ralph7
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Always enjoy your down to earth contributions that I see in print.
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Every guy whipped out their knives!
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Always enjoy your down to earth contributions that I see in print.
Capt. F.
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No unfortunately fake stag, but no matter, still a great knife.
Got my first knife when I was seven, now 74 and rarely without one in my pocket.
CMudrock
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My daily companion is a Vitorinox Trekker I find useful. My field knives are not expensive - but ones I like nonetheless.
Over the years (since I became aware of them) I have picked up German "FALSHIRMJAGER/FLIGER" Gravity Knives. I had 2 WWII specimens - I sold when the became very valuable. I do have A replica today - The replicas run about $100. My others are postwar military models. My rarest are 2 smaller ones from the late 1950s only issued a short time before returning to the larger knives made by original WWII contractors.
I have also collected Spring Knives - most of which are traditional Italian Stilettos, but my favorites are Italian AKC Fighting/Hunting "ROMAS" (9 & 12") pictured with a clever new design 13" Chinese spring knife. The Romas are finely crafted hand made Italian knives with captive Hilts. They can be costly - scarce, but worth having. You don't see these Items very often
Thought others might be interested.
Over the years (since I became aware of them) I have picked up German "FALSHIRMJAGER/FLIGER" Gravity Knives. I had 2 WWII specimens - I sold when the became very valuable. I do have A replica today - The replicas run about $100. My others are postwar military models. My rarest are 2 smaller ones from the late 1950s only issued a short time before returning to the larger knives made by original WWII contractors.
I have also collected Spring Knives - most of which are traditional Italian Stilettos, but my favorites are Italian AKC Fighting/Hunting "ROMAS" (9 & 12") pictured with a clever new design 13" Chinese spring knife. The Romas are finely crafted hand made Italian knives with captive Hilts. They can be costly - scarce, but worth having. You don't see these Items very often
Thought others might be interested.
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BKLooney
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If you think your knife is sharp, try cutting plastic with it. If it won't cut plastic, it's not sharp.
I've told this story many times: I used to haul dog food from the Purina plant in Davenport, IA to a grocery warehouse in MI. When you got to the warehouse, and were ready to unload the dock foreman would have you do one of two things, 1. cut the shrink wrap holding the two pallets together with your pocket knife or tear it free and you could restack the product on a pallet. Or 2. borrow, (rent from him) a sharp box cutter to cut the plastic wrap. Price 2-3 dollars or more depending on how many times you showed up with a dull knife. When I showed up the first time he told me the tale and being as I never went anywhere without a sharp knife, I just walked around the stack of DF and said, "Next." We both smiled.
The first CGC I was stationed on the entire deck force was "armed" with Buck 110 folders. I put off buying one for two months until the Chief Bo'son wanted to borrow my knife and I couldn't produce one. He told me, if I didn't have one by noon quarters, I'd be swimming back to port.
We were at Ocean Station November and somehow swimming from there back to Long Beach, CA wasn't too appealing. When I switched to engineering, I added a 4 inch "crescent" wrench to the scabbard. And I carried that combo until I retired in 1989.
Today I carry a small 2" plastic scale folder in my right front pocket because that is all the "weight" I can tolerate in my pocket. And sometimes even that is too much but I still carry it.
Llance
I've told this story many times: I used to haul dog food from the Purina plant in Davenport, IA to a grocery warehouse in MI. When you got to the warehouse, and were ready to unload the dock foreman would have you do one of two things, 1. cut the shrink wrap holding the two pallets together with your pocket knife or tear it free and you could restack the product on a pallet. Or 2. borrow, (rent from him) a sharp box cutter to cut the plastic wrap. Price 2-3 dollars or more depending on how many times you showed up with a dull knife. When I showed up the first time he told me the tale and being as I never went anywhere without a sharp knife, I just walked around the stack of DF and said, "Next." We both smiled.
The first CGC I was stationed on the entire deck force was "armed" with Buck 110 folders. I put off buying one for two months until the Chief Bo'son wanted to borrow my knife and I couldn't produce one. He told me, if I didn't have one by noon quarters, I'd be swimming back to port.
We were at Ocean Station November and somehow swimming from there back to Long Beach, CA wasn't too appealing. When I switched to engineering, I added a 4 inch "crescent" wrench to the scabbard. And I carried that combo until I retired in 1989.
Today I carry a small 2" plastic scale folder in my right front pocket because that is all the "weight" I can tolerate in my pocket. And sometimes even that is too much but I still carry it.
