One knife for a year

matt1987

matt1987

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Hello all! This challenge was attempted by many, won by a few. So naturally I wanted to try it. To begin I wrote down maybe a dozen of my personal favorite knifes and thru it in a hat.

Shook the hat, 1st pick was a sodbuster, second was a sak, the 3rd, 4th and 5th pick was the sodbuster again. Good enough for me, the classic sodbuster it is. I'll take a picture every month or so to see how it ages.

Right now it's basically in like new condition. No play, great springs, centered blade. It has been lightly sharpened, and has a light grey pantina. But I'll get some pics up in awhile. Anyway enough of my yacking. Wish me luck!
 
Best of luck to you Matt. I have no doubt that it can be done. Generations have done it because one was all they had. They survived just fine and some even passed down their single trusty pocket knife to their children/grandchildren with plenty of life left in it.

I can't say I would do it myself. Maybe three for a year but never one. :D
 
I wish you well Matt. I couldn't make it past a few weeks without weakening. Cold sweats and strange nightmares, visions of stockmen and peanuts haunting my restless sleep. :D

I know my dad made it, but I think I have some of my Uncle Paul in me. That man had small slippies hid out all over him like Yancy Derringer had derringers. I never knew another man who even kept a little tiny jackknife in his tobacco pouch.

If you loose it, I'll write your folks.

Carl.
 
Jackknife, I've thought of doing what your uncle Paul did, but with the 21st century pen knife, the Vic Classic. Such a handy, and inexpensive little knife, I see no reason not to have one in your pocket, one on your keychain, one in your wallet, one in your change holder in the car, one EVERYWHERE.
Good luck to you, Matt. I'll play along with you to give you some support. I have been carrying my American made Schrade 108OT pretty much exclusively since March, so I'll give it a shot. However, not sure about a year. I'll just see how far I can go.
 
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jackknife said:
I wish you well Matt. I couldn't make it past a few weeks without weakening. Cold sweats and strange nightmares, visions of stockmen and peanuts haunting my restless sleep. :D
Carl.
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Carl,

Didn't I just read that you had thinned your herd to a hand full of knives?

You're a better man than me already. ;) I could sooner carry one for a year than chose a half dozen keepers from my current collection and part with the rest. That's where my cold sweats and restless nights would come in. :p
 
Rupestris said:
Carl,

Didn't I just read that you had thinned your herd to a hand full of knives?

You're a better man than me already. ;) I could sooner carry one for a year than chose a half dozen keepers from my current collection and part with the rest. That's where my cold sweats and restless nights would come in. :p
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Yeah, but a great deal of them went to my grandson, granddaughter, younger son, and if I beg, whine, or threaten to rewrite my will, I can sometimes borrow one back for a little while. Just for old times sake, you understand.:D

My grandson is a tough kid, doesn't cut me much slack.:(

Carl.
 
If it wasn't for for my toy box I would be able to carry this Dan Burke Barlow for a lifetime I do believe. But alas I do have a Swayback Jack in CV on its way as we speak. So who knows. I have been able to go a couple months now without a clipped knife. Only slippies and my Russlock a time or two.

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Good luck Matt I know if it was me I would need it.
 
I'll bet if you made it an "only 100 knives for a year" you'd get a lot more folks to join you LOL
 
See, if I was going to go pick out a knife for a years solo use, it'd be a sodbuster - big one

Best of luck with the project :)
 
matt1987 said:
Shook the hat, 1st pick was a sodbuster, second was a sak, the 3rd, 4th and 5th pick was the sodbuster again. Good enough for me, the classic sodbuster it is.
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You mean the big boy sodbuster, or a junior? I could maybe make it with my junior ...

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... but not the big one.

-- Mark
 
Good luck. If you can do it your a better man than me. I can bearly go a week with the same knife.
 
Interesting choice that the hat gave you. Well, my father was a sodbuster guy,he carried one all my life and I guess most of his so we have to figure it can do the job. Good luck!
 
I'm about 3 months in to my year with the Tribal Spear. I'm supplementing that with other knives though, and even with that, it's touch and go on some days! :D

Best of luck to you, sir! :thumbup:
 
Matt, I'll join ya. I've been toying with the idea of only using my Buck Cadet for a while; might as well take the plunge and do it. This has been my go-to knife for a little while, so much won't change. Most everything else is in an old ammo box in the garage, except for a ST Spirit I keep in the house for odd repairs (along with a few drivers and a wrench...all of these in the house saves a lot of trips out to the garage), and a Rambler that's living on my keychain. Might have to take it off to honor the challenge, but we'll see.

I'm thinking Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving, just to make it easy to track.
 
I basically carry the same knife from day to day. Every now and then I'll put a different one in my pocket, but as time goes by I keep with the same one. Maybe I'm getting more attached to it.A lot of times I'll put a knife in my pocket only to take it out and swap it back to my usual. My last long term carry was my copperlock. I carried that for a year or two. I carried a 63032 for about 10 years. I really started carrying various knives after I joined blade forums. Before that there was a spell when my collection sat in a folder case under my dresser for a few years.
Now it's the Mooremaker 5300. I like the 1095 and Case CV. it's easy to sharpen. I just got a Queen in D2 and I'm on my third pass at sharpening it. I was carrying it over the weekend and went to hack up a box and the blade didn't even cut it.I went right back to the usual. My buddy at work has one of those grinder systems for doing his chisels. He put a nice edge on his GEC barlow. I'm giving him the Queen to profile it.
 
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