What knife did/does your grandfather carry?

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Just wondering
What knife did/does your grandfather carry?
Mine carries a Double Action socom(NO IM NOT BEING FRIVOLOUS)
Thanks for sharing
 
I am fortunate enough to have a folder from each of my grand fathers. One is a small friction folder, about 2.5" long. The other knife is a small 3 bladed Henckles with jigged bone handle.

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My maternal grandfather had quite a lot of knives over the years, but then so did most Sheffield folk of his generation. He gave me a couple of Joseph Rodgers 'jack knives' he carried in WW 2 and I know he had a F-S he wore as a boot knife, don't know the maker though. He once showed me a flick-knife as a kid, but I think that was something he brought back from the war along with a German Luger. He was a very handy guy, made his own fishing rods and lots of other stuff, and had various Joseph Rodgers and William Rodgers wharncliffe patterns, one of which he gave me. He also had a Rodgers 'Bunny' knife, another small slip-joint with a clipped main blade and an additional smaller spear-point, which I also ended up with, but sadly lost many years ago. I was thinking of buying a Sheffield slip-joint out of nostalgia the other night, but to be honest, sadly, most of the knives produced there for years have been sub-standard and some of the manufacturers are now asking money for them they simply aren't worth, and also continuing to pass off machine-ground blades as handmade knives. I still have a good Shrade-Wostenholm stag-handled lock-back, but unfortunately it's no longer legal EDC here in the UK.

 
My father and grandfather both carried a Barlow at all times...I'm not really into most older style/traditional knives but A.G. Russel now has a great looking Barlow in his catalog and I may have to grab one for myself.
 
Case slipjoints, one a stockman pattern, the other a moose pattern.

I have both along with my late father's pocket knives put away.
 
Both my grandfathers passed away some ten years ago, and I inherited their knives.

The one on my mother's side of the family was an army doctor in Patagonia in his youth, and then moved to the city and started a private practice. I don't have the knives he carried when he was younger, but in his urban years he loved slim 2 blade equal end penknives. He had half a dozen made in his Spanish home town of Ibi, and a few Victorinox and Wengers I gave him. Sorry, no pics of those right now.

My grandfather on my dad's side managed sugar cane fields, cattle ranches, etc. So he used the traditional fixed blade work knives most rural folks in my country carry. The first one is a 5" Herder with a stag handle and silver buttcap, the second one is a 4" Böker with a silver and gold handle and sheath (that blade has been in my family, with different handles and sheaths, for generations). He also liked folding knives, these two were the ones he used the most. The lockback is a Böker and the SAK is a Wenger with a pretty nifty tool selection. I took the pics a while ago with a crappy camera and bad lighting.

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A carbon blade, yellow plastic Ideal brand jack knife style inexpensive thing . I ended up with it after he passed. He was a poor immigrant and was molded by the depression so the whole idea of spending lots of money on something like a knife would have seemed pretty frivolous to him. His tools were of better quality and are still in great shape despite being probably 70-80 years old.
 
My paternal grandpa carried a victorinox executive every day that i knew him. After he passed away back in 2000 i inherited all three of them that he would rotate. As for maternal i never really remember him carrying one, but after he passed in 2005 i found a small collection on old imperial slipjoints that look like they had all seen a lot of use.
 
I have a Remington slipjoint and some Mora fixed blades from one of mine, but he died before I was born so don't know how often they were carried.

Edit: Forgot my brother took pics for me, but I can't find the one of the Remington one at the moment.

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My grandpa carried a K55K Mercator knife, something like this...

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(knife on the top)

This is not his knife, but his one might have been similar to this. German traditional.

Kind regards
 
Both Granddads carried slipjoints,one a large Boker Stockman,the other carried a small Case of some sort.I still have the Boker.-Jim
 
My wife's grandfather had many knives, but he liked something slim and not big, the last one he carried, to the best of my knowledge before he passed away and I received his collection, was a Boker Red boned serpentine stockman. I have it in my top drawer of my bureau now and I like just thinking how he used it.
 
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