All About Pocket Knives

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:41 am Just received an interesting article from AKTI

robpa wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:08 pm I cant remember not carrying a knife. We were always tramping around outdoors and some kinda knife was indispensible. probably lost 1 a year when farming. Or broke the blade working on the baler or whatever. I use a knife multiple times each day even if only cleaning my fingernails.Every vehicle has an onboard knife, couple on the workbench, 1 stuck in the cabin by the door,one in my nightstand. I use a knife way more than I use my brain. Its a lot sharper.

glennbad wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:33 pm I went to a comedy show last week at a local music hall. Never had an issue there before, but as we were standing in line to get our will call tickets, I notice the guy patting everyone down.

Normally I carry my benchmade clipped on my pocket and another traditional in pocket. I purposely left the benchmade at home, but thinking I wouldn't have an issue with the Lloyd custom I was carrying. But I started to panic a bit when I saw the pat-down. I was able to shift the Lloyd to my back-pocket next to my wallet, and it blended in enough that it wasn't discovered.

I do carry pretty much everywhere I can, but have to think ahead to where I am going. For work, if I'm going to a site walkthru, I always leave my knives in the truck if it's a school or similar type of building.

At the office, everyone knows that I'm the "knife guy", and that I always have at least one knife on me at all times...

toomanyknives wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:26 am I bought my first knife on my own in 1969 when I was 9 years old. I cut grass and rode my bike to a local pawn shop to buy a cheap little pen knife, and from then on, I was hooked. I think it cost about $1.50 or $2.00. My grandfather had a farm about 90 miles from Atlanta, and we went there most weekends. I learned to shoot fish, and skin a squirrel using my little knife.

I too carried one to school, and I feel strange if I don't have a knife in my pocket now. I use one every day for many tasks. I think I love knives so much because I can understand them. The world has gotten too complicated, knives have remained the same for the most part.

Knives to me are the epitome of "functional art".

zzyzzogeton wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:45 pm My first exposure to pocket knives was when I was 4. My grandfather demonstrated how to sharpen a pencil. That was my first knife lesson. The second was how to sharpen it.

The first weekend I went to visit him after I started first grade, he said

"Now that you've started school, you need to have your own pocket knife. We can't have you borrowing one when you need one."

And gave me my first knife - a single blade pen knife that I still have lying around in a drawer somewhere. The blade wobbles like a slinky and has less than half the blade left, but I still have it.

In 2nd grade, around Halloween, during cursive practice, I needed to sharpen my pencil but the classroom pencil sharpener (the big gray thing one on the wall) had exploded in a half-dozen parts when someone had tried to use it. I pulled out my knife and began to sharpen my pencil. The other 3 kids at the desk cluster asked me to sharpen theirs as well. The teacher came over to see what was going on. She went back to her desk and came back with a hand full of pencils and said --

"Could you sharpen mine as well?"

After Christmas, every boy and half the girls in the class were carrying pocket knives.

Reverand wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:34 am

toomanyknives wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:26 am I bought my first knife on my own in 1969 when I was 9 years old. I cut grass and rode my bike to a local pawn shop to buy a cheap little pen knife, and from then on, I was hooked. I think it cost about $1.50 or $2.00. My grandfather had a farm about 90 miles from Atlanta, and we went there most weekends. I learned to shoot, fish, and skin a squirrel using my little knife.

I too carried one to school, and I feel strange if I don't have a knife in my pocket now. I use one every day for many tasks. I think I love knives so much because I can understand them. The world has gotten too complicated, knives have remained the same for the most part.

Knives to me are the epitome of "functional art".

Well said!

toomanyknives wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:09 pm

Reverand wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:34 am

toomanyknives wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:26 am I bought my first knife on my own in 1969 when I was 9 years old. I cut grass and rode my bike to a local pawn shop to buy a cheap little pen knife, and from then on, I was hooked. I think it cost about $1.50 or $2.00. My grandfather had a farm about 90 miles from Atlanta, and we went there most weekends. I learned to shoot, fish, and skin a squirrel using my little knife.

I too carried one to school, and I feel strange if I don't have a knife in my pocket now. I use one every day for many tasks. I think I love knives so much because I can understand them. The world has gotten too complicated, knives have remained the same for the most part.

Knives to me are the epitome of "functional art".

Well said!

Paladin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:25 pm I don't ever remember going to school without a pocket knife. There was some mumbly peg to play and I recall going into the boys room to shave off some peach fuzz in my senior year. I used my Tested 47 to remove a lot of coon penis bones during my coon hunting days.

Ray

Paladin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:25 pm I used my Tested 47 to remove a lot of coon penis bones during my coon hunting days.
Ray

ken98k wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:22 am

Paladin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:25 pm I used my Tested 47 to remove a lot of coon penis bones during my coon hunting days.
Ray

LOL What the heck?