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foilist, at the school that i used to go my science teacher had a leatherman he always wore on his hip. when we were getting ready for the end of the year trip to six flags he told us to make sure that we left anything resembling sharp at home. he said that they didn't even like him bringing his leatherman in with him and rolled his eyes.

interesting that the kids at your school had knives with no problem. i live in a pretty rural area and know that knives are a huge no-no in schools.
 
siguy said:
foilist, at the school that i used to go my science teacher had a leatherman he always wore on his hip. when we were getting ready for the end of the year trip to six flags he told us to make sure that we left anything resembling sharp at home. he said that they didn't even like him bringing his leatherman in with him and rolled his eyes.

interesting that the kids at your school had knives with no problem. i live in a pretty rural area and know that knives are a huge no-no in schools.
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I see your'e also in CT. The school where knives weren't a big deal was in northern Windham county. That school has changed rapidly in the past couple of years, so I bet kids with knives wouldn't be as tolerated now. The school where my peanut freaked out a coworker in the break room was in an affluent suburb of Hartford; a very different atmosphere.

Last week, I started a new job at a Catholic girls' school, and I noticed that the computer tech guy had a Leatherman Wave on his hip. This place might be all right!:thumbup:
 
I'm glad I live in Texas. I travel to the D.C. area on an infrequent basis. I love having a government that won't trust me with a pocketknife with a 3" blade in the Capitol of my own country, but allows me to carry a fully-automatic AKM when I'm over here. Yeah, Blues, I know...this ain't the place for political comment, but I get tired of hearing that "I don't want to offend the sheeple" garbage. Sorry about the rant!

Ron
 
Ron, I understand how you feel and you're preaching to the choir (speaking for myself).

But, glad you understand why we need to keep on topic over here. :thumbup:
 
I'm a hugh fan of "Jackknife's" stories. He takes me back to a time when I was growing up in Tidewater, Virginia and makes me remember my grandfather who was a welder on the C&O railroad. Everyday I realize, more and more, just how much Granddaddy taught me about the world.

He was a "no-nonsense" kind of man and always had a Schrade penknife in his pocket. He used it for everything: scraping ashes from his pipe: pealing an apple; cleaning a squirrel that he was going to use in his delicious Brunswick Stew. It didn't matter what, that penknife was his do-all tool. As I write this, I can see that knife and wish that I had it as a reminder of him... but it disappeared a long time ago.

I like Jackknife's stories because he writes a lot about how our friends and family are always with us...even after they've passed on. Granddaddy was always making me think and reconsider things...look at something from the other side of the river, so to speak. These days, I've been thinking a lot about Jackknife's stories about paring back, doing things simply -- going with only one knife as our fathers and grandfathers did.

I'll admit it -- I'm a knife head. I have quite a number of production slipjoints and a couple of custom slipjoints that I find so beautiful that I hesitate to them pull them out and use them in the day to day world. But these days I'm a long way from the world that Granddaddy knew: I work in an office in NYC in a world he would never even think of setting foot in and, if he did, he'd have a hard time understanding why I love it so much.

Today I carried a new, Victorinox Black Alox Classic (2 1/4" keychain knife). It weighs nothing at all and would probably last a lifetime if I took care of it the way Granddaddy took care of his knife. During the course of the day, it easily handled all of the tasks I require from a knife during the Monday through Friday workweek. I think that unless we use our knives as tools at work (cutting drywall or carpet, etc.) maybe all we really need is a small, simple keychain/penknife for day to day use and a good solid utility, jackknife or stockman for weekends and for work around the house.

But this doesn't mean that all of those slipjoints sitting in my cigar box aren't important. Maybe they aren't essential tools in the way that Granddaddy's penknife was but they are essential to me. Everytime I pick one up, it reminds me of Granddaddy and keeps his world alive in my heart.

I guess that sometimes, a tool does a lot more than it was designed to do.

Thanks for listening,

Rudd
 
I work in kind of an odd office. Almost everybody is former military or law enforcement. Quite a few folks carry knives, but most of them have the old (or new) large single blade lockback they carried on duty.

We have one retired sailor who thinks anything that has a blade over 3" is a weapon, and asks me "what do you need that for, that's a weapon, isn't it, it's almost 4" long" (that was just my case slimline trapper). But even to him, a penknife or something is perfectly normal to have around. Got to cut stuff.

Of course, today I freaked him out completely because I had a 5.5" bladed sheath knife on my desk that I was sharpening during my lunch break. :D Only use that once in a while. If I use it at work, it's cutting a cake for somebody's birthday or a potluck.

Most of the time, for most stuff, the simple penknife is more than adequate.
 
Rudd, Do you recall what model Schrade your grandfather carried. Was it a typical 3" two blade (opposite end) pen? Lots of the old timers I know carried this type. ft
 
Hey Fishtale,

I don't remember exactly what model Schrade he carried but it was small; he kept it in the small, "5th" pocket of his jeans or, on Sunday, in the watch pocket of his vest. Thanks for asking.

Rudd
 
mnblade said:
Huh? My limited research on Kennedy (meaning, I looked him up on wikipedia) shows that he's been in office since November 1962. And, as I understand it (again, from wiki's switchblade entry), they were banned by the U.S. Switchblade Act of 1958.
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Bingo.

Senator Simon Kefauver (Don't know if I spelled that right) was the man who got the evil switchblade banned. Guess he took James Dean too seriously.
 
Rudd Simmons said:
Hey Fishtale,

I don't remember exactly what model Schrade he carried but it was small; he kept it in the small, "5th" pocket of his jeans or, on Sunday, in the watch pocket of his vest. Thanks for asking.

Rudd
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I've seen an army of grandads with the Old Timer minuteman model. Two blade, one backspring, slim and watch pocket size.
 
I have a Minuteman but don't carry it much. The Buck 309 is my goto pen knife. But I really want to try the Case Eisenhower...not sure of the number, but it looks like a great knife.
 
fishtale said:
But I really want to try the Case Eisenhower...not sure of the number, but it looks like a great knife.
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The Eisenhower is an 063 pattern. Great little knives, I have a couple of them and really like them.
 
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