Yes it was, I was very surprised. Umnumzaan! Man thats awesome. You have a keeper on your hands!
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Yes it was, I was very surprised. Umnumzaan! Man thats awesome. You have a keeper on your hands!
)I would love to see a picture of that if you would be willing.
1~ Cold Steel Kobun
2~ My grandfathers pipe knife (Unknown maker)
3~ Kabar USMC. I purchased this used for 30$ at a gun shop, shopping with a boss.
4~ Kabar Magnum Tanto First knife I purchased with a paycheck from a boss.
5~ CRKT M1614M Got from a friend.
6~ CRKT Ed Halligand KISS tanto someone traded me for a air rifle I no longer wanted
7~ Vintage Browning 8014F Lockback from the 70's
8~Buck 119
9~ Leatherman Wave First Gen I got this from a period in my life that was turbulent, and It reminds me of that in a positive way
2~ My grandfathers pipe knife (Unknown maker)
3~ Kabar USMC. I purchased this used for 30$ at a gun shop, shopping with a boss.
4~ Kabar Magnum Tanto First knife I purchased with a paycheck from a boss.
5~ CRKT M1614M Got from a friend.
6~ CRKT Ed Halligand KISS tanto someone traded me for a air rifle I no longer wanted
7~ Vintage Browning 8014F Lockback from the 70's
8~Buck 119
9~ Leatherman Wave First Gen I got this from a period in my life that was turbulent, and It reminds me of that in a positive way
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I have a couple.
Pretty much anything store bought is a user, destined to be lost, stolen, confiscated, or buried with the body. Just kidding on the last one.
I don't have money for anything custom unless I make it. And if I made one, I can make a better one. So not that category either.
Stuff I'll never sell is special due to conditions of acquiring them, or sentimental association of who I acquired them from. For example:
- My Mother carried a small, Imperial spear-point friction folder with a stainless sheet metal handle in her purse. I remember, on a cross-country road trip in our '69 Econoline PopTop Camper, eating pears cut in slices by that knife. It's actually quite a nice knife: slim, sharp, useful shape.
- My Dad always carried a boyscout knife in his pocket. He liked that it had multiple tools, he liked to tinker. Nothing special, but I have it. He'd have gone ape over a Leatherman if it had come out 20 years earlier.
- A really beat down Scandi from my Grandfather. He built a cabin in Western Maryland on Deep Creek Lake, which was my favorite place to be in the summer as a kid, and this was in the old cabin tossed in a bucket with some old construction tools. It had paint spatters all over, the stacked leather handle was mildewed, and the blade was rusty and had been sharpened inexpertly on the flat edge of a grinding wheel. But with clean-up and care, I love it deeply.
- Some knives from my travels. My favorite one is from Mongolia, and is certainly not antique. Antique men's knives frequently came as big and little sets which included chopsticks.... sort of Silk-Road era Hobo knives. I wanted one, but those brought big bucks.
- And of course, the first knife I ever made. Goes without saying.
Pretty much anything store bought is a user, destined to be lost, stolen, confiscated, or buried with the body. Just kidding on the last one.
I don't have money for anything custom unless I make it. And if I made one, I can make a better one. So not that category either.
Stuff I'll never sell is special due to conditions of acquiring them, or sentimental association of who I acquired them from. For example:
- My Mother carried a small, Imperial spear-point friction folder with a stainless sheet metal handle in her purse. I remember, on a cross-country road trip in our '69 Econoline PopTop Camper, eating pears cut in slices by that knife. It's actually quite a nice knife: slim, sharp, useful shape.
- My Dad always carried a boyscout knife in his pocket. He liked that it had multiple tools, he liked to tinker. Nothing special, but I have it. He'd have gone ape over a Leatherman if it had come out 20 years earlier.
