I just found out my EDC is 100 years old, would you keep usin' it.

I also vote for using it. Plus, I would have to harass the guys around me who have new knives that are dull or far less useful that I had to help them out with a 100yr old knife, but that's just me :-)
 
It's already broken in and used, so why not continue using it?
(That's not broken, that's re-purposed! :) )
 
There is no way I would not use it. As other have alluded, think of the great stories that knife could tell if it could talk. You should add to those stories.
 
It was made to be used. Use it in good health and then pass it on to a loved one who can continue to use it for the next hundred years.
 
Why wouldn't you carry it? Frankly, in it's condition it doesn't have any monetary value so isn't worth anything from an investment standpoint. You've been using it so why quit?
 
cnas122 said:
Why wouldn't you carry it? Frankly, in it's condition it doesn't have any monetary value so isn't worth anything from an investment standpoint. You've been using it so why quit?
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I never considered monetary value, just the fact that it's that old but I guess that's testament to how well it was made and it was made to be used. :)
 
I would display that knife next to my 1st and some other old mobile phones (now cell phones) that I have on display in my living room area. I have an old steel box with a small handle used to sharpen double sided shaving razor blades (convex) back in the days way prior the Bic revolution. That knife would look cool next to some of the old stuff I have on display, unless you don't have another knife that is. It is still a knife and it can be used, but art comes in all sizes and forms and if it fits with your house decorum then why not. A piece of "americana" that is a 100 yrs old is worth showing to people, even non knife nuts like us, will appreciate it's longevity and the craftsmanship that was prevalent in those olden American days. But like I said, if you are short of box cutters, then keep using it, that is what it is made for, but I wouldn't.
 
Oh yeah, it makes it all the more special ti carry on using it, if it was in a very delicate state-it would be a different matter...but look at that lovely knife!!...I'd be proud to carry that my friend.
 
+ 1 on using it (of course!)
U will probably find urself doing a bit more maintenance to this particular knife, not because it needs it, just for respect to the elderly I guess...and I also guess that somehow this knife will become attached to ur pocket more than u think it will...u won't hear its stories, but sure u will feel them with u as u carry it, and eventually add some more stories urself.
Fausto :cool:
 
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The bottom one is roughly 70 - 80 years old and I love to carry it :) it has one of the most unforgiving edges on any knife i've ever owned!!! I had to re-peen the main blade end to remove blade wobble but shes good now.

Carry and enjoy, thats the name of the game...I carry anything shy of a rare old model that has never seen the stone.
 
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