Traditional knife you keep coming back to...

I can see why these are the knives that everyone keeps coming back to. Some great choices. I'm particularly biased toward the 81 stockmen because that's my choice too

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_RJ_ said:
That's a nice looking knife. Mine is an Old Timer my dad gave me. It's nothing fancy, but has been overseas with me 3 times '04-'07. I plan to give it to my son when he gets older.

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RJ;I gut to agree with ya I've got more valuable knives and lesser knives but I allways find a Old Timer ends up in the rfp the most.
 
People may laugh, but one of these is always aboard:

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Knife #2 varies all over the place; today, it's this new one:

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Tomorrow...?
 
Knife I never left, at least since I bought it - Victorinox Alox Cadet. Been with me pretty much every day. Other knives go along with it, but those change up as the mood strikes me.

Barring that one, I don't have enough history to have one I keep coming back to, and I have so many that when I change up the daily carry it's rare that a former favorite comes back into the rotation. Pattern wise, it's "Case Stockman" but as far as a particular knife, no.
 
This Powderhorn does it for me:


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I have my dalliances that may take me away from it for days, or weeks at a time. But when I slip it back into my pocket, something just feels right about it. No rhyme or reason to why I took such an affinity to this one particular knife. The song, fools around and fell in love, comes to mind though...
 
Sooner or later I will get a Chambriard le Compact in ebony just like Will's...and I can definitely see why you keep coming back to it Gary :)
As for myself, a SAK Classic is almost always in my pocket...and when I come back to a knife, it's this one:

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Fausto
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Other than my peanut, I don't really have a single knife that I keep coming back to. But I gave it some thought and the knives I keep coming back to have two things in common.

1. They all have thin, flat blades. I've come to realize I really dislike thick blades ground any other way than flat. For a long time I thought the Buck 303 would be a great stockman to tote. I'm sure it IS for some guys. But when I finally got one, the thick blades really bothered me. In my stash of go-to knives, you'll find a few SAK, a GEC 66 Calf Roper Slim, a 33OT Old Timer, two Opinels, a Gerber LST, a small Kershaw lockback, and the aforementioned peanut. Thin, flat blades all.

2. The other characteristic my go-to knives have is a lack of abrupt, sharp corners when closed. I GREATLY prefer rounded bolsters, and blades where the tang corner is not exposed. A pocketknife spends most of its waking hours in your POCKET, right? I don't want something that's always poking my leg.

-- Mark
 
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Says it all... A Buck 112, oak scales and standard steel from the custom shop. And either a red jig bone Radio Jack or a nifebrite scaled Boys Radio knife.

Let's see if I can post old pics of the Radio Jack.


The SFO Radio Jack:
 
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Thanks Fausto, those look very nice as well ! and thanks guys, great looking knives all, the Buck's are hard to beat pricewise and utility wise too !
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I keep coming back to this GEC. It just seems to check all of the boxes for me. Right size, good blade shape, nice handle cover material and the handle shape just plain works for me. I would love to have stainless, preferably a new powdered steel but the 1095 gers scary sharp and is very easy to resharpen. I do have to use a little metal polish from time to time to keep patina at bay but it is not too bad.



 
mnblade said:
Other than my peanut, I don't really have a single knife that I keep coming back to. But I gave it some thought and the knives I keep coming back to have two things in common.

1. They all have thin, flat blades. I've come to realize I really dislike thick blades ground any other way than flat. For a long time I thought the Buck 303 would be a great stockman to tote. I'm sure it IS for some guys. But when I finally got one, the thick blades really bothered me. In my stash of go-to knives, you'll find a few SAK, a GEC 66 Calf Roper Slim, a 33OT Old Timer, two Opinels, a Gerber LST, a small Kershaw lockback, and the aforementioned peanut. Thin, flat blades all.

2. The other characteristic my go-to knives have is a lack of abrupt, sharp corners when closed. I GREATLY prefer rounded bolsters, and blades where the tang corner is not exposed. A pocketknife spends most of its waking hours in your POCKET, right? I don't want something that's always poking my leg.

-- Mark
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Mark, I couldn't agree more. Give me smooth corners and flat ground blades that cut well. Thick steaks are good, but in knife blades, give me thin!

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quattromori said:
Sooner or later I will get a Chambriard le Compact in ebony just like Will's...and I can definitely see why you keep coming back to it Gary :)
As for myself, a SAK Classic is almost always in my pocket...and when I come back to a knife, it's this one:

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Fausto
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So you finally got your sheath knife huh? The blade looks very similar to one you'd find on a resolza. Who made it?

jackknife said:
Mark, I couldn't agree more. Give me smooth corners and flat ground blades that cut well. Thick steaks are good, but in knife blades, give me thin!

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Carl,

There's something very wrong when your bunch of users lacks a single stag knife.

- Christian
 
jackknife said:
Who's laughing? I can't leave the house without my classic.:)
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In this thread, Carl, I'd love to be able to say something like, "Oh, yeah, I have this wonderful old traditional knife I got from my great-granduncle on my father's side, who bought it when he left for Patagonia in 1897..." But no. The old standby is an ordinary Classic, the latest in a series of them I've had since the mid-1970s. (As a design, the Classic is eternal. But as a piece of manufactured goods, not so much: they die on you.)

I'm enjoying the low-level interplay between the small Classic and whatever knife holds the #2-spot-du-jour. Currently working my way through Fred Anderson's Crucible of War, 800 very readable pages on the French and Indian War, knives and cutlery from the mid-1700s are drawing my interest. Hence:

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AreBeeBee said:
In this thread, Carl, I'd love to be able to say something like, "Oh, yeah, I have this wonderful old traditional knife I got from my great-granduncle on my father's side, who bought it when he left for Patagonia in 1897..." But no. The old standby is an ordinary Classic, the latest in a series of them I've had since the mid-1970s. (As a design, the Classic is eternal. But as a piece of manufactured goods, not so much: they die on you.)
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I know what you mean. Man, It's kind of embarrassing when I look at my knives, and I realize that the one that has been there for decades is the tiny, pedestrian, humble, classic. I haven't had one die on me, but I've worn one out, and given a bunch away to non knife people. I think back, and Ihad a classic on my keyring when I was carrying a Buck 301 as my everyday pocket knife. I still had one when I was carrying a Buck 303. Also a Case peanut, and now a Northwoods stockman. Kind of spooky.
 
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