Stockman Sunday picture show

Not quite Sunday, but I won't be able to post photos tomorrow, so I'm cheating by a few hours...

These three knives represent a lifetime, literally, of every-day carry, from age 8 to 56. The first knife I ever bought was a Western S-742. I bought it at a Woolworth for, if I remember correctly, $7.49. I carried it until about age 19, when I opened a can of oil with it to pour in the school bus I was driving at the time, and left it laying open on the bumper. It made me sick to lose it, and I walked the roads for a couple of miles several times hoping it would turn up, but it never did. To this day, knock on wood, this is the only knife that I have ever truly and permanently lost. The knife in the photo is a nearly-new replacement I ran across a few years ago and bought in a fit of nostalgia.

I replaced it with a Craftsman/Camillus stockman that I bought (I think) in the late 80s and have carried for years, every day I had pants on, to church or wherever I went. About 15 years ago, my kids bought me an Uncle Henry 885 for "dress" carry. To this day, I'm carrying either the Craftsman or the 885 in my pocket if I'm well and wearing pants. Sometimes I have carried other knives as well, usually a Schrade LB7 or LB8 or a fixed blade of some type, but I'm ALWAYS carrying a stockman with me.

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I hope you all enjoy a peaceful Sunday!
 
Stockman Sunday!
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Woodtroll said:
Not quite Sunday, but I won't be able to post photos tomorrow, so I'm cheating by a few hours...

These three knives represent a lifetime, literally, of every-day carry, from age 8 to 56. The first knife I ever bought was a Western S-742. I bought it at a Woolworth for, if I remember correctly, $7.49. I carried it until about age 19, when I opened a can of oil with it to pour in the school bus I was driving at the time, and left it laying open on the bumper. It made me sick to lose it, and I walked the roads for a couple of miles several times hoping it would turn up, but it never did. To this day, knock on wood, this is the only knife that I have ever truly and permanently lost. The knife in the photo is a nearly-new replacement I ran across a few years ago and bought in a fit of nostalgia.

I replaced it with a Craftsman/Camillus stockman that I bought (I think) in the late 80s and have carried for years, every day I had pants on, to church or wherever I went. About 15 years ago, my kids bought me an Uncle Henry 885 for "dress" carry. To this day, I'm carrying either the Craftsman or the 885 in my pocket if I'm well and wearing pants. Sometimes I have carried other knives as well, usually a Schrade LB7 or LB8 or a fixed blade of some type, but I'm ALWAYS carrying a stockman with me.

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I hope you all enjoy a peaceful Sunday!
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I always like to see well used 885s. I have one that I carried every day for 30 years. It wore out the pocket of many a pair of jeans. I had t retire it, but recently found a replacement here on the Exchange.
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The first knife I ever paid cash money for. Back around 1980, on the Western Slope of Colorado, a Case was a tractor. Western knives were pretty much the only show in town at the time.
Cost me about 7 bucks if I remember right from the local Gun and Knife store.
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mckgreg said:
The first knife I ever paid cash money for. Back around 1980, on the Western Slope of Colorado, a Case was a tractor. Western knives were pretty much the only show in town at the time.
Cost me about 7 bucks if I remember right from the local Gun and Knife store.
Greg

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This is the carbon version of the first knife I bought, as well. Needless to say, I think you have good taste in pocketknives!
 
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