What Knife Did Your Dad, Or Grandpa Carry?

My dad carried a Buck 110 or perhaps some kind of Schrade copy I don't remember.

My paternal grandfather carried a Old Timer Dogleg Jack

I'm not sure what my maternal grandfather carried.
 
This one was carried by my Grandfather until he died in 1977. My Dad started carrying it then and carried it every day until he went into the Veteran's Home in 2008. I've had it since he died in 2010 but I carry it only occasionally because I just couldn't stand to lose it.

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Gramps carried quite a few keen Kutters, Primbles & Schrades. He lived in the same town his whole life and that's what the local hardware store carried. I have a few and all but my prized Primble has been sharpened to toothpicks! Dad likes fixed blades and favored Pumas for a long time and for pocketknives always a small Case.
 
My grandad carried a Camillus 73 trapper for a while that his father gave to him that he gave me. He now carries an old US made Old Timer and some German Frost lockback. My dad moved to Commiefornia and doesn't carry a knife.
 
Dad carried a yellow handled Keen Kutter stockman and Granddad carried a keen kutter Barlow handles in bone.
 
My grandfather used to carry a Benchmade Leopard for cutting slugs in the garden and bananas on his cereal. :D
 
elkins45 said:
This one was carried by my Grandfather until he died in 1977. My Dad started carrying it then and carried it every day until he went into the Veteran's Home in 2008. I've had it since he died in 2010 but I carry it only occasionally because I just couldn't stand to lose it.
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very cool, my grandpap carried an old Case too. I found it in a box of his stuff when we were cleaning out their house. It means alot to me, im looking to fix her up.

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My Grandfather usually carried one of the 3 blade Old Timers, or a Buck 110 or copy of a Buck 110. My Grandfather was on my Moms side, so I just recently got my Dad into knives. He just got a Kershaw Leek after using an old timer for a while.
 
My grandfather carried inexpensive knives around the farm, but took good care of them. When he passed he had an inexpensive yellow scaled Ideal small stockman. His tools I eventually ended up with were better quality and in excellent condition. Some of them go back to the early 20th century. My take from this was he used tools more than he did his knife, and he was an immigrant dirt poor farmer and made his way through life with no help or inheritance working through the depression and eventually buying over a hundred acres in northern Ohio. The barn was a treasure trove of stuff going back to the 1800's, and he still used a foot pedaled stone grinding wheel to sharpen his scythes, hoes, etc. That's where I learned to use what we had, and how much help using the correct tool for the job was. Losing, not taking care of, laying around carelessly, or putting away without cleaning, oiling and sharpening were not things to be tolerated.

Those were different days where mistakes or excuses were not tolerated, lies meant pain, and children weren't treated like little "gifts from god". Children ate last, what was left and didn't make noise or talk during dinner.

I recall my grandfather treating the dogs mange with motor oil. He pulled his teeth with pliers, and stopped the bleeding with a plug of tobacco. He also made his own wine and brandy, worked well into his 70's full time, and lived to 90ish.

I have an old newspaper account from Toledo where he shot a couple of guys but that's a different story. None of us knew about until he was in his late 80's when he pulled it out and showed us. I kept it.

Jeeze, it sounds like a movie compared to now, but that's how it was in the 60's in rural Ohio.

Joe
 
My dad carries Victorinox SAKs and Opinels, plus a custom skinner from a local bladesmith for hunting. I've given him several knives as gifts, he just keeps them in their boxes.

My grandfather on my mothers side was a doctor (he served as such in the army in Patagonia and Antarctica before opening his private practice). He used an old Wenger SAK and had quite a few Spanish penknives made in his hometown (Ibi, Alicante).

My other grandfather managed sugar cane plantations and cattle ranches, so his EDC was more in line with traditional Argentine "gaucho" gear. He carried German fixed blade knives (Herder or Boker), with blades between 4" and 5". One with a stag handle (work knife) and another with silver and gold handle and sheath (Sunday knife). He had a few folders to use in the city (the main one was a Boker lockback). He also had a serious machete fetish (the sugar cane plantation was located in a tropical rainforest).

Sorry for the crappy pictures, I need to take new ones.

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My grandpa carries a kershaw blackout and my dad carries a ontario rat 1. I have a very tactical family:)
 
Great thread.

My Pops likes to test how hard something is by jabbing his knife into it (:eek:). The other day I looked at his knife he pulled out and it was an Emerson. Etching was barely visible and I can't remember the model but I was impressed. He seemed fond of it.
 
My Grandfather used a "NEST" pocket knife back in the 1950s. I do not know were it was made... Ken
 
my Grandfather has been carrying the same schrade 96OT for as long as I can remember it has been sharpened so much that the tip is ground off the clip point blade but its still going strong after all those years
my dad has been carrying the same gerber ridgeline for the past 15 years and that thing has worked for him but he ha recently asked me to help him find a new knife to replace that one
 
On my moms side my grandfather carried a big Rigid lockback on his belt along with a straight razor and sometimes a Korean Rizzuto clone.

On my fathers side my grandfather carried small yellow handled slipjoints.
 
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