I had a friend I worked with for many years who was from Vietnam, and a practicing Budist. He told me that life is a great wheel, and in time everything comes around again. That changes are constant, and like a wheel, we go around with them. Over the past year, problems with both arthritis and a tendon problem have caused my taste in knives to go back around like that great wheel Tam was telling me about. I still love the cute little peanuts, but now with age and hand problems I find I need bigger and easier to grasp things. Like fatter pens for writing, instead of my very slim old Cross I've had for over 40 years. I have to make sure the pharmacy gives me plain old caps on my meds, because if he puts on child proof caps, I'm done for. I've made the discovey that getting older means making sure the stuff you have is a little bigger and easier to handle. Like the glove principle. If it can be operated, manipulated, or used while a normal person is wearing gloves, then older hands can deal with it. Break open shotguns, revolvers, instead of pumps and autos.
And knives.
My peanut craze was the late 90's to early 2000's. But back in the 80's, I was on a sodbuster kick for quite a while. Yellow in particular. I have to admit, the soddies did everthing I needed to do with a knife. I had Case, Eye-Brand, Boker, Klass, and even a no name from Chechoslavakia. Not a bad knife, even had some nice walnut looking wood handles.
Due to the sodbuster having a good size grip for older hands, I have been drifting back toward that direction. My friends and family have been great, and there has been pocket knives dropped off for me to use/try/loan, till my December 14th date with the sawbones.
One old friend gave me a nice little lightly used Buck lockblade, called a squire I think. Sort of wood handles that look stabilized or something. It's a nice knife, but a far cry from old timey looking knives like I've always been identified with. But a fellow forumite from these very forums made a very generous gift to me of a nice old Henkels sodbuster with rosewood looking scales. But not just any kind of sodbuster, but a lockblade soddie. That means a much lighter pull to open the knife. Over the past few weeks I've been putting it through trials, and it's working out darn well as a cripple old farts knife. A little big, but comfortable in hand. Very comfortable in hand. The kind of knife that can be operated with gloves on so an old fart can handle it. About the size and bulk of a number 8 or 9 Opinel.
Kamagong.
He's the generous member here who made a very grand gift of a very nice knife. I am blown away by the people on this forum who do things like this. Kamagong sent me a knife that to my knowledge is not made anymore, but fits the bill for just what I need in my present prediciment.
Thank you kamagong, your knife has been serving well.
I think kamagong and the people on this forum are what Louis L'Amore meant when he said; "They'll do to ride the trails west with."
And knives.
My peanut craze was the late 90's to early 2000's. But back in the 80's, I was on a sodbuster kick for quite a while. Yellow in particular. I have to admit, the soddies did everthing I needed to do with a knife. I had Case, Eye-Brand, Boker, Klass, and even a no name from Chechoslavakia. Not a bad knife, even had some nice walnut looking wood handles.
Due to the sodbuster having a good size grip for older hands, I have been drifting back toward that direction. My friends and family have been great, and there has been pocket knives dropped off for me to use/try/loan, till my December 14th date with the sawbones.
One old friend gave me a nice little lightly used Buck lockblade, called a squire I think. Sort of wood handles that look stabilized or something. It's a nice knife, but a far cry from old timey looking knives like I've always been identified with. But a fellow forumite from these very forums made a very generous gift to me of a nice old Henkels sodbuster with rosewood looking scales. But not just any kind of sodbuster, but a lockblade soddie. That means a much lighter pull to open the knife. Over the past few weeks I've been putting it through trials, and it's working out darn well as a cripple old farts knife. A little big, but comfortable in hand. Very comfortable in hand. The kind of knife that can be operated with gloves on so an old fart can handle it. About the size and bulk of a number 8 or 9 Opinel.
Kamagong.
He's the generous member here who made a very grand gift of a very nice knife. I am blown away by the people on this forum who do things like this. Kamagong sent me a knife that to my knowledge is not made anymore, but fits the bill for just what I need in my present prediciment.
Thank you kamagong, your knife has been serving well.
I think kamagong and the people on this forum are what Louis L'Amore meant when he said; "They'll do to ride the trails west with."
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