What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[TheChunk91]

Great pic. I’ve got hundreds of pictures of my shepherd in the puppy stage. They are the cutest things.


It’s a wonderful knife.

 

[Modoc ED]

Just got up and have a pot brewing. We have a Keurig coffee maker but sometimes, we like it brewed the old way. I'm even going to have it in a Wagon Wheel Cafe coffee mug but will have to use a straw to keep the coffee from leaking out of my split lip and running down my chin. Usually, I use a "to go" cup and don't require a straw when doing that. I'll be totin the Red Linen Micarta Bull Nose for the day.

 

[Boattale]

Just for variety's sake, today it's this Craftsman lockback.

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[Hickory n steel]

Lots of great knives being carried by everyone lately, I've been really busy with work and have been slacking off around here.
Too many great posts moving this thread along to keep up with.

Thankfully I've got a couple extra days off this week.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Just for variety's sake, today it's this Craftsman lockback.

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I've always liked this pattern lockback, they were made by Camillus I think.
I had the imperial backpacker which is a less expensive version of this without bolsters, they also had the imperial frontier 4514 with various colors of synthetic scales.
Faux ivory color, black, and I think I've green.

 

[Travman]

 

[JB in LV]

GEC 35 Beer & Sausage Knife

 

[baxtrom]

Sunny days are here again
Case mini trapper catching some rays 🕶

 

[screened porch]

 

[tomas_f]

 

[Lee D]

I’m assuming Alox is considered “traditional”?

 

[Jakeywax31]

86 and the pioneer today. Work and getting my lazy butt back in the gym today. Have a great day everyone.

 

[Primble]

I love this knife, it is beautiful.

I am with you. I love it too ! Might be the simplicity of it.
Thank you for the nice comments !

 

[Ed G]

You’re making that knife look pretty good, Paul!

Thank you, Sir!
It’s easy when you’re workin with a supermodel!

 

[hsherzfeld]

My Opinel No.7 sliced my apple at lunch today. Gotta build up that patina!

 

[JohnDF]

Looking pretty again.

 

[Boattale]

I've always liked this pattern lockback, they were made by Camillus I think.
I had the imperial backpacker which is a less expensive version of this without bolsters, they also had the imperial frontier 4514 with various colors of synthetic scales.
Faux ivory color, black, and I think I've green.

I believe you're right about Camillus as the maker. It's a useful knife that's a nice size.

 

[baxtrom]

Honest question, not trying to be a smart Alek. What exactly is traditional and is it the same for me, as an old guy, as someone in their 30s? Is traditional what was popular when a person was growing up, or before? It may be a bit easier to define when talking firearms as traditional would be blue steel and wood furniture, but I am not sure with knives.

Definitions are always difficult… “Traditional” as in long established? But how long?

My personal definition: knife models/patterns that have been reasonably popular since back in the days when current generation of grandfathers were kids.

Hence, with an average age of 30 for becoming fathers, current young grandfathers were born around 60 years ago, and wanted knives when they were say ten. That makes the threshold half a century, or currently 1972

Edit: just read the traditional forum rules, realising there are more specific definitions at large here, lol. So I’ll refer to those instead

 

[Hibou Canne]

 

[calm]

Carried and used my Antonini old bear XL, one of my current favourites.

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