Old and New

[T. Erdelyi]

I was looking at my accumulation of knives when I started reminiscing about the knives I carried 20 years ago when I first started carring an EDC except it wasn't called that back then, it was just a pocket, or sheath knife. No pocket clips, thumb holes, or studs, just a nail nick,(for those new to the hobbie that was the part on the blade, either stamped or ground into the blade that allowed you to use a finger nail to open the blade), (how many of you remember nail nicks with striker groves for lighting strike anywhere matches?), (how many of you remember strike anywhere matches for that fact?)

Anyway the point I was getting at was 20 or so years ago my EDC's were a Schrade folding Hunter, and a Schrade Trapper in a belt sheath,
and a Roebson Sure Edge Pen Knife with Red Pickbone handles, no locks, and no onehand gimmicks, if I needed a one hand knife I ilegally carried an Italian Picklock Switchblade a fried brought back from a vacation in Europe.

What did you carry when you started carrying a knife, and how does it differ, or compare to what you carry today?

 

[Captain Ron]

WE didn't have the choices that we have today mine was the Buck 110 was the best choice and when the Spyderco police came out it was a real eye opener and thats what I carried for years.

 

[glockman99]

The first pocket knife that I remember carrying on a regular basis (about 34 years ago) was my Camillus Boy Scout "camp knife"...That was even back when "kids" were allowed to carry a pocket knife to school (as least where I grew up), as long as there was no "trouble" or "showing-off" with the knife.

Now, I sometimes wonder what my old Scoutmaster would think about my current EDC folders; Spyderco serrated (Massad) Ayoob, Spyderco PE Chinook, Spyderco FRN PE Delica, and (sometimes) even my monsterous Cold Steel Vaquero Grande...(I'm sure he's looking down from Heaven wondering about the Vaquero Grande, [and maybe thinking that it's a pretty good little folding-saw ], and also thinking that the blade of my "Ayoob" isn't "quite right", and won't open "all the way"..).

 

[Ed T]

Mine was an Uncle Henry Stockman. They used to be (and i beleive still are) guarenteed against loss. They cam with a paper that you mailed in in the event you lost your knife. They would send a replacement. THAT was customer service!

 

[BurkStar]

If I remember right it was a Camillus Boy Scout knife, and then for many years it was a multitude of Bucks, mostly 110's, including my first production custom a stag/damascus 110. That and a multitude of home made filet knives (I lived in Daytona Fl and spent all of my time fishing).