Hey old man, empty your pockets

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We always post what we edc...... Now here is a chance to post what the older people you know carry. I asked my dad to empty his pockets today and after hearing " what the hell for ? ", i explained that i just wanted to know what knife he carried.


He was carrying a black handled buck creek copperhead (it had a lot of patina and was sharp as hell )in his right front pocket and a wood handled frontier lockback in his left front pocket next to a 2 shot derringer..... I showed him the rough rider peanut and the spyderco endura i was carrying..... He looked at the spyderco and mumbled cheap plastic...... Anyway, tell us what your father, grandfather, uncle or the older people you know carry.

I will post pics later when i figure this new comnputer out
 
My 82 year old dad carries:

- a Queen Canoe (D2 steel) that I gave him a couple of years ago. The scale is cracked, and it has a well-earned serious patina. He'll use that thing to scrape grass of the mower blade or anything he can think of. Love it. Amazingly, he seems to get by just fine without a $300 titanium tactical folder in his pocket.

- hankerchief - I've never understood why someone would want to carry their boogers in their pocket, but I guess this goes way back before the invention of Kleenex.

- old flip type cell phone on belt, in front, about 1:00 position. No internet, no texting, no nothing. It rings and he answers.

- big wad of well-worn keys and wallet

- 2 hearing aids, but only about once every 2 weeks when my mother forces him

Thats pretty much it. Nice idea for a thread.

Edit: the Queen Canoe looks like this one, except much better because he uses the heck out it.

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Great thread. :thumbup:

Two of my uncles carry Buck 303s, they aren't into knives, but they really like how the 303 tackles it's work.

My other uncle carries a Zippo stainless executive knife, made by Case. That or a little Buck folder.

My grandfather likes to carry a few different knives throughout the year, ranging from a Case Sodbuster Jr, to a Buck 704. Mostly a light, single blade knife for him.

My boss carries a rams horn Smith & Wesson trapper, I think it may be made in Germany???

My best friend is more than a couple years older than me, so I'll name his EDC as well. It's a Case 87 stockman, he carries it without fail.
 
I'm one of the older people (born in 1943) so I don't need to find one to ask.

My Grandpa was born in 1873 and my Dad was born in 1912. This knife was carried by my Grandpa in the Spanish American War (1898) and when my Grandpa died in 1952, my Dad carried it until he died in 1999. I don't carry it but keep it in my knife box.

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I'm a Grandpa and this is pretty much what I have in my pockets everyday -- taken for a thread here Monday a week ago (19 Sep). The knives change quite a bit but the rest stays the same.

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My 80 yr. old dad carries a well worn Imerial made(I think) Frontier small Stockman with black sawcut delrin handles if I remember right. I gave him an FRN Dragonfly one time and he didn't care for it. My beautiful niece now carries it all over UT(TN) campus!
 
My father is not an old man in his book(late 50's). He has his medicine pouch (filled with a few locks of his horse's mane and tail, an Apaloosa that died almost ten years ago; a rosary and some other assorted items), his money clip, his well worn wallet (need to get him one for Christmas), and a Winchester stockman that I picked up for him (Chinese, he uses it for everything).

It is neat to see the knives I gave my uncles years ago (sailors knives), my uncle took his out of his suit pocket to use at my cousin's wedding. Makes ya feel good to see them used.
 
My dad carries a Frost one hander for his junk knife and a Boker saddlehorn for his food cutting and anything that he needs a sharp blade for. This is a great idea for a thread, looking forward to more of your posts.
 
My dad (soon to be 81) has carried a Vic SAK everyday, since at least the late '70s I think. It's the only knife we ever relied upon, in our backbacking trips in New Mexico and Colorado. He has another one in his toolbox in the garage, for 'rougher' and/or 'dirtier' jobs. ;)

He also had a Japanese-made 'Sabre' yellow-handled fishing knife for a long time too. Used that one when we were fishing for trout, also in NM/CO, over roughly the same time span. Unfortunately, he momentarily laid it down one day, next to the riverbank when cleaning some fish. Forgot to pick it up before he left, and never got it back. At that time (early '90s), he and my mom were spending his retirement up in Colorado, and doing a lot of day-hiking, aside from fishing. He was pretty happy with the hiking, and I don't know that he fished much after that anyway. I don't think he ever replaced the knife that got lost.

Never got a chance to really know either of my granddads, they both died when I was very young. No idea what they carried or used.
 
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My Dad currently carries an Opinel 09 in carbon steel that always is kept razor sharp and my Grandad on my moms side carries a rough rider trapper (He said he's tired of carrying and losing expensive knives) and my other Grandad carries a Boker Copperhead of some sort. All in all regardless of knives I'm very thankfull that I still have all of my grandparents.
 
