Your Longest-Running User Knife?

I have a spyderco Harpy that I carried for about five years until I finally snapped the tip of the blade off.
After that I had a benchmade folder that was great until it got epoxied shut during a very fun job. (I do environmental work).
 
A fully serrated original Endura was in my pocket every day of my life for 10+ years. Used it so much and sharpened it so much the serrations are pretty much gone now. I still have it but I retired it sometime in the early 2000s. It's still tight as ever.
 
My EDC since about 1972 has been a Buck 303 Cadet. The one in my pocket right now is dated 2008 and has been with me 7 days a week until recently. Now on weekends I might have something else in my pocket but always Monday through Friday it is the Cadet. The one before this knife I had for just a couple of months. I forgot I had it in my pocket when I went through security to get on an airplane and TSA confiscated my new knife.

Now on weekends I might be carrying a Mini Griptilian, Boker Mini Kwaiken, or Boker Urban Trapper.
 
EDC'd the longest nonstop is my black SAK Executive
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Yep it would have been MY red SAK Executive if I hadn't have lost it long ago. I just recently replaced it with a nice black one like yours.
 
it got epoxied shut during a very fun job. (I do environmental work).
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Sounds like a tough environment. Who knows . . . maybe a drop or two of marine stripper and she could be resurrected.
 
I've had this M2 Ritter Grip for 9 years.
It has seen it's fair share of construction and landscape work.
These pics are from when it was brand new up to today.




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grybsh7 said:
I've had this M2 Ritter Grip for 9 years.
It has seen it's fair share of construction and landscape work.
These pics are from when it was brand new up to today.




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The timeline is cool and the latest "version" is awesome!
 
Thanks NB. When I told you earlier this week that they came out in 09 I was mistaken.
The M2 Grips came out in 06 and I bought this one on Ebay in early 07.
 
This old slip joint was made on the Moran farm in Lime Kiln Maryland in 1943 by a German POW named Albert Wurtz. Wurtz had worked in the Solingen cutlery trade before the war, and when a young knife nut Bill Moran found out he talked the man into showing him how to make a folding knife. The knife was made around a piece of crown stag from a buck Bill had shot on the farm. Blade was a reforged file. About 1/3 of the blade has been worn away from use and sharpening. Bill carried this knife until the early/mid 1980's when he gave it to me. I've carried it somewhat steady until the early 2000's then it went into retirement.
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Old Christy knife my father carried the last 15 years of his life. The knife is from the 1950's and he started to use it heavy after arthritis made opening his Case peanut hard. Dad passed away in 1981, and this knife was on his bedside table. About a quarter of the blade is worn down from lots of use. I'll still carry and us fit now and then for sentiment. It still opens mail, cuts string, and opens UPS boxes very well. Being from the 1930's, you could say the Christy knife was one of the first one hand openers.
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The red Victorinox classic has been in steady carry and use for about 20 years now. The blade has lost some steel over the years, but it still works good. Yellow classic is for blade comparison of 20 years of use vs maybe three years for the better half's. The wifey lost her last one to TSA.
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Really great to read about those especially the hand made.

TSA
the more I hear that the more I keep thinking there is a full time job there for people just collecting pocket knives for passengers who want them shipped back to them some time / some where.

I can see where that SAK has to be confiscated. With a weapon like that some mad man could cut some tape off a package or God . . . dare I describe the gory scenario : Clip a stray thread with the scissors. Not to mention the merciless mowing down of hang nails and such with the finger nail file. A fearsome instrument of the devil that has no place in civilized society.
 
Grybsh7:

Those photos are excellent and I like that Ritter M2 but I'm confused. Your post says "I've had this M2 Ritter Grip for 9 years" but the middle two photos have different color scales. Are they pix of the same knife that have been Photoshopped to change handle colors or are they different knives?

Also, in the last photo, what did you do to the handle to give it that texture? Doesn't look like the FRN that came on the knife to begin with and the red spacers don't look stock.

Inquiring minds want to know. :D

Best regards
 
Wardo I just changed the scales several times, same liners, lock and blade. I found the orange scales on the exchange for like $20.
I'm sure the od green scales where priced similar. The scales that are on it now are g-10 from Benchmade's
Camp Perry edition Grip.

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My dad gave me this in 1979, my first deer season. It was part of the right of passage. It was used for one reason, hunting seasons (deer, rabbit, pheasant). It saw a few additions to the family freezer. He has been retired for many years.
 
I've carried this Brad Southard AVO for over a year now...every day. I love it.
 
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Regular pocket carry since 1973. Recently came back from the CASE Spa treatment. I asked them not to mess with the pen so they cut an easy open on the other side scale in Chestnut bone so I could reach the nick. Pretty happy with the whole thing
 
I carried a red Victorinox Spartan daily for over thirty years. Sent it in to factory service when scales warped off. Came back with new red scales sporting tweezers and toothpick - wasn't expecting that! (I don't think toothpick and tweezers were a thing in 1971.) Later replaced it with a black Tinker when the back springs finally lost their mojo. I still carry the black Tinker, plus a blue translucent model that's missing a chunk of one scale, and a Super Tinker (has scissors!) with USA flag scales. The delicious irony of the flag on a foreign-made knife, I just had to have it.

The Spartan was my second pocket knife, at age 13. I still have my first knife from when I was 11. It's a Henkels two blade bone handled penknife, very good condition because the SAK kicked it out of my pocket after only two years of carry. Blades are patinaed, but not pitted at all. I occasionally will still carry it for nostalgia's sake. However, modern locking folders and SAK's are my daily carry.
 
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