What was the most popular knife when you were in school?

High School 64-68. Rural New jersey, Hunterdon County. 80% of everyone I knew hunted. Probably 90% fished.

Buck's were big. Their various fixed blades and the 110 folder. (Not 100% sue on that model #)
 
Mid 80's. Buck 110's, and original Bali-Songs were popular. The blue collar kids had the Buck's, and the rich kids had the Bali's. Oh....Cold Steel push daggers, and SAK's were pretty popular too.
 
Grade school in early 60's-most guys played marbles or chased/ran from giels at recess. I do rember playing mublypeg a time or two but dont recall the knife I borrowed from dads drawer to do so. middle and high school was a small stockman, schrade or buck. By early seventys some teacher and students were starting to question the "legality" of knives at schhols but many guys still "got sick" the first day of deer season and/or brought thier deer rifles to school. Left it in thier truck during the day except for "show and tell during smoke breaks". Thanks dullone, Im that old too some days.hashbrown HUH?
 
I graduated HS in '04. I carried a United Cutlery Sentry knife in the provided shoulder sheath under my jacket. Against the law and rules, but I grew up in New Orleans...

My pocket carry was a Buck 110 gifted to me by an Aunt.

I saw a lot of those Spyderco looking things with the plastic thumb stud and the eagle on the handle, and a few Gerber Gators
 
I graduated in 2006 from a tiny k-12 school with less than 300 students in the entire district. I'm sure it was against the rules but no one ever enforced it. Of course this was rural eastern Kentucky.

I had a Schrade SP1 that I carried on my keys. Sometime around Junior year I started carrying a Boker 3 blade stockman. Never really gave it a second thought I always viewed it as a tool. I know some of the guys in my class had Case Stockmans or Trappers. I remember a few of the girls having small SAKs on their keys.
 
I graduated in the early 90’s in Alabama. Most people carried cheap flea market knives. Frost Cutlery and Buck folders were popular. The top blade you could carry was definitely the Gerber Gator.
 
I don't remember carrying a knife in school. Except for that time in kindergarten. But i had a 18 pattern case medium stockman.

I do remember a teacher asking to borrow a guys knife, used it and gave it back to him. Stockman I believe.

Late 70's-early 90's.
 
Dang I was born in the wrong era lol graduated in 2009, and wasn’t really into knives then. Good thing because I probably would’ve got kicked out if I had a knife on me ( got suspended for 3 days once for getting caught with chewing tabacco when I was a senior!)
 
Went to high school in South Florida, graduating in 1987. Carrying a knife was a big no no. So I'm proud to say I carried at the very least a SAK Classic EVERY SINGLE DAY through graduation. Others in rotation were an Old Timer 33OT jack, a Schrade LB7 (that I traded a cheapo Mexican switchblade for ...... during Mr. Miller's English class), a Buck 501 Squire, a Case medium stockman and one of those large-sized SAKs that don't lock (forget the model name). I remember among my "redneck" pals, it was seemingly required to have a Buck lockback in one back pocket, and a can of Skoal or Copenhagen in the other.
 
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I graduated in 1995
I carried a case stockman and most of my friends carried stockman or trappers. Among those of us who went hunting, the buck 110 and gerber gator were very popular
 
Central Texas farm country (61-73) - mainly peanuts, stockmen and jacks. The venerable Buck 110s/112s didn't really take off until my Senior year (72-73). That's when I bought my first 110, as a HS graduation present to myself.

I bought a 112 during the fall of 73, as it was slightly smaller and was "less visible" in my Texas A&M Corps of Cadets uniform pockets - meaning the Pissheads in my platoon didn't notice it during inspections.
 
Almost universally it was some sort of small jack or pen knife about 2 3/4 to 3 1/4 closed. This was the 1950's, and everyone carried some sort of small pocket knife to cut twine or open mail or cut whatever. They were so universal that every five and dime store had a small stand up cardboard display up by the cash register with the little jack knives on them in rows. Usually had what was called cracked ice celluloid handle scales or plastic fake pearl handles. The stand up displays were right alongside plastic combs and nail clippers.

What was weird compared to now was, when I was growing up, if a man had pants on, he had a knife in one of those pockets. It was just a given, like the sun rising in the east, it got cold in winter, and a man had a pocket knife.

Once in a while you saw another kind of knife, like the Italian style switchblades the would be punks carried. All the gown men I was around then, dad, uncles, scout master, had great distain for what they called a "punks weapon." If they needed something more than their little pen knife, like going hunting, they carried a 'huntin knife." Likewise for fishing, they carried a fishing knife. The men who came home for the war, WW2, just carried their old issue Camillus or Kaybars to go huntin or camping. But for everyday they just carried the little two blade pocket knife the size go a SAK classic on the keychain. If things got rough and dirty, the old Stanley 99 got used. But the little pocket knife got used for a heck of a lot. Most times it was all they needed.
 
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I carried traditional folders and that is what I mostly seen others carrying as well. I recall seeing different styles and brands so I’m not sure which would be the most popular. Back when I was in school, teachers would either ask student to use their knife to cut something or students could borrow the teachers pocket knife.
 
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