Age and EDC ramblings.

I have a SOG multi.that has helped me out in some tuugh situations & I wear it to work everyday.Jackknife i'll be retiring next yr.& hope to enjoy it as much as you & BLUES enjoy yours.In addetion to the multi I carry a small trapper & a small lockback!
Jim
 
Congrats on your upcoming retirement. I hope it's a long, happy one filled with many interesting traditional knives to occupy your time. :cool:
 
Stockmans seem to come full circle with me. I'm like sunnyd. I like trappers and stockmans. Stock being my first choice. The most versatile and there's just something about them. I carry a wave but mainly for pliers and in case I have to scrape something.
 
Back thirty years ago, when I was the young fella in a work group of war-veteran western OK wheat farmers, everyone carried a stockman or a trapper along with a vise grip pliers. Sort of a dirt farmers multi-tool. Carried your knife in your pocket and the pliers in a belt sheath made in their shape. Real farmers carried their's in their overalls side pocket. I remember they came in handy a time or two. Those and a shovel let you get by most everything or till you could go to the shop and get the proper tool.
300Bucks
 
Jackknife - well said. Needs change, sometimes we just don't want to admit it.

My all-time favorite pattern is a medium serpentine Stockman, but of late, I've been carrying a little U.S. Schrade 33OT ('Middleman' two-blade jack), especially around the house. I'm getting to the point that even small single bladed knives would do all that I need - and I NEVER thought I'd be without a Stockman. I keep them close though - in case I need a Stockman 'fix'. ;)

thx - cpr
 
Wonderful input by all! I love the sharing of experience and ideas. I learn a lot and am grateful.

My father liked the small pocket knives and had just one or two. He didn't feel that any more was necessary. He would just say that he had a whole work bench full of tools in the basement and another in the garage, no need to carry it around. He would have also said he didn't have the pocket space because his pipe, tobacco, lighter and pipe tool had already filled his pockets.
 
stockman242 said:
I think you nailed it right there.
Just take a look at the cell phones most kids are toting around, they do a little of everything (take photos, play music, take notes...) but nothing quite right, and when you need to make a call, the battery is dead.
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That gave me a chuckle. I'm geezer enough that I don't even use cell phones at all.

My favorite patterns are barlow, congress, jack and equal end pen.
 
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