Show off your traditional knife and Lighter

Some very nice knives and lighters posted here! Everyone's contributions are much appreciated!!

Continuing with my seemingly Pink Floyd theme 😝 Here is a new 1974 Case 6332 with an old basic street chrome lighter I've posted here in the past circa 1976. I believe this is the only case stockman to ever have halfstops on all three blades! The action is buttery smooth and good snap on all blades. But, that main clip's snap when shutting closed from the halfstop is auditory bliss. It caught me off guard the first time as I didn't think it would snap with such authority. Definitely wouldn't want my finger getting stuck in there! 😅

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Among the old time outdoor writers (Archibald Rutledge, Havilah Babcock, Lawrence Koller, Jack O'Conner, etc.) my favorite is NC native son Robert Ruark. Here is a quote (with an appropriate era advertisement) from his last article where he rants on all the things that don't work right anymore (kind of like we do today!) You can find lots of neat period pictures and advertisements on the Facebook Page "Robert Ruark". I have carried this old school Uncle Henry 834UH since Monday and probably will the rest of the week. Fortunately Zippo seems to have maintained their quality nearly 60 years past his words being published. OH
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DKIN said:
Thanks for the list! All these writers are new to me.
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You are welcome. I have quite a hunting and shooting library that I have collected up over the last 50 years. I recommend you start with Robert Ruark and his classic, The Old Man & The Boy. It's still in print or available used from several of the usual internet sources. I would follow with Archibald Rutledge, any of the collections assembled by Jim Casada and published by the University of South Carolina Press - my favorite of the collections is Hunting & Home in the Southern Heartland. Originals by Rutledge (the original Poet Laureate of South Carolina) are spendier and harder to locate. A good third is Havilah Babcock's My Health is Better in November also published by the University of South Carolina Press. Those three will let you in on old style sporting literature that capture a lost world. Luckily for me I came along just as that hunting world was in transition, and under the tutelage of my father and uncle got to experience some of it. Good reading to you! OH
 
Old Hunter Old Hunter Very interesting stuff Bruce, I liked the Zippo advertisement with the reference to Ruark's last essay 'Nothing Works&Nobody Cares' Do you have any links to it? I know it comes from Playboy Dec 1965 Vol XII No.12 but can't read it anywhere. Don't want to pay 100s for vintage Playboy but was 'shocked' to discover just how literary and intellectual the content was in those far off days. Don't do Social Media either so can't see the Facebook stuff.

Thanks, Will.
 
Will Power Will Power I don’t have that article in my Ruark collection (all of the Ruark I own are hunting books) - he was a very popular columnist in the 1950’s and up through the mid-1960’s (died I believe in 1964). His columns were written about a wide variety of topics and often drew a lot of fire (which he loved). He lived as a Hemingway type character and essentially drank himself to death, living out his last years in Spain. I will see if I can find a copy of the article for you. Bruce
 
GmpaJim said:
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Not exactly what most of us think of, but undoubtedly the most "traditional" knives of all time! Very cool picture with the zippos 😄
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Nice!! I'm keeping my eye out for a particular brass zippo at a good price. They tend to go for a little more than I'm hoping to pay. Nice picture and knife/lighter combination!
Nexus-6 said:
Remington, Medico and Nimrod.
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Such a cool knife, lighter, and pipe. These things look like they ooze history!
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Love the pipe and I've never seen pipe tools like that before. Neat! I haven't gotten into pipes. So, perhaps, I'm a little naive about the tools. And such a classic zippo graphic. It is one of my favorites, just because it is so classic, but I do not own one yet. And, in my mind, nothing goes better with a Zippo than a Case knife 😝 I know they are owned by the same company now, but crazy to me that they were made in the same town for so long.
sf fanatic said:
My grandpa was a Shriner many years ago. 😀
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Is that lighter your grandfathers? Either way, a nice lighter and the bone on that knife is gorgeous too!
Old Hunter said:
Among the old time outdoor writers (Archibald Rutledge, Havilah Babcock, Lawrence Koller, Jack O'Conner, etc.) my favorite is NC native son Robert Ruark. Here is a quote (with an appropriate era advertisement) from his last article where he rants on all the things that don't work right anymore (kind of like we do today!) You can find lots of neat period pictures and advertisements on the Facebook Page "Robert Ruark". I have carried this old school Uncle Henry 834UH since Monday and probably will the rest of the week. Fortunately Zippo seems to have maintained their quality nearly 60 years past his words being published. OH
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The only folding knife my grandpa seemed to own was an uncle henry. It is now mine and I cherish it so very much. And I never knew about all of these authors either! I definitely need to read The Old Man & The Boy given my grandfather taught me practically everything I know about hunting and fishing!

So cool to see everyone contribute to this thread. I bought some more lighter fluid the other day and it made me think about making a post here with my "full setup".

Inner tube for sealing, off brand "cotton bacon" for fuel capacity, freezer bags for the "bag trick", flints, wicks, and fuel!
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One thing I've failed to note in the past with the "bag trick" is it can make the insert difficult to get out. Do NOT pinch the chimney too hard. You could collapse the chimney, which can kind of be fixed but is never fun 😝 I tend to keep one of my wife's hair pins attached to my pocket slip to insert in the chimney holes and get leverage to pull the insert out.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!
 
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lithicus said:
Not exactly what most of us think of, but undoubtedly the most "traditional" knives of all time! Very cool picture with the zippos 😄

Nice!! I'm keeping my eye out for a particular brass zippo at a good price. They tend to go for a little more than I'm hoping to pay. Nice picture and knife/lighter combination!

Such a cool knife, lighter, and pipe. These things look like they ooze history!

Love the pipe and I've never seen pipe tools like that before. Neat! I haven't gotten into pipes. So, perhaps, I'm a little naive about the tools. And such a classic zippo graphic. It is one of my favorites, just because it is so classic, but I do not own one yet. And, in my mind, nothing goes better with a Zippo than a Case knife 😝 I know they are owned by the same company now, but crazy to me that they were made in the same town for so long.

Is that lighter your grandfathers? Either way, a nice lighter and the bone on that knife is gorgeous too!

The only folding knife my grandpa seemed to own was an uncle henry. It is now mine and I cherish it so very much. And I never knew about all of these authors either! I definitely need to read The Old Man & The Boy given my grandfather taught me practically everything I know about hunting and fishing!

So cool to see everyone contribute to this thread. I bought some more lighter fluid the other day and it made me think about making a post here with my "full setup".

Inner tube for sealing, off brand "cotton bacon" for fuel capacity, freezer bags for the "bag trick", flints, wicks, and fuel!
MMk57fm.jpg


One thing I've failed to note in the past with the "bag trick" is it can make the insert difficult to get out. Do NOT pinch the chimney too hard. You could collapse the chimney, which can kind of be fixed but is never fun 😝 I tend to keep one of my wife's hair pins attached to my pocket slip to insert in the chimney holes and get leverage to pull the insert out.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!
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Yes, it was his lighter. Thanks!
 
DKIN said:

Good weekend, everybody. No camping today, but I'm about ready to get back to it. This was my car camping combo last fall.
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Well...what is it?
I can't make out nuffin except it appears to have a spear main and a cool lightning bolt shield 😁
 
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Whelp I got my zippo branded butane inserts today.
Much to my surprise it actually came with butane in it! Although I did buy a can just in case

Now I gotta learn how to tell when it's low so I don't run out
I figure just topping it off every Sunday (day off) should be more than sufficient seeing as I shouldn't have any fluid evaporation

Any experienced butane guys got any advice?
 
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