Dad's knife?

[knarfeng]

If I told one of my sons to go get my knife they'd give me a confused look, just before asking, "Which one?"

There was a time, when I was much younger, that I could carry the same knife for a decade or more.

Both of those paragraphs apply to me, as well.

I used to have "knife". Now I got "knives".

I suppose I am still looking for "MY knife."
Might have to hurry up and find it. tempus is fugiting.

 

[tdkfm]

Yeah, I normally go with a traditional and a sebenza or spyderco. Too many choices to have a go to. I do often hold my daughter (who is 2) up to the big frame on the wall next to my bed that displays all my traditional knives and let her pick what I carry that day. That seems to keep some of the more obscure ones in my rotation. She thinks it's neat though.

 

[JB in SC]

This tiny (2 5/8") Case pen knife I bought around 1973 or so. It had been sitting in the pattern box of the Case display at our local hardware store for years I guess. I used it for a year in the mill and my late Dad finished it off (he died in 1998). He used an Imperial Barlow hawksbill when he retired (he always had a big garden garden). I found it in a tool box when we cleaned out my late mother's house. I'm working on getting the rust off.

 

[BP_]

my dad (for whatever reason, I'll never know) carried an original Gil Hibben Rambo III knife with him all the time. there was never a time he didn't have it on him, for quite a few years. I've seen him do everything with it from processing fish and game, to batonning wood, to having for personal protection (never used, of course. although it was brandished a few times). I have no idea why, he's just a nut. we lost touch for years, and when we finally got back together I gave it back to him (it had been at his parents house for about a decade). what did he do? gifted it away to an almost stranger trying to be cool... man I wish I would have saved it!

stock photo (the knife is unfortunately long gone now)