Post a Picture of a Traditional Pocketknife

[les.b]

Here's one that I'll bet no one else has!! I bought this little knife in Budapest, Hungary about fifteen years ago. I was shopping in an old, Soviet era facility...name escapes me right now. They had literally everything for sale there. Anyway, there was a guy there who made knives, and had a little shop and sales kiosk combined. You could watch him making the knives, and he would make one to your order... Really cool. Anyway, I bought this little guy, and I think, but can't remember...I believe that he had these little sheaths already made, but I think he made them also. I have carried this for several years, both loose in my pocket, and in the little belt sheath. Shown here with the knife I posted above for scale:

Best Regards, Les

 

[FrankClarkLDO]

19-3 357 Mag and Schrade Cut Co.

This is a S&W 19-3 357 Mag, made in 1971 that I purchased from a FBI agent almost 20 years ago while working nights at a Circle K convenient store. He walked in, asked me what I carried and when I told him nothing, he about went crazy. He said they were going auto and wanted to know if I wanted to purchase his old revolver. I had no idea about guns and I called my soon to be wife for approval and when I said he wanted $150 for it, she said go ahead.
The knife is her grandfathers, one he carried all his life. He was an officer for L&N Railroad and she said he used it all the time. It has a broken second blade but I just left it that way. She said he said he got it in the 40's.

 

[les.b]

Welcome from West Virginia, Frank!! Nice model 19, and nice knife as well.

Best Regards, Les

 

[boykinlp]

Schrade/New York Knife Company

 

[les.b]

Here's a couple more... The four bladed Boker is a little on the large side for everyday jeans carry, and the two blade case is a little on the small side, but I have carried both of them at one time or another:

Best Regarda, Les

 

[TX-Dennis]

Top left: Grandad's Old Timer numbered "Limited Edition" from 1974
Top Right: W. German Puma Lord early 1980s
Mid Left: Old Timer from the late 70s
Mid Right: Kershaw Rogue prbably around 2005
Bottom: my EDC Kershaw 1840

The newish Kershaw is the only one that's seen use.

 

[stykshooter]

When I was a little tike, one of my chores was to find my grandpa and take him lunch at lunchtime. My grandma would pack his lunch in a milk bucket and I would stop by the spring house and fill a mason jar with cold water. He still plowed with a plow horse back then and he would take break for lunch and sit and tell me tales of the old times. When he finished I would gather up everything to take back to the house and he would get ready to plow. He always wore bib overalls and a long sleeve cotton shirt. In the chest pocket of his overalls was a full-sized Case Sodbuster. He would take it out, cut off a hunk of tobacco with it and go back to plowing. I always thought that as soon as I was old enough and had enough money I would buy me a Case Sodbuster. A couple years later when I was about ten, I bought my own.

That was over 50 years ago, and I have had a case in my pocket dang near every day since. My favorite is a Case Trapper or Canoe and I have 6-8 with different scales, along with a couple Sod Busters. I’ve been in police work for almost 35 years now and although I have a “tactical” Spyderco or Benchmade clipped in my uniform pants pocket, I also have a Trapper in my pocket for everyday use.

I’ve probably given away 30 Trappers over the years as I use them as thank you gifts when someone invites me to hunting camp or does something nice for me or my family. I’ve given a couple of Trappers to each of my boys but they aren’t impressed and never carry them. They are both into Benchmade automatics.

 

[Texas Star]

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!

No worries! I have three Victorinox Executive knives in a nice wooden box on my dresser.

I know what they look like... and how handy they are!!

But my EDC is usually a Spartan. If I need a saw, I sub. a Camper or their large Hunter model goes in a coat pocket. I also have their former German Army model with a big saw and have German lockblade hunting knives with saw blades. Not that I use a saw a lot, but if it might be needed, I 'm ready!

I have a few stockman and trapper patterns, but whenever I carry one, I always need some tool that I'd have if I'd carried a Swiss Army knife!

I don't understand why many men now avoid pocket knives. I think we've bred a generation of PC wimps. I'd say what I feel is the core reason for this, but it'd get me banned here.

 

[Texas Star]

This is a S&W 19-3 357 Mag, made in 1971 that I purchased from a FBI agent almost 20 years ago while working nights at a Circle K convenient store. He walked in, asked me what I carried and when I told him nothing, he about went crazy. He said they were going auto and wanted to know if I wanted to purchase his old revolver. I had no idea about guns and I called my soon to be wife for approval and when I said he wanted $150 for it, she said go ahead.
The knife is her grandfathers, one he carried all his life. He was an officer for L&N Railroad and she said he used it all the time. It has a broken second blade but I just left it that way. She said he said he got it in the 40's.

