If you had a time machine.

A time machine you say?
Im sorry its not a knife but it would have to be....
Excalibur.
 
I would set it to 1920, head for Fruitport Michigan, and visit Mr. Scagel.
I would love to see his shop and pick up a Bowie or 2.
 
Buzzbait said:
If I'm flying back in time, I'll be doing it in my Tardis.
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What's that outside Sheffield Town Hall?! :eek: :eek:



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The nearest thing I have to a time machine is Stan Shaw! :D :thumbup:
 
I'd go back to 1950, five years before I was born and one year before my Granddad Baker passed away. I would visit him in his hardware store; I'd love to have met him and I would have loved to walk around the store and take it all in. My Dad worked in the store early each day before going to school - he refilled nail bins, restocked the walnut barrel, put out paint cans, etc. Dad has drawn me a diagram of how the store was laid out - no interior pictures exist. I know where the gun counter was and where the knife display case was, how they were displayed. I would pick a pocketknife from the knife case - any one that struck my fancy, just to have one. OH

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Okay Gentlemen, second try! ;)

It's one of the earliest Boy Scout Knife, made by the New York Knife Company in Walden. The one with the sheepfoot and pen blade.

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Me? I'd go back to 1914 and urge the cutlers in Sheffield and Solingen not to even think about taking part in the insane and unnecessary Great War which was about to ruin their countries and continent, over nothing.:eek: I'd like to be able to get a fine single-spring Serp Penknife or a Norfolk type knife in Stag and rich bone, to find unusual patterns that perhaps never 'took on' and just vanished. Above all else, I'd like to see what peoples' general attitude to pocket-knives was? Did they regard them as we do laptops? Useful but commonplace and thus disposable, not very interesting?

Then I could visit my grandparents.....they could tell me a thing or two about my parents....:D:thumbup:
 
PatrickP08 said:
Okay Gentlemen, second try! ;)

It's one of the earliest Boy Scout Knife, made by the New York Knife Company in Walden. The one with the sheepfoot and pen blade.

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:eek: Wow! I really like that knife. That looks like it would be a great one to carry.
 
I like this thread. I am currently reading a book about Lewis and Clark. Knives are mentioned a lot. Between them using them, gifting them to the Indians and trading them. I would definitely get one of those. Plus I would get to see what this great country looked like in its purest state.

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abbydaddy said:
:eek: Wow! I really like that knife. That looks like it would be a great one to carry.
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Yes Sir!

I'm oftenly thinking, how big or small this pattern was? Maybe like a #15? Perhaps larger and beefier?

All these questions... You see, we knifenuts REALLY need a time machine! Lol
 
PatrickP08 said:
Yes Sir!

I'm oftenly thinking, how big or small this pattern was? Maybe like a #15? Perhaps larger and beefier?

All these questions... You see, we knifenuts REALLY need a time machine! Lol
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Nice choice :thumbup: I think NYKCo's "boy scout" knife was 3 1/2" closed like the GEC #15. Old catalogs are like a low budget time machine. ;)



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To be honest I would like to go back to 1984 and send a week with both my Grandpa's my Great Grandmothers and my favorite Uncle who the Cancer got in 86 and died May 87.
 
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