Old school carry

[Pete1977]

The younger people at work think I’m old but at 54 I don’t think so. I carried a stockman and a Victorinox Small Tinker. As a kid working on a dairy farm I had an Uncle Henry 127 and a pair of pliers on my belt. Bob, the owner, told me don’t ever come to work without those pliers. They did come in handy but most tractors and farm trucks always had other tools in a tool box.

I know my one Grandad carried a 4 inch stockman in his pocket. He was a mechanic and had tools everywhere so he usually didn’t have to go far to grab something. The other was a farmer and carried a small Case knife and maybe a pair of pliers but tools were readily available. Dad always carried a small pocket knife and a little Sears 4 way screw driver on his key ring. I bought him a Leatherman in the early 90’s but it’s been in his dresser drawer since he received it. I was home visiting once and asked him why he didn’t carry it, as he worked in an auto auction and would’ve come in handy. He said “you gave that to me, I don’t want to lose it”.

I sometimes do that too, i cant bring myself to carry or use a sentimental knife for fear or losing or damaging it

 

[Pete1977]

It surely was a good blade. When I chose it, I was considering size mostly. It was under 3 inches so I could keep it with me in the barracks. “Kill! Kill! Kill! With ice cold steel!” What BS! It was more like “You can’t have that cause you’ll hurt yourself.” My command was more strict on knives than my Mom!

I think I have one in my big box o knives. I can’t remember if it is serrated or not, or if it has the slab scales or chamfered edges. After I move I will be going through the hundreds of knives I have and I am sure I will find knives I forgot that I owned.

 

[Storm 8593]

Still a multi tool I suppose , but my first knife was a Spartan for my 10th birthday. Used that till lost, replaced it , carried on using it. Got issued a Camillus TL29 on joining the army in 2000, then a Centurion was the replacement issue around 2005/6.
Dad always had a Buck 110 knock off from the local farm store as the knife for cutting bales and alkathene pipe and such in the ute.
I'm 41 for what its worth.

 

[MolokaiRider]

Back around 1994 I carried an original Leatherman all the way to 2010.

It did an amazing job as a do it all pocket companion.

 

[Mac in NH]

54 years old and was gifted a 110 at 10 years old by my father. I snapped the blade in half in 1993 and replaced it with another of which I still have to this day. Sometime in the early 2000s I picked up a Benchmade and the 110 only gets carried when I go hunting.

Mac

 

[Monofletch]

I was in the Army from 1990-1997. Before I was issued a Leatherman and Gerber multi tool I carried a SAK Monarch. Which I still have, but it needs a new red scale. It’s cracked!

 

[Charlie Fox]

I carried a Schrade LB7 my father gave me (with my name engraved in the wood scale) and a SAK Pioneer.

 

[Ron Sabbagh]

Swiss army knife until 1982 - when I bought the Spyderco Worker and Mariner from Sal Glesser.

40 years later - I've owned/sold/gifted many knives and today I still carry a SAK Pioneer X and a Spyderco of some sort - or a traditional folder.

 

[JSutter]

As a youngster, I carried a Sears fixed blade when fishing but that was it. I don’t remember what happened to that knife.

My natural Dad always got whatever tools he needed from his toolbox. His tackle box had a scout type pocketknife; a nephew has it now. After he passed, Stepdad carried one of two Cases (a Peanut or a smaller Trapper). I have both & usually carry one or the other. Great Grandpa carried a Camillus, and I often carry it.

 

[mnblade]

I'll be 54 this year. Spent all of my younger days (and most of my days since) toting Victorinox, Buck, Case, and U.S.-made Schrade.

 

[Alberta Ed]

Growing up, a SAK, Scout knife, Barlow, Case, and once, an ivory handled straight razor I found in a bureau put out on the curb, on the way to school in the 4th grade. The straight razor disappeared when I showed it to my folks that day after school, unfortunately.

 

[Bastler]

Growing up, a SAK, Scout knife, Barlow, Case, and once, an ivory handled straight razor I found in a bureau put out on the curb, on the way to school in the 4th grade. The straight razor disappeared when I showed it to my folks that day after school, unfortunately.

A friend of mine and I carried straight razors, we were about 14 at the time. I carried it to school and even to the amusement park. Man, they would blow a gasket, if you tried that today. Thanks for resurrecting some memories.

 

[bayouace]

A friend gave me an Old Timer Senior 8T Stockman when I got out of the Marines, and I carried it for many years. Never personally ran into anything it did not handle.

 

[Ironbut]

We lived back in the sticks and every kid & grownup I knew carried a pocket knife. Always. To church, school, everywhere. This was in the 1950-60's. My brothers & I always got Dad's hand-me-down Barlows or TL-29s. They were all bought at the feed store, or the hardware in town, and I doubt he ever paid more than $5 for a knife. In 1970 I bought my first stockman, an Uncle Henry, and carried it every single day for 30 years. I also had a pilots survival knife I got in the Marines in 1968 that I carried camping & hunting. I still have the UH & Camillus survival knife, but they've been retired long ago.

Then there were the gaudy switchblades that every kid won at the carnival stands every Summer. They'd usually fall apart after a couple weeks.

 

[Jam35Gr3g0ry]

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!

Let me know if you ever decide to sell the Camillus 66.

 

[SharpBits]

SAK Executive that I found in the parking lot of my local hobby shop. Carried that and it's new replacement into my 30's. Then at some point I got infected by the bug and have way too much.

 

[lambertiana]

Usually a Buck 301 stockman, occasionally a Victorinox Hunter or a Buck 501.

 

[pvicenzi]

I carried one of these for 20 years, and never had a lock failure.

 

[Kwon Kwang]

 

[chevyrulez1]

Leatherman was founded in 1983, but I don't remember seeing pliers based multitools regularly where I lived for a few years after that. By the Early 90's there were plenty of the cheap Leatherman knockoffs flying off the shelves everywhere!
Prior to that, I carried a smaller lockback knife, an stockman, old barlow like an Imperial, and for multitool / camping purposes there was always the good ol Kamp King! Before the pliers based multitool became the schnitzel, everyone wanted a Rambo knife! I would also carry the cheap Nato OTF knife, or a cheap balisong because everyone wanted to be a ninja too.
Most of the old timers in my area though all carried real small pocket knives, like peanuts, small stockmans, and small congress. That is what I saw my father, uncles, etc. carrying.