Llance
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smithman 10
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A lot of us were Boy Scouts so -
Carried knives from early on - to school or anywhere else we went. Was just part of the daily routine.
I always have some sort of knife with me -feels wrong if I leave the house without one.
Edit - Found a photo online of an Ulster Boy Scout Knife. Mine is identical but dirtier!
Carried knives from early on - to school or anywhere else we went. Was just part of the daily routine.
I always have some sort of knife with me -feels wrong if I leave the house without one.
Edit - Found a photo online of an Ulster Boy Scout Knife. Mine is identical but dirtier!
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Capt. F.
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I see your father told you “ never cut toward yourself”.
My father told me just the opposite, “ always cut toward yourself son, that way if it slips it’ll only cut you”. My father really, really loved me!
Malysh
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I usually carry a Microtech Ultratech dagger blade auto knife. I have 5 other Microtechs. I really like this company.
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The only identifying mark on mine is the letters IAN...I would love to know the source of it...I bought it used from a gun show table...Those are really neat knives, if it's the one I think it is. We used to sell them in the gun store where I worked - about 35 years ago!
...Ben
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I was giving a buddy a hard time at hunting camp, that he had to hand over his man card because he didn't have a pocket knife. My brother who is also a Marine, agreed. The buddy was a Squid. We were BS about boot camp and I said I really had a hard time the first night when we had to strip down and put all our civilian stuff in a box to ship home. Nothing else bothered me as much as the idea of giving up my pocket knife. Even the screaming and hollering was some how made surrendering my knife seam all the more crazy. I hadn't been with out a knife since I was 9
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I was at a very large BBQ with the wife years ago in Tennessee. It was a watch party for the Arkansas/Tennessee game. Of course they had a whole pig on the pit. They projected the game on the side of a house and the party was hosted by the five surrounding families. Hundreds of people.
My wife walks about 30 feet to me and asks me for my knife. She was trying to open something to help the kids get some food. She asked the surrounding men for a knife...and NOBODY had one. Boy did she give them the stink eye.
My wife walks about 30 feet to me and asks me for my knife. She was trying to open something to help the kids get some food. She asked the surrounding men for a knife...and NOBODY had one. Boy did she give them the stink eye.
StrawHat
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I have had a knife in my pocket ever since I was old enough to wear pants with pockets. Pop gave us all knives. Get caught playing with one…
For the last three or four decades my pocket knife of choice has been a Barlow of some sort.
This Barlow, shown with my edc Model 22-4 was made by the Russell company.
The image with the two locking folders shows the folding steak knives I have carried for years when my wife and I dine out.
Kevin
For the last three or four decades my pocket knife of choice has been a Barlow of some sort.
This Barlow, shown with my edc Model 22-4 was made by the Russell company.
The image with the two locking folders shows the folding steak knives I have carried for years when my wife and I dine out.
Kevin
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I've carried one of these since I began working in a coal mine 47 years ago!
I've carried a ton of different knives but in time I always come back to this.
My dad used to get these electrician's pocketknives at work. He carried one for years and so did I.
I found a single bladed pocketknife in a locker that had belonged to my ex-stepfather. My grandmother said I could have it and I've been carrying a knife ever since. I was six at the time.
CMudrock
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I discovered a low cost maker of spring assist opening liner locks with decent blades. I buy them by the dozen. A few of them always have minor problems that I fix. Won't quite lock, not smooth opening etc. I also give each a razor edge. Then when I go out on a job once it gets rolling good, I give them and small led flashlights to the people who are doing the work, from foreman down. I always get excellent co operation. Guys love getting some hardware. Show people respect and appreciation and they will return it. But, then around me the culls don't last long.
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I've picked up some unusual knives over the years. They apparently were short term runs because after I acquired them I never saw them again. The Buck folder with the orange handle was sort of an impulse purchase from a gun shop in Brookville, PA. Since it was blaze orange I figured it was appropriate for deer season. The Remington knife was some sort of promotional item with Stren fishing line. I probably should have just tucked these away unsharpened to protect their collector value, but instead they got used. They didn't get used much for hunting or fishing though. Their most frequent use was cutting up ingredients in chili cookoffs. In the picture of me in character you can see both of these knives folded up between the can opener and cutting board.
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As a young "Dude" I carried a Bowie Knife for protection against jealous husbands and boyfriends. Now I carry a 24" electric chain saw with a really long electric cord as the older I got the more goodlooking and sexy I have became.
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