Does anyone like pocket knives???
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OK Hog Shooter
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
samuelrp
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I nev
er met a pocket knife or a firearm I didn't like....
CAJUNLAWYER
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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 
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 Thuer
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Thuer
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I am a little tyred of the thumdnail pics. Can some one please tellme how I can put big pics on this forum. Be gentle I am an nithwith with computers.
michael thornton
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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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HAWKEYE10
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Give these instructions a try. Just go slow and don't give up. It took me a while to get used to it but now it's simple. It's a whole lot easier than learning how to shoot a hand gun good. You might try copying the instructions so you can have them in front of you to follow. Good luck! Donhttp://smith-wessonforum.com/forum-office/78728-posting-photos-forum.html
medxam
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I carry an A. G. Russell 999 Physicians knife. It has two "blades". One is the usual pocket knife blade and the other is a paddle shaped pill counter. One end of the knife is squared off for crushing pills. It is a copy of a late 19th century/early 20th century knife that was very popular with family physicians that had to do everything.
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reddogge
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I'm never without one. For the last several years I carry a Buck 303A 3 blade knife. I have a bunch of them but this size and shape I prefer.
I've carried a little Victorinox since the early 1960s. Lost one out of my pocket in a Huey in Vietnam; wife sent me another. I have a larger one that I carry in my gun show bag. A few years ago a French friend gave me a Laguiolle, complete with corkscrew: they're made one at a time in the Southeast part of France, up near the Swiss border. Now I have 4 of them. Not as many as he does, however; he uses them as table knives, and has some early ones with carbon steel blades. Now they're all stainless. One of these pictured seems to have handles of horn, the other of rosewood.
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jun225
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I always go around with one in my pouch bag. Here are a few that I have.
Conventional pocket knives...
...and what local folks carry.
Jun
Conventional pocket knives...
...and what local folks carry.
Jun
AZretired
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I carry a Case Large Stockman most of the time and occasionally a Buck 301 large Stockman which is smaller and lighter than the Case and easier on the pocket.
OP
HAWKEYE10
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I have not heard of MOP pen knives. If you can post a picture. Don
6thtexas
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I've gone a little "knife happy" in the last 18 months or so. I've bought 15 or so and now have a bunch of pocket knives. I just ordered a Sowbelly Trapper and a medium Gunstock from A.G. Russell today.
