What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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Cattaraugus225 said:
I suspect that "traditional" is variable by age. I think that knives made after about 1975 are modern. Traditional, to my way of thinking would be a two bladed Imperial. That is the kind of knife I saw, most often, when growing up. I can still remember the cards of knives in the old Standard filling station in my home town. Lots of "fish knives", cheap Barlows, Colonials and Imperials, the inexpensive fixed blades with plastic handles, and in the back room , knives with pictures of undressed women. Traditional costs, as I remember it was a buck, maybe a buck and a quarter, and everything was made in New York. One knife incident that I remember is that I came home (around 1964) with a very fancy colored Texas Toothpick and my father about had a stroke because it was the type of knives carried by "bad people." I specifically remember the word he called it, but today, the word can not be spoken in public, and rightfully so. The term was standard English in the Deep South at the time.

My father was in the plumbing and heating business and always carried a knife, most likely a Colonial or a Imperial two blade, and he always intentionally broke the pen blade to use as a flat head screwdriver. Back then, slotted screws were the standard.
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Interesting! Maybe that’s why those broken pen blades show up from time to time, it was done intentionally
 
TylerG12 said:
I have wanted a good, strong, solid lockback for quite a while. GECs 72LB in Gabon ebony or jigged bone is a grail knife for me, but the few times I've found one they're either 4 or 5 hundred dollars. I just can't afford that much, so I started looking around for some different lockbacks. Well, I finally went with this one, & it's built like a tank. So far, I'm very happy with it.
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The 112 is a great knife!
 
I like rotating the same 1-3 knives weeks, sometimes even months at a time. I’m starting to realize I have too many knives in my collection to keep doing that, might need to make the weekends or a few days out of the week my designated “bring something different out” days. Here’s something a little different for today.

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Hyesouljah said:
I like rotating the same 1-3 knives weeks, sometimes even months at a time. I’m starting to realize I have too many knives in my collection to keep doing that, might need to make the weekends or a few days out of the week my designated “bring something different out” days. Here’s something a little different for today.

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From what I have seen, your collection is amazing. I look forward to seeing what your toting around. Great pairing as usual.
 
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