Hey old man, empty your pockets

My father passed away back in 2005 and I guess that leaves me as the oldest man in my family, at age sixty.

My father carried a Case XX small stockman with bone handles.

This thread made me wonder how my son would answer this question? :eek::eek::D

He most likely would just answer a one of many many Case knives, with pretty red bone handles, since that is how it was, most of the time when he lived with me.

or - he might even attempt a very long list !!?? :confused::o

I usually toss in a newer bone handled Case knife as a stocking stuffer for him, every Christmas. ;)

I have recently noticed him totin' a deep canyon jigged chestnut bone Case XX Swayback Jack that I gave him. Not a bad choice son. ;):)
 
Oddly enough I believe I am the first person in my family to regularly carry a knife. I am trying to get my son interested, but he is being raised in a school system that considers anything sharp a weapon. Very sad.

What I found interesting is when I met Bill Howard at GEC I asked him what he carries, and he said he does not carry a knife. He said he handles them all day, so he never feels the need to.
 
dma1965 said:
Oddly enough I believe I am the first person in my family to regularly carry a knife. I am trying to get my son interested, but he is being raised in a school system that considers anything sharp a weapon. Very sad.

What I found interesting is when I met Bill Howard at GEC I asked him what he carries, and he said he does not carry a knife. He said he handles them all day, so he never feels the need to.
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I found that very interesting about Bill. :eek::)

I remember carrying a pocket knife in my pocket all the way through high school. I know other kids did too.

If anyone ever got intentionally cut, very rare as I recall, the focus was ALWAYS placed on the character of the person instead of the knife. ;)
 
WOW, that had to be kind of disappointing, Bill Howard doesn't carry a knife! That's like meeting Johnny Cash and he's wearing a seersucker suit.....Yikes!:eek:
dma1965 said:
Oddly enough I believe I am the first person in my family to regularly carry a knife. I am trying to get my son interested, but he is being raised in a school system that considers anything sharp a weapon. Very sad.

What I found interesting is when I met Bill Howard at GEC I asked him what he carries, and he said he does not carry a knife. He said he handles them all day, so he never feels the need to.
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When I was a kid back in the 50s and 60s, my dad always carried a medium 2-blade jackknife, as did my two younger brothers; I carried a "scout knife" back in the day. And I think one of my grandpas carried a bigger knife, probably a trapper, if I had to guess. But we never talked knives back then; they were just tools you carried every day. I had no idea that there were different brands and patterns of knives (and only became aware of the infinite variety that's out there since I found this forum in January:eek:). So I can't provide details about these knives from my youth, other than they were probably the cheapest model available. (I wasn't a very knowledgeable consumer as a kid; I was well aware of the differences among makes and models of cars, trucks, tractors, and other farm equipment, but I suspect I thought almost every other product was basically generic!)

My dad is now 84, and I was surprised to learn that he doesn't carry a knife in his pocket anymore. Of course, he's not farming now, but he's still pretty active: moved into a new condo and did a lot of remodeling himself, has a trailer by the lake where he spends a lot of time in the summer, travels to visit kids and grandkids, does woodworking. But no knife!

- GT
 
How did this thread ever make it to page 2?! My father never carries a knife unless he's in the shed and then he carries a retractable razor knife. My grandpa however used to carry a beautiful old brass bolster lockback with ebony(?) scales for his special tasks and an old two dollar knife which he used to cut his food with because he didn't care if it hit the plate. He passed on recently, I still miss him and occasionally carry his knife which gets light duty tasks.
 
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5K Qs said:
My dad is now 84, and I was surprised to learn that he doesn't carry a knife in his pocket anymore. Of course, he's not farming now, but he's still pretty active: moved into a new condo and did a lot of remodeling himself, has a trailer by the lake where he spends a lot of time in the summer, travels to visit kids and grandkids, does woodworking. But no knife!

- GT
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I started carrying knives at 13 and really got into them. Then, sometime in 10th grade, I stopped carrying a knife except in the early mornings to cut the straps on the newspapers for my paper route. After I quit the route, I stopped carrying a knife regularly again until I was 25. My interests had changed drastically during that time. So I can understand someone just stopping carrying a pocketknife, even though I always carry now. Yes, I knew how useful they were, but I just didn't feel like carrying during that period.

Jim
 
Here is another old thread on Grandpa knives or Old man knives.......:)

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Here is my grandpa with a bull named Crusty and the last knife he carried.

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James Y said:
I started carrying knives at 13 and really got into them. Then, sometime in 10th grade, I stopped carrying a knife except in the early mornings to cut the straps on the newspapers for my paper route. After I quit the route, I stopped carrying a knife regularly again until I was 25. My interests had changed drastically during that time. So I can understand someone just stopping carrying a pocketknife, even though I always carry now. Yes, I knew how useful they were, but I just didn't feel like carrying during that period.

