Country boy or city slicker?

I grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario, where my parents ran a cottage rental business on over 10 acres with several hundred acres of bush across the road tp play in. I ran wild as a kid. Got my first sheath knife at 5, my first rifle (to be used with supervision) at 6. I swam and boated, and climbed and dug and hiked and hunted until I had to move away to university. City living at its worst. Hated it. Carried a 6" sheath knife daily from age 13 to 17. It was still used lots from 18-22, but less than daily carry.

Worked in high tech, had little time during the week for such pursuits. So I was a engineer, who commuted to the city for work and lived my life on weekends. Move on an other decade and realized that was the wrong way to live.

I now live in a semi-rural area, my yard is backing on 600-plus acres of farmland, and with bush and creek within a 5 min stroll. I now carry a knife (or three) daily, usually a leatherman , a full size modern one handed folder (or two) and/or a smallish EDC fixed blade inplace of the second folder. Most get used daily. Leatherman for rough cutting where I'm likely to damage a knife (cutting wire, removing box staples etc, Folder for opening boxes, cutting up food. Fixed blade for breaking down boxes, maybe bigger food chores... Usually one knife is for "clean" and one is for "dirty" work. :)

Typical carries:
Yesterday- Leatherman Juice, Benchmade 710, Gravelle FK-SM
Today Leatherman Juice, Kershaw RAM, Benchmade 581

And I'm looking to go out farther now. Currently in search of 100+ acres of land with wilderness around it, where I plan to live a farming life with a self built off-grid home, and do consulting engineering and run my businesses from home to help with the cash flow... :D
 
Rapt_up said:
I grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario, where my parents ran a cottage rental business on over 10 acres with several hundred acres of bush across the road tp play in. I ran wild as a kid.

Typical carries:
Yesterday- Leatherman Juice, Benchmade 710, Gravelle FK-SM
Today Leatherman Juice, Kershaw RAM, Benchmade 581
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umm...I hate to break it to you after that nice post, but this is the Traditional Forum where we post about traditional knives. And those are not traditional knives.

An engineer who did not stop to read the directions.
Shocking! Shocking I say. Never heard of such a thing.:D
Except the designers who come to me at work every day and say, "Whataya mean the spec doesn't allow that?"
 
What's a city slicker?? I can't be one of them 'cause there ain't no city here.

Ed J
 
I grew up in a small town in Michigan, about 1,700 people (including the outlying areas), one stop light. Great area for hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, any outdoors thing you want. Walk 100 yard out the back door, and it was woods for miles.

I cannot remember ever seeing a modern one hand opening knife around. I remember the normal Buck or Case stockmans and jacks. Also the fixed blades during hunting season.

At 17, I moved to the city to go to college and forge my way. I went back a couple times, last time about 2 years ago, and I know I probably could not move back for good. It is still a great little town with nice people and a great place to grow up. Thirty years of the cities has influenced me a bit.

Now I'm an urban dweller, in LA. As far north as you can get in the city, but still in LA. I still have a strong liking of traditionals over modern knives, but I carry both. I want to believe I could still bale hay, milk cows, and drive a tractor like a young guy.
 
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