What is the oldest pocket knife you own and even still use?

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So what is it? I just love the old ones and want to hear about yours!
Knifeman==>-----
 
i have an old buck folder given to me by my grandpa when i was seven to keep in my tackle box is crusty and ugly but is still in tackle box after all these years
 
My oldest knife is a Buck 110 that I bought in the late 60's. It has some knicks and scrapes and the blade is worn down some. The tip was slightly bent many years ago when I used it to do almost more than it could do. It has been repaired, but you can still tell that had been damaged. It still works as well at what it was intended to as it did when it was new.

This knife will be with me until I die. It has gone this far, it will go the rest of the way. I do not carry it every day. I have a few pocket knives and I like to switch them around.

This is the only production knife that I still carry. Say's a lot for how much I think of this knife.
 
A small celluloid scaled "Keen Kutter" pen knife. Should trade it to some collector, but it does take and hold an edge well.
 
I still occasionally carry a small pen knife made by Frost that my older brother gave me when I graduated the eighth grade in 1981.

Real deer antler handles, and 2 blades.
 
An old Case peanut I found in the basement of my fraternity house about 8 years ago. It was old then, I don't know how old exactly. It is a great little knife, stays sharp, fits anywhere and is sheeple freindly. It may be collectible, but I don't plan on parting with it because I like it so much. It has a cracked bone scale and discolorations on the blade, they were there when I found it.
 
I have a Buck Trapper that I bought sometime around 1970 - 1972 that still sees occasional use (mostly by my wife) around the house.
 
A SAK that I got for a graduation present in 1969; it has the same features as a current-production "Tinkerer", but is slightly smaller in all dimensions. Anyone know why?

A Buck 112 that my dad bought me just prior to my shipping out to Nam in 1970, and which was my constant companion during my eight years in the army and the first ten years of my police career until true pocket folders (i.e., Spyderco) appeared. The blade is considerably thinner now, especially at the tip, but still holds an edge. This knife has a lot of nostalgic value, and therefore is not an EDC anymore. But it is in my drawer, ready to cut something...<G>

I wish I still had the "demo knife" that I carried in the army. This was a large slip-joint "pocket" knife that we carried in a green nylon open-top belt pouch. As I recall, it had a large plain blade, a combo screw-driver/bottle opener blade, a small plain blade, and a punch/awl (that worked great for digging a cap well out of the end of a 1/4 clock of C-4).

Anyone know more details about this knife, and if it is still available?

Steve
 
SAK I bought in the summer of 82. The model was called "Ranger". It has held up good for all its been through.
 
Steve C,

If your slipjoint was similar to the old Cub Scout/Boy Scout knife in stainless steel, they're still made by Camillus.

Mike
 
Michael is right, and I think they still sell them at SMKW.
Thanks for all the stories!
Knifeman==>-----
 
First "real" knife was a Buck 112. Before that Camillus trapper, boy scout knife and a barlow. But the Buck was my first locking knife and I have never used a slip joint since.

I stopped using the Buck in 1999 when I got my first Spyderco knife!
 
> "I stopped using the Buck in 1999 when I got my first Spyderco knife!"

I read this sentiment a lot. I bet it's sold a lot of Rolaids in El Cajon.
 
Michael is indeed correct. KnifeCenter has it as the "CMS1760b Camillus US Scout Utility Knife Stainless handle".

Sigh; another trip down Memory Lane... thanks, fellows.

Steve
 
Got you guys all beat :)

I have a stockman from Imperial dating back to the late 1920's to early 30's according to Lvine. I redid the handles with red stabilized maple burl cuz the bone was all but cracked off. it's usually my EDC.
 
I dont but my dad has a boker soligen steel knife that was made in 1910. and it is very sharp and will keep and edge as well. it is in pretty good condition also. besides the tarnish on the blade but that is normal
 
A vintage Puma stag hunting knife from the 50's that I use quite a bit, and has stag slab sides, clip point, and saw on the back side of the blade and is in great shape. I also have a 1975 CASE Trapper red bone, that gets its occasional use.
 
I have a Gerber LST that is around 17 years or so old. It was my EDC for around 12 years, and I still carry it often. The older ones like mine had a nail notch on the blade, the new ones don't. The newer ones also have a model no. on the blade, but my old one doesn't. I've sharpened around 3/16" off the tip, and probably 1/8" off the edge of the blade over the years. It's been a good knife, and I like it better than the newer one I have. Now, had my Gerber Folding Sportsman not been lost in a freak airport luggage mishap, I think it would have been my oldest user. Loved that knife...:)
 
The oldest knife I still use is BM401. Above 5 years it’s my EDC knife
 
I'm not sure which of the 2 is older and these knives are still very much in use cutting boxes, plastic wrappings, ropes and strings in the house.

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