Pocketknives

[LEGION12]

 

[sophie]

What a fantastic display of pocketknives of all sorts. From the OP to all that have posted in this thread and shown their knives, what a nice display of Case, Great Eastern, and many other brands. I have trimmed my pocketknife collection by several hundred or more in the past 10 years and seldom buy anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I still have 30 or 40 pocketknives, but nothing like I see in these posts. We have all seen knife manufacturers go out of business in the last several decades. It’s a shame. GEC, Case, and a few companies still hanging on. Like mentioned above, I believe Great Eastern is making the better quality of pocketknives in my way of thinking but they are expensive. Case pocketknives from the 1960’s to the turn of the Century were great quality.
Thanks for showing these great collections.

 

[Tony Tiger]

Parachute knife switch blade

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I have a few, nothing very special, just the accumulation of 55+ years of carrying a pocketknife every day of the world.
I like 3-blade stockman pattern knives, small, medium and large.

I like knives with yellow scales.

A Buck 110 and some 112s, all S30V.

A few that don't fit a category.

 

[damienph]

I am not a serious collector but I do have a few that I’ve picked up over the years.

 

[boykinlp]

Swiss Army Knives were mentioned earlier. I wish I still had the first one I owned. In 1976 I actually traveled to Switzerland, and while there, I bought a Swiss Army knife from the factory store. Unfortunately, I can’t remember anything about it except that it had the red plastic scales, and I misplaced it years ago. I have always been a fan of the A10 Warthog planes, and a few years back, I saw these knives and HAD to get some! The 3 models I got are the Swiss Army Rambler Warthog, Swiss Army Hiker Warthog, and Swiss Army Tinker Warthog. I think they are extremely COOL!
Larry

 

[LEGION12]

Swiss Army Knives were mentioned earlier. I wish I still had the first one I owned. In 1976 I actually traveled to Switzerland, and while there, I bought a Swiss Army knife from the factory store. Unfortunately, I can’t remember anything about it except that it had the red plastic scales, and I misplaced it years ago. I have always been a fan of the A10 Warthog planes, and a few years back, I saw these knives and HAD to get some! The 3 models I got are the Swiss Army Rambler Warthog, Swiss Army Hiker Warthog, and Swiss Army Tinker Warthog. I think they are extremely COOL!
Larry

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I have one also great knives .

 

[holo]

I have a few more somewhere

 

[jbtrucker]

I have a wood gun cleaning case that I'm planning to fix up for display. Here is my small collection I posted on AAPK few days ago. My dads Case knives, #3 is my grandpas 1940's Tadpole. The others are USA made Imperial ,Kabar ,Bear&Sons ,Westerns , Old Cutler ,Camillus and rescaled Schrade. Bottom is Boker Electricians knife

 

[nod005]

A friend picked up this display case for me at an estate sale. I reimbursed him the $50. I wish it was twice as tall, but I'm not complaining!

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Outstanding!! Very nice. I appreciate the pictures.

 

[Retired W4]

Question for Chad on the Benchmade auto in picture #5. Does it have a safety on the back. Large button, no safety from the late 80's perhaps. I carried one for my last 10 years flying in the Army.

All you folks have some very nice blades.

 

[Retired W4]

Most of my knives are fixed blade but I do have a few unusual pocket knives. I'll gather up some more soon.

 

[AJ]

View attachment 757101Parachute knife switch blade

Should have snagged some of those when on active duty. We had a couple of parts bin drawers full of them in our Flight Equipment Shop. We preferred to silver and black handled TL's.

 

[Greyman50]

Vietnam Case is in book case all the time. Found the NRA Case in storage unit yesterday. Somewhere I have a orange handled parachute knife. Unfortunately to much stuff in storage…..

 

[Retired W4]

Unusual lever lock. One auto blade and a manual saw blade.
Pearl Gerber.
Engraved Citori.

 

[Smoke]

This is every Pocket Knife I own. I only ever carry about four of them. And most of the knives that I really like are pretty similar to a Buck 110. So I quit buying.

The only knife out there that really interests me and they don't make them anymore is the Benchmade Barrage

 

[ISCS Yoda]

YEP! I have plenty of them!
















I think I need to add some pictures to that "Blades" album but those are sufficient.

 

[AJ]

I don't display my pocket knives, I just keep them in a drawer in a Machinests Tool Box.

First time they had seen daylight in quite a while. The switchblade I bought in Japan over 50 years ago.

More seeing daylight. The upper Buck 501, I bought to use as a field knife on a NATO deployment to Denmark in 1977.