All About Pocket Knives

jerryd6818 wrote:Today, Scott bombed me with an addition to my small collection of medium jacks. This one is an Imperial shell jack that's in almost perfect condition. Great addition to the pile. My most sincere thanks to Mr. Scott. You do know how to pluck my heart strings.

Since Scott seems to never send a bomb by it's lonesome, I also received a stack of sticky notes. I think I'm set for the foreseeable future. Thanks a million Scott.

treefarmer wrote:I have a very special friend who called this afternoon and said, "If y'all aren't doing anything this afternoon, I want to come and see you." I told him we'd be here as it has been raining most of the afternoon.
This special friend has some heart issues, a mitral valve problem that a team of doctors in Birmingham are hesitant to tackle. He turned 80 back in August and he told me had been working on his last will and testament. When he came in this afternoon, he handed me an old worn cardboard box from an optometrist's office. I opened it and inside was quite a surprise, a Case XX 5172 SSP! Turns out he has assigned all his guns to certain family members and his knives are to be available, first to his 3 sons, then sons in law, each choosing one knife, then do another round and so on until the knives are all claimed. While he was planning all this last night, his wife said he remarked, "I need to give this one to Phil." Thus the visit this afternoon.
We go back to the late 80's, our oldest daughter and their middle son dated in high school and after 2 years of college they married in '92. We became best friends, I was with him when he killed his 1st deer, lots of family time together over the years. Our children decided to divorce after 9 years of marriage, we were heart broken as parents but we chose to stay friends with our ex-son-n-law's parents. We been very close for 30 years. I was almost speechless this afternoon, "Are you sure you want to do this?" He replied , "I do." The history of the knife is interesting. Seems one of his daughters married a feller who's dad owns a sporting goods store. The owner was a Case dealer and had set a whole display board of 1976 Stag handled knives aside. The store owner was thought to be having some beginning dementia issues and he asked his daughter-in-law to record the info about the knives on the 1976 display. I don't know what happened to any of the knives except the 5172 and I remember drooling over several years ago.
It's a nice knife, I would love to use it but it'll have a special place to be displayed. My limited research this afternoon reveals this knife did not come with a display box. Some other years there were wooden display boxes, maybe I'll run across one some day.
Treefarmer
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