Your Father's Knife:

My father always had a knife in his pocket, nothing special... a few I gave him over the years.

He's 90 now and the last time I visited him he had an Italian push button stiletto on his coffee table. He was using it to open his mail.
I didn't ask him about it , I just watched and laughed to myself.

The knife my wife knows is special, is this Case knife my mother and father gave me for Christmas in the mid-1970's.

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I love this thread.
I've mentioned several times that my dad has carried a Buck 110 (or Craftsman version) of some flavor for the last 50 years. As an avid Harley rider in his youth back in the 1970s, the 110 was seen as THE biker knife in all the riding mags back then. That said, as a contractor, he has found the 110 to be the perfect work knife. It's robust, cost effective, great warranty, easy to sharpen, and the clip point blade is equally useful for cutting things on the job site as well as digging dirty grease out from pivot points on the backhoe.
When in doubt, I have always known that a plain Jane 110 would be the perfect Birthday/Father's Day gift. When he retires (if he ever does), I plan on getting him a custom 110 made.

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For me, I will be hard to pin down just ONE knife that my daughter will see and think of me. In the pic, I've included my EDC. For the last 4-ish years I've carried a Microtech OTF almost every day where legal. I also rarely leave home without the CRK Inkosi. This one is the knife I am most proud of.
After dropped out of college after 4 years in my 20s, I decided to go back and earn my degree a few years ago. One of the things they recommended was to plan on a reward for myself as a tangible representation of my hard work. I decided that I would finally buy a CRK when I graduated. Like my dad and the 110, the CRK represented THE grail knife 20 years ago in the knife magazines and on the forum when I was back on college for the first time. Spending THAT much money on a knife seemed impossible back in the early 2000s. After 2 years of late nights, early mornings, lots of self doubt, and 56 page project...I earned my Inkosi. I even got to buy it from Spark's shop 😀

However, if I am honest with myself, most people will associate me with a multitool. Unlike my dad who uses the 110 for EVERYTHING, I have found having a small kit of tools on my hip has been more beneficial. Have a clutch of implements that can be pressed into service is preferable over JUST a blade. My daughter especially has seen her dad complete all manner of "impossible" toy repairs or quick fixes on a vacation. She's 12 now and has at least 4 multitools/SAKs. I think my motto of "A good multitool augments your imagination" is rubbing off on her.
 
at this point, I doubt anyone could identify my one knife.

as for my fathers knife, there are three - one that he has already given to me, an old timer 25 OT that was his fathers as well.
A sharpfinger that has lived in the kitchen drawer since I can remember
and a 12" butcher knife that his uncle made. His uncle was a machinist by trade and made simple knives. cut from carbon sheet steel and shaped on various machines and sharpened on his belt sander (which he still has). walnut handle with brass pins.
 
My Dad was a veteran of amphibious landings in North Africa, Italy and Southern France.

When Car Camping with the family in the 1950s, my father swore by a WW-II folding GI shovel, sharpened on one edge with a big bastard file. He chopped and split wood with it and pounded in tent stakes, then used it to put out the camp fire.

So its not a knife . . .so-what.

Sadly, that GI shovel has been long gone.
 
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Quiet said:
what's your knife that those who know you will be able to see it on a table and immediately know it's yours?
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It would have to be the knife I carry every day and use (and post pics of!) more than all the others. Middle one in this pic, Resilience I modified.

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For fixed blades, though, it would have to be this one I made and carry around my neck every day:

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My father was not really into knives but when he passed years back, I found these in his things. Three small knives and a bayonet, which is the only one I remember seeing him with. He always kept either under the driver's seat or in the trunk, along with an old folding military shovel. As for my knife I doubt anyone in my family could identify any single one as dad's knife, since I change what i carry often.
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I've been carrying a knife for over 40 years, but my father never did. Not sure why he didn't, I guess it just wasn't his thing. He's no longer with us, so that will remain a mystery.

My grandfather was a tool and die maker, and though I have no recollection of him with a knife in his pocket, I did find several beat up folders is his tool boxes that I inherited. It's been 40 years since he passed and I still have them, along with piles of tools, drill bits, and chunks for random metal.

This is one of them. His initials are scratched into the shield.
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Alone said:
"Kimber" and the Remington 870 come to mind.

I don't know very much about expensive folders. However, when it comes to the above firearms, it appears that the aftermarket has addressed and solved many of those issues. 🤷‍♂️ (*as usual)
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Yeah ya know, I like it because it's different. I like owning and playing with knives that have maybe a different lock that's not used much, or maybe a different handle material, maybe a historically significant knife. Just whatever really. It's not the most practical of knives but that's fine.

What on the Remington 870 uses MIM out of curiosity. I've owned a couple throughout the years but never knew that. Mine might have been before that though.
 
LimpCroissant said:
...What on the Remington 870 uses MIM out of curiosity. I've owned a couple throughout the years but never knew that. Mine might have been before that though.
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I'm no Expert on the subject. My knowledge is more based on little tidbits I'd pick-up hearing guys talk in passing. However. to answer your question, I believe the extractor on the 870 is MIM.
 
Alone said:
I'm no Expert on the subject. My knowledge is more based on little tidbits I'd pick-up hearing guys talk in passing. However. to answer your question, I believe the extractor on the 870 is MIM.
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And that's why you want a POLICE 870. No MIM...... :)
 
My dad played punchboards in the taverns for knives. (If you don't know what these are, Google prolly help you more than me).

He always had a pile of knives, never just one that defined him.

And so here I am, surrounded by a pile of knives, and my kids would never be able to choose THE ONE that was "Dad's Knife".

They'll gather them up in 5 gallon buckets when I pass on, and probably sell them to you good folks here. 😁
 
Landshark99 said:
My father was not really into knives but when he passed years back, I found these in his things. Three small knives and a bayonet, which is the only one I remember seeing him with. He always kept either under the driver's seat or in the trunk, along with an old folding military shovel. As for my knife I doubt anyone in my family could identify any single one as dad's knife, since I change what i carry often.
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That keychain knife could be a “Christy Knife”. If so, you can still get replacement blades.

Your bayonet made me think about my fathers M3 Trench Knife from WW2. I never saw my father use it for anything but, I remember that it was always in the bedroom.

It is now one of my prized possessions that I will never use.
Funny. It just dawned on me that I have it stored in the bedroom…
 
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Cool thread.

Dad used to always carry a Buck 112 and use up the blade until the grind darn near kisses the spine. When Gerber released it's multi-tool he started carrying them exclusively. He loved to flick the pliers out. Now he is retired and has a Kershaw Dividend I gifted him, as well as a Fallknivven F1.

As far as what my family will remember me by...is likely the stacks of footlockers lol.
 
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