I like Boker Tree Brand knives. I just bought this Boker Cinch with stag handles. I think it's a good looking knife. I have also been looking at the Great Eastern Cutlery line of knives. What pocket knives do you like? Don

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If you are talking about pocket knives that just go down inside your pocket, then I don't like pocket knives. I carry a Schrade Old Timer, but I carry it in my watch pocket. I can't handle a knife that turns sideways across the front of my leg, irritating. I always carry my Buck 180/ folder, but it has a pocket clip. I never use it for anything but cleaning game/defensive duty. The Old Timer opens packages and oil cans an things like that. Occasionally I use it for a steak knife just to irritate the old woman.
Peace,
gordon

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i love pocket knives i have several that i whittle with and i have a few military pocket knives that i display and use a little and i currently own 2 leatherman multi tools and im adding a 3rd one to the collection soon.

I used to carry a small Buck knife in my pocket, but it proved to be
too awkward to access while driving. Have changed to Buck 110
in sheath. Can do anything that needs doing with it.
TACC1

My favorite pocket knife is a small 2 blade case that I got after grampa died over 40 years ago. It had the very tip broke off the larger blade. I've touched it up so many times that you can't tell anymore. I knew he always carried it....I do too.

My other favorites are the schrade old timer trail boss and hunter.

I just bought this Buck 112:



I was completely happy until I saw this:



Now I'm just mostly happy...





I was trying to get the macassar ebony to show up a little better.

Yep, I like knives of all kinds; from the little Swiss Army penknife with the attached thumb drive, to the Victorinox Huntsman that I've carried in my pocket every day for the last 35 years, the Spyderco Endura Emerson-wave, to the wicked SOG fixed blade that rides with the J-frame in the console of my pickup.

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I've got a drawer full of pocket knives of all types and brands. Cheap ones and expensive ones, seems I'm a sucker for a new pocket knife. I must have 50 to 60 Case pocket knives, plus ones made by Gerber, Buck, Benchmade, Colonel Coon, Marbles, Red Rooster, Old Timer/Schrade, etc.

Funny thing is, 99% of the time I carry a Swiss Army Classic in my front pocket and have been for over 20 years. Costs less than 15 bucks and does most everything I need a knife to do.

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My favorite was about a 3" Boker, easy to sharpen and held an edge well, someeone like more than I did, so in the gun shop the other day I picked up a little Kershaw to hold me over until I can find that Boker, it had a green handle with a blck insert if anyone knows where to find one.

I love pocket knives as well. Sometimes when I'm jonesing for a "big boy toy" and don't feel like spending the cash on a gun, I'll go poking around for a knife.

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I like Case knives for pocket carry. I carry a bone handle mini Trapper and bone Stockman mostly. I also carry a Leatherman when I think I'll need it, funny thing is if I have it on, I use it at work almost everyday. It is good for cutting all the junk I hate to mess up my pocket knife blade on. The screw drivers and pliers are very useful too.

That's a good looking Boker.

Best, Rick

Been carryin' one in my pocket since I was 6. Wore some out, lost some.

Got a two bladed one that says Remington on it with phony stag handles.

It holds and edge and I ain't lost it in over 20 years of carryin'. That's a good'n in my book.

I like my u.s army, flat sided metal pocket knife by camillus. You probably know the ones. Purchased mine at a yard sale for $3. They had two, I should have bought both.

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I usually carry a Swiss Army, the model varying with the day. Normally, an Executive in my pants and always a Swisschamp in a fine black leather SOS kit pouch in my briefcase. I have a larger lockblade folder on my belt, in a Cordura pouch that looks like a cell phone or other electronic device to the casual viewer.

I think the best pocket knives I own are vintage Puma and Carl Schleiper (Eye Brand) ones from the 1980's. The Puma is a Stockman, the other a trapper. I like the main blade on the trapper much more than on US equivalents, which have the blade spine dip much sooner. The Eye Brand blade is relatively straight before sliding into a clip.

I have just acquired a Canal Street stockman and a Great Eastern double muskrat, medium size. Both look well made, but two of the blades on the Canal Street are VERY hard to open and close, and it may well be some time before they smooth up. (I put a drop of Break-Free on the joints of both knives.)

The Great Eastern also has a difficult blade that was hard to open and which was also a little "lazy" on closing. But it is wearing-in with use. I think it will soon be okay.

Neither knife is any better made than my Eye Brand, which is better made than my medium Case stockman with red bone scales. The only issue with the Case is that the stamping (lettering) is not as clean as on the other knives. The Case lettering is deeper and wider.

