What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

The Novelty Cutlery Co. Oddfellows jack deserves the dignity of "Big" jack, I think. It was probably as big as the Case before it was so well used.
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I'll carry them all together for a little bit to justify my use of this thread for them.
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There. Now you don't have to trust me.
 
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dma1965 said:
In the 80s I began driving and muscle cars were the cheap cars because gas was well over $1 a gallon (it was around 50 cents a gallon in the 70s)
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I started driving in 1971. (East central Iowa) When there were no "gas wars" a gallon of regular leaded gas was $0.189. During the gas wars it cost between $0.159 to $0.169. Ethel was $0.05 to $0.12 (Sunoco 260) a gallon higher.
#1 and #2 Diesel was $0.059 a gallon. These prices included all the state and federal taxes!
Also, these were "full service" prices! "Self Serve" had not been "invented" yet.

A 30 gallon fuel tank (full size cars and station wagons) were common. "midsize" cars generally had a 25 gallon, "compacts" (Nova/Falcon etal) 18 to 20 gallon, and sub compacts (Corvair, Datsun, Mazda, Fiat, Pinto, Vega etal) had 10 to 15 gallon tanks.

Gas jumped to $0.359 literally overnight during Dick Nixon's second term, when OPEC raised prices across the board, in late 1973/early 1974.
"People"/"Humans" were very upset. Millions nation wide parked their cars and started riding bicycles, (the "bike craze" of 1973/1974) and where available, mass transit.
Tricky "I am not a thief!" Dick also lowered the speed limit to 55 mph/88 Kph, to "save gas". He blackmailed all the states to lower their speed limit. (Montana had to set a limit. They were "whatever is safe and prudent for the conditions".) by cutting all federal highway funds to the states that did not comply.
By the way, the "experts" bac then were pretty much unanimous that the world would be out of fossil fuels by 2010.
(I did not buy it. NO serious development of alternatives such as HPV's, EV's and hydrogen power cells. (break down water to hydrogen & water for fuel.)

In 1996, gas in Kansas (AKA: "Hell" due to the 45~55 mph "light breezes") hit $1.399 self serve/$1.499 for a gallon of regular unleaded..
I decided "too much! 🤬" I sold my cars, bought a good used bicycle (1984 Fuji Mt. Fuji), and have not owned a car since.

If I needed to use a car, I used one of the company cars assigned to me. (Let the company pay for insurance, registration, fuel, and maintenance.) Around town/inside 60~70 miles round trip, the bicycle with a kiddy trailer converted to a cargo trailer, and later in Tampa/St. Pete, South Florida, and the Keys, an adult tricycle pulling a garden/nursery cart was all I needed. 😁👍

Gas and diesel will NEVER drop to pre-1973 prices again. That $0.189 a gallon I was paying (and the $0.069 a gallon my dad paid when he started driving) included all the state and federal excise taxes.
Those taxes are currently over $2.80 a gallon.
 
I'm just going to come right out and say it!

I hope I never get to the point where I am completely overwhelmed by all the beauty that comes my way on a daily basis that I can no longer function as a human.
But it would be fun to try.
(don' think too hard about this or take it too seriously)
 
dma1965 said:
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Another one of my customized Camillus electrician’s knife. I replaced the delrin scales with ironwood and ground the screwdriver into a wharncliffe blade.
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That turned out good
sf fanatic said:
Another cool and found day here in the City by the Bay! Decided to get jiggy with these two beauties today. Have a great day folks! 😀
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Can't beat the handles on that pair
dma1965 said:
In the 80s I began driving and muscle cars were the cheap cars because gas was well over $1 a gallon (it was around 50 cents a gallon in the 70s) and everyone was getting rid of those gas hogs.

Those were indeed the good old days.
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I started driving in the 70's in northern manitoba and gas was cheap then at 3 dollars a gallon,
 
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