Any "Best Life" readers out there?

[rroossinck]

I was flipping through the June '07 issue and noticed that they had an article about how the pocketknife was being forced out by things like the cell phone, pda, blah blah blah. The article was showing off four custom knives from a few makers (some of whom may be contributors here, for all I know - I'm still pretty new). Had some VERY nice eye candy from Joel Chamblin, Kelly Carlson, Thomas McGuane, and William Henry. If anyone has the issue, it's on pg. 50.

Some very nice eye candy. If I have a chance, I'll see if I can't scan this in and post it up.

 

[tirod3]

I don't see that the knife is being forced out. The public is so snowed by a multitude of negative "you can't carry a knife here!" pronouncements they just quit carrying knives. Others just never acquired the habit due to their lifestyle - heck, you don't even really need a knife or can opener to eat in the Army. The MRE's will open by hand. What's a soldier need a knife for when it's "tear here," untwist the ammo box wiring world.

Same for a lot of stuff, until you get to clamshell packaging, and scissors are safer and better for that. So younger folks just don't have the need to carry as much as I did growing up. Then things were sold bulk, you cut the length or size you needed. Packages were shipped with string binding them, tire patches for bikes were cut to size, etc. We lived outside and made things with sticks, wrapped tape on anything, and needed knives for our daily tasks.

Now everything is prepacked, sized for use, and the mall is a playground (but maybe not for long.)