[JRinKY]

KF was talking about his Schrade yesterday. I also carry one and it goes missing sometimes. May show up in the washing machine or Stuck somewhere.

This one was made in USA and has a rough life. Don't know where it came from.
But.
I won the "Boobie" prize today at the old folks lunch and This was in the bag.

I see on the package say "Made in China."
In my "dress up clothes" Blue Jeans, I carry a Case XX USA single blade.

Given to me a few years ago and it is a decent knife.
A Fella said old Abe Lincon was carring this model in his pocket when he went to the Theater.
I have a few others that I don't pack around anymore, i almost lost the Case XX at the TSA checkpoint, but a slight of hand and a Western belt buckle save it.
Still pissed i lost my Old KBar about 30 years ago, by leaving it on a truck bumper.
That's why I don't carry a nice one for farm use.

 

[charlie sterner]

I try to carry one every day, sometimes forget. Had some cheap Chicom knives that were tacticool. The stupid clip on the side would catch on everything and they were just too dam heavy.

Picked up a S&W knife like the ones that used to come with their guns. Nice and light, skelontonized sides and only about 3" closed. That sucker was sharp. Lost it at the gun shop somewhere, probably dropped into a box of cardboard I was breaking down.

Couldn't find the same knife anywhere to replace it so I picked up a similar SOG knife, 2.5 inches long closed and it's nice and light, but not nearly as sharp or easy to sharpen.

Got myself an Outdoor Edge knife to butcher piggies. The one with replaceable blades. I hear they are dirty and thick skinned so my bud recommended the OE. Got the small folder. Should do the trick with 6 blades that came with. And yes Mikey, it'll ride in the gun case on the plane, not my pocket.

 

[Kermit in Va.]

Yep...
Carry 2 everyday..

 

[hedgehoghunter]

Here's a couple of daily carry.
I've had the letterman for 29 years . Mom gave that to me as a 1994 Christmas gift. I'm thinking the 2 other 10-15 years . I'd be neck Ed with out the letterman

 

[kogersamuel]

I love a Tinker by Victronox, Swiss, cant do without one.

 

[Gabriel]

I gravitated to a Leatherman the last few years on the job. It got used every day. Still looking for my old timer. Starting to bug me I’m gonna have to find it.

 

[lightman]

I carry a Swiss Army Knife. Just the basic like a couple of you have pictured. All my buddies carry one, they call it a geezer knife.

 

[George Foster]

I used to carry a Schrade of some variety in my pocket always and still do at times. Anymore though I am liable to have a folder on my belt though. Still an Old Timer or an Uncle Henry.

 

[CarlP]

To answer your question JR- I’ve had a knife in my pocket every day since childhood. Even had a teacher borrow it to open a package once in grade school. I doubt that happens much nowadays. I use mine every single day and I don’t see how people get by without one.
Put me in Lightman’s “geezer”category now. I’ve been carrying a Swiss Army Knife since a lady at work gave me one as a gift nearly 20 years ago. I picked up some extras a few years back at the big Louisville gunshow where a guy had 2 boxes of them that had been confiscated by the TSA. As I recall, they were $5 each.
The Swiss Army knife is a little bulky so when I’m getting all gussied up to go out somewhere, I‘ll carry a smaller Uncle Henry or a Hen & Rooster my son gave me.

the randall knife - Google Search

 

[Kermit in Va.]

Like HHH, I did carry a Leatherman for about 30 years. MIL got it for me when we first got married. Lost it, left it laying a few times at work so I quit carring it.

 

[joez]

I probably have 75 knives in my knife chest. Out of all I have my Old Timers are my favorite, I carry every day a 34OT or a 80OT, the 34OT is the most handy. When you find the USA Schrade at a flea market or yard sale buy them, they have a carbon steel blades easy to put an edge on them.

 

[jimp]

I usually carry a geezer Swiss Army knife, has a blade and the screwdriver/file for the other. It's all I need or want. Those Gerber tacticool pocket knifes with the clip are a PITA to me, so they stay in the sock drawer.

