What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[SV-97]

Useful>fancy in my book.
But I do think she’s quite beautiful.


Huh? What’s this “too many knives”?!?!

Where are/were you camping?

Haha yeah let's rephrase this: so many that I couldn't carry them all in the time we were there

We were camping in the Röhn area, a heavily wooded mountainrange (though the mountains are not THAT big), in the Bavarian part of it

 

[DelOro]

Today has turned into a 2'fer -- Have a terrific Thursday!

 

[Pt-Luso]

Stack of stunning stag, Senhor Pinto!!

Many thanks Mr. GT...

 

[Travman]

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

Thanks Amir! I actually just received this knife. The small blade is a nail breaker and snaps like a gator. Main blade has a pretty strong pull and snap too. One thing I noticed is that the pile side has 4 pins but the mark side has 3, not including the shield pin. It doesn’t look like it’s missing or the hole filled in/repaired. Is that normal? Would love to hear from you guys. Here it is opened. I don’t have a pic of the pile side. Will take some tomorrow.

That really is special. I personally would assume the shield pin is a real, peened in pin and is your 4th scale pin on the mark side, but don’t bust it apart to see!
Thanks for sharing the pics.

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Great ironwood!

Heavy dew on my favorite deck seating this morning, but it’s worth it to see the sunrise hit my trees.
View attachment 948707 A tiny pair of wrens are raising their second brood, and are extremely busy this morning.

 

[Jsega51]

Starting to form a little patina on the A2

 

[Half/Stop]

O1 / preban unobtanium lock back … shudder to think what this might be worth nowadays. Pendant by yours truly.

That is a beautiful knife John! The pendant ain't bad either! I am assuming the O1 is acid washed? If that is correct I really like the looks of it! Super Patina!!!

The ebony Churchill along with a new Bushboot arrival

That's a great pair Paul! Those boys from Georgia build a great looking FB knife! I have been doing a lot of looking and thinking about those lately! I saw one awhile back with Osage Orange and it was almost more than I could resist!

I have a brace of Ironwood today. Appropriate for Wooden Wednesday, I think.

Dylan that is some beautiful wood my friend! They are appropriate for any day!

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Very nice Ironwood!

I'm totin' these two today. It's hard to go wrong with a Red Sawcut Barlow and Rosewood Lambsfoot both in the pocket!

 

[joeradza]

@Chief One of your finest John.

Tim Robertson zulu in amber stag.

 

[Jack Black]

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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- GT

Those are all great knives GT, love the mighty Douk

Went camping as a graduation vacation and of course took way too many knives with me

Like you do! Congratulations on graduating

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.

Welcome to The Porch

Haha.
I realized that right after I posted the picture.

Maybe in like 30 or so years it will become a classic?

Maybe you could take 30 or so seconds to replace your pic with this one (below)? Seems a shame to spoil your first post by breaking the sub-forum guidelines. Nice collection

I have a brace of Ironwood today. Appropriate for Wooden Wednesday, I think.

Great pic Dylan

These two for me today (again)

 

[Ratbert]

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Wow! The light makes those covers just POP!

 

[kfalk]

 

[Ratbert]

Heavy dew on my favorite deck seating this morning, but it’s worth it to see the sunrise hit my trees.
View attachment 948707 A tiny pair of wrens are raising their second brood, and are extremely busy this morning.

Understood...up early, drinking my coffee in the back yard, is the best time of day for me. I call it, “Watching the world wake up.”

 

[SV-97]

Those are all great knives GT, love the mighty Douk



Like you do! Congratulations on graduating



Welcome to The Porch



Maybe you could take 30 or so seconds to replace your pic with this one (below)? Seems a shame to spoil your first post by breaking the sub-forum guidelines. Nice collection

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Great pic Dylan

These two for me today (again)

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Thanks, but maybe graduation was unfortunately worded. It was a trip to celebrate graduating the first year, so really I didn't graduate but merely didn't get kicked out this year The "real" graduation is still a year away

 

[Ratbert]

@Chief One of your finest John.

Tim Robertson zulu in amber stag.
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Alan, you have an enviable stag collection, but this one is my favorite!

 

[JohnDF]

Heavy dew on my favorite deck seating this morning, but it’s worth it to see the sunrise hit my trees.

Understood...up early, drinking my coffee in the back yard, is the best time of day for me. I call it, “Watching the world wake up.”

I do the same thing. Listening to the roosters crow, enjoying the cool air, and reading all the new posts on The Porch...

 

[joeradza]

Alan, you have an enviable stag collection, but this one is my favorite!

Thank you.

 

[Duckdog]

For Twins Thursday, I'm totin' two Miller Bros. jacks, both 3 3/4", both from 1872-1926, but with slightly different tang stamps and different shields.

- Stuart

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks, but maybe graduation was unfortunately worded. It was a trip to celebrate graduating the first year, so really I didn't graduate but merely didn't get kicked out this year The "real" graduation is still a year away

For Twins Thursday, I'm totin' two Miller Bros. jacks, both 3 3/4", both from 1872-1926, but with slightly different tang stamps and different shields.

- Stuart

Terrific twins Stuart!

 

[TheChunk91]

 

[SteveC]

For Twins Thursday, I'm totin' two Miller Bros. jacks, both 3 3/4", both from 1872-1926, but with slightly different tang stamps and different shields.

- Stuart

A couple of beauties !