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Hi all,
Ive been lurking around here for a while now. Ive read a lot, and learned a little, and wanted to share a bit. Thanks to everyone who makes this place possible, for the knowledge, stories, pictures, and hosts. You really have made this a unique and friendly corner of the internet.
Ive always liked the idea of being prepared for stuff, and so Ive always seen knives as great tools to carry around. Ive made a long journey, full circle it seems, like many of you, back around to traditional knives.
I still remember my dad teaching me about knives with his old brown pen knife. Hes a traveling salesman, so as long as I can remember hes been gone Monday through Friday just about each week. It made the little time I got to spend with him that much more valuable, and now that Im old enough to understand, I appreciate even more the sacrifices he made to provide for his family.
I joined cubscouts with some of the neighborhood kids when I was that age, and I remember he got me a cheap knock-off SAK when I got my whittling badge. I have a lot of fond memories of cub scouts, and when we got old enough for eagles, dad wanted to help the scout master. Eventually, work got in the way, and he had to step down, and I never really wanted to go back without him, but even still, Ive always thought the ideas and the culture behind the scouts was honorable.
I lost that old junk sak a long time ago, and Ive moved around a bit from knife to knife as I got older, looking for the best minimalist utility I can find in them. I went from the Schrade folder my mom bought me before college to the multi-tool phase, to the tacti-cool when I was convinced I could use a 3 inch blade to kung-fu any and all imaginary attackers, all the way back home to traditionals. Slipjoints just seem to have an intrinsic value as well as extrinsic; they have character, they have history, they have a masculine sentimentality that seems lost in our culture.
Im still young, still a twenty something, and now Im a young pastor out in the middle of nowhere. I dont know where I came up with the idea, but every time I do a funeral, I buy a knife to remember those who have fallen asleep. Its a token, to remember who they were, and to count the rings on the tree as I age so to speak. I dont really have a rhyme or reason to it, only a budget, but below are my traditonals: the buck 302 I bought when I was first toeing the waters of the familiar pool of slipjoints, the old green schrade mom bought me, a broken arrow thats a bit of an oddity, a schrade peanut, and a rough rider scout. Each of them means something to me. When I use each one, I remember, even if its just while I open an envelope.
hi res
The problem is Im a minimalist at heart, and have been carrying a vic rancher lately. I love the two blades, and just as much so, the punch and the bottle-opener I pry stuff with. I have a hard time carrying two bigger knives (bigger than say, the peanut or the 302 with my sak), and would love to carry each of these knives more, so what do you guys use to pry and poke?
Thanks all, for everything you contribute to this forum.
Harrison
Ive been lurking around here for a while now. Ive read a lot, and learned a little, and wanted to share a bit. Thanks to everyone who makes this place possible, for the knowledge, stories, pictures, and hosts. You really have made this a unique and friendly corner of the internet.
Ive always liked the idea of being prepared for stuff, and so Ive always seen knives as great tools to carry around. Ive made a long journey, full circle it seems, like many of you, back around to traditional knives.
I still remember my dad teaching me about knives with his old brown pen knife. Hes a traveling salesman, so as long as I can remember hes been gone Monday through Friday just about each week. It made the little time I got to spend with him that much more valuable, and now that Im old enough to understand, I appreciate even more the sacrifices he made to provide for his family.
I joined cubscouts with some of the neighborhood kids when I was that age, and I remember he got me a cheap knock-off SAK when I got my whittling badge. I have a lot of fond memories of cub scouts, and when we got old enough for eagles, dad wanted to help the scout master. Eventually, work got in the way, and he had to step down, and I never really wanted to go back without him, but even still, Ive always thought the ideas and the culture behind the scouts was honorable.
I lost that old junk sak a long time ago, and Ive moved around a bit from knife to knife as I got older, looking for the best minimalist utility I can find in them. I went from the Schrade folder my mom bought me before college to the multi-tool phase, to the tacti-cool when I was convinced I could use a 3 inch blade to kung-fu any and all imaginary attackers, all the way back home to traditionals. Slipjoints just seem to have an intrinsic value as well as extrinsic; they have character, they have history, they have a masculine sentimentality that seems lost in our culture.
Im still young, still a twenty something, and now Im a young pastor out in the middle of nowhere. I dont know where I came up with the idea, but every time I do a funeral, I buy a knife to remember those who have fallen asleep. Its a token, to remember who they were, and to count the rings on the tree as I age so to speak. I dont really have a rhyme or reason to it, only a budget, but below are my traditonals: the buck 302 I bought when I was first toeing the waters of the familiar pool of slipjoints, the old green schrade mom bought me, a broken arrow thats a bit of an oddity, a schrade peanut, and a rough rider scout. Each of them means something to me. When I use each one, I remember, even if its just while I open an envelope.
hi res
The problem is Im a minimalist at heart, and have been carrying a vic rancher lately. I love the two blades, and just as much so, the punch and the bottle-opener I pry stuff with. I have a hard time carrying two bigger knives (bigger than say, the peanut or the 302 with my sak), and would love to carry each of these knives more, so what do you guys use to pry and poke?
Thanks all, for everything you contribute to this forum.
Harrison
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