A great short article for anyone who loves traditionals-

StoneBeard

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When I got home from work today I was thumbing through a magazine and came across this article. It immediately made my day a little better. I hope it does the same for you.



 
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Good call SB!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

The article made me a little sad, because I've seen the old way of life all too often vanish with the rest of yesterdays. There was a little country store where I spent summers of my younger days, and it eventually got bulldozed and now there stands a upper class seafood restaurant with a paved parking lot of German luxury cars instead of the dirt lot and rusty old pickup trucks. The men who graced the sagging front porch of that old store all long gone as well, and I fear we won't see their like again. They will be missed, even though some of them were on the other side of the law.

Good article!
 
Thanks for the read, as long as I can open one I'll carry a traditional in my pocket, gettin' worn smooth rubbin' against the change and keys in my pocket.
 
I loved that, thanks for posting it. Carl and this author have an awful lot in common:thumbup:
 
Thanks for sharing, StoneBeard! I actually read that article a few weeks ago (my wife gets that magazine, and I think someone else here on the porch had mentioned it; I went flipping through the whole magazine trying to find it, finally finding it was on the last page :rolleyes:). Anyways, I enjoyed reading it again. :thumbup:
 
Good read I still remember the Country Stores out in the middle of nowhere that we did business with.
 
Rick weaves a good yarn, I've met him a few times at book signings. Some of his writing is close to home for those of us raised in the Deep South, we recognize the characters from our past.
 
Great story, thanks for posting it. This is one of the ways in which honest, hard-working Southerners and Northerners had a lot in common :thumbup:

That's the way it was for us up in the Northwest, at least, both men and women. My grandma loved pocketknives as much as my grandpa did. Knife knuttery runs deep in my family.

Thanks again, StoneBeard. 'Night, all.
 
Thanks for digging that story out and posting it!!
Most enjoyable!!
 
I was born in 1965, so even growing up in small town Alabama, most of those places and times were already past. I did see and experience similar from grandparents, and even my great grandparents who celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary when i was 15. However, the days of the "modern" or "tactical knives had not arrived yet, and so what I'm familiar with in cutlery is what has come to be considered to the "traditional" knives. When I was a child, all of the rural area stores had the glass fronted cabinets displaying the knives, and I would run up to the Ace Hardware or farm supply stores to gaze at all the beautiful shiny Case, Schrade, Camillus, Boker, etc., knives. Virtually everyone carried a pocketknife, and even with all of the fistfights that happened, nobody ever got "knifed". The most blood I ever saw came from a goofball friend of mine who was sharpening on an 8OT and then folded up a blade on his finger. :eek: Still haven't owned any knives that could be termed modern outside of some Victorinox kitchen knives, and although they are plastic and stainless, I sure haven't ever heard one termed a "tactical". Old Rural Redneck I is I suppose. :)
 
Thank you for posting; that made my day. In a world that seems to be getting crazier by the second I take true joy in slowing down with my stockman at work. I feel it connects me to my father, uncles, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and beyond. We cannot afford to lose the wisdom of the older generations! They are truly special :)
 
The story was excellent, not just because of nostalgia tinged with regret but because it inspires me NOW to carry a 3 blade today. I'm usually a single blade or two blade one spring type but today it will be 3, but which? Böker Whittler? GEC Dixie (since it's about the south?) or CASE Chestnut Bone??

Has to be CASE :D:thumbup:

And, I'm not even American let alone Southerner, nor have I ever visited the New World. But this is about Knife World, the Traditional one for all of us:cool:

Thanks, Will

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