What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

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Working to fix a long standing electrical issue today. Original owner of the house stuck an electrical plug box on top of a conduit on the outside of the house, but did not actually attach the box to the wall because it does not quite touch the wall. It's in an alleyway and things run into it every once in a while. I've patched the existing setup a half dozen times over the years, but never really fixed it. So today I'm fixing it by puttting a shim behind the box so that it can be attached to the wall with a screw. But to do that, I need to cut the PVC conduit which is right next to the wall. Turns out my SAK Farmer saw is the only saw I have skinny enough to fit between the wall and the conduit.

I said all that to say, "I'm carrying the SAK farmer with the orange cord on it."
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brokebladeenthusiast28 said:
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What model is your Frontier lockback?
Slice-and-dice said:
Using a nice 1950 Western L66 today…. Newer sheath. Gramps got it at the PX shortly after WW2. He always said Westerns were the favorites in the 50s and Bucks dominated the 60s and 70s among the outdoorsmen.

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I agree the Western L66 dominated in the 1950's.
Not sure about Buck dominating in the 1960's to early/mid1980's.
I lost the link, but from what I recall when researching the Western 66, the L/F/W66 was "the knife in the deer woods until at least the early/mid 1980's ... at least until the start of the Coleman-Western era.
I believe that Buck took the lead in the mid/late 1980's. (I could be mistaken, of course.)
I remember in the 1960's and 1970's the L66 was the Official BSA sheath knife. I don't remember a lot of Buck ads in my dad's hunting/fishing magazines ('Outdoor Life' and 'Field and Stream') in the 1970's. I remember mostly Western, a few Marbles 'Ideal' and Puma 'White Hunter', Schrade Old Timer Sharp Finger, and a handful of Buck 103 Skinner ads.
Also, from what I remember, the Western was more budget friendly than the Buck, Marbles, and Puma sheath knives.

I know I had a L66, my step father had a F66 Black Beauty when we met c.1968 (if he bought it in Iowa or Missouri, and when, I don't know. He was from MO., lived in Iowa until he retired to MO., c.1980. He deer hunted in both states.)
All my friends and high school classmates who hunted had a Western 66. I believe the L66 was the most common on their belt at school during hunting season.
 
Will Power said:
Outstanding pairing but the grooved Stag is more than outstanding 🤣 Beautiful knife that speaks Old School in just the right way, not surprised you want to get that Pruner in action :thumbsup:
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Thank you Will. I was absolutely delighted to get this one. The stag is some of the finest Ive seen on a gec. Here's better pics. It was getting late and I couldn't capture the stag as well as I would have liked.

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