Old school carry

Grew up in the early 1970s with this Kamp-King (like every other kid). Late 70s/early 80s I used this Camillus 66 Stockman. Late 80s, Uncle Sam gave me the multi-tool on the right...another Camillus product. All three aren't in that great of shape anymore, but nice memories nonetheless!


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I don't know if I qualify as an "older guy" (I'm 53), but when I was a kid back in the 70's I carried a Camillus TL-29, with that big screw driver, and one of those flat, four-pointed Craftsman keychain screw drivers.

The TL-29 was my first "big" knife. My father was a civilian worker at the North Island Navy base here in San Diego, and apparently TL-29's were commonplace. He would often bring one home after using it at work all day, forget to take it back, grab another at work, and then eventually bring that one home. I collected several throughout my childhood. Eventually I started selling them to kids at school. I still have one of them that I use in my garage when I need a sharp, curved edge that I don't care about ruining (below).

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killgar said:
I don't know if I qualify as an "older guy" (I'm 53), but when I was a kid back in the 70's I carried a Calillus TL-29, with that big screw driver, and one of those flat, four-pointed Craftsman keychain screw drivers.

The TL-29 was my first "big" knife. My father was a civilian worker at the North Island Navy base here in San Diego, and apparently TL-29's were commonplace. He would often bring one home after using it at work all day, forget to take it back, grab another at work, and then eventually bring that one home. I collected several throughout my childhood. Eventually I started selling them to kids at school. I still have one of them that I use in my garage when I need a sharp, curved edge that I don't care about ruining (below).

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I'm about to turn 52, pretty sure we're on the "old" end of guys...
 
I’m 45. As a kid I carried my Vic tinker I got when I was 10, a panther lockback like a buck 110, an imperial camp knife and a couple other shell handle imperials I got at a hardware store i my town, and a no-name Japanese butterfly knive I got from a kid in high school for five bucks. Later in high school and when I worked for a cabinetmaker, I carried a 110 and an LB7, a craftsman stockman, and a spyderco delica with the integral clip. In college I carried a 110 or a benchmade butterfly knife. After dabbling with some tactical folders in the early 2000s, I settled back on a 110 and a sak. They do what I need a knife to do.
 
Buck 110 on the left, modified stockman or jumbo stockman in the right front pocket.

Small visegrips in left Carhartt leg pocket, 11-in-1 screwdriver and small crescent wrench in right, pencil and Sharpie in outside leg pocket.

I’ve got some multi tools, some I even like, but they tend to live in places not in my pockets.

For a while I put a multi tool in my work toolbox, til it occurred to me that it should live someplace I might not have the toolbox…

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I grew up in a fairly rural area, in a family that raised cattle, and spent many of our weekends at hunting camps. If I'm being honest, all I remember the old timers carrying were Buck and Case for the most part. Us kids had our SAK's (and Rambo knives for that matter and Bucks too), but I don't recall the grown-ups ever using SAK's. If they needed tools they got them from a bag or box in the truck. They processed fire wood with axes and typically used gasoline as a fire starter. Not romantic, but that's what it was. There were a few guys that did actually have an obvious passion for the outdoors, and I gravitated towards them and learned alot form them, but truthfully they were the exception rather than the rule. That was my experience at least (I'm 46 BTW).
 
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