Good ole days?

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Would you rather live one hundred years ago and carry the knives of that era, or live today and use what we have?

This question seems simple, but consider the fact that one hundred years ago people didn't consider knives to be "weapons" unless they were used in such a manner. Back then it seems like all men carried knives (I don't know about the women), and even the younger kids had their pocket knives for whittling sticks and doing farm chores.

Today we have the most advanced knives ever developed, but many of us are legally or socially limited to carrying folders when a hundred years ago a fixed blade would not have turned any heads.

Personally I like the superior equipment and can handle the non-knife people, so I would choose now over then. However, I do think that our interest would have been more welcomed in 1914 than it is now.

What do you think, would you rather go back to the so called "good ole days" of knife carry?
 
100? Just 30 years ago no one blinked at carrying Knives in school. Teens had gun racks in their trucks.
 
Now for sure. We are in a golden age for steel right now. I couldn't give a damn less about the sheeple. Where I live now it's 5.5" fixed or folder... I don't give a damn who says anything about it. Long as I'm legal, who cares?
 
I definitely prefer the knives of today. There just wasn't that much variety in readily available knives, at least compared to what we have today (both in design and materials).

And even 100 years ago, I think I'd still be carrying some type of folder rather than a fixed blade. I'm a chemist - a fixed blade would just get in the way.
 
It wasn't all that many years ago that most/then many guys carried a pocket knife. Many factors have changed this and (I'm going to get flamed for this) one of them is the rise of one hand folders.

You didn't have the variety you have now but knives were very readily available in decent carbon steel. Nowadays you have to look a little to get a good knife. At the same time, you didn't have the internet to interest and educate you on the subject nor the really good steel or really high quality slipjoints you can get today.

So, as long as I'm going to do the old fart "good ol' days" stuff, I'm going to speak to the quality of tools sold in general. Marketing has become most important and most or many tools (knives included) are meant to be used a season or so and thrown away. What happened to decent steel in a shovel, or a hoe?

So that's my "good ol' days". Camillus and Schrade slipjoints at the local drug store etc. That's valid to bemoan the loss of I think.
 
I'd stick with the knives and alloys of today, but it would be nice to have a 50-fish trout limit and 10 cent a gallon gas. :D
 
100 years ago? Guess that would largely depend on where I was living. August 1914 was the beginning of a bad 4 years plus to live in much of Europe.

Plus I like the technology and conveniences, and not just knives, of today too much to wish for the past.

When I was in high school "people didn't consider knives to be "weapons" unless they were used in such a manner" and "it seem(ed) like all men carried knives, and even the younger kids had their pocket knives for whittling sticks and doing farm chores". In my high school, seemed every boy had a knife in his pocket.
 
I'd rather live a hundred years ago and get to use my knife, than live in NYC today and have no time to get out on hikes.
 
eb1118 said:
I'd rather live a hundred years ago and get to use my knife, than live in NYC today and have no time to get out on hikes.
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Time hasn't changed, nor has time management. We each still have the same amount of time each say, each week, and each year, and we each have much control in who we choose to use it. With modern conveniences we can have even more discretionary time should we use those conveniences to that purpose rather than let them distract us/waste out time.
 
I'll stick with the present day. Such questions are not only about knives or any one thing. Life was a lot different in 1914 here in the US. People barely had cars. There weren't many paved roads. People took trains. Electricity and indoor plumbing were not a a common thing.
 
No Antibiotics, or vaccines, WWI about to engulf Europe in eight days, and WWII 21 years after that, I think I'll stay here with my modern knives.
 
Most definitely would rather be living 100 years ago when the lands here were unspoiled and the world was big and wide and not all structured and narrow as it has become in modern times. The carbon steels of the day fit the bill for good working knives and weapons.
 
I'll take the medicine of today with the living of 50-100 years ago. The US today is a mess.
 
@LeathermanGX said:
100? Just 30 years ago no one blinked at carrying Knives in school. Teens had gun racks in their trucks.
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Yes Sir, I was one of them. and people usually didn't steal them off the rack in your truck. Im 50 now and would like to carry one on me at all times,lol
 
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