 

[was skruske]

My everyday carry is a Buck 303 Cadet. Had it for over 30 years. Thought I lost it while mowing grass, bought another on ebay. A few months later I found the lost one under the work bench while cleaning.

If I'm out and about, I keep a Kershaw Martin clipped to my pocket...you know, for social purposes.

 

[Shawn]

two or three most every day

 

[lightman]

Carl, they have that TSA confiscated stuff at the gun shows here too. Knives, nail clippers, ect, usually in a Goldfish bowel and its usually your pick for $5. Thats where mine came from. I've also found a few Zippo lighters.

 

[FBecigneul]

I don’t carry a knife.
The Italians I worked for years back all carried a small knife for when they were eating apples or for cleaning their fingernails. Come to think of it, they were stealing the apple from produce stores we visited. They were protecting the produce guys from other Italians or something like that. I had a gun.

 

[acpchuck]

Have carried a pocket knife almost all of my adult life. Almost feel naked without one.

About 10 years ago my son gave me a Benchmade 940 Osborne, it has been my everyday carry since . Love this knife and the axis lock as I can open or close the knife easily with one hand. Would have never spent this kind of money myself on a knife but can understand why people do.

Well used. Have had to send it back to Benchmade twice to have the springs in the lock replaced but only have to pay for shipping one way and get the knife back in a week or so.

 

[Kentucky Fisherman]

Here's my EDC Schrade, a U.S.-made 340T. It's the one I showed earlier totally rusted up after a 4-5 month "vacation" in one of my flowerbeds. The other is a Cold Steel Twistmaster that my brother gave me 20-30 years ago when he taught me how to skin and butcher deer. The Twistmaster must be a stainless steel because while it has a few stains on the metal, it does not rust up. I guess because of that, it's much harder to sharpen than the little Old Timer, which used a high carbon steel that's real easy to touch up the edge on. Love both these knives. One lives in my right front pocket and the other one lives in the top left pocket of my hunting coat.

To answer your question JR- I’ve had a knife in my pocket every day since childhood. Even had a teacher borrow it to open a package once in grade school.

Carl, your comment triggered some really nice memories, not of school, but of the last 11 of my 18 years at Humana, spent on a wonderfully creative team of nice people. In my desk drawer, I always had duct tape, Super Glue, Tylenol, Hershey Nuggets, and a few other essentials. And of course I had my Old Timer in my pocket. The young girls on the team quickly learned that when something was broken, torn, or a box needed opening, "take it to Pappaw." My most memorable repair was using Super Glue to reattach a high heel for a little hottie who would literally make you drool.

When you find the USA Schrade at a flea market or yard sale buy them, they have a carbon steel blades easy to put an edge on them.

Absolutely correct, Joe. Put a correctly shaped edge on an Old Timer and you can then straighten that edge scores of times with a kitchen steel or a fine-grained abrasive rock (in the woods). I smile whenever I look at some old pocketknife that has the blade literally worn down to a sliver because I know some guy loved that knife so much and for so long that he sharpened it over and over and over. If those old pocketknives could talk, right?

A few months later I found the lost one under the work bench while cleaning.

Probably the first 10-12 times I lost my pocketknife I would panic and almost get physically sick. But somewhere in my 40s or 50s I changed my strategy after realizing that the lost knife almost always turned up. So, I bought spare Old Timers and when I lost my knife, I'd just carry one of the spares. I think that might make the older knife jealous because it seemed to make it return from "vacation" sooner.

Enjoyable thread. Maybe after this one slows down, we start one aimed at stories and pictures about our favorite hunting/skinning/filet knife.

 

[CarlP]

My most memorable repair was using Super Glue to reattach a high heel for a little hottie who would literally make you drool.

Great thread JR.
Definitely one of my most memorable knife moments was on a bus trip to Keeneland. Two young ladies who fit Mike’s description had brought a couple bottles of wine and the only corkscrew on the bus was the one on my Swiss Army knife. They were certainly glad I was there and made me feel like a rockstar that day.

 

[FBecigneul]

My mother had an old carbon steel paring knife that she sharpened so often that when she passed away that blade was closer to a piece of foil than it was a knife blade.