Old man, a two-blader and a stone ...

mnblade

mnblade

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... haven't we heard this story before? Don't know about you, but I never get tired of stories about old guys and their knives, whether from jackknife or elsewhere.

Here is a good one I stumbled across online that's datelined Winter Haven, Florida. (See the photo of his knife and stone here.)

Ok, so the story's not about a knife per se, but it mentions an old Florida cracker's knife and stone and has a great photo to boot. The Miles H. Plowden III in the story seems like he'd fit in around here, eh? :)

Anyone know what kind of knife that is?
 
Moved to "General Knife Discussion".
 
I don't know what knife that is, but my Grandpa has a very similar knife (his is a Case). He only sharpens his knife when it gets very dull, this is to prevent sharpening away the blade over time (good old great depression + dutch mentality). He gave me his Buck 112 when I was 12 and also gave me a Smith's Arkansas stone (not real Arkansas of course) and a can of 3-in-1 for Christmas that year. I still remember my first lesson in sharpening on the floor of his living room that Christmas afternoon. I never could have guessed what that 112 and imitation sharpening stone would have manifested into. I still love to sharpen by hand, and have two shards from that original stone that I carry while hiking. They are worn very smooth, but do a fine job of putting a mirror finish on an edge while sitting around a campfire. I am by no means an old man, but I plan on holding onto not only my knives but also my stones, because what good is a knife if you can't keep it sharp?
 
....an old Florida cracker's knife and stone and has a great photo to boot.
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Folks from Georgia are known as "Crackers".

Folks from Florida are known as "New Yorkers". :D
 
I've always envied those old timers who weren't affected by the knife knut disease. They got by a whole lifetime, often times doing more outdoor things than we ever did, with just one single pocket knife. And a simple one at that, one you have to pull the blade open by hand, no locks on blades that can take enough torgue to hand a Hummer on, no fancy highly hyped steel.

Imagine that!
 
All of the old time Floridians are proudly called "Crackers" there are still places in Florida where people speak with southern accents and say "ya'll and yes ma'am and yes sir. There is a Florida other then Disney Land and Miami.
 
Northern Florida = southern Georgia. Yep, de's all 'Crackers' down deah an proud of it! Dat's right, I be from Souf Ca'lina an when youse in a race to keep up wit Georgia you ain't in much of a race.
 
I've got my grandad's Robeson just like that, he moved to Florida from South Carolina after WW1 and married my grandma, a "cracker". The term cracker was used to describe the Florida and south Georgia cowboys who used bullwhips in the scrub and palmettos to herd the cattle by the crack of the whip.
 
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