It was always the old guys.
When I was young, about when blades were moving from iron to steel, the old guys were always a mystery to me. I'd see the old guy who needed a knife to cut something, take a moment to look over the situation, then slowly reach into the watch pocket of the jeans and get out a little pen knife and make one neat slice. Okay, small blade sometimes sawed a few times back and forth a bit. But being the young guy I always wondered why those old guys carried such a small pocket knife.
Being young and full of vinegar, I carried a knife that was a little too big for a watch pocket or coin pocket, or whatever you call them. That little pocket up just below the belt line of most jeans. A full size stockman just is too tight a fit, as is the full size sodbusters from my sodbuster stage. The smaller SAK's fit in there pretty good, and my better half Karen, is responsible for me getting turned onto the 58mm Victorinox's.
But, as time wore on, and I eventually caved in and started trying the little knives, I found the watch/coin/little knife pocket to be a good thing. After my dad passed away and I carried his old Case peanut for a bit, it got to be a very easy habit to start with the small pocket knife in that little pocket. First, it freed up a main pocket that always had the pocket knife and bandana shoved down on it. With the start of carrying a cell phone, my right hand pocket space got crowded real quick. Second, it was nice to not have to reach all the way down past the wadded up bandana to get my knife to cut something.
The Case peanut was the start of that little pocket carry. Then came the small SAK's. A Schrade Uncle Henry 897 was carried there for a while. Now a Boker 240 pen takes turns with a Victorinox secretary or a beat up old Buck 309 companion. I may try a Case mini copperhead in there in the near future. I just haven't made my mind up between a clip point or wharncliffe. I think the wharnie is calling my name a little louder.
Now that I have become an old fart, shocking as it is to me, I'm now one of the watch pocket knife old guys. It's just soooo darn handy, I now know what those guys were doing. The small knife carried in an out of the way pocket worked for them. A small jack or pen, or a little lock blade. It's a handy way to carry a small cutter.
When I was young, about when blades were moving from iron to steel, the old guys were always a mystery to me. I'd see the old guy who needed a knife to cut something, take a moment to look over the situation, then slowly reach into the watch pocket of the jeans and get out a little pen knife and make one neat slice. Okay, small blade sometimes sawed a few times back and forth a bit. But being the young guy I always wondered why those old guys carried such a small pocket knife.
Being young and full of vinegar, I carried a knife that was a little too big for a watch pocket or coin pocket, or whatever you call them. That little pocket up just below the belt line of most jeans. A full size stockman just is too tight a fit, as is the full size sodbusters from my sodbuster stage. The smaller SAK's fit in there pretty good, and my better half Karen, is responsible for me getting turned onto the 58mm Victorinox's.
But, as time wore on, and I eventually caved in and started trying the little knives, I found the watch/coin/little knife pocket to be a good thing. After my dad passed away and I carried his old Case peanut for a bit, it got to be a very easy habit to start with the small pocket knife in that little pocket. First, it freed up a main pocket that always had the pocket knife and bandana shoved down on it. With the start of carrying a cell phone, my right hand pocket space got crowded real quick. Second, it was nice to not have to reach all the way down past the wadded up bandana to get my knife to cut something.
The Case peanut was the start of that little pocket carry. Then came the small SAK's. A Schrade Uncle Henry 897 was carried there for a while. Now a Boker 240 pen takes turns with a Victorinox secretary or a beat up old Buck 309 companion. I may try a Case mini copperhead in there in the near future. I just haven't made my mind up between a clip point or wharncliffe. I think the wharnie is calling my name a little louder.
Now that I have become an old fart, shocking as it is to me, I'm now one of the watch pocket knife old guys. It's just soooo darn handy, I now know what those guys were doing. The small knife carried in an out of the way pocket worked for them. A small jack or pen, or a little lock blade. It's a handy way to carry a small cutter.
