All About Pocket Knives

After 44 years I replaced a knife I lost with one like it. Only knife I remember losing. Don’t remember the stamp shield being upside down .

Potechop wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 9:40 pm After 44 years I replaced a knife I lost with one like it. Only knife I remember losing. Don’t remember the stamp shield being upside down . IMG_7040.jpeg

Congratulations on finally getting a new one after all those years. I recently did the same thing with a knife I gave away 30+ years ago but mine is still in the mail.

I bet it feels great to have it in your pocket again!!

Somewhere, I'm pretty sure I still have the first pocket knife I ever owned somewhere around here. My dad bought it for me at Yosemite, for $0.50 as I recall, back in the early 1960s. It went missing for years due to moving around to college and my early career, then was found for a while, then seemingly lost again after another move. I'd really like to find it again, and this time it will go into the safe when it is not in my pocket.

I also had an early 1970s Buck 110 that I bought new from A16 in Los Angeles. Some years ago, I left the knife in the door of my Jeep and left the Jeep in the driveway over night (something I rarely do), and sure enough, likely a partygoer from down the street slashed the Jeep soft-top and reached in and opened the door. They grabbed the knife, but the seat tilt seemed to keep them from getting in further. The $600 damage to the soft top was upsetting, but the loss of that Buck 110 renewed my support for long prisons sentences. That knife had been through a lot and carried many memories. My dad gave me his 110 of a similar vintage a few years back, and while I like that knife, it has never fully replaced MY 110.