- A really beat down Scandi from my Grandfather. He built a cabin in Western Maryland on Deep Creek Lake, which was my favorite place to be in the summer as a kid, and this was in the old cabin tossed in a bucket with some old construction tools. It had paint spatters all over, the stacked leather handle was mildewed, and the blade was rusty and had been sharpened inexpertly on the flat edge of a grinding wheel. But with clean-up and care, I love it deeply.
- Some knives from my travels. My favorite one is from Mongolia, and is certainly not antique. Antique men's knives frequently came as big and little sets which included chopsticks.... sort of Silk-Road era Hobo knives. I wanted one, but those brought big bucks.
- And of course, the first knife I ever made. Goes without saying.
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A pair of NIB Spyderco orange G10 CTS-XHP Paramilitary 2's that I have buried in my safe. One of the best knife investments I ever, if ever, made.
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My blue tenacious and my old timer. The tenacious fits my hand perfectly and it is also blue......how could you not like that? My old timer is sentimental to me....
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I have a case xx trapper that belonged to my grandfather, a case xx 11031sh that was the first really good knife I bought with money I worked for, a 2 dot, 1978 when I was 14 years old, a Buck 110 custom with BG42 and blue scales that has my daughter's birthday engraved on the blade. It was a birthday gift from my wonderful wife. Those are deeply sentimental and could not be replaced. Unless God has other plans, they will be mine until I push up daisies.
I seldom get rid of knives. But I usually just give away those I buy that don't appeal to me in one way or another after I've used them for a while. I've never sold a knife but I have several friends who have benefited from my cast offs.
It's unlikely I will ever get rid of the Puma White Hunter I bought new in 1971 that I used to chop down a sapling and fashion a crude crutch to get me out of the woods following an injury while backpacking in my younger days. I'll hold onto the original Endura Clipit I bought in 1990 and carried for a decade. I also won't ever let go of the recently rediscovered Schrade Old Timer that belonged to my dad--I remember it being a big knife when I was a kid but it's actually tiny. And I also plan on keeping several knives I've bought in more recent years--an Al Mar SERE 2000, Lakota Hawk, original Cold Steel Tanto, ZT 0550 and 0200 and the Spyderco Gayle Bradley, Dragonfly G10, PM2 and several other Spyderco models I dearly love.
It's unlikely I will ever get rid of the Puma White Hunter I bought new in 1971 that I used to chop down a sapling and fashion a crude crutch to get me out of the woods following an injury while backpacking in my younger days. I'll hold onto the original Endura Clipit I bought in 1990 and carried for a decade. I also won't ever let go of the recently rediscovered Schrade Old Timer that belonged to my dad--I remember it being a big knife when I was a kid but it's actually tiny. And I also plan on keeping several knives I've bought in more recent years--an Al Mar SERE 2000, Lakota Hawk, original Cold Steel Tanto, ZT 0550 and 0200 and the Spyderco Gayle Bradley, Dragonfly G10, PM2 and several other Spyderco models I dearly love.
WW2 era Ka-Bar given to me by a friend.
Gerber BMF I carried during Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
Police Model Spyderco given to me by my cousin after graduating the Police Academy.
Desert Shield/Desert Storm commemorative traditional folder given to me by a friend.
Bravo 1.
Scrap Yard SOD.
Gerber BMF I carried during Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
Police Model Spyderco given to me by my cousin after graduating the Police Academy.
Desert Shield/Desert Storm commemorative traditional folder given to me by a friend.
Bravo 1.
Scrap Yard SOD.
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These two....
After losing 99.9% of my knife collection in a fire, this was my only SAK left and finding it in my truck tool box helped me heal a bit and decide to start collecting SAKs again. It's my first ALOX bought in '83.
My Dad gave me his old 70's Buck 301 after the fire to help restart my traditional collection.
After losing 99.9% of my knife collection in a fire, this was my only SAK left and finding it in my truck tool box helped me heal a bit and decide to start collecting SAKs again. It's my first ALOX bought in '83.
My Dad gave me his old 70's Buck 301 after the fire to help restart my traditional collection.