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I don't remember how old I was when I got my first pocket knife -- as far back as I can remember I was carrying one. I can remember being about eight, and saving up my money to by an old imitation pearl handle Imperial "Banana" knife; at about nine or ten I bought one of those old big-ass Western Bowies for about $25.00, which was fortune for me at the time. I went through several Cub Scout and Boy Scout knives, and one of my proudest possessions was a Marbles Ideal hunting knife my dad bought me when I was about 11 -- it went on many a Boy Scout campout. (As a matter of fact, I still have it).
By the time I was in my mid-teens I had about 30 knives, nothing very expensive (then). I had about ten or so old bayonets (my friends and I used to "swordfight" in the front yard with the old 17" Enfield bayonets -- these days we'd have been hauled off to juvie hall). I carried a folding KA-BAR with a 4.5" blade every day of high school -- the damn thing stuck halfway out of my back pocket, everybody knew it was there, and nobody cared.
So -- I've like knives as far back as I can remember. But lately . . . it seems like one knife at a time is not enough. For the past few years I've been carrying two -- one for the mundane everyday chores, and the other kept razor sharp for close encounters of adversarial kind. It was a little akward at first, and I had to make sure one didn't get jealous of the other ("Oh fine, you use ME for all the hard work, and the Kabar just sits arounds and does nothing all day" or "Hmmmph. You never pay attention to me. What's that Gerber have that I don't?") I thought two knives were all that any man need to handle -- could handle -- at once.
But lately --- sometimes I think about what it would be like with THREE knives. Maybe something new and sleek and dangerous looking, with a non-reflective black protective coating on the blade. A real looker, but not too flashy.
What do y'all think?
By the time I was in my mid-teens I had about 30 knives, nothing very expensive (then). I had about ten or so old bayonets (my friends and I used to "swordfight" in the front yard with the old 17" Enfield bayonets -- these days we'd have been hauled off to juvie hall). I carried a folding KA-BAR with a 4.5" blade every day of high school -- the damn thing stuck halfway out of my back pocket, everybody knew it was there, and nobody cared.
So -- I've like knives as far back as I can remember. But lately . . . it seems like one knife at a time is not enough. For the past few years I've been carrying two -- one for the mundane everyday chores, and the other kept razor sharp for close encounters of adversarial kind. It was a little akward at first, and I had to make sure one didn't get jealous of the other ("Oh fine, you use ME for all the hard work, and the Kabar just sits arounds and does nothing all day" or "Hmmmph. You never pay attention to me. What's that Gerber have that I don't?") I thought two knives were all that any man need to handle -- could handle -- at once.
But lately --- sometimes I think about what it would be like with THREE knives. Maybe something new and sleek and dangerous looking, with a non-reflective black protective coating on the blade. A real looker, but not too flashy.
What do y'all think?
