A knife that never leaves your side

I'm definitely one of the guys that carry's a knife depending on my mood. :D

Despite that, my 2 blade TC Barlow is the knife I keep coming back to, and am instantly familiar with its feel, and use.

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Your TC Barlow looks GREAT after some pocket time and use Ryan. What a beauty. :thumbup:
 
Thanks Dave! It is my only knife that I've truly 'pocket worn.' The sawcutting is almost completely smooth, but the bone has a great grippy texture to it.
Hopefully it will be my 'heirloom' knife that one day I'll pass down.
 
I have too many knives and my daily carry changes as often as the wind changes direction. I have many old knives that might fit in here and were once that very kind of knife, daily users that found the same pockets constantly. Them and this old Cattaraugus knife were just that kind of knife, albeit in someone else's pocket. ;):)

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My chestnut peanut never leaves my side. I've carried it everyday for about four years. It's developed a good bit of character and I don't plan on switching knives any time soon. I've honestly gotten to the point where I don't feel compelled to buy new knives. It may sound crazy, but I have found "my knife" and I'm very content with it. Plus I have a whole box of knives stored in the closet. :D
 
Ryan, I'm guessing thats antique amber ? You wore off the "antique" . I love it!
 
I became re-interested in pocket knives only about 16 months ago, so other than my first knife, which I rarely carry anymore but carried full time from about 1960 to 1969 when I was a kid, I don't have any knives that I've carried for years. But the Case peanut and Vic Electrician pictured below have been in my pocket almost every day since I got them. I was lucky enough to win the Peanut in a GAW in September (thanks, Cory!) and the Electrician was a gift that arrived in October (thanks, Greg!). I carry a lot of other knives in rotation, but these 2 are with me almost every day. (So is a Vic Classic, come to think of it, and that's probably the tool I actually use most often.)
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(BoilerUp17, any connection to Purdue?)

- GT
 
Buck 110 for now. It goes with me outside on my land around my house and when I leave the house in a nice black leather fanny pack. It has it's own pocket in my fanny pack too! It is a city and country knife for me.

I have carried it in a winter ranch coat too.

Funny thing, we were watching our 3 season DVD collection of LONGMIRE (WY sheriff show.) and in one scene with WALT the SHERIFF my husband said, "Cate, there is YOUR knife!"

I do not know if Buck is considered a traditional knife here like a Case or other famous older and newer pocket knives or folding knives but that is what I carry!

Cate

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Hard to be more traditional than that Cate!!

The closest I come nowadays is my Executive Whittler. It stays in my backpack so it's always near, but my kids get to pick my big and little slipjoint of the day, so it rarely gets selected. But in backpack it's always available, which is good if the kids pick knives I haven't gotten around to "completely sharpening" shall we say!

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Okay...probably the best pic i have of the #1...I have used it for 25 years nearly exclusively (Thompson Encore in same calibre been its reprieve)...Many adventures indeed :)...I shot my first 22 deer for 22 shots with that rifle....Here it is on Xmas day two years ago when i took it for a walk.....It wears a KAHLES 3-10 x 50....My backwoods damascus was with me that day.....Fes

 
CUTS LIKE A KRIS said:
Hard to be more traditional than that Cate!!

The closest I come nowadays is my Executive Whittler. It stays in my backpack so it's always near, but my kids get to pick my big and little slipjoint of the day, so it rarely gets selected. But in backpack it's always available, which is good if the kids pick knives I haven't gotten around to "completely sharpening" shall we say!

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That's pretty! Cool story about your children too.

Cate
 
festerfromnzed said:
Okay...probably the best pic i have of the #1...I have used it for 25 years nearly exclusively (Thompson Encore in same calibre been its reprieve)...Many adventures indeed :)...I shot my first 22 deer for 22 shots with that rifle....Here it is on Xmas day two years ago when i took it for a walk.....It wears a KAHLES 3-10 x 50....My backwoods damascus was with me that day.....Fes

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Nice... thank you!