Check the front screw on your rear sight base. Looks loose. Tighten the screw, if so.

 

[PJO1425]

I have a small collection of pocket knives, some are novelty (Mickey Mouse, Elvis), none are valuable, but my EDC is a Swiss Army Tinker (I'm on my 3rd, have to give up the first at Seattle airport a few years ago, and my second at a Milwaukee Brewers game a few days ago; like someone posted above, if I'm wearing pants (or cargo shorts), I have my knife.

 

[Stranglehold]

I apologize in advance...most of my knife pictures have guns in the way.

Boar's Head

Custom Case Trapper in Verde Marble from the Marquette area of Michigan's UP.

vintage fish knife

Case Russlock

Marbles damascus

Roe

 

[wingriderz]

Wow great thread and pictures. I like some others here I am picture challenged. I like some others here lately have an addiction to classic knifes. Case peanut, mini stockman, muskrat. All are in my rotation. Gone back to classic lock blades too Buck,110 ,112. All in rotation too. Still like my assist but classic is and always will be classic.

 

[nachogrande]

OR TO LOOK AT IT ANOTHER WAY...

For 33 years you lugged around 90% of unnecessary stuff.

 

[Chubbo]

Hi, Stranglehold:

The knife that you show in your post #91, the first picture, entitled Boar's Head, and Weidmannsheil on the blade, is a new one on me. It's a nice looking knife. what is the actual makers name? Care to share it with me?

Chubbo

 

[jeeps]

Good old solid work knives. Pocket workers,fighters.

 

[kthom]

I have many slip joint traditional folders, some older and some newer, and some larger and some smaller. Since this one is a lock back slip joint with a stainless steel blade, it's not as old or traditional as some, but it's one you don't see very often these days so I think it might be of interest here.

This is a Case knife with jigged bone scales. It is a large one, really not a pocket knife, but carries very nicely in a belt sheath. It is identified as a Case XX USA model 6165-L. A previous owner added the lanyard, which is basically a leather shoe lace that is captured by a neatly done piece of bronze that was either hex shaped to begin with or was a round rod that he made into a hex shape. There are two holes drilled through the slide, each hole off center to accept the leather shoe lace very snugly. As such, it will slide up or down but does not move without a bit of effort.

PS: Blade length is 4", OAL is 9 1/4". Blade width at widest point is 7/8".

 

[boykinlp]

Here are some users:

 

[swsig]

Here's my Cub Scout knife by Imperial circa 1952. It's not concours quality, but not bad for sitting in a box for 60+ years. The pointy blade at the bottom of the photo is a leather punch. In my day, Cub Scouts were supposed to spend a lot of time crafting things out of leather.

 

[Texas Star]

Guys, I'm pretty sure that this is one of the old, US made ones, I just snapped this picture...this is my most used blade, and it holds an edge very well...

The knife was given to me years ago by a family friend whose husband had passed away. She wanted me to have it as a keepsake. I have a couple others that she gave me as well, but the size and shape, and looks of this one just please me. And I have a bunch of others to pick from, including automatics (Benchmade and others), and case, ka-bar, boker, etc. I'll try to post some others later.

Here you go:

Best Regards, Les

Les-

That model was among the first advertised by Schrade as having Razor Blade Stainless steel blades.
It was carried by both Ken Warner and B.R. Hughes, famous knife writers. They could have probably carried any pocket knife they wanted, many being free or at deep discount to them.

I think that's also the model in Schrade's ads at, Playboy. I think they were the only knife manufacturer to advertise in that big, slick magazine. Playboy's circulation was then much greater, and I think an ad cost a lot. They wanted a model that would appeal to the educated urban buyer, not to Farmer Joe. That was the knife they chose.

I'd know the model number if I saw it. Check the blade tangs. The model may be marked on them.
The long Turkish Clip blade isn't typical of stockman patterns, but gets into tight places well. My father-in-law used his to fillet small panfish, like crappie and sand bass.

The Staglon handles were a form of DuPont Delrin, and look more like real stag than any other fakes I've seen. I have a King Ranch stockman and a small stockman with those handles.

 

[kwselke]

Here's my Cub Scout knife by Imperial circa 1952. It's not concours quality, but not bad for sitting in a box for 60+ years. The pointy blade at the bottom of the photo is a leather punch. In my day, Cub Scouts were supposed to spend a lot of time crafting things out of leather.

The pointy blade is called an awl. The scout beer bottle opener can be called a bottle cap remover.