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I have a Schrade 81OT stockman that my parents gave me when I turned 15. I've used it for cleaning fish, small game, and one year I butchered four deer with it as it was the only decent knife I had. My grandpa alway's carried a Schrade or a Case. When I got that Schrade it stuck with me through all these years. Now day's it occupies a hallowed place on my night stand, and each time I look at it I can see a different memory of the times I've had with it. One day I'll pass it on to one of my kids.

For many years that old Schrade was the only slippy I had. I used it often. Then my wife bought a Buck hunting knife for me, and the old Schrade kinda just sit back and watched the Buck do the work for a few years. Then, about 5yrs ago, I spotted a Case trapper at a hardware store. I asked for one for Christmas. Well, I've gotten a new Case for Christmas, and my birthday each year since. Plus, I've picked up quite a few off of Ebay, at flea markets, and yard sales. The collection is growing and I'm a bit addicted to slippy's now. They can do just about all the cutting jobs I need to have done. And, I continue to be amazed at the beauty of each one.
 
I've always liked pocket knives. When I was young, the Ace Hardware two blocks away had a nice display setup. Spent alot of time there gawking. I was also in the boy scouts.
 
Plus 1 on what Carl wrote. The fathers and grandads when I grew up all carried pocketknives, and I was in Scouts as well. Always had either a SAK or a stockman. Now I've got a few of both..plus others.
Paul
 
Hunted and fished a lot as a kid. Always had some kinda knife on me. Spent a lot of time on the Chesapeake Bay - crabbing, fishing, raking for clams - you need a decent knife. Baiting traps, setting lines, etc. etc.

Also went on the hunt for wild mushrooms with my father regularly, which requires a good fixed blade.

My first slipjoint was a small 2 blade slipjoint - then moved up into a SAK with multi blades / tools. Wish I still had those knives - that was a long time ago.

I moved away from traditional slipjoints for quite some time - actually from 1996 to about a few weeks ago, when I picked up a saddlehorn trapper from Keith Johnson.

So - now I carry the trapper FL pocket, a folder in my FR pocket, and a SAK in my RR pocket. If I ever fell in to the water by accident I'm sure to rocket straight to the bottom with all the weight I'm carrying.

Funny thing - my son really likes the traditional slipjoints - he doesn't have much of an appetite for the tacti-cool folders. He's 13.
 
First I got a Buck 110 Folding Hunter, when I was a boy. Then I didn´t carry it for many years. I was interessted in Tactical knives. They were evil, black coated and so on...

Then I found my 110 again. I started to EDC it. Then I bought a Case Mini Trapper Amber Bone SS. That was my first "real" traditional knife. Now I don´t want to carry these tactials any more, ´cause in public the traditionals are much more accepted then the tacticals... No screaming and running grandmas when you use it on parking area of a shop ;)

So perhaps the 110 was my first one or the Case. I can´t really tell it any longer.

Kind regards...
 
It's a progressive disease though. The TLAR sodbuster caused me enough discomfort in the pocketbook that I didn't buy a knife for two months, but having relapsed, I notice I'm now buying them two at a time. :eek:
Ed J
 
An old man and a Boker Stockman got me into knives as a youngster.I miss my Grandfather very much,I still treasure that old Stockman.-Jim
 
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