If the new knives had not come by mail, I wouldn't have bought either. The blades should not be that stiff, even on a new knife. But they are so well fitted that I can hold both up to a light and not see gaps between the springs and liners. That's a big deal to me, and I normally buy knives in shops where I can handle several and select for the best fit and finish.

I have never owned a Schrade Old Timer. Too plain and rough for me, But I do have a few of their Uncle Henry knives, which were exceptional values. They also use good stainless steel. I like their Staglon (Delrin) handles. Oh: the Great Eastern (Northern) blades are simple 1095 carbon steel. That means they'll probably rust and the edge will dull from simply sitting in a box. I really think that the company makes these for a niche collectors market. The packaging and styling of both the Canal Street and Great Eastern knives is superior, and they make an excellent presentation. Most probably work more smoothly than the two that I have.

But I really feel that if one wants a carrying knife in a pattern that you can find, you should get an older Eye Brand stockman or trapper or a Puma stockman. The quality will be on par with the two "boutique" knives, and the blades will probably work smoother. And Eye Brand did have a stainless blade option on many models, as did Puma.

T-Star
P.S. Current Schrade knives come from China, and I don't know anyone who's owned one. Somebody bought the name when the real Schrade closed, and the idea of Chinese knives leave me cold. Camillus is also now a dead company. Look for their knives new in box while you can. They were good values, and good knives. Camillus made the "Remington" knives sold by the gun company in recent decades. Real Remington knives haven't been made since about 1940. They were finished quite a bit better than the recent copies, but they didn't have good stainless blade alloys back then.

Spyderco, Cold Steel, Gerber, SAK (Victorinox, Wenger), Browning, Case, Camillus, Blackjack, Al Mar....

I don't collect them, I accumulate them. I probably have fifty or more in various drawers, boxes, etc. I have a several Bucks, some Brownings, Old-timers, Schrade, etc. I have an old Puma Prospector from the late 70s or early 80s I must have skinned 40 deer with. I used to carry mostly the old Stockman type knives, in what I guess they would call medium and large sizes. I have been carrying a pocket knife for about 55 years, since I was six or seven I guess, and invariably, if I happen not to have one in my pocket, I need it for something.

Here's one of my favorites, both the particular knife, and the size:

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My daily carry pocket knife is a carbon steel 3 blade 4" Marbles Safety Axe Stockman with Sambar Stag sides. It was made by the old MSA Company before they marketed the cheap Chinese imports.

I also have a few old Calimus, Case, Old Timer, etc. knives that are made of Carbon Steel. I do not like the Stainless knives. The stainless knives are "pretty" but do not seem to hold an edge like the Carbon Steel blades do. The Carbon blades sharpen up very quickly, and a few stops on my bluejeans keeps it ready for its next usage.

Chief38

when working I carry a Kershaw assisted open but my new favorite everyday carry is a Russlock by Case,I find myself using it all the time.I was a mechanic for years and hands are rough and fingernails are weak but this lil knife has pleased me so.Im in the market for a seconnd...and third.

Man those peaches look good. Don

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Benchmade 9051 AFO, Beltrame Italian or a Kershaw Leek.

I am addicted to them I have a drawer full and just bought 3 benchmade knives from a woman I work with, she got tired of trying to sell tupperware and now sells knives.

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Agreed. I think shiney is overrated for an EDC, working knife. I just bought a Great Eastern Cutlery Trapper, sambar stag scales, that is beautiful, and while still new and hence blades are mirror shiney, I expect it will develop a patina which is fine with me. Excellent quality, fit and finish, and I find the springs, when opening or closing, and the "half stop," when it snaps to a 90 degree angle, just right. I am well pleased with it. (Hat tip to forum member Cooter who suggested GEC in an earlier thread on pocket knives.)

At one time I was into knife collecting but it got too complicated, plus my eyes got older and that certainly didn't help.

Although there are a bunch of great manufacturers I found you can't go wrong with a Case, K-Bar, or Buck.

Small swiss army on my keychain, standard size swiss army in my hiking pack and the classic Buck 110 on my belt. Love 'em. Bud

have a similar knife with other additions [ since i like wine : a corkscrew is a must]. it is always in arms reach and use it the most. keep a cabela's multi tool in the car.

And all this time I thought I was the only nut job who did this. Hard to beat a good tool steel blade stropped on the leg of your Wranglers.

Bob

I carry a Leatherman Micra in left front pocket, always. A Spyderco Sage is on a clip in right rear. Right front is usually a Case Stockman (my favorite since my daughter gave it to me), but sometimes a Case Russlock, Trapper, or other.

