All About Pocket Knives

winst wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 4:32 pm My first encounter, with a pocket knife as a tool, came when I was just a towheaded boy of 8. My granny ask me to go with her to the garden to pick green beans. She wore a big white apron that she used as a caring container fo all most every thing. Needless to say we filled her bean "basket" [apron] with fresh tinder half runner beans. As we were leaving the garden my granny ask me for my pocket knife to cut some morning glory vines that had climbed to the top of a stalk of sweet corn. I looked at her with what, no doubt, seemed puzzling that she would ask an 8 year old for a pocket knife. I answered her with a blank I don't have a knife. Her reply still lingers in my mind today. " a man that don't carry a knife is no 'count'. Later on that week she surprised me with a brand new Case XX bone handle small 2 blade whittler. Man was I proud. Fast forward to the mid 60s when knife trading and collecting became extremely popular in the Mt of Kentucky. I had to get into this craze and got my first encounter with a bad trade. I soon learned that if I stick to Case XX in my trading, I could learn the values of one brand at a time. As time went on I began to have more interest in the old Case knives and developed an appreciation for the construction, materials, blade, covers, shapes and history of these old knives. They became a form of beauty to me that caused me to value them far above there real worth. This mind set caused me to begin to collect these beauties and lay them up just to get them out once and a while to lust at their beauty. When you are young the future seem endless but now as I have to admit that the future is soon swallowed up by the past and those thing that were once the "apple-of-our-eye" seems to depreciate in value...but not knives...Even now at the age of 83 I still love to explore the beauty of these old "jewels". There is nothing that man has created that surpasses the beautiful components of a POCKET KNIFE. They become a part of your soul.

winst wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 7:23 pm Yes I have that knife forever in my memory but not in my hand. Pocket knives and coins are the two items that a country boy has problems keeping for long.

winst wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 4:32 pm My first encounter, with a pocket knife as a tool, came when I was just a towheaded boy of 8. My granny ask me to go with her to the garden to pick green beans. She wore a big white apron that she used as a caring container fo all most every thing. Needless to say we filled her bean "basket" [apron] with fresh tinder half runner beans. As we were leaving the garden my granny ask me for my pocket knife to cut some morning glory vines that had climbed to the top of a stalk of sweet corn. I looked at her with what, no doubt, seemed puzzling that she would ask an 8 year old for a pocket knife. I answered her with a blank I don't have a knife. Her reply still lingers in my mind today. " a man that don't carry a knife is no 'count'. Later on that week she surprised me with a brand new Case XX bone handle small 2 blade whittler. Man was I proud. Fast forward to the mid 60s when knife trading and collecting became extremely popular in the Mt of Kentucky. I had to get into this craze and got my first encounter with a bad trade. I soon learned that if I stick to Case XX in my trading, I could learn the values of one brand at a time. As time went on I began to have more interest in the old Case knives and developed an appreciation for the construction, materials, blade, covers, shapes and history of these old knives. They became a form of beauty to me that caused me to value them far above there real worth. This mind set caused me to begin to collect these beauties and lay them up just to get them out once and a while to lust at their beauty. When you are young the future seem endless but now as I have to admit that the future is soon swallowed up by the past and those thing that were once the "apple-of-our-eye" seems to depreciate in value...but not knives...Even now at the age of 83 I still love to explore the beauty of these old "jewels". There is nothing that man has created that surpasses the beautiful components of a POCKET KNIFE. They become a part of your soul.