Your oldest cutting instrument?

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A drawknife, likely German-made, probably from the 1840s. There's an animal depicted on the blade, a fox or running dog (deer?). Holds a wonderful edge. I suspect it may have come over with one of my great-great grandfathers when they emigrated to Wisconsin.
 
I have a sword that my grandfather took off of a Japanese solider that he killed in ww2. It is one of my favorite pieces of family treasures!

I wish I could take a picture, but it is still not unpacked yet:(
 
Rutha73 said:

the bottom one is dated '67, the middle is '68. Those were two of my dad's knives when he flew for the Navy in Vietnam. The top one was given to me by a family friend. Its a WW II doughboy knife.
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Dear lord those are sweet. I love that photo.
 
I don't have a picture of it right now, but my Dad gave me his CASE XX MAKO. I would have to check the blade to see how old it is.
After he gave it to me I bought a Case XX Hammerhead and Shark Tooth so I would have all the Sharks.
 
I have a chunk or two of old steel laying around. This is just the stuff I had handy:









And I'm sure this won't shock any of you fellas.... I even have an OLD big badass chopper!





And yes, it still chops! All my knives earn their keep. Even the old ones!
 
This is an IXL brand knife I got from an old man that used to come into my fathers barber shop about 15 years ago and he said it was from the late 1800's, I don't know for sure but just imagine the history these old knives have seen.
 

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watanabe said:
This....Osaka, circa 1640....

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Well preserved :thumbup: Doesn't get used much, I take it ;) Just beautiful...
 
This one goes all the way back to 1977 BC (Before Computers).
And the year I got married :)


My Dad's EDC from the 60's


The steel on the right is at least 58 years old. It was old when I was a kid :)


My dad's hatchet head from the 30's

Since then, hafted, cleaned up and turned into a "sort of" tomahawk.



Then there is the WW1 German Pioneer bayonet… not exactly sharp ;)


But the oldest that I have is this



BB Knife Co. Beaverbrook Mass. around the late 1800s.

Great thread!
Keep them coming :D
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Bottom right, 1800s Josef Sziraky Pearl Lobster on the bottom right.
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Hi, I guess the image has been deleted, but I'd love to see this, if you still have it.
I just got into collecting traditional hungarian folding knives, and I'm curious to learn more about them.
 
If I really looked through my tools I might figure out which exacto blade handle was my first one ; the one I stuck all the way into my thigh when I was five or six .
I was sitting and cutting across a hunk of card board . . . when the blade completed its little trip it decided to bivoack in my leg .
I looked down , thought ; this is something different , since I was still alive ( not instantly dead like people on TV when they get stabbed ) I wondered what to do next . I decided pulling the blade out of my leg seemed a sound next step .
 
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