Pocket Knife Christmas Gift for Dad or Grandad

I would get something for them that won't be too hard to open. I loaned my father my peanut one time to cut open a box and he had a hard time trying to pull open the blade.
 
My dad has been gone for close to 12 years now. He was a farmer all his life and always carried a Buck 301 - that, and pair of pliers and a 1/2 - 9/16" Craftsman open-end wrench. The knife in the RF pocket of his bib overalls, and the pliers & wrench in the pliers pocket. I'd buy him a new 301 if he were still here. I still miss him.
 
My dad passed away nearly 30 years ago, but he was a lawyer and never carried a knife of any kind. His dad was also a lawyer, and died before I was born, so I don't know about him at all. But my mom's father was a carpenter and a farmer, lived in a small town in central Illinois, and nearly always had on coveralls. He also smoked a pipe, and the only pocket knife I ever saw him with was a small, stainless covered pen knife, about 3-1/4" closed, with spear and pen blades at opposite ends. He used it to scrape out the bowl of his pipe. I think an upgrade for him, if he still was around, would be a GEC White Owl, with some nice jigged bone.
 
Lol, my dad was a tactical nutbag as he worked in the south Bronx in the 80s a clinic hospital as an armed guard. His edc was a Beretta on a shoulder sling, and a snubbie strapped to an ankle. He also bought one of the first G10 cold steel folders that ever came out, right after seeing a catalog with one punching through a car hood.
 
cchu518 said:
Lol, my dad was a tactical nutbag as he worked in the south Bronx in the 80s a clinic hospital as an armed guard. His edc was a Beretta on a shoulder sling, and a snubbie strapped to an ankle. He also bought one of the first G10 cold steel folders that ever came out, right after seeing a catalog with one punching through a car hood.
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Thanks for the info. I would have been armed to the teeth if I worked the South BX at that time. It was a war zone back then.
 
My dad has been gone a long time. If I were to buy him a knife, I would buy him an old Camillus Scout knife like he and I used when I was growing up in scouts. :)
 
My father died some 28 years ago. Grandfather, about 58 years ago.

Father had a small SAK-style knife he carried every day, so he'd not need more than that.

Grandfather was an engineer. I was told he was always interested in the latest technology, and I know he liked high end stuff. So I'm guessing he'd like a nice GEC in 440C. A stainless White Owl would be about right for him.
 
Try a stainless steel folding knife. I have one and is very handy and small, it has a blade locking mechanism, so is perfect to put it in your pocket and forget about it until you needed it. My recommendation: [A non-BF vendor selling a knife and sheath combination] and it has a leather sheath as well.

Let me know what you guys think!
 
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I bought my Dad a Boker green bone stockman. He used several years until he lost it. He then decided to carry his dad's knife. I tried to convince him to just let me buy him another knife instead of using his dad's. Wish I had said nothing and had just done it as Dad lost his dad's knife somewhere in his back yard not long before he died. He was sick about it and that was a man in his 70s. He searched that yard looking for that knife. Was one of the rare times I saw just how sentimental my old man was.

Mom gifted me her dad's Case Copperhead before she died. I stupidly carried it for a while. Never again. If I were buying my dad a knife today, I buy him a Case Medium Stockman.
 
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gave my dad and father-in-law swiss army tinkers last christmas. my father in law carries his and has remarked that he nicked himself a time or two because hes not used to having a knife that sharp (it was the factory edge lol). my dad tends to use disposable razor knives and im not sure he carries his much.
if i get them something knife-y this year it would probably be some sort of leatherman type multitool.

my grandfathers are both gone; one passed in the 1970s and the other passed in 2000. the one that passed in the 70s had a stroke before i was born so i might have gotten him a small sheath knife because of his hands. the one that passed in 2000 probably would have gotten a small 'gentlemans knife' of some sort that would be very easy to open.
 
Money is tight for xmas this year, but I'm getting my dad an AG Russell lockback barlow in cocobolo. I think he will love it.
 
My Dad is gone also. He was a west coast logger and always carried a Schrade stockman. Always broke off the pen blade and used the stub for a screwdriver. If still around he would get a nice vintage Schrade off of Ebay.:)
 
While Dad used knives at work as an electrician, he didn't carry anything daily, at least not that I remember. Of course, I begged him for his Imperial Barlow when I was 8, maybe that's why ;)

My first inclination was a TL-29, as he always had his in his work pouch along with a wicked sharp liner lock hawkbill for stripping wire. But since he didn't pocket carry those, maybe I'd get him one of Charlie's clip point Barlows in sawcut bone to replace the one I scrounged 42 years ago.

Maybe if he lived awhile longer after he retired he would have carried something, but he was gone only after a year, it'll be 20 years this January. I'd ask Mom what she thought but she just passed away at the beginning of this month. Maybe he would have had a yeller Case like his dad, who used to cut apples up for us grandkids when we were little, sitting with him on his porch. Those are some of the best memories... :thumbup:
 
I think he would have liked a Kissing Crane Brown Mule for that style and the very stiff backspring. Yet he went through small sized Stockmans quite a bit as an electrician, I have a cigar box with several with broken blades.
I would like to have given him a friction folder from one of my very competent knifemaking pals though.

:)
Mark
 
One grandfather I never met, but they were both farmers.

I have quite a few of my grandfather's pocket knives, so probably the largest handled jack knife I could find.

I'm giving my father, along w a few other folks, SAK electricians this year.

He grew up farming, and retired to a ranch, but worked in finance, so he developed an aversion to carrying anything bulky/which might mess up a suit.
 
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