Jim
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Jim, I know what you mean, since my own history is similar to yours. My first knife was a Colonial Forest-Master (very similar to Al Dodge's grandfather's knife shown above) that I got when I was about 9, around 1960. I carried, used, and occasionally abused it every day on my Dad's dairy farm until I went off to college in 1969. And then, since I didn't have an obvious daily need to use a knife, I basically stopped carrying a knife for 45 years! This past January, I cleaned up an old knife my wife found and decided to "recapture my youth" and start carrying knives again. Little did I know I'd "go off the deep end"! :D

Even with my own knife history, it still shocked me that my Dad stopped toting a knife; it was just part of my image of him.

- GT
 
I can only speak from what I remember of my grandpa when he lived with us when his health was failing. then he only carried a 2-inch hammer brand knife, his wallet, ray ban aviators, and a pocketful of wintergreen lifesavers. Before he retired, he was groundskeeper at a catholic school and before that he worked at a Boeing factory. After his passing his sister gave me a knife from his youth which was a 3-inch pen knife from schrade walden. blades are worn down and one of the handles are popped up but it is still a beaut!
My dad (who is only 44) I actually got back into carrying a knife on him because we were always doing carpentry and landscaping and he would always need my knife. he got some gerber one hander knife that he likes cause it is easy to open and good to beat up. I wanted to get him into traditionals so we traded a case jack knife of mine for a leatherman squirt of his, and he keeps that knife in his office desk to have a less threatening knife to use in the workplace. my dad likes simple yet useful items. he always has a four colored bic pen and 3x5 notecards, his wallet and key pouch, often his knife (though he doesn't have the same urge as me to always have one [or three] on his person), a jewelers bag for advil and his chapstick. He is an office worker but before he was a landscaper and tree cutter so he has a good blend of when he needs for indoor and outdoor life.
 
Wow, I've really enjoyed reading all these stories, good stuff fellas :thumbup:

Never had the privilege of meeting either of my grandfathers. My dad's father died when he was 16 and all I really know (other than all the tools we have and other stories about them on the old farm) is that he had a handkerchief on him at all times, a small unknown pocket knife and a stern attitude. On my mothers side, her father died a year before I was born but everybody has told me the man was an avid outdoorsman and a hell of a good guy. I have lots of his old collectibles, mostly pocket knives and lighters, some of which were gifted to him from either Transwestern Pipeline or the railroad company he worked for whose name escapes me right now. I know these he carried everyday and used some heavily due to their condition!

My own father caries a Uncle Henry medium stockman with stag scales (apologies for not knowing the model) that he's had for years, in fact it's all I remember him using, and in his front right hip pocket a leather money clip which is now maybe 10 years old since the previous one disintegrated and the Uncle Henry. Left front pocket is always keys, rear left pocket a wallet and up until 7 years ago a can of snuff in the right rear pocket but now a hanky in the fall and winter. I show him the knives I've purchased and is usually disinterested haha the type of guy who buy one thing and if it ain't broken don't fix it! Oh, except for the multitudes of drills, hammers, complete sets of wrenches, so on and so forth. He did like my Canal Street trapper with chestnut scales but that is off limits because it's one of my favorites.

Side note, does anybody know the reasoning behind having a wallet in your left rear pocket for a right handed individual? I've done it for years because that's how daddy did it. Is it like having your watch on your left hand?
 
Bobloblaw89 said:
Side note, does anybody know the reasoning behind having a wallet in your left rear pocket for a right handed individual? I've done it for years because that's how daddy did it. Is it like having your watch on your left hand?
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Good question. I've never thought about it before, but I'm left handed and my wallet's always been in my right rear pocket. I don't know why, that's just where I've always put it.
 
Cory Hess said:
Good question. I've never thought about it before, but I'm left handed and my wallet's always been in my right rear pocket. I don't know why, that's just where I've always put it.
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I worked a job for a couple of years with a 90-minute, one-way commute. The driver's seat on my Accord sloped to the left, and with the thickness of my wallet in my right pocket my back fell out of alignment. It was quite painful for months. I figured it out and started carrying the wallet in my left rear pocket and it evened things out perfectly. I still carry that way 10 years later.
 
All my buddies who are right handed carry their wallets on the right side but my pops and his dad always had it on the left. I figured it was just one of those old ways men have, like slurping hot coffee to get more flavor and cool it some. I have known some old men to carry their pocket knives in the right rear pocket of their jeans also, maybe that's the case?
 
My Dad has carried a Buck Creek Copperhead for 30+ years. For my entire childhood it was a cracked ice scaled knife. He carries it everyday/everywhere. Mom hated the holes it wore in his jeans. That knife eventually developed a serious blade wobble and was retired. The replacement copperhead he's carried for the past decade is stag.
 
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