Cate
 
The knife that really never leaves my backside is my Vic Minichamp that is on my key ring.
My version has the pen in the scales and it comes in handy very often.

I always have a larger knife also and lately it has been a GEC 15 paired with a modern folder.
 
I pretty much always have a leek clipped to my pants pocket its called "teethy". Why do I call it teethy? It's engraved teethy on the show side scale. Why did I get it engraved? The story behind it is why I keep it near. My little sister (10 at the time I believe) and I (17 at the time) use to have a colony of hamsters about two years ago; at one point the empire grew to close to 100 hamsters. However there was always a horrible event that would happen every now and then to some times very frequent. The hamsters would sometimes eat each-other. Well one night I heard some squeaking from the habit trail city we had. As I approached I seen one of the albino mothers eating, I didnt see any other hamsters fighting so I looked closer at the mother to see red (blood) on the bedding and on her coat. So i popped open the latch and moved her away (got bit in the process), to find one of her young missing a quarter of its face, the right side of its lower jaw was missing. So I pulled him out of the mini-city to investigate his wounds. Got on the phone called the nearest emergency pet hospital, was told they could only put them down because they were too small to do surgery or work on, especially a newborn that didnt have its eyes open. *sorry for the late info but our hamsters were Dwarf Chinese Hamsters* So i had to sit there with him because I can bring myself to "end its suffering" even though I know that the inevitable will happen (I knew this but didnt want to accept it because I had success in nursing another hamster that got part of its head eaten, so I had some hope of a magic health turnaround) I just cant bring myself to do that to a pet that I have been raising. So after I have him separated I see him putting his paw on something hanging from his face and trying to pull away from the dangling object, after seeing this happen a few times I realize hes trying to get this item off him. I inspect the object to find out it's his lower teeth hanging. Continuing to see him try to remove the teeth I disinfect the leek mentioned earlier and cut away the teeth as close to the teeth as possible to not hurt any more tissue that needed. With them removed he stopped trying to remove them instantly. I the applied neosprine to the affected area as well as made a water/Tylenol solution and had him drink small sips (i found this hurt him due to the Tylenol & I added a small amount of Tylenol to the water) After trying to dull his pain with the solution I made I sat by his side petting him and trying to keep him warm and have fresh water & food available to him. I sat with him about 7-8 hours before he passed. Of course I started weeping because I had went through an emotional roller coaster to finally having a hard burning crash into the ground when the baby hamster passed. He passed at about 2-3 a.m. PST, in the after noon after I woke up I promptly buried him with my girlfriend attending the hamsters funeral. I named him teethy due to the situation with the teeth, and because I used the leek to make the cut I had it engraved to honor teethy's memory. After getting it back from it being engraved I have not removed it from my pocket. I dont cut anything with it for the most part, but I do keep it around for sentimental reasons; I ave used it to cut stuff though. How ever it will not see use like EDC type of work. Thanks for listening to my "Teethy" story.

edit to add: sorry for talking about a modern folder, I wrote the story because it has a story to it & it "never leaves my side". sorry again. :(
 
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Very cool slip you got there, Gary. Is that leather from an old mitt?
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Thanks, Cory. Yes, it's part of the wrist strap of an old ball glove I tore apart last summer, hoping to re-use some of the leather for strops and maybe even try making my own little pocket slip. But I happened to notice that the wrist strap contained a slip just begging to be used. I also "reclaimed" a little sheath from part of the webbing of the same glove. In the photo below, you can see where I removed a row of stitches from the right, or top, side and also tore out a few "edge stitches" to make an opening and was left with a perfect little pouch.
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- GT
 
The knife that is nearly always with me is the buck 110 my papaw showed me how th clean deer with . When is not in my Pocket it's in my Pack.
 
I keep this old Schrade Walden stockman in my "house sweats" that I put on after work to get comfy, so it gets carried and used nearly every day. Even with it's pitted and notched blades, it still gets sharper than sharp!

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