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Just finished the story on John Waynes knives in Blade and it got me wondering
what modern cowboys carry and use today?
I've spent my whole life living and working in rural Pa. and don't claim to be a cowboy, but I've always loved western history and the cowboy culture.
Just wondering if working folks out west have the same taste in knives as my buddies and I do?
I'm a plumber just like my Dad before me and I find a medium stockman is still my favorite user. My wife and I volunteer at a therapeutic riding center twice a week and a good knife is always handy there. My Old Timer 34 OT and Uncle Henry397 are my current favorites. I recently added a PJ Tomes titanium lockback thats beenseeing alot of pocket time.
Let me know what youguys are carrying.
Thanks. The Pa Knifeguy
 
I am finishing two small high carbon straight knives with deer antler handles for a couple of friends. Straight knives that will be on the chaps in case a rope hangs up or need it quick. They wouldn't have an opportunity to open a folder. Mike
 
Well, Im no cowboy, but horses are my passion, and i devote most of my free time to them, i normally carry a small Vic and a Leatherman Charge Ti when im in the barn, When im riding the leatherman has to come outta the pocket and get left behind. If you fall off with that in your pocket, your just asking for a broken hip.
But have no fear, that little Vic is always in my back pocket.
 
I do know the stockman has always been a favorite of cattlemen and livestock ranchers. Since cowboys do this type of work that is one knife they use.
Scott
 
Lots of cattlemen (and women) in my neck of the woods. The stockman is King amongst the older folks. The serrated or partially serrated one-Handed folder seems to be the choice of the younger generation cowboys.

todd
 
pipedreams308 said:
Lots of cattlemen (and women) in my neck of the woods. The stockman is King amongst the older folks. The serrated or partially serrated one-Handed folder seems to be the choice of the younger generation cowboys.

todd
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This seems to be the case in my neck of the woods also.:)
 
I can see the desire for serrated - I bet they cut more rope and twine than anything.
 
I worked for an old rancher for a while, a decendant of one of the first cattlemen in this part of the country. Although I don't recall what kind of knife he used, it was a small pocketknife of some sort. I never saw him use it for anything other than cutting haybale twine.

Aside from the small ranch jobs here in New Mexico, I was a caretaker on a small cattle farm in Arkansas for two years. My own knife for cutting bailing twine was a #9 Opinel. Cows are great, and so are Opinels. :thumbup:

-Bob
 
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