Most Sentimental Knife?

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edgybat

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I've carried a pocket knife since I was kid and when I don't have one in my pocket I feel like something is missing. I've had a Buck 703 since high school and carried it for most of my young adult life. My father and I bought it in a small knife shop in Tennessee while we were their for vacation. It was my first "real" knife. He bought it for me. I had carried other pocket knives up until then, but none had the effect on me like it did. I carried it all the time. I liked the feel of it in my pocket and knowing that I always had a tool that could help me in most situations.

Fast forward to now and my pocket knife is an Inkosi. While I don't carry that Buck anymore, I still feel like it's a part of me. So is the Inkosi. For me, that old Buck and my Inkosi are my most sentimental knives.

What's yours? Why?
 
Small sebenza bocote.

It was my first nice knife, and I bought because I quit cigarettes.
 
Well, it was my great great grandfathers Case with the 25cent tang stamp, that CASE LOST!!!
 
edgybat said:
I've carried a pocket knife since I was kid and when I don't have one in my pocket I feel like something is missing. I've had a Buck 703 since high school and carried it for most of my young adult life. My father and I bought it in a small knife shop in Tennessee while we were their for vacation. It was my first "real" knife. He bought it for me. I had carried other pocket knives up until then, but none had the effect on me like it did. I carried it all the time. I liked the feel of it in my pocket and knowing that I always had a tool that could help me in most situations.

Fast forward to now and my pocket knife is an Inkosi. While I don't carry that Buck anymore, I still feel like it's a part of me. So is the Inkosi. For me, that old Buck and my Inkosi are my most sentimental knives.

What's yours? Why?
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I've got an old pocket knife - thing my dad carried while in the army. its got a folding blade, spoon, and fork. Ita freaking sweet :) Obviously sentimental because it was my dads companion while in the service and it was passed down to me as a child
 
I still have the Loewen Hippekniep (sodbuster) that I bought in Amsterdam in 1970 when I was backpacking around Europe. When sleeping in hostels and under haystacks, a guy really ought to have a blade to slice his bread and cheese and sausage. So it would either be that one or else the rainbow Leek my son gave me for my birthday a couple of years ago.
 


This was my fathers knife that was either given to him or he bought ( no one is quite sure ) when he was 21 , he died a couple of years ago aged 82 , it is my most prised Possession in the world .

Ken
 
My brother gave me a Spyderco Endura stainless handle full serrated knife before flight school. I carried that knife, clipped and tied into my flightsuit thigh pocket for ten years as a belt cutter in case the helicopter ended up in the water. It was a comforting weight on my leg.
 
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This was my fathers knife that was either given to him or he bought ( no one is quite sure ) when he was 21 , he died a couple of years ago aged 82 , it is my most prised Possession in the world .

Ken
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That's a beautiful knife dude!!
 
stonproject said:
I've got an old pocket knife - thing my dad carried while in the army. its got a folding blade, spoon, and fork. Ita freaking sweet :) Obviously sentimental because it was my dads companion while in the service and it was passed down to me as a child
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That's so cool!!!
 
When my sons found out I got into blades they did some research and ordered me a new BM 710-1401....with their initials engraved on the blade....too cool!
Love it so much I sent it to Josh for an awesome edge and Steve Ketchen has it now for some slammin scales!
Joe
 
Mine is a Japanese-made Swiss Army-style knife my Mother gave me in 1956. Found it in a shop in NYC's Chinatown.
 
Schrade Schrimshaw Trout knife.....

Given to me by my Dad for my 7th birthday, he passed away 2 weeks later. My mother would have never approved so he gave it to me in secret.... I never told anyone about it or used it much for anything after he passed..... it became and still is my most prized possession. I still can't handle it without getting sentimental....and I'm almost 50 now.

 
^^ The best one yet.
Excellent story and thanks for posting.
Gorgeous blade too!
Joe
 
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Old SAK Classic I have carried for 40 years. Still sharp, good snap, this one will never go.
 
Spyderco Delica II Stainless given to me by a friend who was taken suddenly and way too soon.
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My grandfather recently gave me this knife for my bithday. He has had it ever since he was a kid.
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Although I still have the Schrade-Walden 108ot I carried in high school, my most sentimental would be a 5" convex ground J. Martinni leuku my parents gave me in the '60's. While overseas they purchased it in his shop in Finland at the time and the blade is signed and engraved with a silly reindeer/sleigh drawing by him with what looks like one of those old vibrating stippling "engraving" tools. Typical Scandi sheath that has held up very well.

Long story short, it went everywhere adventurous or non-airline with me for decades, saved my butt many times and sold me on leukus for the outdoors forever. It's semi-retired in a drawer now. It's pitted some, but even with all the abuse I've thrown at it, I've maintained it minimally over the years and it's rust free and still polishes up. The original bevel is long gone and it's about to the point where it needs to be profiled yet again, but it still takes a mean edge and works like the day I got it.
 
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My great-grandfathers knife from my father's, mother's side. RIP. Having never met him and receiving this knife from my dad it serves as a reminder to where I come from and an appreciation for those who came before me. This is the knife that started it all for me. Now I collect knives to pass on to my future generations to help keep my memory alive when Im long gone.

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Mine is a 3.5" Hinderer. I had picked both up a 3" and 3.5" version some time back. I kept the 3" for myself before selling it off, and gifted the 3.5" to my Dad. He passed away from cancer December 2014. Clearing out some things my mom and I came across it. That one is going to stay with me for a long time.
 
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