Your father's knife

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allenC

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I was recently helping my Dad work around the yard when he pulled out his Tree Brand Boker to cut some vines. I don't know the model number but it's a 2-blade folder, a pen blade at one end and a clip blade at the other end, with brown delrin scales. I've given my father alot of knives over the years but this is still his favorite.

So, what type of knife does your father carry (or your mother or grand-parents)?

Good luck,
Allen.
 
My pop carried a Case Sodbuster.Only knife I ever saw him use.Kitchen utinsels excepted.
 
My dad carries a BM Mel Pardue 330, which I gave him. An old BM CQC7(his favorite, but he carries the 330 more because it's smaller), which I also gave him. Also, a kissing crane stiletto.
 
regretfully my dad is not into good knives,
i donated him a Endura and a small fixed,
and always tried to show him my best knives hoping to
find a new present for him,
but he is determined to his cheap (4$) folder because it is so light (plastic) and has a bottle-opener!
He never needs it for opening a bottle, but how change a 69Y old mind??

Happily i found the pocketknife of my grandpa (1901 to 1975),
a two-blade folder, (rather used and worn of course)
and try to find a new one like his for me too.

:D
 
Most of my life I remember my dad using a "scout" pattern pocket knife,and I mean use! This one folder scraped gaskets,cut wire,hoses,cleaned nails,debured pipes,opened boxes,cleaned sparkplugs,and cut, pried,and scaped almost anything you can name.

He had basically 1 pocket knife that did everything,and he did not worry about harming it.I have a boat load of them many of which I won't use for the things he used his for,but I often wonder if his way is the better way.That one old folder sure has a lot of history.

Today he carries a 2 blade Old Timer.
 
For years it was a Buck Prince. I had given him several but none of them "stuck." Then I gave him a MT mini-socom that I picked up at the Blade Show for father's day . . . it is now his daily carry . . . he LOVES it!:D :D :D
 
My Dad is barely a step above my Brother(who uses blade tips for phillips screwdrivers)when it comes to using knives. My Dad used to buy the cheapest Chinese folders possible, but now carries a Buck gents knife I bought him and had his initials engraved onto. I have to sharpen it for him all the time, and he dulls it like nobody else can. I mean round edge and all.
 
Pop carried a Case Congress, 2 blade, with brown pick bone handles.I need to call my brother to see if we can locate it. He carried it for many years.
 
My father, when he was alive, carried a Buck 110 and before that a 3 blade slipjoint of unknown(to me)manufacture. My grandfather carried a bone handled whittler. He loved to sit and turn a stick into a work of art.
 
My Dad was a police officer for 27 years and he carried a Buck 110 for all 27. He is now retired and so is the knife. He now carries a BM450 Terzoula that I gave him for Fathers Day. He uses it for everything and he calls me up every now and then to come down to clean and sharpen it up for him.
 
my father carried an old case, model unknown, stag handled 2 blade, i think i'll look at it later and try to figure out what model it is, i still have it - the shorter of the 2 blades is worn in a 1/4 moon shape from years of sharpening - he gutted many a deer, etc w/it, always used the shorter blade for that - i would say its 30+ years old, he had it as long as i remeber.....


sifu
 
Hey, great thread.

My dad has an old, worn Buck 110, but I don't think he has carried it for a long time. He currently carries a Spyderco Dragonfly that I gave him a few years ago. I wasn't sure if he'd actually use it when I gave it to him, but thankfully he has. I still have to sharpen and clean it though.

For some reason, my dad also insists on carrying a tiny SAK for nail care: it's got one blade, a file, and some little scissors. In fact, he probably carries that more than the Dragonfly. I don't know what he uses it for, but he seems to believe that it's a necessary tool for his existence.
 
My Dad carried a small, dark brown handled, inexpensive "jackknife" as he called it. He used it for everything as well; rope, boxes, nails, gaskets, hose, tape, stripping wire. The main blade on this knife was worn about halfway to the spine from sharpening. How I wish I had the chance now to buy him a nice Spydie. He would have fun with the one handed opening process.

