My grandad's knife and some thoughts

lutejones · Mar 25, 2012

Hi everybody,
Today I went to visit my grandparent, and came out some knife talk.
My grandad is a very calm guy, He's 90 now and has a proud feeling you can see of a live well lived, I asked him about the pocket knife I remember when I was young.
After a while "diving" in the drawers It showed up.

As you can see It's even smaller than the peanut, and that made me think a lot.
If a countryman used to work with his hands needs no more than this little pen knife, what is with all the modern "mega heavy duty" cutting stuff?

I remember him trimming a cork to fit in the wine barrels at the bar they owned when they move to the city or sharpening a crayon for me and sister to draw.
It brought me some good memories of childhood
Hope not be boring, I wanted to share some thoughts
See you, Mateo

Will Power · Mar 25, 2012

Choice knife, choice words too. Thanks for posting them.

You are lucky to have your Grand around still, both of mine were dead before I was born.

Humppa · Mar 25, 2012

Hi Mateo!

Thank you for the pics, the story and your thoughts.

I really like reading such words.

Thanks again!

Kind regards
Andi

SRBraniac · Mar 25, 2012

Thanks for sharing this with us.... Neat story, and nice knife!

I tend to think that our grandad's were able to do much, much more just with slippies like that, a nailclip and peace of wire then we can with modern knives, multitools and all gadgets we carry arround... LOL

LKJW · Mar 25, 2012

Nice pics and story. Thanks.

vic2367 · Mar 25, 2012

SRBraniac said:
Thanks for sharing this with us.... Neat story, and nice knife!

I tend to think that our grandad's were able to do much, much more just with slippies like that, a nailclip and peace of wire then we can with modern knives, multitools and all gadgets we carry arround... LOL

totally agree,,

thanks for sharing !!

jackknife · Mar 25, 2012

lutejones said:
As you can see It's even smaller than the peanut, and that made me think a lot.
If a countryman used to work with his hands needs no more than this little pen knife, what is with all the modern "mega heavy duty" cutting stuff?
See you, Mateo

That's a very good question, Mateo!

Carl.

Gevonovich · Mar 26, 2012

Thanks for sharing Mateo. Got me thinking about my "Pappa" (grandpa )