Oldest knife you carry

[k22fan]

The answer to "So what's the oldest knife you carry?" is the late 1930s Case stag single blade Folding Hunter that pawngal sold me. It's large and I like knives to have a sheep's foot blade and, in the summer, a bottle opener, so it's not an every day carry. If the question was what's the knife I've been carrying the longest it would be the Buck 301 Stockman that I bought with paper route money in 1968. That might also be the knife I carried the most days over my lifetime.

I think "knifes" can be used as a verb. That's probably why.

As in Texas Star knifes cougars that leap on him from behind?

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I have my great-grandfather's old Queen from the early 60s that I will carry time to time just to remember him.

 

[garddogg56]

The oldest in EDC rotation usually on weekends is a ten dot(1970)Case 35 1/2with great CV steel holds a great edge.
Or a 6292 same steel feels great in hand.

 

[Billylee]

I have my Father-in-laws combat knife from WWII. He was a telephone lineman in the CBI theater for the Army Air Corp. It's a Camilus, 8" blade, and leather stack grip. It was issued to him in August of 1943. I use it as a camp knife.

 

[shamrocker]

I carry daily a microtech lightfoot born on date 09/2002, best knife I've ever owned, a heavy working mans knife.
Worth too much to still be a packing, however It will be with me till the day I die.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

This is a question that made me think a little bit. I have knives that have some historic significance, but those are collectibles rather than daily use tools.

The oldest knives that I regularly carry or use would have to be my Chicago Cutlery butcher knife and boning knife that have been in my hunting gear for nearly 50 years. Very basic knives made for kitchen or commercial use, carbon steel with hardwood scales, drop-forged. Probably 3 or 4 dollars each when new, back in the early 70's. Dozens of deer, elk, and antelope field-dressed, quartered, ready to take home. Along with a home-made bone saw (6" saws-all blade mounted to a wooden handle) they serve just about any purpose around a hunting camp.

I also have a Schrade Old Timer 'Sharpfinger' that is getting close to 50 years old. Excellent steel, nice tight curve for skinning work, holds a good edge through a lot of hard work, compact design that is easy to carry on belt or in a pocket. I think I paid about $7 for it, back in the day, and it will outlive me by a generation or two.

I have spent the money for some expensive knives, but I still rely on the old faithful cheap working tools that have been with me forever.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I got my Grandpa's Knife.
Don't usually actually carry it.

 

[sceva]

Winchester Senator pen knife. Made late 1920's - mid 1930's. It gets carried regularly.

Here's the knife and a catalog cut from the 1927-1928 Winchester catalog

 

[walkinghorse]

I have a Case XX machete like the one my Dad had from his time in the Aleutians during WWII. The original turned up missing during a move sometime in the past. Same
vintage but not his. I carry it in my truck with my woods/winter kit.

 

[arjay]

A Buck 110,a smaller Buck and a freebie clone from the nra. All date to the early 80s
Funny story about the 110. Several years ago I went deer hunting for the first time in years. Had fun,but didn't see anything. Several months later I took a nice young woman skiing and we stopped at a drive through for breakfast on the way up. She was digging in the console of my truck for change and came up with the Buck ank a hunk of rope.. "What the hell is this!!!"

 

[bigwheelzip]

I was carrying the Gerber Paraframe knives until I rediscovered this gift that a shaft coupling vendor gave me in the early 80's, an EKA Swede 60 with Bubinga wood handle.

 

[BillBro]

My dad's old Buck Folding Hunter.

 

[dscampbell]

Alameda County Sheriff issued 1978 still carry it


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[crazyphil]

I don't know how old the Solingen knife is, but they have been making
knives since the middle ages. I have had it since I was a young man,
and I am almost 86 now. It had a cracked handle, so I took it off and
made the replacement out of a pick handle. (See photo) My Dad died
over 20 years ago, but I still remember showing him my Solingen with
the grip that I made. He said "it aint much for looks, but it's Hell for
strong".

 

[wilburmay]

Old knives

My Grandfather gave me this in the late 50's
He had a tobacco farm across NC211 from Fort Bragg. If land owner allowed maneuvers on their property they allowed you to purchase from PX and to deer hunt on specific lands. This knife was purchased at thePX. I cherish this knife. He was a orphan,
6'3" and weighed 300# his name was Otho O'Briant. I lost him when I was very young. Big hearted Irishman that I think of regularly.
Thanks
Wilbur

PS. Lost this for months when I was a kid.one day my mother slammed on brakes in a '53 Chevy and the knife rolled out from under the front seat. Never lost it again.

 

[mikerjf]

My oldest knife was my dad's boy scout Kabar from the 1930's, but I gave that to my brother. So I just have the homemade stag knife I found on a Canadian trail in the 1960's, and a US Camillus I bought from P&S Sales in the early 1970's.

I do still have parts of my dad's wool Navy blanket from 1946. Been using it for one thing or another most of my life.

 

[30-30remchester]

Having collected antique knives for decades now, I have quite a collection. I try to give each a "ride" once a year. Often they are 1930's Remington's, Case Tested's, Napanocks, ect. The oldest I carry once a year is an ivory handled quill knife that dates to the revolutionary war.

 

[kfields]

My everyday carry is a Buck 501 I bought in 1977 at the PX at Patch Barracks, Germany. I have it in its pouch on my belt as I write this.

 

[leonardocarrillo]

I have several old knives but the ones that I carry from time to time in my pants pocket are a Sevillana made in Toledo (Spain) with an engraving on the blade that represents a bullfight that a relative gave me when I was 8 or 9 years old. years old and the other is a pocket knife made in Japan with small grooves on the blade and was a gift from a family friend when he was 6 or 7 years old. They have been with me for 50 years and when they gave them to me they were not new.

 

[BloodyThumb]

My grandfathers old "Craftsman" yellow handled Stockman pattern that he was carrying up until he passed. And he passed almost 40 years ago so I do not know the age, but it is the oldest I carry. I believe it is a Sears badged Shrade, likely from the 60s.

The second would be an old Case mini trapper from back when Case still made decent knives (IMO) that I bought in an old fashion wood floored / 40 foot high shelves on the walls hardware store in the little town where my parents grew up in western KY... Bought it while I was in high school in the 70s.

I also have an old KaBar that my ex brother in law carried in Nam in the mid 60s that I have taken camping a few times, but I don't count that as "carrying".