What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

Boker stockman and a STA-SHARP senator pen

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Ice Tigre said:
Last nights carry, and will be todays, GEC Tidioute Beaver Tail 1 blade trapper in Beaver pond Bone. (#133). My first GEC that came yesterday. Wow(review coming soon).


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I'm carrying mine like this today. No pic, but mine is a whiter bone color, serial #059. Love the knife. Wow indeed.

BTW, nice pic, Ice Tigre.

-- Sam
 
Today it is my Case yellow CV pen, yesterday it was my yellow CV peanut. Yesterday the peanut bit me! :eek: It sure bites hard for such a little guy.
 
Not really a trad pattern, but currently it's a Victorinox. I forget the model - traveller or camper or similar. Apparently SAKS are ok in Queensland, Oz.
 
Thanks, sunnyd. This was my Father's Day gift this year. I have been hardly carrying anything else. The blade options are perfect for me. My wife and daughter really put a lot of thought into this gift and it means a lot to me. As far as the pic goes, I just got lucky. I'm very rusty. I used to practice alot of photography (black and whites) and it's been a while since I've touched a camera.
 
Case Sodbuster Jr, couldn't go without one any longer. Also traded for an old Queen winterbottom single blade pen knife.
 
Case CV Stockman - it's an older model just got in a trade. The bone is almost a carmel coloring, great knife.
 
I'm carrying a stag-handled Rough Rider medium toothpick. I'm totally smitten with Rough Rider right now. Cheap and Chinese though they may be, they are pretty darned nice little knives. I like them because I can actually afford to buy a bunch of them at once. I had 7 more show up this morning. They're so cheap and pretty, they're like candy for the eyes and fingers.

If I want ultra-high performance, I have that covered already. It's kind of fun to buy a bunch of different little knives- just to have them around to look at and play with.
 
moonwilson said:
I'm carrying a stag-handled Rough Rider medium toothpick. I'm totally smitten with Rough Rider right now. Cheap and Chinese though they may be, they are pretty darned nice little knives. I like them because I can actually afford to buy a bunch of them at once. I had 7 more show up this morning. They're so cheap and pretty, they're like candy for the eyes and fingers.
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I'll agree with that. Rough Riders are like eating peanuts, cheap and well made for the price, I've got 8 of them. They come in a large variety of patterns, so you can sample things you might not otherwise be able to afford. I don't like buying China, but I realized several years ago that I cannot buy anything anywhere that was not made in China or some other off-shore country. That's the new world order, not the old order of my childhood when I could walk into a hardware store and buy a small Case folder for $1.25.

Back to the original topic, I've got over 100+ knives, haven't done a count lately, I buy whatever I like, most of them old folders and some fixed blades. There is no rhyme or reason to my collection, although there are a small selection of scout/utility, TL-29 electricians, marlinspike/rope/sailor, barlow, whittlers, jacks, sodbusters. Many of them are old and worn and inexpensive, like Kutmaster, Imperial, Craftsman, Schrade, Camillus (although I know that is changing, don't flame me ;)) I just like the good old stuff I had when I was a kid.

Every now and then I will pick through the lot and take out a folder that I haven't paid much attention to and carry if for a few days, trying to remember why I bought it and what it's charms are, how it is useful to me. Great stuff, a hobby and addiction that is a whole lot cheaper than other things I could get into trouble with :D

Edit: I guess the theme to my collection is work knives and everyday knives, and I like them used, not mint. I especially like them if somebody has carved their initials into the handle. It's a piece of history.
 
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I know it looks like a 'spot the knife' picture, but I think knives are tools - and I love old tools...
Anyway: I'm carrying my 125OT and the Henckels that looks like my grandpa's.
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Peter
 
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