Felix is a brilliant guy. I love that man for his clear and very pragmatic thinking. If he's going in the woods, he needs a woods, but around town in his daily life, the 58mm is fine. He reminds me a lot of my friend Howard. Howard is a crusty old west Texas guy, who spent a great deal of his life as an oil field rough neck. That the guy doing dirty and hard work on drill rigs and oil pumping platforms. Howard loves to hunt and fish, and I got to know him through our Thursday morning old fart breakfasts. With Howard, Bill and myself, we've spent a lot of time on the banks of the San Gabriel river trying to outsmart the fish. Sometimes we get lucky, sometimes not.
But...I found out by observation and a few questions, Howards favorite pocket knife is a classic. By accident, he said. Howard is one of those old guys who if he's going huntin' will carry a 'huntin' knife. If he goes fishing, he caries a 'fishin' knife. If he's just around town, he always carried a little Buck mini buck because it was small enough to go in his coin pocket and not be noticed, and was cheap enough at Walmart to easily replace. He used up/broke them every few years.
One year Walmart was out of his favorite mini buck. They had the little Victorinox classic for the same price. Howard bough one only intended to use it until he got another mini Buck. But he "got used to" as he put it, the small SD tip, the scissors, even the tweezers. He tore one up in a few years and ent back to Walmart and got another classic. He's carried a classic in his coin/watch pocket of his jeans ever since. And this is guy who doesn't like changes. He shoots the same old Colt single action army he bought when he was in his 20's, and he's 80 now. He goes 'huntin' with the same old Winchester 94 in 30-30 he bought in the same time period. Those are his only guns. Howard doesn't change much, but he switched to a classic by accident and been there ever since. Like Howard says, "Don't need much knife to open a package."
