silenthunterstudios
Slipjoint Addict
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My family and friends know I am weird with knives. I put a little mysticism on them, which my family cannot understand. I have a love for history, and thoroughly enjoy reading about the Hudson Bay company that carried the camp and camp Chief fixed blades; Kephart and his iconic design produced by Colclesser and oft copied faithfully in the last five years; the Marbles Ideal conquering the northern border; the trapper folder and Grohmann survival knives working trap lines from Texas to Alaska.
However, to a T, my family loves to use SAKs. Primarily Victorinox but I've seen some old Wengers. Camp knives too, and a few multitools. My cousin went on a back country trail ride in the Grand Canyon, she brought along a Gerber SAK type tool, that she's had for about twenty years.
Now, none of them are knife nuts, except for my little brother with his balisongs and my brother in law having grown up on a steady diet of Buck knives. I have made sure that my cousins, aunts, uncles, sisters, brother, in laws etc have gotten a Victorinox SAK. These are normally single models without boxes, that I rescued from flea markets and junk malls. I don't know if he's still alive, but a guy that sets up at a farmers market in PA always had a box of SAKs that he had gathered from the people at church, to scrounge up some money for the church. I thought it was a BS line, but found out it was true. I've contributed my tithing through that box many times over
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I've gotten quite a few good knives. Many alox single blade knives, pruners, gardeners tools etc.
I've traded into quite a few SAKs. A few members here have hooked me up in my own greedy search for colored alox models.
Yesterday I demonstrated a one stick fire at my cousins party, and had the rapt attention of her husbands nephews and my niece. I was between sweat and you know what, hoping I didn't screw up. I was surprised at my niece's interest, not because she is a girl, but because I didn't think she was into that stuff. My cousin loves the woods, and while he's been to South America and Alaska, I didn't know if that love jumped from him to his daughter.
It did, she told me all about her scout troop. So, I want to keep a love of the woods alive for her, and want to get her a good tool. I'm looking at the My First Victorinox, or a simple model, like the cadet or soldier. Something to learn on, I don't think they even do badges anymore. I got a My First Victorinox for my nephew, her little brother by a couple years. I asked my cousin about it, he knows I'm goofy and that I get a knife for everyone in the family (I've had some family members tell me enough with the knives after the first gift, and others ask "no knife this year?" at birthdays and Christmas. He was cool with it.
I was thinking about getting her a repro Girl Scout knife, or a SAK girl scout knife, but I want to keep this simple.
It's always good to see short people interested in the outdoors. I'm addicted to my iPhone, but not as bad as some of these kids out there, although you couldn't tell it by my phone bill. Anyway, all of these teens walking about like zombies buried in their phones. Get these kids some woods knowledge, some street knowledge and some enjoyment of nature.
With a knife in their pocket of course.
However, to a T, my family loves to use SAKs. Primarily Victorinox but I've seen some old Wengers. Camp knives too, and a few multitools. My cousin went on a back country trail ride in the Grand Canyon, she brought along a Gerber SAK type tool, that she's had for about twenty years.
Now, none of them are knife nuts, except for my little brother with his balisongs and my brother in law having grown up on a steady diet of Buck knives. I have made sure that my cousins, aunts, uncles, sisters, brother, in laws etc have gotten a Victorinox SAK. These are normally single models without boxes, that I rescued from flea markets and junk malls. I don't know if he's still alive, but a guy that sets up at a farmers market in PA always had a box of SAKs that he had gathered from the people at church, to scrounge up some money for the church. I thought it was a BS line, but found out it was true. I've contributed my tithing through that box many times over
. I've gotten quite a few good knives. Many alox single blade knives, pruners, gardeners tools etc.
I've traded into quite a few SAKs. A few members here have hooked me up in my own greedy search for colored alox models.
Yesterday I demonstrated a one stick fire at my cousins party, and had the rapt attention of her husbands nephews and my niece. I was between sweat and you know what, hoping I didn't screw up. I was surprised at my niece's interest, not because she is a girl, but because I didn't think she was into that stuff. My cousin loves the woods, and while he's been to South America and Alaska, I didn't know if that love jumped from him to his daughter.
It did, she told me all about her scout troop. So, I want to keep a love of the woods alive for her, and want to get her a good tool. I'm looking at the My First Victorinox, or a simple model, like the cadet or soldier. Something to learn on, I don't think they even do badges anymore. I got a My First Victorinox for my nephew, her little brother by a couple years. I asked my cousin about it, he knows I'm goofy and that I get a knife for everyone in the family (I've had some family members tell me enough with the knives after the first gift, and others ask "no knife this year?" at birthdays and Christmas. He was cool with it.
I was thinking about getting her a repro Girl Scout knife, or a SAK girl scout knife, but I want to keep this simple.
It's always good to see short people interested in the outdoors. I'm addicted to my iPhone, but not as bad as some of these kids out there, although you couldn't tell it by my phone bill. Anyway, all of these teens walking about like zombies buried in their phones. Get these kids some woods knowledge, some street knowledge and some enjoyment of nature.
With a knife in their pocket of course.
