Ok all you EDC folks

I don't know, but the one with the long face bears a striking resemblance to the fellow in your avatar! :D
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
I don't know, but the one with the long face bears a striking resemblance to the fellow in your avatar! :D
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Yeah, kinda looks like my cousin Bret. Bret is a work moose, he tends to haul alot of heavy cargo, the occasional human, and some process salted pork. He lives in Washington State, and has a pretty long commute. I will say this, he's a hard working moose, but, he parties pretty hard. Last time we went out, we woke up in the back of a station wagon. Bret, boy he's a good'un.

Did you know T.Jefferson died on July 4th, 1826. Wild.

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Pic hinted at Jefferson being the MacGuyver of his day.


Pocketknife

Artist/Maker: England, probably Sheffield[1]

Created: 1800-1825
Origin/Purchase: England

Materials: steel, wood

Dimensions: 8.9 x 1.9 (3 1/2 x 3/4 in.)

Location: Monticello's Visitor Center

Provenance: Thomas Jefferson; by descent to Ellen and Joseph Coolidge; by descent to Harold Jefferson Coolidge; by acquisition to the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; by loan to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in 1986

Accession Number: 1986-15

Historical Notes: Jefferson recorded purchases of several knives in his Memorandum Books between 1767 and 1819, but it is not clear when this particular pocketknife with wooden sides and multiple blades was acquired. The handy device has twelve tools, including saw, file, drill, corkscrew, and knife blades. It is very similar to pocketknives illustrated in a patternbook of the predominant Sheffield cutlery manufacturers in 1816.[2]

This pocketknife and the others that Jefferson owned were no doubt often carried in his coat pocket. He recorded in his Memorandum Book in 1810, "Pd. Clasby [for] finding knife 1. [dollar]."[3]

FOOTNOTES

↑1 This article is based on Stein, Worlds, 431.
↑2 Joseph Smith, Explanation or Key, to the Various Manufactories of Sheffield, with Engravings of each Article ed. John S. Kebabia (Sheffield: J. Smith, 1816; reprint, South Burlington VT: Early American Industries Association, 1975), figs. 253-254.
↑3 Thomas Jefferson, September 13, 1810, in MB, 2:1260.
 
R.A.T. said:
Really makes you wonder how we ever became a country without tactical pants, doesn't it? I wonder if all cool operators shaved their heads back then and had a goatee?
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Well I'm not sure about the goatee, but a lot of them DID shave their heads, what with the convention of powdered wigs and all. :D

Jefferson's hair was his own, though. ;)
 
My vote would be Victorinox/Wenger. I believe those knives were known as "tinkerer's knives" back in those days. Which would have been fitting for TJ.
 
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thanks Jeff that was very interesting, although I bet lugging that clock around all day got a little tiring, I bet most of his notes was about how he hated it.. ;)

seriously, I doubt any of us here are near the ranks of Mr. Jefferson.. nice thought though:D
 
That is great T Jefferson carried a MT ! I wonder hom much that MT would go for on EBAY ?
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Well I'm not sure about the goatee, but a lot of them DID shave their heads, what with the convention of powdered wigs and all. :D

Jefferson's hair was his own, though. ;)
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you got it allllll mixed up. they shaved their faces to wear powdered goatee's. not too many depictions of said goatee's though. they wouldn't stay on the face long enough.
 
I bet he still didn't know why his knife had a hook on it anymore than people today know why certain SAKs have hooks. It is an eternal mystery of what is the hook's true purpose.
 
Limeyfellow said:
I bet he still didn't know why his knife had a hook on it anymore than people today know why certain SAKs have hooks. It is an eternal mystery of what is the hook's true purpose.
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The hook is for picking up hay bails or just bails in general.
 
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