knife to relax with

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So lets say you have the day off and your just going to stay in the House and relax, I talking about just loafing, no work what so ever. What traditional knife do you have in your pocket ? Thats the kind of day I have today and tend to carry my Old Imperial That I got from my Grandfather. Just a dandy little knife.

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This one would be my choice.
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an old joseph rodgers knife.love it.just feels good in your hand.
 
Even just goofing off at home with no plans I can't relax if I'm carrying only one knife, so..............multiple knives are the norm for me. Today, we're just sticking around the house (might go to town for lunch) and watching the snow fall and I'll be carrying these two as I do most days.

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When just loafing around the house, I might carry any number on a given day ... many only briefly just to see what I want to EDC over the coming days.

... then I put the F. Dick back in my pocket and carry on

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Usually whatever I put in my pocket in the morning. I like to coonfinger and chicken eye them once in awhile if I'm just kickin' back. This one makes a good candidate...
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I keep a medium stockman in the pocket of my house shorts when relaxing, either an old Schrade Walden, or a German Hornet.

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So lets say you have the day off and your just going to stay in the House and relax, I talking about just loafing, no work what so ever. What traditional knife do you have in your pocket ?
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Likely a smaller knife with nice covers.

Something like my
GEC #68 White Owl in 440C and Elk
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or

Case Swayback Jack in CV and chestnut bone.
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This one makes a good candidate...
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Gary, I'm really glad that you have that Cramer ... maybe even more happy that I don't.
A knife like that would cause me to ignore all others forever.
I'm not just saying that. :eek::D:)
It's beautiful.:thumbup::thumbup:
 
I have knives stashed all around, so I don't carry a knife if I'm just lounging around the house.
 
Gary, I'm really glad that you have that Cramer ... maybe even more happy that I don't.
A knife like that would cause me to ignore all others forever.
I'm not just saying that. :eek::D:)
It's beautiful.:thumbup::thumbup:

Thanks. That made me smile. It jockeys for first place as my favorite.
 
Sometime I'd like to see the others that can compete for your "first place". -James-
 
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Honestly, I know not these days of which you speak. I've heard legend of the day of loafing. One day maybe. Even on my designated "off" days, I have to keep my hands busy. That being the case, it would probably still be the same whittler I've been carrying this last month. Blades for work, and blades for fun, all in one nice little package! :D
 
Perfect for horsing around, tinkering, whittling, beer drinking, coon-fingering.

 
I’m fairly new here. Haven’t posted in the Traditionals Forum yet. Just ran across it in the New Posts List.
Good topic though so couldn’t help posting.

I may be in trouble from the git go. Are these Traditionals ?
The little SAK has a light so I can go get something without turning on all the lights in the shop etc.
The black SAK , an Executive, has the orange peeler for breakfast.
Is it considered a Traditional ? It is modern but my mentor carried one forty years ago, I bought one because I liked it. I lost it (a red one) many years ago and only replaced it with this black one just this year. I don’t know why I waited so long to get another one. It reminds me of him and our adventures together.

The Case Trapper is about as traditional as I carry (other than my Sunfish reproduction) but this case is new and isn’t CV (no patina . . . I’m embarrassed to say . . . it doesn’t come in CV with the stag if that makes any sense . . . Case-Trapper-Stag-In CV . . . seems like the most natural thing in the world to me). Anyway the longer blades are good for making a quick sandwich or cutting up an apple etc.

I couldn’t help including the CS Hold Out III. I am pretty obsessed with it and it is pretty much always on me some wheres. So light and thin.

I rotate or carry all those when at home. Sick huh ? Mid summer it was mostly just medium stockmans. Cutting lots of tomatoes to work on my patinas . . . but that’s another photo . . .

To try to redeem my self in the eyes of the keepers of The Traditionals I will say my all time wanna have knife is a real, old time, used by a workman back in the day, Sunfish. Maybe in 2016 I will get serious and find one. I looked on e-bay etc., this year but didn't see anything I liked and bought an inexpensive reproduction so I could see what that big flat blade was like in hand. That is SUCH a cool knife. Can't wait to get the real thing.

anyway . . .

 
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A nice selection there, Wow, but ix-Nay on the odern-May ife-Knay.
 
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