I'm so old that.....

[Lavan]

.....I can remember when CUTTING was more important than OPENING a knife.

 

[Rat Finkenstein]

so. . . how does one cut things with a closed knife?

 

[Jeff Clark]

I remember when Ogg first cut himself on an obsidian chip and cried, "Eureka!"

Folding knives, heck we didn't even have sheaths since we hadn't invented leather yet.
Why we didn't even have handles.

 

[Artfully Martial]

so. . . how does one cut things with a closed knife?

You have to sharpen the pocket clip ;-)

 

[PhilL]

I remember when Ogg first cut himself on an obsidian chip and cried, "Eureka!"

I never knew that Bob Ogg worked with obsidian.
I do know that he was a prolific folder maker and quite a character.

Here's one of Bob's folders.

Here's a bowie made by his stepson Max Burnett.

 

[DGG]

We didn't cut anything, we tore it apart with our bare hands and ate it raw!!!

 

[Danzz]

I remember when before knives were invented and all you had was a slightly pointy broken stick- if you were lucky. Making one object into multiple pieces (the word "cutting" wasn't around either) involved a lot of poking with a stick, or sitting around waiting for the object to naturally crack/decay into the right shape.

 

[glockman99]

...I remember the days before the pocket cilp, when most everyone carried a Buck 110 in a black leather belt-pouch.

 

[Lavan]

I remember when before knives were invented and all you had was a slightly pointy broken stick- if you were lucky. Making one object into multiple pieces (the word "cutting" wasn't around either) involved a lot of poking with a stick, or sitting around waiting for the object to naturally crack/decay into the right shape.

Umh, you using wrong stick! Gettum NEW XP-20 crucible HICKORY stick. Available now frum Moop's Sharp Sticks. Contact Moop at www.smokepuff.urg Him backLOGGED though.

 

[STR]

I can remember when this knife was new.

A Hibbard/Spencer/Bartlett two blade modified (over time) to a modern day 'pipe cleaner'.

 

[Vorpal Blade]

You think you are old? Ha. I am so old I remember when blades rusted before your very eyes! I am so old, I remember when SAKs were often ridiculed as a newfangled solution to a nonexistent problem. (Some of you may remember). And yes Lavan, I too remember when cutting was actually important!
I am so old, I sometimes forget to remember if I forgot it or not.
.........Ron

 

[.45acp]

I remember when before knives were invented and all you had was a slightly pointy broken stick- if you were lucky. Making one object into multiple pieces (the word "cutting" wasn't around either) involved a lot of poking with a stick, or sitting around waiting for the object to naturally crack/decay into the right shape.

Wow, you had sharp sticks....Another young'un


Steve

 

[oldnbusted]

I'm busted????

 

[Sal Glesser]

I remember when autos were legal.

Hey Edgy, sounds like "senior moments" to me.

sal

 

[accumulator3]

I'm so old that:

I bought my first knife at age 6, a Case, and I still have it.
You could buy autos(Schrades) in 5&10's for 2 or 3 bucks (in NY no less).

 

[underaged!]

We didn't cut anything, we tore it apart with our bare hands and ate it raw!!!

What is "it"? :barf:

 

[gajinoz]

What is "it"? :barf:

That's the problem with you kiddies, you have no idea what it is.

 

[Grover_Cephas]

Here's one of Bob [Ogg's] folders.

Holy crap, that's a fantastic knife. I think I'm in love. I'm guessin' this is one of those things I'd have to sell my car for, right?