Slipjoint you've had the longest.

The knife I have had the longest is a traditional, but not a slipjoint. I have a 125OT Schrade Old Timer that I got from my Grandfather when I was about 12 years old (about 28 years ago).
Due to loss, the slipjoint I have had the longest is a Case pocket hunter I bought about 4 years ago.

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I have a Buck Large 3 blade Stockman, not sure of the build date but it has to be at least twenty five years old, and still one of my favorite daily carry knives.
 
I've had the same SAK Huntsman since I was 12 in 1983. It was my edc and pretty much my only knife for many of those years. Pretty beat up, but still perfectly functional.
 
Well the one I have had the longest would be my Buck 110 I bought in 1988 I think.

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yablanowitz said:
This little Tuxedo pen that I found forty-five years ago. It is also the first knife I ever repaired. The pivot pin was pulled out of the bolster and liner at one end. I made a new one out the axle of a Matchbox car. I did finally clean up the repair a bit after forty years. ;)

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Talk about keeping an old car running, thats awsome.

This has been a great read. Thanks.
 
The knives I carried as a boy are gone. Too many moves, I suppose. I do have a keychain knife that I got some time in the 60's. Don't remember exactly when or where. I probably still have it because I never carried it. IIRC it use to reside in my top dresser drawer because it was such a cheap little thing.

It's the one on the top left. The one on the bottom right is older, but it was my dad's and I can't lay claim having possessed it the longest of all my knives.

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Sniper X said:
I have a Buck Large 3 blade Stockman, not sure of the build date but it has to be at least twenty five years old, and still one of my favorite daily carry knives.
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Send me message with description and I will date it for you. 300Bucks
 
50 years ago i was 12, and my Aunt Rene came from her home in Switzerland for a visit. she came by boat and purchased this knife for me in the ship's gift shop:

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the profile of the main blade is a result of very early sharpening attempt ( as blade had a small chip out of the edge):

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i believe she thought all boys in "America"(meaning North America) were uncouth and unclean and this might encourage me to clean my finger nails.
she did however always buy quality:

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with this knife began a life long interest in Gent's and Lobster knives, of which i now have many. but this was the first.
roland
 
That would be my red handled SAK, I do not remember what the model is. I have had it for 20+ years.
 
rprocter said:
50 years ago i was 12, and my Aunt Rene came from her home in Switzerland for a visit. she came by boat and purchased this knife for me in the ship's gift shop:

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the profile of the main blade is a result of very early sharpening attempt ( as blade had a small chip out of the edge):

camillus002-12.jpg


i believe she thought all boys in "America"(meaning North America) were uncouth and unclean and this might encourage me to clean my finger nails.
she did however always buy quality:

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with this knife began a life long interest in Gent's and Lobster knives, of which i now have many. but this was the first.
roland
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I love that knife! Your Aunt had an eye for sure.
 
Kodiak - I've got a Henckels "Toledo" scales very similar to that beauty, but a pen pattern. I'll have to dig out a photo of it. I'm guessing in goes back to the early '70's.

Mike
 
rprocter, most unusual and interesting knife you show us there, thank you.Fine condition too.

My longest serving knife is quite recent (I only got back into my childhood obsession with knives about 3 years ago) It is a small Böker Lockback that a then girl-friend found on the street about 17 years ago. She gave it to me and forgot to take a token penny for it-as the superstition says it will cut friendship if you don't take a coin for a knife- it did.....
 
I long ago sold most of the Case knives I bought in high school, but I did keep a few stag case trappers I bought in HS back in the 70's.
 
oldest is a kutmaster with 2 blades and a green jade looking slabs i think it's a peanut design not sure both blades pivit at same end my grandmother gave it to me when i was about 6 yrs old so I've had it about 37 years now
 
I have a Vic Classic that my grandfather gave me in - I think - the seventh grade (circa 1982ish). It's missing a handle slab, has a broken spring on the scissors, and the blade has been worn down a fair bit from sharpening. But I keep it in my shaving kit and still use it all the time for trimming finger nails, etc. Sometimes it'll ride on my key chain if I'm going somewhere where a larger knife isn't kosher.

Great thread, btw. Looking at some of these knives, I do chuckle again at some of the threads you see on other sub-forums here asking if KnifeX or KnifeY is tough enough to withstand opening boxes or some other such "hard use" task. :rolleyes: I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's clear that a simple (yet sturdy, well built) slipjoint in skilled hands can weather the years with ease.
 
The generic "boy scout knife" that I had as a kid is undoubtedly still sitting in a shoebox in my parents' basement. The oldest still in my possession is a Buck slimline trapper I bought in high school (~1972). It was the first "good" knife I ever owned and the first with stainless steel blades although, looking back, the carbon steel blades on that boy scout knife sure took a great edge and the backsprings on that knife had a serious snap.
 
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