What Traditional knife do you miss the most?

Gary W. Graley

Gary W. Graley

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I've own so very many knives over the years, all my friends at work are under the impression that I must have a small museum of knives at home ;) far from that, as I usually sell in order to get something new, thinking back on the knives I've owned a couple still make my heart break when I think about them.

Probably the most missed is this wharncliff by WhiteWing, a Baily Bradshaw endeavor, with mammoth ivory scales;

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and the next one would be this lovely albeit larger Bose/Case Yukon sweet knife!

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So, what are your guys/gals heartaches ?
G2
 
None here, really. I've only been at this a couple of years and I have only sold a couple of traditional knives.

I still have almost everything I ever bought. :eek: I gave away or sold a few of my modern knives once I switched over primarily to traditionals, but I don't really miss them per se. Great knives but not something I need.
 
Long ago I had my great-grandfathers jackknife. Due to poor choices when I was a younger man I no longer have it. I REALLY wish that I could get it back. I can still imagine what it looked like but I do wonder how clear that memory really is.

Jim
 
Chambriard le compact en serf (Stag) Lost it nearly a year ago on a trip and really mortified by it as it had such fine stag. You have to expect losses with possessions but I do miss it.

Don't miss any I've sold (few in number) or the ones I gave away (quite a few..) that's intentional so it's different.

Thanks, Will
 
3.5" single blade shadow trapper by Reese Bose. It was a great knife, should have kept and carried that one.
 
Gary, I to miss my Case/Bose Yukon Jack along with an Arkansas Jack. Someday I'll pick them up from somewhere.
 
Way too many I'm afraid.
Any of my GEC 15's,Case swayback,2011 forum knife ect ect
 
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Lost on a sandy beach on Pea Island, N.C. Outer Banks earlier this summer while flying my kites...I don't lament the ones that I have sold, traded, or gifted. Those were choices that I made. The few that have been truly "lost" are the ones that I regret...:(
 
In my early teens I bought a Puma Hunter’s Pal. This was during Puma’s great days, they were still new in America. I loved that knife.

So did my older brother. He talked me into trading it to him. I didn’t want to, but he knew how to manipulate me. Sigh.
 
My Tidioute #82 In black bone. Lost it over July 4th weekend after having it around just a week. Traveled 3 states with me before we parted ways in PA. Sweet knife.
 
I've never owned one, but I've been drooling over barlows for years now. I wish GEC would release a new run, would do unspeakable things for a single jack blade in ebony.
 
Raymond1000 said:
In my early teens I bought a Puma Hunter’s Pal. This was during Puma’s great days, they were still new in America. I loved that knife.

So did my older brother. He talked me into trading it to him. I didn’t want to, but he knew how to manipulate me. Sigh.
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I had one of those too with a nice custom basket weave sheath. I forgot about that one till I read your post. I was a real nice knife but a pattern I didn't care for.
 
My first knife, an 8OT that my Dad gave me back in the 60's and my first SAK, a Vic Champion bought in '72 that rode with me or in my camera bag for over 30 years. Both lost in the '06 wildfire with the rest of my collection.
 
jac8610 said:
I've never owned one, but I've been drooling over barlows for years now. I wish GEC would release a new run, would do unspeakable things for a single jack blade in ebony.
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We're in the midst of a new run right now.
 
Ebbtide said:
What?
You let them go??

Egads.
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Yep, it's a sad fact of life here in the G2 household, but I have a feeling I'm not alone. I know some of you guys/gals can and do hold on to all you get, I surely wished I could do that but, I am not that solvent to be able to afford it without taking funds from my day job, I won't do that, as then I can't enjoy it if I know it takes away money from my house and family. Just the way I grew up, buy what you can afford, so selling knives to fund new ones or making sheaths and saving up is about the only way I get new toys. Also a few friends have sent me some nice folders which I greatly appreciate and those don't get sold.

Right now I'm at a pretty low point of my collection, due to some bills from my silly ankle :( but I am trying to save up some pennies to take down to GEC open house and see if I can find something I can't live without there ;)

G2
 
A SAK Army knife
The one with the long saw and opener
And a long blade and no more..........

never mind

Then
A Sheffield Rogers double edged stiletto in stag sheath knife
Oh well!!!
 
I tend to hold onto stuff I like as well as a lot of stuff I don't like as much. Packrat syndrome, I suppose. The knives I give away (I'm not into the trading/selling routine) are knives I don't particularly like for one reason or another.
 
My original Imperial Schrade Boy Scout knife that I took with me to Vietnam. Gave it to a South Vietnamese Boy Scout I ran into at a French Catholic school in Saigon.
 
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