Fess up. What is your traditional "that" knife?

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Everyone has a "that" knife.

You know, "that" knife you grab to do stuff, or one hears hollered out to a spouse or kid to bring them "that" knife.

Maybe that old Imperial two blade you broke one of the blades, and use the broken blade for a screwdriver, and the blade to spread caulk in the bathroom.

Perhaps yours is that Camillus Electricians knife you received as kid and right after being told not to use the sharpener on the back of electric can opener you did anyway.
I was sorta hard to deny you did not do that, and though the temper is out of that blade, it still gets used to scrap gaskets, or something.

I use a Old Hickory 3 1/2 " Paring knife.
I tweaked mine by drilling a hole in the handle .
I use it outdoors for all sorts of things, and have scraped gaskets, tightened screws, applied caulk, scraped paint , scored drywall...etc.

I know everyone has a traditional knife of some kind that they snag for all sorts of tasks, and they use it, and don't worry about it, as that is what it is for- using.

What is yours?
 
I feel the same way about my Mora's as you do the Old Hickory paring knife. (Though I've accumulated a few nice paring knives from Opinel, Victorinox et al that are very useful knives for many tasks.)
 
My Case Medium Stockman, yellow handle, CV blades, at 8.
Also, the first good quality knife I bought, a Vic Recruit. One of the handle scales is loose, and I've been meaning to glue it back on but haven't done it. That knife lives in a drawer in the kitchen, to be grabbed whenever needed.
SM, you need to post in General Knives more often.
 
I keep a couple USA-made Chicago Cutlery knives in the shop. Use them for everything out there!
 
A few years back, my dad came over here to Europe to visit me and the wife and kids. He brought with him an old Dexter boning knife that had been his dad's. When I was a kid I remember Grandad cleaning mounds and mounds of specks out on the dock behind his place in Okeechobee, FL. with a knife like this. It's all he and Grandma used in the kitchen too -- don't know how many they had, but my dad told me that they got them en masse from one of his uncles (who was a butcher and got them wholesale) when Dad was a kid in Miami. ANYWAY ..... that Dexter has quickly become THAT knife in my house. I have a block full of Henckels but this old carbon steel blade, when honed up (something that takes about 30 seconds!), out cuts any of them.

I reckon sm2 was asking about a folding "that knife," but I just have too many folders for any one to have earned that designation, see. So short of that, I'll have to nominate Grandad's old Dexter.
 
Tony Bose wharencliff trapper in a shadow pattern. I have not found a chore besides removing the backstraps it cannot do. For the backstraps a Kerry Hampton 4.5 backpocket in denimascus scales. I guess I should have posted in a "them" knives.
 
R. Bose 4" BP in my avi..When Jackknife posted that he would only carry one knife for a year, I was encouraged to do the same. I was stripping some wire with it yesterday..YIKES!! Scary but as long as you work slow its fine. But..if I was to pick a workhorse to use everyday it would be a 3 blade stockman..OT or one of my old Case.

R
 
something needs done, I use what I have. All my knives are users, so its whatever one I have on me. $300 custom, or one I made from scraps for $5 total, a knife is a tool, and I use them as such. :)


I do have a couple abuse knives in the shop... A nessmuk that I made, botched the handle on, but has one of my best blades, gets used for scraping, prying, chisseling, and the worst on it; cutting sanding drums and belts(talk about edge removal!)

The other is a 4.5" bladed clip point that I made as a test blade... you know, try to kill it to see how far my blades can be taken... its the one that gets new scales every time i want to try a new material, and them abused to test that. Generally run into the ground wherever it finds itself.

G.
 
probably my yellow case soddie jr, i carry it the most and used it yesterday while working in the yard and cleaning the mower, etc.
did everything it was supposed to, cleaned it up, touched up the edge
and its ready to carry!
cheers
ivan
 
Mine is definitely the old TL-29 Imperial I dug out of an old toolbox.
The screwdriver blade only opens with a pair of pliers and the handles are made out of cheesy brown plastic, but this definitely THAT knife to me.
I use it like one would use a stanley 99.

Peter
 
In the kitchen, I have that knife.
That is a serated orange handled $1 paring knife.
It will cut anything and everything..
My girls and guests are only allowed to use that knife.

My carbon cooks knives are too sharp for them.
 
mnblade,

Fixed blade are welcome too.

A friend of mine, a few years older than I, still has a sheath knife he obtained with S&H Stamps as a kid.
(that dates us both).

Genuine imitation stag handle, sheath with the whetstone. At age 8, this was a b-i-g deal for kid!
Add a cowboy hat, strap on the cap pistols, and ...

It has "character" from all the playing Cowboy & Indians, Army, Exploring, and whatever...

In his shop now and last time I was over, he had some weeds that needed attention.
Proper way to do this, is with a fixed blade with purple, and green paint splotches he said...grinning.
 
SchradeUSA large OLD TIMER Stockman. Does everything pretty dang well . . .

thx - cpr
 
My traditional "Go to" knife, or "That" knife is my Camillus TL-29. It is old.... real old. It was in a box with my wife's grandfather's knives, many of which he carried in WWII. The carbon blade's patina is charcoal black, and the screwdriver/wire stripper is almost as dark. I use it for any scraping, prying, or spur-of-the-moment cutting I may have to do here in the home. GOD that old carbon stgeel takes an edge. It is by far the sharpest knife I own.
 
I'd have to say it is my Vic. Cadet, but what ever I am carrying at the time is my go to knife. I only really have one or two that I am careful with.
 
db said:
I'd have to say it is my Vic. Cadet, but what ever I am carrying at the time is my go to knife. I only really have one or two that I am careful with.
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I agree with db, though, whatever I have on me is usually my goto knife. I have a pocketknife on me pretty much 24/7, so it's not like I am ever sans edge. But my TL-29 gets all the dirty work.
 
Same here,not a certain knife but a certain style. I carry two knives on me and one is always a stockman,the other some form of traditional single blade folder.

So my go to knife would be a stockman, large,medium,or small whichever is there in my pocket.
 
I EDC a Case YH CV Peanut.
Just that knife, and doing The Experiment, and have since Jan 15, 2008.

I am guessing I am the only one that stuck with original knife/pattern.
Granted I have had some tragedies , lost Peanuts, but I grabbed another and kept true to The Experiment.

Peanut is used for everything.
Whatever one would use a knife for, I use a Peanut.

My Old Hickory is the other "that" knife.

Keeping these up, I use a Norton 4" Crystalon coarse /fine, free hand sharpen and strop on cardboard.

"That" is traditional as well...
 
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