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Back in 2004, when I was in Iraq, I needed a knife and found this Old Timer at the PX for something like $10. I bought it and carried it during my deployment, and it was my primary knife along with my Leatherman Wave (This was before I was even remotely interested in knives).
When I got back home, I started working as a police officer, and started carrying a Benchmade Mini-Grip. The Grip was my first "real" knife, and so the Old Timer found it's way to the bottom of my desk drawer. Well I found out that, during cold weather and wearing a jacket, it was difficult to get to my larger knife clipped inside my pocket while I was sitting in my patrol car, so I dug out the Old Timer and put it in my right coat pocket for those times when I needed to cut something and didn't want to get out in the cold to fiddle around and get my "real" knife out.
Well, for the past 10 years, its has been in my coat pocket, and used almost daily during the winter time, even more than my more expensive knives.
I bring it up now, because I was reading about Old Timer knives and had no idea that Imperial Schrade went under in 2004, right around the time I bought this knife. Apparently, the USA made OT knives are regarded as pretty good quality. I wanted to see if mine was a USA made one (yeah, I seriously have never looked until now). I pulled it out of my coat a few minutes ago and touched it up on my Sharpmaker. While sharpening it, I realized that this is the oldest knife that I own. Well, not the oldest that I own, because I have some of my grandfather's old knives, but this is the oldest knife that I own that I actually bought myself.
I think I'll keep it around for a while, and I may even carry it year-round (and then I'll lose it, because I'm stupid like that).
Pics or it didn't happen:
When I got back home, I started working as a police officer, and started carrying a Benchmade Mini-Grip. The Grip was my first "real" knife, and so the Old Timer found it's way to the bottom of my desk drawer. Well I found out that, during cold weather and wearing a jacket, it was difficult to get to my larger knife clipped inside my pocket while I was sitting in my patrol car, so I dug out the Old Timer and put it in my right coat pocket for those times when I needed to cut something and didn't want to get out in the cold to fiddle around and get my "real" knife out.
Well, for the past 10 years, its has been in my coat pocket, and used almost daily during the winter time, even more than my more expensive knives.
I bring it up now, because I was reading about Old Timer knives and had no idea that Imperial Schrade went under in 2004, right around the time I bought this knife. Apparently, the USA made OT knives are regarded as pretty good quality. I wanted to see if mine was a USA made one (yeah, I seriously have never looked until now). I pulled it out of my coat a few minutes ago and touched it up on my Sharpmaker. While sharpening it, I realized that this is the oldest knife that I own. Well, not the oldest that I own, because I have some of my grandfather's old knives, but this is the oldest knife that I own that I actually bought myself.
I think I'll keep it around for a while, and I may even carry it year-round (and then I'll lose it, because I'm stupid like that).
Pics or it didn't happen:
