Father's Day Giveaway: What Is Your Most Meaningful Knife?

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With Father's Day around the corner it got me thinking: What's the most meaningful knife you own? Mine is my grandfather's WWII Union Cutlery KA-BAR. He gave this knife to me a month before he passed away. Grandpa not only used this knife to help fight tyranny and oppression, but also continued to use it around the house and in the garage until he gave it to me. So I ask again: What is your most meaningful knife? Share it with us in the comments for your chance to win a KA-BAR in enough time to make it a nice Father's Day gift. Bonus points for photos.

Grandpa's WWII Union Cutlery KA-BAR
 
My Grandfather was stationed in India during WWII, and he came back to his farm after the war and stayed there until he died 50 years later. My mom, brother, and I were going through his effects, and he had 2 pocketknives that he used to whittle reed whistles when we were kids. I don't even know the real name of the model, but it has 3 blades, a medallion that says Old Timer, and a ton of memories. I carve with it from time to time, and I make little things for my boys with it. But sometimes it's nice to just sit with it closed in the palm of my hand and go back in time. He was a quiet man who didn't say much to remember him by, but this brings him back for me.
 
IMG_0649.JPG IMG_0650.JPG IMG_0649.JPG IMG_0650.JPG I just happened across this and think it is a awesome thing. I have a Barlow that my grandfather carried for as long as I can remember. When I was little I always asked grandpa why don't you buy a new knife? See the scales on this knife were all busted and the blades had heavy patina the bolsters dented and pitted. But his answer was why it still dose it's job. I sat with him on the porch and used it to cut my first apple I cut by myself and also revived my first thumb cut with it. It was always with him and at night always in his coin dish. When he passed in the hospital we went back to the house and that old knife was sitting in that dish. It brought a well of emotions.
I took the knife only thing I wanted of his in the home and a few years later I sent it to glennbad here on the forums to make it a knife to honor my grandfather I know he would love it and that makes me happy. This knife will be passed on to my son and hopefully to his sons with plenty more stories and memories along with it.
 
my grandfather's yellow delrin case stockman.
it was found in a drawer in his woodworking shop after his death -- he used it for years for everything from opening tobacco pouches to marking lines on a piece of wood and when it was found, my grandmother asked if I wanted it, because she knew I like knives.
 
My grandpa's 2 bladed Case that he gave me on my 15th birthday.

I carried it a good bit after he gave it to me but the scales started to chip a bit so it sits on my shelf and occasionally gets to cut something around the house.

Really awful picture but I'm not near my computer at the moment.

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Thanks for the chance, this is a really good idea for a GAW.
 
Thank you for sharing. Some great posts that I truly enjoyed reading. If you posted above, please PM me your address (Tanker 1/66, BitingSarcasm, gonebad395, 1066vik, and Noswad0208).
 
I don't have any knives with a history, but my most meaningful knife to me is my Spyderco Dragonfly II ZDP-189. I have other knives I like a lot but this one I reach for and use the most, it is imo the closest thing I've found to a perfect steel.
 
I have two with some history and they won't go anywhere if I can help it. The first knife is an Orange Nor Mark, or is it NorMark, that my grandfather gave me and was his fathers no real history on it that I was given but still special. The second knife is a Case Folding Hunter that my grandfather gave me. He had acquired the knife during an arrest while working as a police officer not sure the actual age of either knife. The Case also has my grandfather's initials scratched into the bolster which are also my initials.
 
I only have two knives with anything sentimental tied to them.
One is a Large 21 Sebenza made on the day that my daughter, my only child, was born. Some people search for years to find one with a childs date, but I was the first to claim it of 5 after only 10 months of keeping an eye out.
It is a light user, and mostly relegated to dinners, functions and holidays now. I polished the bevels to dress it up a bit.
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The only other knife I have with anything meaningful tethered to it, is a custom that the Misses commissioned for me as my First Father's Day gift.
It is a small slicer that also is a Dinner/Function/Holidays knife.
1095 core and outer jacket with nickel silver and copper laminated between the 1095.
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The Sebenza might be passed down to a Grandchild or her spouse on their wedding day. But that is a Long time off since she is only 2.5 years old...

The custom will be given to her, or buried with me.
 
OFFICIAL_KA-BAR said:
Thank you for sharing. Some great posts that I truly enjoyed reading. If you posted above, please PM me your address (Tanker 1/66, BitingSarcasm, gonebad395, 1066vik, and Noswad0208).
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Thank you OKB. I sent an email this morning, but I don't think I mentioned my bladeforums name at all. I really need to keep my hands off the computer before I have my coffee in the morning. I sent it from my dende30 account, if that helps.
 
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