What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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I can't imagine what the crew of that ship would know about his knife carries, but who knows? 🤓 I figure he was from a generation of American males who almost all carried some kind of folding knife, and he's the only US president who was an Eagle Scout, so I'll bet he carried a knife. The Gerald R Ford Museum website has a lot of documents online (most of which are scans of typewritten pages from the pre-computer days of Ford's prime). One that I looked at was a list of all the gifts he had received for a specific year while president; I guess that was a required report to help prevent "influence peddling" and related shenanigans. There was a pocket knife listed there, but I don't remember what kind or from whom it came. I should probably look it up again and record it in my "BF Notes" for easier access, now that my internal memory needs frequent external assistance.


Thanks, Jeff. :) Don't know how accurate the stories are, though. Whenever I get together with my Dad or siblings and we start reminiscing, I find out that many of us have very different memories of the same event! o_O

Case Knife of the Week is an amber bone canoe. (This is actually the 4th canoe I've posted this week: 2 as canoes of the week, my stag/horn knife of the week yesterday was a RR stag canoe, and my Case KotW happens to also be a canoe.)


Colonial/Imperial/Schrade Knife of the Week is a small Imperial serpentine clip/pen jack. It used to belong to my father-in-law, who gave it to my wife when he got a new knife (before I knew either of them). My wife found it in a box one day almost 30 years after we got married, and that's what got me carrying a pocketknife again, 45 years after I stopped carrying a knife daily when I left the dairy farm on which I was raised.


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This has been a canoeriffic week for you.

One of the things I always wonder when I see canoes (or muskrats or mooses (meese?)) is how many springs they have.

I'm a huge fan of two-spring stockmen, but have limited interest in three-spring stockmen. In the same way, one-spring canoes (or muskrats or mooses) catch my attention, but two-spring versions are less interesting to me.
 
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