30 years of EDC

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The knife I carried to junior high (and to Philmont twice, for hundreds of trail miles, through Europe and Africa and on innumerable road trips), and the knife in my pocket this morning:

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Post up your old/new pics! :)
 
Looks like we started a few years apart but in the same place, a 440C Buck 110. Now its a Stockman in D2 and a Monochrome in N690 for me.


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Here's one I carried for many many years. My dad got it through an offer on a tin of tobacco in 1964 or so for $2.00. He gave it to me. It's an Ulster Old Timer.

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My first knife (bottom Boker):

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The knife in my pocket today:

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Carrying just one of two knives is like wearing just two pairs of socks. I can't do it.

I have a box of knives and I pick the one I most "feel" like that day.
 
Longest carried knife for me is a toss up between my benchmade ascent and my crkt m16 both are. The latter is 5 years old and the first is 7. This thread made me break my 110 out.
 
It sure is funny how many of us carried a Buck 110 throughout most of our school years. Me in my junior and senior years. I mostly carried my old scout knife before that, for as long as I care to remember.

And nowadays you would get busted for having a Leatherman.:grumpy:

Sure glad I am not school aged in this era.
 
cbxer55 said:
It sure is funny how many of us carried a Buck 110 throughout most of our school years. Me in my junior and senior years. I mostly carried my old scout knife before that, for as long as I care to remember.

And nowadays you would get busted for having a Leatherman.:grumpy:

Sure glad I am not school aged in this era.
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Could not agree more.

One of the first knives I owned was that old standard-issue stag BSA fixed blade. There were actually two of them. One was smaller with a clip, and the other was a little larger, with more belly up front. I had the larger one. Must have gotten it in '73 or so, when I was in Cub Scouts.

It went missing in '93 when I was living outdoors. Had it in the tent with me. Man it hurt to lose that thing... I looked high and low for it. You can replace the knife, but not the sentimental value. Sure am glad I still have the 110.
 
On a side note, i've noticed a few times on my 110 that the blade bottoms out on the inside of the butt of the knife and leaves a flat spot. I took care in resharpening it, but don't want it to happen again. Any ideas?
 
SuzukiGS750EZ said:
Longest carried knife for me is a toss up between my benchmade ascent and my crkt m16 both are. The latter is 5 years old and the first is 7. This thread made me break my 110 out.
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I think you misinterpreted the thread topic.

What did you EDC 30 years ago?
What is in your pocket today?
 
My first knife was the oldtimer in the picture with the boker and I just ordered my first sebenza on friday.

My how times have changed. I always had a knife on me at school, and always had a gun in my truck. When I was a sophomore I did a speech in speech class and brought most of guns to school for my demonstration speech. I had several types of pistols, shotguns and rifles. I left them in the principles office until just before class, went down picked them up, principle went with me, did my speech brougt em back and picked them up at the end of the day and went home.

Life is just better in the south and was even better back then.
 
Nice thread!

There are not many nice things I can say about my father, but he made me the knife person I am now. Thanks, Dad!

My first was a SAK, and I destroyed a number of them, at least two fell into a lake on fishing trips. I always got a new one from my dad. What a swell guy he was! Of course I also used and killed many, many puukkos, mostly by snapping the blade or just losing them somewhere. I remember once I tried to kill a hare by throwing my puukko at it, never found the knife again... Boy, was I ever the Indian Warrior.

At around 14 my dad gave me a sweet Buck 110 knockoff, made in Germany by Othello. It was my first lockback and I loved it. It nearly killed me when it was confiscated by the Police when I was 15 - a case of wrong place and wrong time. But my old man really came through - he gave me another lockback which I carried responsibly until the 90's, so it was my EDC for at least 10 years! Then it was mostly replaced by Leatherman until I found the sweetness of tactical knives and Spyderco.

Here's the knife with one of my current EDCs for size.

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Must have been -83 or -84 when I got it.
 
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