As my name was mentioned earlier (thanks jackknife) I thought I would share an old pocket worn stag pen knife. As jackknife suggests, it is impossible to replicate a 100+ years of careful use in a new knife. I'm glad that someome didn't keep this one locked in a drawer.
That knife is exactly what I'm talkin about!
Somewhere, a long time ago, someone valued and loved that knife. Loved it enough to carry it every day, and ( God forbid) USE IT!
Look at the blades compared to the kicks. It was sharpened many times by it's owner, and most likely made a zillion cuts in something. You look at a knife like that, and can only wonder where its been, because it so obviously went everyplace its owner went. There's no broken or bent blades, no big chips in the edges, telling us that the person who carried this knife for maybe a lifetime, was carefull with it. Was it carried in the Boar war? Perhaps pick out some pieces of Bully Beef from a tin in WW1? Who knows, and that has an appeal. But theres just no way on God's green earth that look can be factory faked.
By comparison, that same knife if it had been put away wrapped up in a soft cloth, and never carried, you would have new knife with no charater at all. It had never been valued by someone. It's just a cold piece of metal and stag.
But like I said before, I could be ready for the rubber knife squad.
By the way s-k, I love that knife! I would carry that knife today and use it proudly. Carefull, but proudly.
