Knives that you gave your dad

Ooops, sorry should have read the entire post.
 
I guess I’m lucky my dad enjoys the hobby as much as I do, even tho he can’t justify spending a lot on knives we still talk about them, compare them etc. I’ve given him almost all the knives he owns, and most he picked out himself out of my collection, a few were gifts.
Over the past couple years.... ZT 0801bw, 0909, 0452cf (his favorite knife too), 0566cf, a 0350ts and a couple kershaws.
 
Pops is still around (thank god), but I have given him a Buck Vantage, a 110, and a Rat 1 folder. He has used them all at one time or another. He doesn’t baby’s them either. To him they are tools. I remember one time he took my high dollar BM dealer exclusive 710 and started prying and scraping something. My heart dropped, but no harm was done. He didn’t notice my panic, didn’t phase him a bit.
 
I have given my dad a leatherman multitool, a Protech Doru with mosaic button and wood handle on his 65th, and a Byrd Meadowlark 2.
 
My dad was anything but a knife knut , thought I was crazy to keep buying knives. He always carried one but to him it was a tool to get a job done same as his pipe wrenches and channel locks. Yeah Pop was a plumber and a holy terror on pocket knives. The upside to this was that I always knew what to get him at gift giving time. One of those gifts happened to be a Schrade 33ot. Pop passed two years ago this month and when we were cleaning out his place I found what was left of that knife. Clip blade snapped off bout a 1/4" from the tang pen filed, yes filed ,never saw Pop use a stone ,to a slim toothpick. He had that knife in his jewelry box with his prized possessions. Gues he kept it cause it came from me
 
Ps, I sent Pops knife to Glenn bad who graciously put a new main blade in it. I asked him to leave the skinny pen the way Pop left. That knife means the world to me.
Sorry to ramble on.
I miss my dad every day and carrying his knife helps me feel close to him
 
Never gave my Dad a knife or seriously considered it. He already had a few pocket knives that he liked and depended on. I was not a knife nut when Dad was still active. Knives were tools and I always carried a pocket knife. Dad taught me by example. Dad died and his knives generally were pretty beat up and none of my brothers or sisters wanted any of them. In hindsight, I wish I had kept at least one of them, but generally speaking I don't associate a lot of feelings relative to a knife my Dad had.
 
22-rimfire said:
Never gave my Dad a knife or seriously considered it. He already had a few pocket knives that he liked and depended on. I was not a knife nut when Dad was still active. Knives were tools and I always carried a pocket knife. Dad taught me by example. Dad died and his knives generally were pretty beat up and none of my brothers or sisters wanted any of them. In hindsight, I wish I had kept at least one of them, but generally speaking I don't associate a lot of feelings relative to a knife my Dad had.
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I'm not super emotionally involved in that knife, however on my wedding day the maid of honor handed me my dad's compass. It was not a precision or expensive or unique one, but it was his and when I saw it I knew exactly what it meant. I broke down and cried like a baby. Thankfully that was outside the church well before the pictures were taken and guests showed up.
 
My Dad was very frugal with his money. He had to be with 7 kids. So, after I got out of college and making more money. had I purchased a knife for him as a gift and it was expensive, he probably would have just thanked me and never used it. Then I would hear the comments from my brothers and sisters about the "expensive knife" and what Dad really thought about it.:)
 
22-rimfire said:
My Dad was very frugal with his money. He had to be with 7 kids. So, after I got out of college and making more money. had I purchased a knife for him as a gift and it was expensive, he probably would have just thanked me and never used it. Then I would hear the comments from my brothers and sisters about the "expensive knife" and what Dad really thought about it.:)
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One thing I've learned over the years is to be thankful. The gifter doesn't need to know how unpractical you think it is, or how little you'll use it, or how foolish of a purchase you think it is. They just need to know that you're grateful for thinking about them.
Sometimes when I do something for my wife she'll say "you don't have to do that."
I know I don't have to do that, but I want to do that, and all I want from her is a "thank you."
So few people know that truth.
 
My dad is not a knife guy so I doubt I'll ever give him one. If I did, it would be a cheap SAK since he would probably use the other tools more, if at all. He's not from a knife friendly area, and he always prefers real tools.
 
I gifted my dad a Benchmade 556 w/ cerakote cpm m4. Very nice to see he carries it every day.
 
I don't have a touching story to add. My father hated that I carried a knife ever since I snuck off to the Katz drug store and bought a $1.49 Sabre jack knife. I recently learned more about him and I think that it may have been a phobia brought on by his own actions as a young man. Perhaps it would be a touching story, but not for the right reasons, and not appropriate here.
 
Brawny said:
One thing I've learned over the years is to be thankful. The gifter doesn't need to know how unpractical you think it is, or how little you'll use it, or how foolish of a purchase you think it is. They just need to know that you're grateful for thinking about them.
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Being thankful is important. I do think the gifter should choose something appropriate if using it is the intention. But other than that, it is their knife and they can do whatever they please with it. Gifts generally give the gifter pleasure (especially a well thought out gift).... as they say "The gift of giving."
 
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"One thing I've learned over the years is to be thankful. The gifter doesn't need to know how unpractical you think it is, or how little you'll use it, or how foolish of a purchase you think it is. They just need to know that you're grateful for thinking about them.
Sometimes when I do something for my wife she'll say "you don't have to do that."
I know I don't have to do that, but I want to do that, and all I want from her is a "thank you."
So few people know that truth."
 
221pirate said:
Brawny....trying to contact you, leave me a message

"One thing I've learned over the years is to be thankful. The gifter doesn't need to know how unpractical you think it is, or how little you'll use it, or how foolish of a purchase you think it is. They just need to know that you're grateful for thinking about them.
Sometimes when I do something for my wife she'll say "you don't have to do that."
I know I don't have to do that, but I want to do that, and all I want from her is a "thank you."
So few people know that truth."
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I left a message on your profile page (I think)
If not it's stephenbspiars @ gmaildotcom
I have not paid for p.m. privileges yet :(
 
22-rimfire said:
Being thankful is important. I do think the gifter should choose something appropriate if using it is the intention. But other than that, it is their knife and they can do whatever they please with it. Gifts generally give the gifter pleasure (especially a well thought out gift).... as they say "The gift of giving."
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Absolutely! I love my mother to death, but she is not a very good Gift Giver. I mean she loves giving, but it's typically something that she's interested in instead of putting a lot of thought into what the recipient is interested in
 
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