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I've seen threads about the knives that we carried when we started collecting, knives we EDC and collect now and the Grail knives, the knives we dream about or someday plan to get.
So how about one thread to combine them all? Whether you started collecting 40 years ago or last year, whether your collecting/using traditionals, tacticals or investment blades this is the place to post your knives, stories and pictures.
In our hobby our needs, tastes and wants change rapidly, we all started somewhere with a knife and that knife eventually fails, falls short or is just replaced by something else that piqued our interests for one reason or another.
So here's the place for us to record the history and direction our collections are heading, I'll start.
Back in the early 70s when I seriously began collecting it started as a need for work. I was working as a Millwright while still in high school and needed a stout locking blade for heavy use, (cutting plastic drums, plastic and metal banding/straps and other tough chores) and a smaller multi blade for more precise/delicate work like cutting gaskets, zip ties, opening boxes and other light work.
Back in the 70s you either owned a Buck 110 or a Schrade LB7, I had to be different, I carried a Schrade 5OT, it was a tough lock back that if I pinched the blade and snapped my wrist, I could open it one handed back in the day when those words weren't even post of our hobbies vocabulary, back then I was somewhat of a curiosity with 50T with no nail nick.
For the multi blade I piggy backed A 94OT Trapper in the same sheath which served me well for many years, I've since retired the 5OT and unfortunately lost the 94OT.
Over the subsequent years I carried Spydercos, Benchmades, CRKTs and host of traditionals, tactical and custom knives finally settling on a CRK Small 21, Bud Nealy Aikuchi fixed blade, Pat Crawford Frame Lock and a Case Swayback Jack.
Being disabled and semi retired my needs have since changed to more domestic needs explaining my current choices.
As for the future, I'd like to get another William Henry but in Damascus with premium scales, a Randall and a Scagel or a Tony Bose.
So what's your (hi)story?
Sorry I didn't post any pics I'll post some later, it's late, I'm tired, and this was the third time I tried to post this
So how about one thread to combine them all? Whether you started collecting 40 years ago or last year, whether your collecting/using traditionals, tacticals or investment blades this is the place to post your knives, stories and pictures.
In our hobby our needs, tastes and wants change rapidly, we all started somewhere with a knife and that knife eventually fails, falls short or is just replaced by something else that piqued our interests for one reason or another.
So here's the place for us to record the history and direction our collections are heading, I'll start.
Back in the early 70s when I seriously began collecting it started as a need for work. I was working as a Millwright while still in high school and needed a stout locking blade for heavy use, (cutting plastic drums, plastic and metal banding/straps and other tough chores) and a smaller multi blade for more precise/delicate work like cutting gaskets, zip ties, opening boxes and other light work.
Back in the 70s you either owned a Buck 110 or a Schrade LB7, I had to be different, I carried a Schrade 5OT, it was a tough lock back that if I pinched the blade and snapped my wrist, I could open it one handed back in the day when those words weren't even post of our hobbies vocabulary, back then I was somewhat of a curiosity with 50T with no nail nick.
For the multi blade I piggy backed A 94OT Trapper in the same sheath which served me well for many years, I've since retired the 5OT and unfortunately lost the 94OT.
Over the subsequent years I carried Spydercos, Benchmades, CRKTs and host of traditionals, tactical and custom knives finally settling on a CRK Small 21, Bud Nealy Aikuchi fixed blade, Pat Crawford Frame Lock and a Case Swayback Jack.
Being disabled and semi retired my needs have since changed to more domestic needs explaining my current choices.
As for the future, I'd like to get another William Henry but in Damascus with premium scales, a Randall and a Scagel or a Tony Bose.
So what's your (hi)story?
Sorry I didn't post any pics I'll post some later, it's late, I'm tired, and this was the third time I tried to post this
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