Post a Picture of a Traditional Pocketknife

[boykinlp]

Post a picture(s) of a traditional pocketknife. It can be your favorite, your newest, your oldest, your ugliest, your most sentimental, your EDC, or whatever you want. Most gun folks are knife folks too, so let's see what you have. There are only about a million different makers over the last few hundred years. I'll get it started:

Northwoods Fremont Jack

 

[bigwheelzip]

I don't have a "tradition" of carrying pocket knives, but for several years I've clipped a Gerber Paraframe in my pocket. Turns out to be a very useful tool and gets more action than I would have thought, before I started carrying a knife.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Case Seahorse Whittler

 

[Richard Simmons]

Here's a few.
Buck brown bone 300's. Last three are different Buck trapper models. I tend to favor stockman patterns with Trappers a close second. Traditional Sodbuster is third.

Sodbuster style Queen Country Cousin.

Case yellow Trapper

Case snake something or other Trapper. I like the long nail nick.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Post a picture(s) of a traditional pocketknife.

Northwoods Fremont Jack

Been carrying a pocketknife since I was about 10....... so 54 years..................

Transitioned away from a 'traditional pocketknife" about 12 years ago.... currently carry a Benchmade "North Fork Folder"....... the only thing that gets used more is my single cell (AAA) Fenix LD02 flashlight.

My boys use their phones for light ...... don't know how the 'younger generations" get along without a blade.

 

[CajunBass]

I work part time as a courier. We (my wife and I) regularly deliver to people who need to inspect/inventory what we have delivered. I can't tell you how many I have seen them trying to cut packing tape with a set of keys, or a ballpoint pen. When I offer to cut the tape for them, they generally (especially the men) reply with a no thanks, I always do it this way or something along that line. The women are almost universally appreciative of the offer (no risk of breaking a nail I'm sure).

But I have yet to encounter one who has a pocket knife.

I carry a Swiss Army knives, but don't have any pictures of them.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

When it comes to knives, I have some of all!
The traditional knives are like traditional handguns.
Then there are black gun and new age black knives!

 

[6518John]

Been carrying a pocketknife since I was about 10....... so 54 years..................

50 years for me. This is a great thread but frankly it made me sort of sad and realize something—both my son and I are daily knife carriers, and we have a number out in our daily rotation, and we could not even find a single traditional pocket knife at home this morning. I thought back to when I bought my first Kershaw Leek after they originally came out—with pocket clip, speed safe assisted opening, etc. The beloved Case Stockman was put away in a counter-top box and has long been forgotten. My son is a ZT man and I primarily carry Piranha and ZT on weekends. We both do Canadian Belt Knives hunting.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Okapi Biltong. A cheap, lightweight and handy slipjoint with an external back spring and a sheepsfoot blade. Made in South Africa.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Tidioute (GEC) sheepsfoot Barlow.

 

[boykinlp]

The traditional knives are like traditional handguns.
Then there are black gun and new age black knives!

This is the way I feel too. I figured most blued steel and wood folks would have some special "traditional" knives too.

Here is a few more of mine:

A Couple of Great Eastern Cutlery Whalers in Desert Ironwood

 

[M29since14]

I haven’t carried a “conventional pocketknife” (which for me would be a three-blade stockman) since I was in high school. One day I discovered the “Executive” model Swiss Army knife. It has been so perfect for me that I am rarely without it. Once in a great while I carry both the Executive and a smallish lock-blade knife, but normally the larger knives are in the car or the truck where I can get to them, but not in my pocket. Oddly enough, I don’t have a picture handy that shows my Executive - sorry!

 

[THE PILGRIM]

A couple of handmade by Las Cruces, NM maker Cody Wescott.
Regret to report that Cody has ridden West.

 

[boykinlp]

Great Eastern Cutlery Whaler in Muscle Bone

 

[BAM-BAM]

This is the way I feel too. I figured most blued steel and wood folks would have some special "traditional" knives too.

That's what I like about the Benchmade "North Fork" 2.9" blade and ''wood scales" best of the modern lock-blade/one hand opening features without the Tacticoooool look

 

[dirty & hairy]

Northwoods jackknife in ivory.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

That's what I like about the Benchmade "North Fork" 2.9" blade and ''wood scales" best of the modern lock-blade/one hand opening features without the Tacticoooool look

That would be new age blade running under false colors, as they say in pirate-sailing books.
Sort of like this one.
That’s a stock picture, but I do have one, carry it often.

 

[dirty & hairy]

This two dot (78?) Case lockback has wooden scales. Not as pretty but one of my favorites.

 

[Chubbo]

Memories

This old knife brings back some special memories. A couple of years before the Twin Towers Trade Center was destroyed, my wife and I had bought tickets, for a tour of the trade center, and were standing in line to take the tour, when a guard asked if we were carrying pocket knives. When I showed him my "Benchmade Elishewitz", he said "Oh, you'll have to leave that here with me. When I gave him the knife, he just laid it on top of his cubical, where anyone could just pick it up and walk away with it. I told him "No" I won't leave it there for anyone to just walk away with, and cashed in our tour tickets, and didn't take the tour. I still have the Knife, but, we don't have the Twin Towers.

Chubbo

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Most of my newer traditional blades are locked in a safe.
So I arranged some users in my bedroom knife misc drawer.
The game is - name the traditional knives.