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- May 10, 2009
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Hi! I'm new here. I'm not a huge knife guy but more of a militaria type collector. I was fortunate to pick up an old WW2 era Schrade Presto about a month ago. I always wanted one of those but figured the prices of these would outpace by willingness/ability to buy one. With a bit of luck, I found this one in a small antique store in Illinois and the price seemed reasonable so I bought it. I've include a picture here:
Once I got that, that rekindled my longtime desire to acquire a quality beefy automatic utility knife and am pleased with what I got. I ended up buying this benchmade 9050 knife and am very pleased with it:
All this rekindled knife interest reminded me of the utility type knives I had in the past. I recall the Barlow folding knife I had when I entered the service in '75. I didn't have it too long as it soon fell out of my pocket and now sits at the bottom of a lake at Ft Polk, La. No pictures of that one!
My next knife purchase was a rather large Buck folding knife in a leather sheath affixed to my belt. That was purchased in '76 at the PX but stolen by a "friend" soon after.
Then I purchased this Buck 501 pocket knife in '77 which I still have:
Also that same year, I purchased this used german army fixed blade knife while stationed with the 1st Division in Germany. It also came in handy in the field:
That's about all I got! Kim
Once I got that, that rekindled my longtime desire to acquire a quality beefy automatic utility knife and am pleased with what I got. I ended up buying this benchmade 9050 knife and am very pleased with it:
All this rekindled knife interest reminded me of the utility type knives I had in the past. I recall the Barlow folding knife I had when I entered the service in '75. I didn't have it too long as it soon fell out of my pocket and now sits at the bottom of a lake at Ft Polk, La. No pictures of that one!
My next knife purchase was a rather large Buck folding knife in a leather sheath affixed to my belt. That was purchased in '76 at the PX but stolen by a "friend" soon after.
Then I purchased this Buck 501 pocket knife in '77 which I still have:
Also that same year, I purchased this used german army fixed blade knife while stationed with the 1st Division in Germany. It also came in handy in the field:
That's about all I got! Kim