He doesn't need a knife where's he gone to...at least I don't think he does. Hmmmmmm. Jeff/1911.
 
My father is not "into" knives at all. He had an old 3-blade stockman for years, but that was about it.
I gave him a Victorinox Recruit with a Photon II attached to the keyring, a few month's back, and he carries it most of the time.
Most recently (father's day) I gave him a Leatherman Wave w/leather sheath, which he loves. Even wears it to church.

My grandfather is another story. He used to help my great-grandfather make knives, and used to regrind the edges on mine when I was little. Always has one or two on him. Some of his knives have the blades worn almost off from sharpening over the years. Keeps a Ka-bar under the seat of his truck (says he got it right after WW2). I've given him a couple of knives, but they're always "too nice" or "too big", and get stuck in a drawer. He likes old Case and Tree Brand knives (keeps a bunch of them in an old bank bag), and I finally found something he'd carry awhile back. A little Boker pen knife. He uses it daily, and sharpens it every weekend. Never fails to pull it out on Sunday and say "check that edge out!":)
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85 yrs old, and would still rather sit around talking knives and guns than anything else, except go fishing.
I am so blessed.....
 
Great post topic:)

Dad has always been a Case man. About 15 years ago I picked up a very old worn case pocket knife (2 blade) at a garage sale. I later foudn out it dated back to the 40's and who ever carried it must of carried it for years the stag handles were worn smooth and the Case oval was almost non-existant.

Last year he lost it. I bought him a new limited edition Case, but I could tell he didn't like it as much, to quote "they don't make em like that old one anymore". I carry pocket clip folders which for dad is too modern. However, I bought a Kershaw Orion tortion bar assisted knife and he thought that was "pretty dam interesting" I gave it to him and he loves it:D
 
A great thread that makes one sentimental.

Grandfather, bless his soul, was a carpenter and always had a knife around - seldom on his person but definitely in sight, not to mention the crowbar he used to keep under his bed. In case, he said. His knives were messy old carpenter's puukkos. He even sliced his bread and cut meat with a dented old Marttiini-puukko.

In the garden my grandfather used his WWII army-issue bayonet as a bill hook and an allround cutting tool. That is, until I salvaged what was left of it. It is now one of my most valued possessions.

My dad has a tiny sak with a small and a large spear point blade. Talk about a generation gap! :)
 
My Dad, who is 82, is on his third pocketknife I can remember. I think the one he had when I was young, was a Robeson or Schatt&Morgan. He likes the small 2 7/8" pattern with the "large" clip blade and the small penknife. For some reason, I blank out on the #2 knife in the series. He now carries a Buck in the size/configuration I mentioned.

He received a Craftsman -- Camillus -- large Stockman, when I was 7. He has always used it for yardwork, etc. It has a lot of miles left on it. I don't think the little Buck has more than a couple years left in it. He too sharpens it at least weekly, and his blades are pretty narrow.

His hunting knife he gave to me, and I lost it in a burglary. It was a 1945 large Rudy Ruana. I'd cheerfully kill to get that knife back.
 
When I was a kid my Dad rode motorcycles and used to carry the standard 110 in the pouch when he did. When he worked for a living (before becoming a foreman ;) ) he carried a Bucklite or a fixed sheepsfoot electrician's knife (these he would sometimes grind himself from old kitchen knives).

The neatest knife he had when I was a kid was this "magic" pen knife, that opened when you pushed the blade into the handle, not pulling it out. I think SMKW has these occasionally, maybe I'll pick one up.

The last few years, he has had a tiny Browning lockback. Hopefully he's now using the small Buck Lightning I gave him for Father's day.
 
ag russel featherweight one hand knife that i got him. that and a plain edge arclite. my dad likes knives almost as much as i do.

- Pete
 
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