Your Most Unique Traditional?

[Vanguard41xx]

Mine is this Gorham Fruit knife from the 1800's.

 

[xtramile]

speaking for my friend who had the most unique traditional story i have heard. he has a standard 3 blade slip joint that did not seem to be all too special, and he is not a "knife person" by any stretch of the imagination. to him a slipjoint = buck knife. well anywho, talking at school one day he mustered up the courage to show me this knife he carried around every day more as a memento than a tool. the story was that his father who passed when he was very young used to hand carve puppets with this one knife, and sell them.

he held this little knife so close to his heart that i got a little choked up inside. well we got to talking and i believe he asked me to take it home and clean it up for him, but i refused. i talked with him for 15 or so minutes on what he could do himself to bring some life back in to this thing and a week later he brought back and showed me with a big ol smile on his face.

that story warms my heart and this is the best place i have found to share it, hope it is not too off topic.

XM

 

[knarfeng]

Oh, likely my Puma fishing knife. It doubles as a fish scale.

 

[coyotebc]

that story warms my heart and this is the best place i have found to share it, hope it is not too off topic.

XM

What better place to share this story then here
Thank you

 

[mike Berkovitch]

Eagelton knife co. ca. 1890. This the photo when i got it, I gave him some SPA treatment and it looks better now, but I haven't took new pic yet.

and Schrade split spring whittler from around 1952-3

Mike

 

[sitflyer]

This novelty knife is probably my most unique...I have never seen another. There is a roll pin inside in a channel that engages the cutout near the choil. when closing...depress the blade and tilt and the pin engages the hook and the spring tension keeps it locked. I used to have a blast having unsuspecting "helpers" try to open it

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[shadow93]

This novelty knife is probably my most unique...I have never seen another. There is a roll pin inside in a channel that engages the cutout near the choil. when closing...depress the blade and tilt and the pin engages the hook and the spring tension keeps it locked. I used to have a blast having unsuspecting "helpers" try to open it

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I have one of these also. My grandpa(if I remember correctly) has a couple boxes of them in his garage. The first time he gave me one to mess with I was beyond confused. Nice little trick to pull on people. They'll accidentally open it and then have no idea how to get it closed.

 

[Peter Parker]

I guess it would have to be my late grandfather's old pocket watch knife I now have....

 

[Peregrin]

I guess it would have to be my late grandfather's old pocket watch knife I now have....

That's a nice memento.:thumbup:

 

[Samael]

For me, probably this Camillus replica of George Washington's pen knife.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

One of my unique knive is a german made Glazers knife, basically a camp knife with a glass cutter in place of the bottle opener blade.

I'll see if I can find a pic to post.

Found one:

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Here's another unique knife, back in the 60's Imperial used to make pen knives with Ignition Key blanks in place of one blade, it took me years to find one and I did with an uncut GM ignition key blank.

Here's an electricians knife with a built in level for settin' up circut breaker boxes.

A miniature Flip/Funny Folder by Camillus.

Here's a fist full of trick knives:

And finally a Flint and Steel knife that has a built in Fire Starter in the side of the scale.

Are these unique enough?

 

[Vanguard41xx]

Really nice knives, guy. I have one of those funny folders and a trick knife. They're pretty neat,

 

[Kbrasmodeler]

I've got two of those trick knives. My uncle gave me one as a kid, but it got lost in a move. Then I finally found two for sale on the auction site. Feels so familiar in the hand!

My most unique is probably this Buck 303 cadet from the early '70's.

Same vintage as me. The sheepsfoot blade had been sharpened into a pen shape, and was quite thick, so I thinned it out, and now it is a great slicer.

 

[garddogg56]

T.E. LOVE THAT ELECTRICIANS KNIFE WITH THE LEVEL ON HER..What brand is it??

 

[T. Erdelyi]

T.E. LOVE THAT ELECTRICIANS KNIFE WITH THE LEVEL ON HER..What brand is it??

It was from Guttman Cutlery, it's well made, very stout with a wire stripper notch on a lockback screwdriver with a blade on the screwdriver too.

On the downside it was made in Pakistan, back in the 80s, I wish an american manufacturer or even Japanese or Taiwan would be more desireable.

Still it's a cool knife.

 

[black mamba]

Mine would have to be this one I got from way up north (thanks again, Charlie!).

 

[eisman]

I don't have a lot of unusual knives, but these are out of the ordinary. First, here's a 30 years of service knife (in one of my favorite patterns) with the bail and sideplates marked 14 kt and the stones real.

And then there's this grooming knife. I'd never seen thi pattern before.

 

[Nixelplix]

This is my Dad's Western he bought in 1955. It is unique to me!

This little Japanese Browning is both a lockback and a slipjoint. I haven't seen too many like it.

This is a German knife my Dad gave me in the 80's. I love the scales. I've seen some Chinese copies of it so I guess it's not that unique!

 

[LKJW]

I have a few of those slip trick knives (my wife carries my Grandpa's) and a few cut and blank key knives too. Hmm. This one is pretty weird and i have two...

Gave this one to a member:

A few beauties:

A rare one:

Got this one free in exchange for a review.

Neat knife:

Snap like a gator!

Life raft knife by Camillus:

Love these old guys:

Fake scales gone!: