What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

Nice clean cut, evidence of a properly sharpened blade, guess its officially mine now

 

[Old Engineer]

Today's carry :




Harry

 

[DelOro]

I generally don’t like acrylics, but the humming bird Churchills are the exception. What a looker!

I’ve got this Robeson scout knife with me today.

Thank You.

Frankly, I wasn't a fan of acrylics either until this one (my first ).

I really liked the #35's and always seem to gravitate toward Northfield's with satin blades.

The color and the metallic depth are incredible on these #35 Hummingbirds (should be owned by all - shameless plug!).

 

[kenspen]

Eureka!

 

[Will Power]

kenspen One of GEC's best Jacks in my view

 

[Spaten]

Thanks, Nick.



I love that strawberry bone (which, I th


- Stuart

Thank you, I really like it myself!

How do you answer this question?

We took our granddaughters swimming at the beach on Lake Geneva Wisconsin yesterday. When you enter, they put a wrist band on you. Afterward, I used my tiny little SW Stockman that @r8shell gave me last year to cut them off.
The 11 yr old asked, “Papa, why do you always carry a knife?”

~ I like knives
~ Something always needs cutting
~ Everyone should
~ So I can show my friends on Blade Forums what I’m carrying

I nearly always get asked this question either when cutting something, or because someone asked to borrow my knife. My reply is typically, “this, right now is why a have a knife.”

Wednesday afternoon already and I haven't posted any of this week's carries in this thread yet. No time like the present to get started.

Purely a coincidence, but my International Knife of the Week is a Douk-Douk from France, home of the World Cup winners:
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I also have another knife from a foreign land, but it's serving as Lambsfoot of the Week. It's the stag senator I won in a GAW (thanks, @R.c.s ), and I call it my Man Jack:
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I have another stag knife (from Germany) that is my Stag/Horn Knife of the Week, an AG Russell Mohawk canoe:
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I have another canoe that fills the role of Canoe of the Week, a cracked ice Chinese Imperial:
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Stunning stag!

- GT

Today's carry :




Harry

Those are some beautiful barlows!

 

[Will Power]

How do you answer this question?

We took our granddaughters swimming at the beach on Lake Geneva Wisconsin yesterday. When you enter, they put a wrist band on you. Afterward, I used my tiny little SW Stockman that @r8shell gave me last year to cut them off.
The 11 yr old asked, “Papa, why do you always carry a knife?”

~ I like knives
~ Something always needs cutting
~ Everyone should
~ So I can show my friends on Blade Forums what I’m carrying

A polite and interesting question always merits a polite and interesting response

You nailed it But you could add, gallantly, "Because they're beautiful, just like you!" Very true, and what woman whatever her age can resist a touch of flattery?

Thanks, Will

 

[kai76]

 

[dispatch184]

WOW Drew, what a knife and what color!!!

Exceptional knife!

DEFINITELY a bonus Dylan, great shot! Two great-looking knives too

WOW!!!!!

Great pattern, I think, Frank. I wish I still had my version in smooth tobacco bone

Thanks, Steve, and back at you.

That is beautiful. Someone needs to start a mammoth ranch so more of us can get such beauties. Until then, please keep posting yours.

- Stuart

I just love that knife.

She has outstanding taste! One of the best UH’s I’ve seen!

I thought it would be awhile before knife jealousy got to me after what I just got, but you managed to incite a bit! Stellar.

Thank you all for the kind comments on my dino!

 

[kfalk]

Love it!

I’ve been carrying my new Pepe Jalomo Lanny’s Clip this week. Jigged Emerald Shadetree Burlap Micarta handles. It’s a bigger pocket knife than I usually carry, at 4” closed. But it’s light and feels great in hand.

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[tmd_87]

The mid day football practice switcheroo!

 

[TheChunk91]

What is the make of that one?

 

[Will Power]

Remarkable! Look at how the jigging 'invades' those exquisite bolsters

Do you own a poor knife? I don't believe you would...

Thanks, Will

 

[Will Power]

As it's already Thurs here and the heat is still oppressive and keeping me awake... this will be my carry on waking. All stainless, horn and locking 9cm Lag from Fontanille-Pataud XS

 

[kai76]

What is the make of that one?

It’s a Brantford.

Remarkable! Look at how the jigging 'invades' those exquisite bolsters

Do you own a poor knife? I don't believe you would...

Thanks, Will

Ha! Thanks Will! My knives are one of the reasons I’m poor.

 

[The Fort]

 

[jwb01]

Nice clean cut, evidence of a properly sharpened blade, guess its officially mine now

Yep! Y’all have bonded!

 

[jwb01]

Current edc and possibly ... new edc?

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Bodacious bone!
Would love to see more...

 

[Dallawag]

This is my first post - I have referred to this site for years and just became a member a few days ago.

I may be a bit late to the game, but I wanted to contribute:

I currently alternate my edc between my Opinel No 6 carbon and my case sodbuster jr (I just added a cv yellow sodbuster to the collection and it is what I am carrying).


Let my put an image in (If I can figure it out).
First try:Hope this works!

Anyways, about my journey: learning to prefer traditional pocketknives.

I was gifted a knock-off buck (55like) lock-back folder when I turned 8 and became a little "cub scout". That knife could sharpen sticks and cut rope like a demon - pretty much all I needed it for.. I collected a few different other scout knives in my early teens (I also added a Case Sodbuster jr ss and an Otter Mercator).

In my teens I also got caught up into all the flashy 'tacticool" knives that can take out bad guys and zombies alike... they encumbered my pockets and felt so cool to have, but I used them very seldomly (if ever).

As a young adult I lived in Russia and Kazakhstan and was not able to carry anything resembling a weapon - I had some tactical Boker spearpoint knife confiscated by a military policeman on a train during a routine cabin search at some old soviet stop-n-search station in the middle-of-nowhere Kazakhstan.

So, naturally I bought a new knife as soon as I could (and came to again love and appreciate the simplicity and underplayed strength of your classic pocket folder).

I bought a carbon Opinel no. 6 knife for about 400 rubles (this was in Russia with an exchange of like 32 rubles to the American Dollar). I got it registered and had a sort of concealed weapon permit allowing me to carry this little knife through train checkpoints... this fixed my problem, but got me HOOKED on slipjoints, Opinels and the likes.

I carried this Knife every day for about 8 years. My wife and I just moved and I (unfortunately) lost the knife somewhere - my wife just replaced it for father's day 2018.

I used a giant sodbuster last Elk season to help filed dress and quarter our animal.
I've pushed an opinel much harder than I think those guys in France ever intended for.
My sodbuster jr has been on countless exhibitions - repelling, climbing, wilderness first-responding (yeah I made that into a verb)... and what have you.
I feel that I can use a simple pocket knife in any scenario without ever feeling ill-prepared... well, except for fighting zombies I guess...

This is a long post - kudos to anyone reading this!

Thanks for your posts throughout the years! I have admired your comments and taken LOTS of advise from the sidelines for such a long time!
I am glad to start participating.