A "Famous Person" Who Carries a Traditional Pocketknife

silenthunterstudios said:
Now that is cool. I've only seen a few minutes of Blacklist, maybe we'll see some more of Tony's knives on the show. I wonder if the main character is a knife nut.

Just a cool picture, neither give the notion that they are great actors/knifemakers. Just two guys sitting on the porch whittling, I wouldn't be surprised if that picture was of forum regulars! Cigars and a good scotch, two knife nuts, and a little bit o' whittlin'........
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It was seriously like any other day at WilfredWorks. Spader is just about as "normal" a person as you would ever meet. He is super interested in old folding knives and I think this is why he loves Tony's attention to the detail of building classic looking handmade knives.
 
Great story and photo of Spader, KnifeHead! I have always thought of him as a fine actor.
 
KnifeHead said:
It's not news that one of Tony Bose's English Teardrop Jacks was used by James Spader in the movie Lincoln. Although it was a very small part of the movie and was very hard to see that it was one of Tony's knives, it was definitely one of Tony's knives because I know the back story.

James became very interested in Tony's knives after a chance meeting with a friend of Tonys at a knife show in New York several years ago and subsequently struck up a friendship with Tony. When the Lincoln movie came up and James was developing his character, he suggested maybe he would be able to fit a knife into one of the scenes he would be doing. James asked Tony if he could make a period relevant knife that he could use in the movie and it was the English Teardrop Jack. After it was made and sent to James, it was OK'd by the appropriate props people and used in the movie. James carrys and uses that knife and other T.Bose knives regularly.

Here's an image I shot of James and Tony whittling on the back porch in Wilfred a number of years back.

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That's great. I'm a big fan of the show "The Blacklist". I swear I can remember him pulling out a pocketknife in one of the episodes.
 
^^Me too, can't remember which one for the life of me though. Although my new favourite actor is James Spader. :thumbup:
 
5K Qs said:
I don't know if it's proper forum etiquette for me to answer my own questions, but I was intrigued by the photo of Gary Powers' pack. (Probably part of my interest is my occasional, but almost lifelong, interest in JFK assassination conspiracy stuff, and a standard claim of many conspiracy buffs is a link between Oswald and the downing of Powers' U2.) Anyway, I did some Googley stuff and found a site that claims Powers' SAK is a Wenger. Here's a link:
http://www.e-webtechnologies.com/sak/Wenger_Swiss_Army_Knife_-_Spy_Equipment.pdf

And I found another photo of some of the pilot's gear that includes a fixed blade knife:
https://twitter.com/beschlossdc/status/427963652193284096

I haven't found anyone (besides me :p) who thinks they see another traditional folder below and to the right of the SAK in the photo Ted posted earlier.

- GT
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The fixed blade is a Randall Model 8. That's certainly traditional.
 
Yeah, I'm thinking that Mr. Spader would have a seriously nice collection, maybe not as extensive as that of Sly Stallone, but right up there at any rate.
 
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I'm pretty sure Mr. Calm-Pon-Yuh carries a pocketknife and he's pretty darn famous around here! :D ;) :D


Dave
 
silenthunterstudios said:
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Knife nuts are everywhere!
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And they do almost everything! Thanks to everyone's contributions, I now know about athletes, politicians, singers, actors, spies, and more who carry pocket knives.

Raymond1000 said:
The fixed blade is a Randall Model 8. That's certainly traditional.
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Thanks for the ID, Raymond.

navihawk said:
That's great. I'm a big fan of the show "The Blacklist". I swear I can remember him pulling out a pocketknife in one of the episodes.
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I never even heard of "The Blacklist" :eek:; guess I'm not much of a TV guy anymore. But it sounds like I should find a way to watch it; lots of rave reviews here.

- GT
 
I started watching the Blacklist thanks to this thread. I had heard of it before but had never really seen it. Knowing that Mr. Spader is a fan of traditional knives, especially Bose knives, is really cool and I had to check it out. Watched 3 episodes last night and I can tell I'll be binge watching this one through the weekend, fun show!
 