I like Spyderco, Case, Puma, Boker for carry. I use exclusively Cold Steel in my restaurants though. Great kitchen knives at a good price.

Never cared for Buck, I've never seen one that didn't look like cheap junk. Same for Schrade and Old Timer. They are just loaner or giveaway knives.

I feel as naked without a knife or two as I do without a pistol.

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I feel naked without a Victorinox. The can opener sets it apart from the rest. The metal handle on mine holds up much better for use as the occasional pocket ball peen hammer.

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My favorite SAKs have the cigar cutter.

Glad you like it. GEC has some amazing stag. Post a pic, maybe next to that Bowen 45 Colt!

T-Star, sorry you're not super happy with your GEC. I have three of them, all users and very solid knives. These knives are made to use.

GEC has a great reputation for service. If you call them I assure you they will take care of any concern you have by fixing or replacing your knife.

It's a small company and they make a point of taking care of their customers.

I have lots of knives, but the Kershaw Leek is my daily carry.


The more unusual one I have (actually the second one like this) is an all American made probably 1930's Imperial. I've seen some cheap China copies in this configuration, but haven't seen another original.

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SWCA1967 SWHF244

I carry a Kershaw blur everyday. It is a excellent knife and their customer service is excellent.

I dropped my knife in the mud and tore it apart to clean it. I realized I was in over my head and called Kershaw to find out how much it was going to cost me.

They covered the reassembly under warranty and even sharpened it.

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I've literally got a drawer full of pocket knives but have carried the same one to work for the last 31yrs.

Starting out as an apprentice journeyman a pocket knife was one of the tool requirements so I bought one. I tried several over the years trying to find the perfect one but always came back to it. It's a 3 blade Case XX. A lot of the wood has worn off and I've had to glue the panels back on a couple of times because the head of the rivets wore off but it still keeps a razor sharp edge. It's seen a lot of abuse but as long as I have it, it will be my go to knife.

Can't think of very many things I've bought that long ago and still use daily. Don't know if they're even made anymore and certainly don't know what I'd do if I ever lost it. It's the perfect all purpose utility knife.

I've also been carrying a pocket knife, sometimes 2, since I was a kid. I used to collect Case but got pretty disallusioned with them years ago.
I found GEC by accident and fell in love with them. I've got about a dozen so far, carry a Northfield Scout with Sambar stag alot.
I too have dozens of knives, some pretty collectable, one of my other weaknesses is switchblades. There is just something about a well crafted Italian stilleto, not the run of the mill gunshow type but good hand made ones.
I may post some pics in a bit of some of them.
RD

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I like American made knives, in particular those made by Kershaw, old Schrades, Buck, Case, plus the German Bokers and the Swiss Victorinox. Unfortunately until I get a job there will be no buying of new knives.
Steve

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I've carried a knife of some type for as long as I can remember. For a number of years it was a multi-bladed pipe tool, but for the past 35 it's been a Victorinox Swiss Army Huntsman. I've used every blade on it, from the scissors to the saw, broken the tip off of one and had it reground, replaced the toothpick and the spring on the scissors multiple times. The SA cross wore off years ago. My late father-in-law was quite a knife buyer...I won't say collector because he never really looked at them like that...and I inherited a nice canvas bag full of good knives to add to my own; Benchmade, Al Mar, Kershaw, Beretta, CRKT, Victorinox & Wenger, SOG, Spyderco, Boker and Bear, just to name a few. If you don't get the A.G. Russell catalog, do a Google search and sign up for it....

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CTR2 68-72

How did you break the tip off of the SAK? Were you using that blade as a screwdriver?

Just curious. I've only broken the tip on one knife, a British Commando one. As a teen, I was throwing it at an old wooden garage.

Most tip breakage comes either from throwing or use as a screwdriver.

T-Star

Always prefered a Boy Scout/Swiss Army/demo knife myself. It seemed the can opener was the most used blade.

I've got better excuses for the large number of guns that I own than I do for the larger number of folding knives that I own. Mostly Case, Buck, Boker, Victorinox, Gerber, Spyderco, but some others, as well.

I like the older big folders like the Case Hunter Tested..or the Kabar dogs head

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What would Skeeter do?

I've been carrying a pocket knife since I was a little boy. My Dad told me a gentleman always carries a pocket knife, a piece of string and a handkerchief. I never carried the string, and in recent years I've quit toting the hankie (trying to keep back pockets empty to keep pressure off of my sciatic nerve). I've carried and lost more Buck knives than I care to think about. After reading a previous thread here I looked a GEC knives and several other equivalent makers. I ran across a single blade Queen at a recent gun show, so now I carry the Queen in my right pocket and a Kershaw assist in my left pocket. Sometimes when I'm camping I'll carry a bone handled patch knife in a neck scabbard and a large blade skinner on my belt. Pocket knives... hand forged knives in general...yes sir I like 'em!

