Your father's knife

My dad got me started in this crazed and wonderful hobby. Now just about every time I go visit (once a month or so) I usually try to bring him something new.

Right now he is rotating between a stag Pete Peterson Folder, MT LCC DA, and MT auto mini SOCOM. He will be carrying a small Apogee DA in the near future.
 
My dad just recently got into collecting and carrying knives. His daily carry is Tony Bose folder. However, I purchased him a set of Spyderco Guntings (live blade and trainer) w/ Skunkworks sheaths for his birthday. I think he is going to stay with the Bose folder. He needs a more utilitarian type knife.
 
My grandfather has always carried a small blade. He has a Camillus one for as long as I can remember(about 12-13yrs), with about a 2.5" blade, slipjoint.

I recently(fathers day) got my father into carrying something else than his pipeknife(1/8" belly, 2", 3 tools+1 blade, tapper on one end). I picked up a cheap one for him. Maker unknown, but it has the Benchmade Butterfly on it, nothing else...
2.5-3" blade, spearpoint, thumbstud, rear lock
brass bolsters, wood handle, slightly oval cross section
Think I got it for $30...

he's converted, but won't buy anything more than $50... he used it for the last car repair, chopping the heater hose in one swipe.
:D

Still can't get him to carry a multi-tool
 
I have bought my dad about 10 Browning knives, such as the Citori, and Auto 5 knives in Grade I and II, and the skinners in cocobolo, and sambar stag, and several other small ones. The one he usually carries overall is a small stainless Browning gentlemans knife with gold etching. I believe he likes the Cocobolo skinner the best for a large user.
 
My dad usually carries the Gerber Multiplier that I got him for Father's day about 5yrs ago. He also carries this Gerber EZ-out in ATS-34 that he found on a job site a couple of years ago. He has a half dozen small folders that he has accumulated over the years, mostly junk, that he would find in one place or another. I don't think he has ever bought a knife for himself. Just carries what he finds. I really should get him a nice Sunday knife, in pearl, or something.

DD
 
The top, pearl handled knife by Olsen Knives, belonged to my mother's father.

The far right, two blade pen knife by "J Moede - Solingen" belonged to my father's father.

The little purple Pakistani POS belonged to my youngest brother.

Finally, the Western Hunter was my father's. It was refurbed by Tom Nelson after sitting unused for several years.
 

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My Dad, who turns 90 next May, has for as long as I remember carried an Ulster Dwight Divine knive, four blades, "Be Prepared" shield, long pull on the spear, "U" bail, brass liners, not a chip or a crack in the bone slabs even though he has used it almost daily since the 1920s when he got. Nice to think about it again. Thanks for this thread and all the responses. Makes the heritage kind of clear.
 
My Dad was in the fruit business here in Florida, so the knife he always carried was a single blade folder with a long thin blade. He called it a fruit knife or grapefruit knife. Some of the companies had them made with their logo's on them, I'm not sure of the makers.

My Grandfathers (both) mechanics, laborers, carried Case folders! I have one of them, a three blade stockman, late 60's make.
 
My Grandfather owned many knives and the one he carried most was a large buck stockman. I now own all of his knives. My dad carries the same model of stockman. I carry it from time to time as the mood strikes me.
 
My dad wasn't a "knut", as all of us are, but he did routinely carry a small 2-bladed pen knife with a stainless handle. He was a produce salesman most of his life, and he would travel from Central California to Yuma, Arizona for several months a year to work. While down there he carried a large slip joint melon knife for cutting and inspecting produce. I still have both......

AL
 
My father has worked in construction all his life, and he sees no need to carry a knife. He said to me, "When you need a knife, there's nothing like it. But that just doesn't happen that often for me." I've shown him all my knives and he doesn't really care. I gave him a multi-tool and it sits in his desk drawer. He appreciates having it when he needs a screwdriver or something and doesn't have to go downstairs to the garage to get it. He has one knife, a manual Italian stiletto that he bought in NYC in the 60's when he was a teenager. It has a swing guard, horn (I think) scales, and says Italy on the blade, which is rusted pretty bad. Last time I visited I sharpened it for him, and the smile on his face to see his edge and tip back was worth a million dollars. He used to carry it for self defense, but now if he feels unsafe he'll just carry his .45.

My mother has always cringed when I mention or use a knife, but last time I visited her she surprised the hell out of me by asking me for a knife! She said that at work the other day she wanted to cut an apple or orange or something and no one in the office had anything. So I gave her a small Ascent, which is buried somewhere in her purse, ready to cut an apple with 5 minutes notice.
 
My Dad always had his George Schrade Presto switchblade close at hand for any and every little chore.Later in life he used it to scratch his back:eek: I aquired it when he passed away in 1999 and researching that knife is what led me here.For projects,he had a Kutmaster electricians knife which I also aquired along with his fathers "Sunday Meeting Knives".I guess you call them gentlemans knives.Most are pearl handle but pretty whimpy blades.My other grandfather did alot of whittling but I don't know what he carried.
 
Like most here in Sweden my father carry a Mora carbon steel fixed blade every day. In addition he also carries a sheepfoot blade pocket knife, carbon steel from Eka. In his truck he keeps a Gränsfors axe, carbon steel. Do I need to tell you he keeps telling me telling me stainless sux.:confused:
 
My dad has never and will never carry a knife. One of my grandfathers carried a Stockman, usually a buck. But I also have a Camillus one of his also. My other grandpa carries a box cutter. I have tried and tried to get him to carry a real knife but no luck. Recently, I bought a nice Case Stockman with the amber bone, I think that I will try to sell him on it. If not, I would more than happy to keep it ;)
Matt
 
My Ol' Man carries a Leatherman sideclip reglarly, as well as a Hen & Rooster mini trapper with stag scales. He knows nothing of steel, but preferrs stainless out of Solingen.

My Grandfather, a knife nut from a distant era, preferred the old Henkels pocketknives that are no longer made. He had several of them, and all of them were razor sharp. Last time I saw him, he was carrying a Bokker Tree Brand pocket knife. He always said that Henkel's Solingen steel was the best.

His father was a Ka-Bar nut, and used their fixed blade with leather handles for his cutlery purposes. My father owns one of these knives now, and he used to use it for cleaning fish. I hope to own this someday.

Though I collect and love these old knives, I tend to lose them. I stick to the modern stuff with pocket clips, though I occasionally carry a Henkel congress in stag that I bought several years ago.

This is a truly great post. I feel slightly less guilty for loving knives as I do. I doubt my wife will share the same sentiment!

Spade
 
My Dad is still carrying a Boy Scout 3 bladed knife that I got him for his birthday in 1973. I believe it's a Schrade/Old Timer brand. It's always in his pocket and razor sharp, ready for use.

AJ
 
All my life, my father has always carried a Swisschamp-model SAK. As a kid he used to use its small blade and tweezers to remove splinters. That was the drill: get a splinter, go to Dad, and hope it wasn't so deep that he had to switch from the tweezers to the blade.
 
My father had a knife he brought home from WWII--a large dagger-type, perhaps Fairbairn/Sykes in a leather sheath. I just remember it being around his place of business as a kid.

Unfortunately, it has long since been lost in the "shuffle".

Dad had been in the airborn invasion of Holland in Sept. 1944, the largest airborn invasion in military history to date--memorialized in books and movies such as "A Bridge Too Far" etc.

Too bad that piece of history just kind of got lost.

Brings back memories. Great thread.
 
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