All About Pocket Knives

johnny twoshoes wrote:I just got a GEC beaver tail and it's been in my pocket ever since I love it.

Got any pictures to show us?

Phil

Like I said I love this knife.

rmfnla wrote:Canal Street Half Moon Pie w/ caramel bone. It's replaced my Case red bone canoe as my favorite EDC.

I really need to order one in buffalo (or ebony; I can't decide which!).

That's like trying to decide what to put on your ice cream sundae - caramel or chocolate sauce. Go ahead and get both! You'll be twice as happy!

I like the way you think, Cowboy!

I just got this one to carry around the house edc. It has a black wood handle and it's about 4" long closed.

just a little knife today

Front pocket

Back pocket

Bighead,
Don't your pockets get awfully full carrying those knives around in their boxes like that?

DAAAaaannnnnggggg ... I want them thar knives!

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's pocketknives ... thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's pocketknives ... thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's pocketknives ...

Well today it's this one

Nice stockman there LC. You have a great little set up there too, matching sheath and belt, 'Ol Rick does Outstanding leather work

Front pocket GEC scout.

Back pocket Northwoods Scagel #8.

Today it's a GEC easy open. Nice, small user knife and I love the orange bone handles.

here of late, a Soldier and his little Cadet.

-BluesK

Here's this week's carry:Not sure who made it(no tang stamp)but it appears to be a custom.Has a machined nail mark,convex grind,and dovetailed bolsters and scales which require only one pin to hold in place.Bought it at a yard sale for about $5 and it required a good bit of cleaning.Sharp as a razor(ask my fingers!),has a very light snap and no side wobble.Would love to find out who made it.

knife7knut she looks like she has traviled a bit for all those marks on her brass liners. I thinks that comes from coins and keys in the same pocket.

Those sodbusters are gr8 workers and light weight to cary.

For a EDC who needs more than one sharp blade any way?

With that said this is what played in my pocker this week.

Kershaw 1660 Leek Ken Onion Assist RAINBOW 420 SS 4"

I keep going back to her cuz she just slips so smooth down in any pocket, light weight and SHARP. O did I say kool to take out and show too?...

Yes it has done a bit of traveling with keys,coins,and whatever else happens to get lodged in my pocket.Works good though and isn't afraid to cut just about anything;wire included.Has a great feel to it as well.

Right after I left the Oregon Knife show yesterday I paid a visit to my favorite 2 nd handstore. Spent a whole dollar and got a decent Boker, 3 blade congress. It needed some TLC, one handle needs to be replaced, and I had to work a nick out of the clip blade. After an evening working with my stone, oiling joints, and Walker Wax, the knife is in much better shape this morning. The blades are tight and all have good snap. Will be a good working knife, and some day, the handle will be a project! Dale H.

I keep this Caly III with ZDP-189 steel clipped in my right pocket, it is my main user knife. I rotate my slipjoints depending on what I'm doing, but lately I have been carrying a CS half moon pie in my back pocket next to my wallet, it is so thin and light sometimes I forget I have it.

I switch around,but at present this is the one. Queen City 2 7/8 in. long

Today, I am happily carrying my trusty Old Timer 94OT Trapper. I rescued this knife from a pawn shop for only $20 about a year ago, and it is worth that and more, to me. Both the clip and spey blades were sharpened numerous times, and both have lost some of their original shape. The knife may have been exposed to some corrosive material or gas, because there is tiny pin-point pitting and freckling on both blades. There is a slight wobble to the clip blade. It is far from mint, obviously, but though I have two mint 94's, a mint 8OT, and a mint 194OT still in their boxes, this is my favorite Old Timer to carry.

Why? Because it has character. It is a working knife, and whoever owned it before me, whoever felt the need to sell the knife to make some money, was a working man. There are scratches on the bolsters from being carried in a pocket full of keys to the pickups and tractors on the farm and change for the coffee at the cafe. Maybe it was sharpened so much because it was used to turn little bull calves into little steers, or cut open feed sacks or baling twine from hay bales. Maybe it dressed out dove, quail, and ducks, not to mention rabbits and other varmints, and a few bucks. I have used it to dress out a few birds, myself, and to cut rope and to sharpen pencils for the official scorebook at some recent high school baseball games.

Next week I will probably switch it out again and carry my Case 6254 or my Moore Maker 5202, but I always feel guilty when I leave this one at home. It feels like the knife was built to work and to be carried; leaving at home is robbing it of its purpose!

I carry a Buck Stockman 301 along with the Buck Lightning 170

I carry a Case Boy Scout Eagle Scout Medium Stockman Blue bone 6318.

Mark

Kershaw black handle Scallion, perfect for the pocket. I also carry an old Schrade old timer 340t but I broke a blade the other day at work trying to pry some debris out of a hole saw! dammit I knew better!