The Blacklist is one of the few series I follow and mostly because of James Spader. I watched Boston Legal because of Spader and Shatner. Most the shows that really interest me, like Longmire (and his Buck 110), get cancelled. There is still Hell on Wheels and it has some traditional fixed blades in it.
 
Thomason said:
President Lyndon Johnson on the phone ordering some pants from a guy at Hagger Slacks. LBJ was telling him he wanted the pockets to be deeper so his pocket knife wouldn't slip out when he sat down. Pretty funny. Be advise that LBJ was kind of a salty guy in his language.

http://millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom/exhibits/lbj-orders-some-new-haggar-pants
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Very interesting and amusing. Language not so bad, merely accurate:D Politician as a human-being, an alien concept for the last 30 years.....;)

Thing is, what sort of knife did LBJ carry?? The one that kept falling out of his pockets?? Suppose the Johnson Center or museums might give the answer but I'll bet it wasn't an Eisenhower:p Must've been a CASE Texas Jack what?

Thanks, Will.
 
Nick Offerman mentions grabbing his knife everyday when he leaves his house in his new netflix special. He mentions carrying a SAK despite being in New York in a GQ interview.
 
I don't follow NASCAR, but I'm aware enough of it that I can recognize the names of some of its leading drivers. That's probably partially due to the fact that I've had a subscription to Sports Illustrated for almost 50 years and read it cover-to-cover most weeks, whether I'm interested in a particular article or not. Anyway, in last week's issue of SI, there was an article about Jimmie Johnson, who won his 7th NASCAR annual championship, tying him with NASCAR legends Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. The article includes this interesting passage:

"The first time they met, Earnhardt gave Johnson a pocketknife and then demanded a penny as payment. Johnson didn't have one, but Earnhardt had a smirk that made it awfully hard to tell if he was totally busting your chops, kind of busting them or dead serious. To be safe, Johnson went and found a penny."

- GT
 
Brisket said:
The Blacklist is one of the few series I follow and mostly because of James Spader. I watched Boston Legal because of Spader and Shatner. Most the shows that really interest me, like Longmire (and his Buck 110), get cancelled. There is still Hell on Wheels and it has some traditional fixed blades in it.
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Longmire has been brought back by Netflix, but you have to have a Netflix streaming subscription. They are doing a nice job with it so far.
 
Some interesting stuff in this thread on 'the Eisenhower' from a couple of years ago.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1156535-Any-interest-in-the-Case-63-I-like-Ike

Stich2442 said:
I tried to find out if Ike really carried a #63 pattern and what I discovered is that I think someone not familiar with the Case numbering system and many years prior to the internet and vast amounts of information at our finger tips misinterpreted and reported what Ike really carried. I found two of his knives both are #6333 the Case #33 small stockman, I am guessing who ever reported Ike's knife most likely was not a knife nut, said it's a small pen knife generically speaking how most would refer to any small knife and it has a #63 on the tang, but what Ike really carried was the Case #33 small stockman and Case's system the 6 being jigged handle and the 3 being 3 blades. I read somewhere during Parker years Case reintroduced the #63 as the Eisenhower pattern but can't seem to find that info so....?
I did read that he did give away the #63 what the is known as the Eisenhower so it is possibly just a coincidence that the prefix to his stockman is 63 and the knife he eventually would giveaway is the pattern #63, so there is a connection to the #63 pattern.

"During the late 1950’s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower arranged a three-day fishing trip to Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island. He had five sailors convert a PT boat into a fishing vessel. At some point during the trip, the President gave each of the five sailors an 08263 Eisenhower pattern, handled in mother of pearl."

So as there are no rules for knife nuts, I'm sure Ike had more than one knife, perhaps he carried it latter in life after he started to gift the patten but here are some pics of Ike's knives.







Pete
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Another poster in that thread thought that Case's sales manager during the '50s had said that Ike's favourite personal carry at that time was actually the 62063, a sleeveboard pen.

I recall reading somewhere that during WW2, he once had Kay Summersby turn the car around and go back to get his knife, which he had forgotten.
 
Somewhere I saw a picture of a Victorinox carried by Arnold Palmer who recently died, but I don't remember where I saw it.
 
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