Knives

When we travel I usually take a Swiss Army knife I've had forever. Not so much for the knives but for the bottle opener and the scissors! Once in NYC I forgot it was in my pocket when we went to Top of The Rock (Rockefeller Centre). They wouldn't let me in with it, didn't have anywhere for me to check it, so I went outside and stuck it under a tree in a pot. Amazingly enough it was still there when we returned.
 
Literally just a shitty ~$40 "we have Leatherman at home" knockoff multitool, a standard lil' hobby knife, and an Xacto-style boxcutter. All from the same hardware store and entirely practical and unremarkable.
 
I still have a number of pocket knives. Like @Harry Klippton , I was given a knife by my grandpa and by my dad when I was young. It might be silly, but at least for me as a kid growing up in the 80's it was almost a rite of passage kind of thing.

I still like knives. I was always taught that knives are tools. Having a knife on you was just a normal thing, like having a lighter (even if you didn't smoke) and a comb, Just things that you carried. My grandpa kept a garden and fruit trees and was always using a knife to cut fruit and veggies right off the plants.

After 9/11/01 I had to get out of the habit of carrying them because they became illegal in so many places. I always have one in any bag I carry, but I hardly have one on my person ever. I'm just out of the habit.

I still like knives, but I also like cooking, so that's where my knife love kind of comes out. Here's most of my kitchen knives.

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Guardians of the analog said:
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zeropluszero said:
As a non American, I have literally no idea why you would need to have a knife on your person at any point in my week.
I have a knife in my drawer for opening mail. Then I put it back in
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Maybe it is a cultural thing, but I’ve just always carried a pocket knife, now its a leatherman (or one if their competitors). But i don’t have a big collection, I have two that i regularly carry (not at the same time) and a couple extras. I also manage to lose and find them a lot. But I would wager i use my leatherman daily. My line of work it also comes in very handy.
 
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A Christmas present last year from an uncle. Found in a French second hand market. It’s hefty (and a pain to sharpen compared to my Opinels) but it’s great for heavy work and resides on the work bench.

Also European, so I’m not walking around carrying knives unless I’m in the garden..
 
swelchy said:
Probably right.... Some people are quite offended by them... I do store mine in a large fireproof safe when we aren't physically doing something with them.. I have 4 kids at home that were raised to respect them properly as well. I've taken my 4 boys out with me every chance I get to go hunting and to the range. They have been hunting since they were 5 years old with me and didn't start carrying a weapon until age 14. My oldest son is now 18. I've had 2 weeks off work for the holidays and I have taken my 14 year old out deer hunting several days in a row before Christmas so he can take a few deer for the freezer and we were out wild hog hunting this morning. Plan to go back for hogs several days this week while I'm off.
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Ah, thanks for sharing! :)

Yeah, there's not much need in this country for guns for the general public, outside of some hunters doing wildlife culling when things get skewed in nature through drought or whatever. As the growing cesspit that the Netherlands has become (yeah, we're near the bottom of the EU when it comes to antisocial behavior and general disrespect for each other), I jokingly fantasize about putting a gun on the table whenever I feel not being taken seriously / getting people to listen to what I got to say. 😅

So, in the meantime, I just art 'n craft them.

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Okay, complete absurdity knife. Forgot about this one; bought it at a roadside novelty market in Montana coming home from a road trip summer '01. Cuts bread alright, at least :P

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I mean, look at it! Ridiculous. But that's not all:
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I think I had it on my belt once, during a hike on that road trip. Kinda just sat on a shelf since.
 
jessenator said:
Okay, complete absurdity knife. Forgot about this one; bought it at a roadside novelty market in Montana coming home from a road trip summer '01. Cuts bread alright, at least :P

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Twice a year I get out all my waterstones and honing plates, and make sure everything is sharp. There are a few that aren't in the picture.

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The three on the far right, especially the small utility get the most use. I am fond of the Sabatier pattern chef's knives though. The german one, second from the left, I've had for about 57 years; it had a much fuller belly, but when I started getting nicer knives it became a "do anything" and I ended up chipping off about 1/4 dings in it. Luckily, I had a machine shop.

For pocket knives, I lost (to a security guard!!) my all time favorite, a Benchmade Griptillion Jr. Pretty much perfect t as an EDC for me. I've replaced it with a few others.

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The orange knife is the size that I like to use daily. That one on the far right, was knife that my wife found in the easement, in front of our house. She said, "Oh, I think I'll keep this in my glove box as a picnic knife"— but even from a few feet away, it was obvious this was a special knife. I looked up that Circled R and the word "idaho made" which were all the markings on it.

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So, I put a sign up, on several nearby trees—"knife lost, please call..." and got two calls from people that described way different knives when I asked them to describe them. The owner never showed up. I only used it on camping trips; it's too big a blade for the box cutting, etc. use that my EDC gets, and it's a pocketful. I just gave it to my son this year, for his wilderness trips, which are far more frequent, and wilder, that what I now do. His EDC, since I gave it to him when he moved for college, is one of the early Leatherman's. He's on his third; still finding the same model, which is no longer made.
 
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