It appears I'm not the only guy who always carries a leatherman Micra in the left front pocket. In the right pocket, or sometimes the right hip, it's always some kind of clip folder, most recently a Benchmade 585 Mini Barrage, which has replaced for the moment the Griptilian my wife gave me. The assisted opening is pretty cool, but I think I will like the Griptilian better in the long run.

She must have somehow detected that a knife makes a wonderful gift, because she has given me a number of knives in recent years: before the Grip came a Browning folder that came packaged with the LED headlamp that was her real object, and the year before that, a Ka-Bar. Maybe the little Anza I gave her a while back opened her eyes to knives as gifts. I have been giving them as gifts for years, to her kids and mine. Knives, Mini Maglights, Leathermans and Ipods, kind of in rotation and depending on the current level of family prosperity.

My father used to give his kids some kind of Maglight every year, sometimes big, but more often little. It became a kind of running joke among my sibs: "So how many Maglights do you have now?" Pop had little appreciation of knives except as cooking implements. As kids, whenever we made a family pilgrimage back to his hometown, Dover, OH, we always had to pay a call on Mooney Warther to drool over his hand built steam trains and watch him carve a working pair of pliers from a solid block of wood, while Pop would pick out a few of Mooney's elegant engine-turned blades for his kitchen. When he died, five kids divvied up the Warthers. My favorite is the small cleaver with a 3x4-inch blade. It appears they still sell it:

Warther Cutlery - Warther Cutlery Meat Cleaver
(not a pocket knife)

As a kid I always had a pocket knife, usually a Schrade 2-blader, or the Camillus folder with the dimpled steel sides. That one was the standard for the kids in the neighborhood, the one somebody always got out for mumblety-peg or indian knife-sticking contests. It was my first knife, and I had a couple of different ones at different times. I think it was also considered a sort of poor man's Swiss Army Knife, the knife we all switched to when we got a little money ahead on our paper routes.

When I discovered the original Leatherman, it replaced the Victorinox in my pocket for a while because it had better tools for my purposes, but it was really too big to rest comfortably. For many years I carried an Opinel No.7, the quintessential picnic knife, but also wicked sharp, and on rare occasion a No. 10 ("Is that a knife in your pocket or are you glad to see me?

The knife that has given me most use has been the small Anza that I bought from the maker at a motorcycle swap meet in Saint Paul, about 6" overall with a 2 1/4" blade. It often rides in the sheath in a front pocket; more often it goes into a motorcycle tank bag and comes out around the campfire to slice up a steak or spear a smoked oyster.

Sitting in a pile of clutter on the desk in front of me right now are the Anza, a couple of benchmades, the big Opinel and a Tapio Wirkkala puukko knife that I bought out of the Brookstone catalog around 1983. I have carried it around, too, but never really used it that much, perhaps just as well, since I saw something, perhaps on this forum, that prompted me to research it a bit, and whaddya know? It's a "designer knife" that apparently has some collector value.



Sorry for going on so long, but this thread just caught my fancy. Sorry about the stock photos, too, but my camera fu is weak at the moment.

I love pocket knives, have carried one everyday for 50+ years now. My problem is I either lose them or give them away, so I quit buying good ones 20 years ago. I have the "Lovely and Charming" grandfather's Shrade "safety button" knife that he bought in 1920 when he graduated from college, and I'm afraid to take it out of the house.

I now buy CRKT brand knives. For cheap knives they hold up quite well, and I won't be to upset when they go MIA.

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Always have a SAK with me tho I own others

I never met a pocket knife or a firearm I didn't like....

Swiss Army Knives-cheap easy to sharpen and just plain old indispensable.

Years back I was in Wally and they had a bunch of Swiss Army knives on clearance for $9.99 each. I asked how many they had-was told 9- I said give me all of them. (guy standing next to me was a little put out but hey-I got there first ) Got them to the car and I had 4 Tinkerers and 5 Huntsmans. Still got them (don't know where they all are at any given moment-but when I need one, I can put my hands on at least one). Did loose one however-my daughter had one in her back pack she forgot about and now some dimwit from TSA now has a nice Swiss Army Tinker model

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This is my everyday pocket knive. An Spyderco Calypso.
I do own a lot of pocket knives. This is my favorite.

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i have toted a pocket knife since i was big enough to have pockets im carring a gerber now its a old ole brass and wood handles sharp enough to shave with

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