In the middle of last August we packed up for our trip out to California to stay with the daughter and her family in the worst of the Texas summer. Came back in early September when it was starting to cool off. For the trip I packed along my faithful SAK classic, and the old standby, my Wenger SI. The Wenger and I go back a very long way, and it's been a default setting for me for decades now. Kind of an extension of my old Boy Scout knife dad gave me when I was 12, and the Demo knife I carried the first several years of my army time.
It's funny, but the old boy scout pattern has been in the background most of my life since I was a kid in the scouts. My knife nut phase saw me go through a sodbuster stage, very short lived. The stockman stage lasted a lot longer, followed by the peanut stage. But as the peanut stage faded, the old scout knife pattern, that was always hovering in the background stashed in a pack, or in the glove box of my car, sort of came back out. Kind of like a weed that you cut off, and a month later it's back growing again.
For the two and a half months that have passed since we went to California, the classic and SI have been on me as my sole EDC. My Christy knife has not been carried once, nor my old peanut. Just the Wenger SI and classic. So far, they've done everything I needed from cutting a sandwich in half to mounting new shelves in the shop building out back, to fixing my better half's blow drier. It's felt kind of weird and liberating to carry them. Kind of like stepping back in time to when Mr. Van, our scout master, showed us how to do so much with the basic scout knife. It's kind of too bad I had to go through the knife nut stage with way too many knives, to find out that the basic stuff I had back then was as good, if not better, than everything I tried since then.
It's funny, but the old boy scout pattern has been in the background most of my life since I was a kid in the scouts. My knife nut phase saw me go through a sodbuster stage, very short lived. The stockman stage lasted a lot longer, followed by the peanut stage. But as the peanut stage faded, the old scout knife pattern, that was always hovering in the background stashed in a pack, or in the glove box of my car, sort of came back out. Kind of like a weed that you cut off, and a month later it's back growing again.
For the two and a half months that have passed since we went to California, the classic and SI have been on me as my sole EDC. My Christy knife has not been carried once, nor my old peanut. Just the Wenger SI and classic. So far, they've done everything I needed from cutting a sandwich in half to mounting new shelves in the shop building out back, to fixing my better half's blow drier. It's felt kind of weird and liberating to carry them. Kind of like stepping back in time to when Mr. Van, our scout master, showed us how to do so much with the basic scout knife. It's kind of too bad I had to go through the knife nut stage with way too many knives, to find out that the basic stuff I had back then was as good, if not better, than everything I tried since then.
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