My dad will turn 80 in the spring and for the longest time he also carried a Sabre single blade barehead trapper pattern. Its got a nice patined carbon blade & well worn bone scales. I've long repossed that ;) and replaced with a yellow case trapper for him.
He carried that for only a short while, he didnt really like the hard pull and small nail nick so I got him an Alox Cadet and he loves the lightweight and sharpness :D Of course he carries his booger rag (LOL) a nail clipper and his wallet along with the change holder and keys.

This all goes in his jacket pocket of course, Dad does like anything in his pockets, except his booger rag of course.
 
I don't believe my dad ever carried a pocket knife. He was a lawyer who wore a suit every day except Saturday. He had knives he used when doing yard work or hunting, but he just didn't carry a folder. My grandpa on my mom's side was a farmer and a carpenter, also a pipe smoker, and he always carried a senator pattern with stainless handles, like this Schrade below. Not sure if it was the same exact one, but very similar if not. The main blade was sharpened down until it looked more like a Wharncliffe than a spear/pen.

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I'm one of the older people (born in 1943) so I don't need to find one to ask.

My Grandpa was born in 1873 and my Dad was born in 1912. This knife was carried by my Grandpa in the Spanish American War (1898) . . .
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ED my grandpa (mom's dad) was born in 1876 and was also in the Spanish American war. When I knew him he carried a pearl handled pen knife. I mostly remember him taking it out to open his xmas and birthday presents. Bob
 
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My dad likes knives, but interestingly enough doesn't carry one everyday. He has maybe 7 Uncle Henry, Case, Old Timer, and Buck knives, but only will drop one in his pocket when working around the house or something of that nature. My grandpa always carries a small beat up lockback, with plastic red handles, made by Bear and Sons, he said that a salesman gave it to him (lol). He also carries a pack of Winstons and a really old zippo made sometime before, or maybe during, the Vietnam War.
 
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ED my grandpa (mom's dad) was born in 1876 and was also in the Spanish American war. When I knew him he carried a pearl handled pen knife. I mostly remember him taking it out to open his xmas and birthday presents. Bob
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My Grandpa broke that blade off on purpose and used it to clean the bowl of his pipe. When closed, he used the bolster on that end of the knife to tamp down the tobacco in the bowl of his pipe.
 
My day, in his '70s, carried the same Old Timer medium three blade stockman (340OT) for at least three decades. Talk about pocket worn, this knife was a constant companion and well cared for.

One of his super powers is the ability to sharpen a knife that is razor sharp in minutes. But years of use (not abuse) and sharpening had honed the blades down pretty far.

So on a recent visit, I surprised him with an Old Timer, same model, same era as his original, slightly used. More than anything I'd given him as a gift, he seemed to really appreciate this "new" Old Timer.
 
My father passed away about 5 years ago, He would have been 63 last June. I mostly remember him carrying a spyderco worker that his brother gave to him or an old red alox vic soilder that was a gift from his father. He also carried a nylon CIA dagger in his briefcase. The last knife he carried was a little lock back made by Coast. It was about 2" closed. He raved about how light weight it was and how it was exactly the size he needed. It now resides in my knife box along with the knives he has given me and some that were my grandfathers.
 
My 67 year old cowboy/ retired ag-banker is more of gear nut than I am. He always has a Leatherman wave, Moore Maker trapper and some form of nice Al Mar folder as well as a Blackberry that you can't keep him off of. Seriously, he is worse than a teenager with his damn phone.
My Granddad died a few years ago but no one knew how old he was. He was one of the last men in the U.S. cavalry then a M.P. during WWII. When he died he packed a Buck 110, some form of two blade trapper, an original Leatherman and a handful of 22 mag. bullets for his Ruger single six he always had on his hip.

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My father carried this one:

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My dad's a college professor. He carries the very small and slim AG Russell lockback I gave him a while ago. Other that that he's just got his keys and wallet.
My grandfather, on the other hand, was a carpenter. The knife in his pocket when he died in the 90s was this smallish Camillus pattern with a clip main blade, pen blade, and an awl. The jigging is worn down significantly; a small crack on one side was industriously repaired with glue. The tip of the clip blade is broken off and twisted from use as an impromptu screwdriver. The blades have lost almost all snap but are FEROCIOUSLY sharp (shown here after a mineral oil bath.)
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It's pretty obvious that this knife was used and abused heavily in his daily workday, and was probably the last of a long line of similar knives he bought, used, and lost or replaced throughout his lifetime. I like to keep it around.
I actually have one of his father's knives bouncing around here somewhere, a 4-blade equal-end pattern. I'll try to find it.
 
"Hey, old man, empty your pockets!" sounds like something you'd hear in Philly. :eek:

My father carried a KaBar barlow in the 60s, and a Case trapper in the 70s and 80s. Starting in the 90s, his collection grew as I began to give him more pocket knives. Now, he usually carries a Case barlow I gave to him. :)

My grandfather had an old "fish knife" with yellow handles. It was low quality, the kind with crimped-on bolsters/handles and enamel for the coloring. He was an immigrant with no money, so he made that knife last for decades, and used it for everything (he even had stories of using it to defend himself in rough parts of Baltimore).
 
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