So your grandfather lost his knife. What now?

willgoy said:
CASE Pen-knife, pity they don't offer more scale choice.
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That would be nice, but I remember my grandfather having several yellow knives back in the day. Now, some of them may have been celluloid rather than delrin (or similar) but all I have now are the memories to go by. So in this one instance the yellow (for my grandfather) would have been most appropriate. :thumbup:
 
Both sets of my grandparents have long passed away; however my fiancee's father is in his 70's, and for Christmas one year I gave him a Case stockman with stag scales, which he carried most days and uses for a variety of chores.

Another year I gave him a BRKT mini-ax, which I doubt he's ever used.
 
One that I just picked up recently, a Kutmaster Purina small stockman, would probably be a favorite of my grandfathers. His next love after his family were his pups.
 
My one living grandfather does a lot of knife trading, right now I guess he has close to 200 Case and and unknown amount of others. I would probably get him some form of Boker whittler.
 
My grandpa has a drawer full of pocket knives and fix blades. But the only thing he carries now is a single blade lockback due to arthritis in his hands. It kinda looks like a buck 112 with the paperstone handles. So I would get him one of those bucks if he needed a new one.
 
one of my grandfathers had 3 knives. A 2 blade one armed bandit type knife, a hawkbill and a cotton sampler.I would get him a large carbon sodbuster.
my other grandfather had many knives. he carried a large stockman for his plug chewing tobacco and a medium sized one for OTHER reasons. I would get him a large case xx with a wharncliff blade
 
My grandfather came to Canada in 1893 to farm, but before that he apprenticed as a bicycle mechanic in London. He was good at math, liked machinery, and was progressive in his farming methods. I don't remember what knife he carried, but if he came back today, I think he would be forward thinking enough to appreciate the usefulness and quality of a SAK. I'd get him a Vic Cadet or a Tinker.

And an iPod, just to blow his mind.
 
Since he carried a stockman, it would have to be a stockman. Probably a Case or a Queen or a Moore Maker because he'd be familiar with the brands and the styles. So a Case 6347CV if I could find one or a Queen #49. Or perhaps a comparable Moore Maker in yellow bone.

He would feel at home with one of these knives and would use it, if I was careful not to let him know the full price of the knife. He would appreciate the fact that I had paid attention to the type knife he used and I know he would use it and appreciate the knife for what it is. - Ed
 
I'm close to both of my grandfathers, both are worlds apart from eachother, but knives are one facet of their lives that they have in common.

My grandfather on my mothers side was an avid hunter. I fI ever have to replace any of his knives, it would be his Buck 120 with the red spacers.

My grandfather on my fathers side would have to get a grohmann Slimline folder. http://www.grohmannknives.com/pages/r3601.html
 
Mine would be easy

Mom's dad would get a RR barlow. He always bought cheaper Colonial barlows to use and abuse.

Dad's dad would get a Case congress. That was the only knife he carried and used
 
I never knew my grandfather but, like my dad, he was an electrician. The only knives I've ever seen my dad use are the old electrician patterns. I assume my grandfather was the same so that's what I'd get him.
I don't know how my dad sharpens his but I've never seen him strip wires with anything but a knife so he must keep it sharp somehow.
 
My paternal grandfather was no stranger to knives. He was a hunter, trapper, stockman, and general all-around jack-of-all-trades. Since he never had any money to speak of, he probably used any and all knives he could get his hands on. I say this because he probably used a knife about once an hour for 90 years. He probably didn't use one too often during the next 4 years, but he did get in a knife fight with another geezer in the nursing home over a tv program. His first knife fight was in 1894. He rode a horse away from a posse (ala 1950's tv westerns!) about 200 miles and got away. His fellow combatant healed up, and Pa rode home. In the 1940's, people would send word from 40 miles out for Pa to come help butcher hogs. He would skin a hog clean as a pin, faster than anyone could scrape one, making scalding unnecessary. He would probably appreciate a wooden hardware box of a dozen CASE butcher knives, and one good 6375. My maternal grandfather was a horse and cattle man and... you guessed it... yellow stockman.
 
Mine is also a very easy choice. My grandfather "Papaw" was an avid collector of knives. He had an aversion to Case Peanuts and am pretty sure at last count before he passed away he had approximately 300 of them. Different years, scales, cv, ss you name it he had it. This didn't include the numerous other knives he picked up along the way. If he lost a knife I would first ask him if he was doing OK... Wouldn't be like him to lose something he kept sharp as a razor and pointy as a needle. I can remember him picking many splinters out of my hands while helping him work with wood. I love this thread. I don't nearly stop and think of lost loved ones as much as I would like to.

But back to the choice. A PEANUT in CV, scales would be something jigged in a darker color. If the peanut was not available it would be a small stockman. I have an old Boker he retired many years ago. It was the last knife I can remember him giving me. We were looking through some of this knives and began to tell me how he carried it for about 20 years and he quit when he found a particular peanut, can't remember which, and put it up. The bone is smoothed, the shield is missing and the blades are heavily sharpened. I pull it out each time I look through my knives and give the springs a quick workout.
 
338375 said:
I wish he was still here so I could decide what knife to buy him now :(
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I have to agree with those sentiments too. It would be fun to try to find him a knife to use too.

I don't remember the story but apparently he had an electricians knife that was made out of the steel from an old battleship. He either lost that knife or broke the blade on it. It was replaced with a similar knife and I think that is the one I have now - but I was told that he never carried this particular knife much. It would be interesting to see what type of a knife he would pick if he would actually let me buy him a knife.

Grandad lost the thumb on his left hand in the sixties in a gun accident. He lost the thumb on his right hand in the eighties to a table saw. It seems like he had enough of a nub of a nail on the left hand that he opened his pocket knife with it but to find a knife he could easily open and close would be a fun journey.

Makes me wonder if he could open a Bose pattern BP or if we would maybe need a friction folder of some sort.
 
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what a great thread!

for the purpose of a response i will have to use my great uncle because he was like a grandfather to me. the only time i ever saw him wear anything but pointer brand overalls was on sunday. he only drove chevrolet trucks and i think it must of had a govenor set at 35 mph. three speed column shift with an AM radio and a stevens 22lr single shot behind the seat. the only pocket knife i ever saw him with was a case medium stockman.
if he lost that knife my first thoughts were to replace it with the same. however, i think he would really appreciate the tidioute serpentine jack. i have a '73 case medium stockman that reminds me of him. i would get him the GEC to remind him of me.
 
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