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This is my 2001 Gladstone Michigan made MSA Marbles Large Stockman. Only 50 ever produced in genuine Sambar Stag and it was really meant as a sought after collectible from the Marbles Custom Shop. Now that the Gladstone MI plant is long gone, the only Marbles knives available new are the cheap copies made in China after MSA sold out. 
This has been my EDC pocket knife since 2001. I keep the Factory mirror polished Carbon Steel Blades razor sharp and do not hesitate to use it as any really high quality pocket knife should be used.
This has been my EDC pocket knife since 2001. I keep the Factory mirror polished Carbon Steel Blades razor sharp and do not hesitate to use it as any really high quality pocket knife should be used.
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Two from Tim Britton, engraving and inlay by Jim Small. Smaller one is the "Gents Sliplock Folder" with 2.5" BG42 blade, larger one is the "Jade Handle Pronghorn" lockback with 3.5" S35VN blade.
I have 8 lockbacks. Nothing quite as traditional as the Buck. Left knife
in left photo. I've given them to family & friends. But I think my favorite
of the lockbacks is the Puma Prince 2nd from left in left photo.
And I have a few Autos, Assisted, and a Flipper, shown in the photo at
right. I think the Piranha at left is my favorite. Extremely sharp. But
it seems that I carry and use the Kershaw Junkyard Dog II, 6th from
left, the most. I like the flipper technology and the fact that it is ambi-
dexterous.
in left photo. I've given them to family & friends. But I think my favorite
of the lockbacks is the Puma Prince 2nd from left in left photo.
And I have a few Autos, Assisted, and a Flipper, shown in the photo at
right. I think the Piranha at left is my favorite. Extremely sharp. But
it seems that I carry and use the Kershaw Junkyard Dog II, 6th from
left, the most. I like the flipper technology and the fact that it is ambi-
dexterous.
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Targets Guy
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Buck 309
I have been carrying these since 1966. The mechanic was used daily while I was a Mercedes-Benz mechanic and up close and personal shows the wear of daily use over 30 years of wrenching. The aluminum scaled knife was my weekend warrior. They are now both retired (as am I) and I fondle them occasionally. They have served well.
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mrchuck
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I carry daily a small Buck 284 folder with the black handle. It's a modern day knife.
This last May at the 2018 NRA Convention in Dallas, I stopped at the BUCK both and chatted with his son who now is the CEO of Buck Knives.
I told him about his Father way back in the very early '60's,,who came out to the Airport and gave each one of us, MACV-SOG,who were departing to Viet Nam, the Cambodian Border, to eradicate the Viet Cong and to train the Hmong tribesmen to do so likewise in their tunnels.
Mr. Buck gave each one of us a Large folder knife, he had just started to make.
I still have mine in a knife drawer of a roll-away.
Stained with the price of Victory!
I take it out periodically, fondle it and put it back. Yes,,,,I remember using it, very clearly.
His Son,the now CEO,, engraved the blade of this small daily carry Buck 284 folder. Engraving says "C.Buck NRA 2018".
This last May at the 2018 NRA Convention in Dallas, I stopped at the BUCK both and chatted with his son who now is the CEO of Buck Knives.
I told him about his Father way back in the very early '60's,,who came out to the Airport and gave each one of us, MACV-SOG,who were departing to Viet Nam, the Cambodian Border, to eradicate the Viet Cong and to train the Hmong tribesmen to do so likewise in their tunnels.
Mr. Buck gave each one of us a Large folder knife, he had just started to make.
I still have mine in a knife drawer of a roll-away.
Stained with the price of Victory!
I take it out periodically, fondle it and put it back. Yes,,,,I remember using it, very clearly.
His Son,the now CEO,, engraved the blade of this small daily carry Buck 284 folder. Engraving says "C.Buck NRA 2018".
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One of my Dad's old knifes, lot of ware.
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Hey, the VINTAGE Old Timer's were great knives! I've still got 2 or 3 and they are still quite serviceable. Back in the day they were very affordable and they were actually made quite well with good steel too! I also have a few Uncle Henry's but I think the OT's were actually better knives.
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THE OLD TIMER TRAPPER/MUSKRAT???
If the trapper is the single bladed folder I'm thinking of. It had an easy to sharpen (as all the OT's did) blade and a nice pocket fitting shape & wt. Where they all went to??? Light fingered friends/siblings??? I couldn't possibly have lost that many, OR COULD I?
If the trapper is the single bladed folder I'm thinking of. It had an easy to sharpen (as all the OT's did) blade and a nice pocket fitting shape & wt. Where they all went to??? Light fingered friends/siblings??? I couldn't possibly have lost that many, OR COULD I?
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They made a single-blade trapper with a brass liner lock, as I recall, but much more common was the classic trapper design, with one clip point blade and one equally long spey blade. That one was 3 7/8" closed, and I always thought it felt better in my hand than any other pocketknife I owned.
Chief38, Marbles' decline began soon after the main man, Mike Stewart, left (not under happy circumstances,on his part). Mike now makes very good fixed-blade knives under his own brand, Bark River Knife & Tool.
I looked at a Smoky Mountain Knife Works catalog recently and was sickened to see cheap-looking imported knives with the Marbles tang stamp selling for nothing. The list included a "Survival Bowie" for $12.99, hideous orange-coated and weirdly-shaped machetes for fifteen bucks, and on and on.
I remember when Marbles knives and their safety ax were the kind that serious outdoorsmen sought when they wanted the best. This junk is just heartbreaking.
I'm sure you'll treasure your beautiful example of what they used to do.
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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
Best Regards, Les
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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.
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.
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Welcome from West Virginia, Frank!! Nice model 19, and nice knife as well.
Best Regards, Les
Best Regards, Les
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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
Best Regarda, Les
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Texas Star
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Check the front screw on your rear sight base. Looks loose. Tighten the screw, if so.
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.
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