Magnums on a cue stick catty-cornered! I think it was posted this past week. Now THAT impressed the heck outta me! And the game wasn't over! (Sorry if I got his handle wrong.)

I have mine scattered all over the house - kitchen, work shop, garage, bedroom, office, cars, motorcycle, etc. but I do use them.

Estate/garage sales are your friend! Before I picked up my wood knife display case, I used a large Plano tackle box to hold my pocket knives. I think these are around $30 new.



If you’re lucky, you might stumble across an old Umco Possum belly. They made some that would be great for a knife collection, but they don’t go cheap when people know what they have. Some of these can bring $200 - $300 at auction!

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I keep my best knives locked up, but put some cheap ones in my dresser draw as decoys.

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"The dude abides".

My wife called me once when I was on a business trip, she needed some odd thing, I forget what. I sent her rummaging in my knife drawer. It is also the harmonica drawer. After about 30 seconds she said, “This is a COOL drawer!”

Yep....that's about right.....
Told the kiddies that they are gonna have fun rooting through dad's cr....er stuff but please go to the funeral first-it will make mom happy

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I have several wooden "tool chests" for my fly tying and leather working tools. Available on line easily. Most have a velvet lined top and 3-6 drawers. Also at craft stores, unfinished!
My knives are scattered but my Randall's are in the gun safe, as well as some hunting knives. Pocket knives (if not on my workbench or desk) are in one of those cedar/redwood boxes with a pewter inlay that salmon come in. Use it as a jewelry box.

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I have a drawer like that and many more that are put away organized.

And just like some people have a lawn service guy come around every week or so to cut the lawn, y'all have a whetstone and strop service come around and sharpen your herd, right?

Now you need to start collecting things that need cutting....

I think a book filled with nothing more than drawers filled with knives (no script needed) would be a huge success with us!

Over the years for some reason I was attracted to the Schrade Sharpfinger, never really considered myself a "collector" but I did aciculate a few, I have given many away as I think they are about as good as it gets when in the field, when dressing out a deer you will understand the name "Sharpfinger" here are a few

My wife recently got in my desk's "knife drawer" looking for some AAA batteries. She asked "why do you have so many knives?" My reply was "I collect them". She replied "Oh" and that was the end of that particular conversation. Fortunately she seems to accept my "collections .

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Have two sections of blueprint drawers in the man cave, TV sits on top. Three of the ten drawers hold some of the knives I have accumulated over the years. Lots of room in each drawer.

Ahhh, the old carbon-steel Sharpfinger. A great knife. I carried one on my belt for years. A better knife you will not find. (Don't confuse 1980s-era Sharpfingers with today's Chinese-made ones).


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You missed a golden opportunity. You should have done your best Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi impersonation and said: "Because, honey, one never knows when he will need a good, SHARP knife! Why, it could be on this very night! Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!!" I'd pay money to see that.


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DITTO, i know nothing about the "Taylor Made" nor do i want to

Not really the same thing, but I think it was a year or two ago and I was going through one of my boxes and found a Spyderco Wayne Goddard folder I thought I had left at my parents' house 20 years ago. I guess I had brought it with me and forgot about it.

I'd post a picture, but after moving last year I, um, seem to have misplaced it. Again.

I misplaced a mint Spyderco Chinook III [1] about 10 years ago. Have not seen it since. It is not lost, per se, I just don't recall where I put it...it'll turn up years from now, under the dresser or under the bed, behind a moldy box of Wheat Thins...

[1] https://www.spyderco.com/pix/products/med/C63G3_M.jpg

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My kids have already picked out the ones they like. I had a Swiss Army knife phase, then locking single blade hunters, Here are some with some duplication:

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I think I'll post this one here. Seems appropriate.

I got knives. This used to be one of the "knife culture" Countries.

Yesterday, while looking for my "windproof lady" zippo lighter, I came across one box with knives (I found the zippo by the way).

And, in that box, I found my very first pocket knife.

I was five years old. My oncle(being a very good customer of that particular hardware store and being gifted "boatloads" of their advertising pocket knifes), thought I was "mature enough" to carry my own pocket knife. With the Ok of my father(whom had already been gifted several of those) I was presented with my very own pocket knife.

Those knives were mostly intended as "nail trimming" knives. But, to me, carrying an "edged weapon" in my own britches pocket made me feel "like an adult".

It is a really small knife. In the picture, for comparison, I have put the Swiss Army Knife that has been in my trousers pockets for the last 40 or so years.

But. That tiny knife. In my 5 year old britches pocket really made me feel like I was a real "grown up".

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Ah! What the heck!

The Zippo deserves it's picture here too.

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I like the storage case made by case. Three book like folders in a nylon carrier.

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I don't keep in a box.

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Question: that big Bowie knife, the last one in the bottom photo, with the wood handle: who makes that? And what model is it?


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But I kind of like it.

Not kept on a drawer either.

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Yes it does!!!, I lost my Military zippo several years ago, I always hold out hope when looking for other things (ain't it great getting old?) i will find it. I don't need it, It is that it has so much memory attached, yours is a beauty!!!

Have a knife and bayonette drawer. Most of the common bayos out there today. Except for my pilots survival knive I got during out Westpac cruise 66-67 that one has some sentimental value to me. The good ones like the two Spyderco Stainless steel "Mariners", the two Benchmade large griptilians.my dads swiss army pocket knife and a few others. What's going to go to any of my surviving relatives will be listed in my will be by make,model and serial number.Coins will be equally devided up by me except for certain ones my wife will get. She really does have no idea what even junk silver is going for today. And she wanted to give it all to our grandchild. What the heck does he care?. My medals will go to the wife along with some naval memoribilia picked up along the way. Frank