What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

[RDaneel]

MAM sheepsfoot is my International Knife this week:

Case mini copperhead is Watch Pocket Knife this week:

Rough Rider work knife (sort of a SBJr pattern) is my Big Knife this week (even though it's not very big, but I classified Sodbuster Jr type knives as "big" as a way to carry them more often ):

Schrade+ USA UH897, Uncle Henry medium stockman, is Stockman of the Week (thanks, Dean):

- GT

Nice group of knives, Gary!

 

[RDaneel]

Carrying these today to commemorate the brave warriors of the United States, Great Britain, Canada and other allies who assaulted the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.

 

[JohnDF]

Happy Thursday All.

 

[Travman]

 

[SVTFreak]

Heading to San Antonio for three days to visit my octagenarian uncle.

Will be toting these:

Case trapper.
And:

A. Wright & Son lambsfoot.

Remember D-Day: 75th anniversary on Thursday.

USS Lexington.

USS Texas.

Where is the Texas and Lexington? I think I toured the Texas as a kid but we never went to Sam Antonio. Went to Houston several times as I have family there. I'd love to see a carrier.

 

[r8shell]

A Camillus four-liner today:

 

[black mamba]

In honor of the sacrifices made by our (Allied) troops on D-Day in 1944, I'm carrying this Camillus #12 jack.
Of all my knives, it's the one that was made closest to that fateful day.

 

[joeradza]

My brass zulu by John Lloyd @John L and my lucky coin from Charlie @waynorth.

 

[cjtamu]

I think this meets the definition of "Traditional". Either way, it finds its way into my pocket more and more frequently.

20181108_135147 by Chris Thayer, on Flickr

 

[Captvideo]

1987 Winchester Stockman. Amazing quality.

 

[Fodderwing]

That's some gorgeous jigging on your Pruner Dwight

Thank you Jack.

Good Morning!
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Beautiful Dave! Is that an 89?

Thank you, Dwight. And, oh, my goodness!! What a handsome old Remington you are totin' today. Stellar jigging.

Thank you Stuart.

I've been working all day on a sports awards banquet taking place tonight, and toted this Smith & Wesson lockback hunter as a backup for breaking down boxes in case my folding boxcutter went awry. It did, and the S&M acquitted itself very well. Boy, will I be glad when this event in in the bag

I hope the event went as you planned.

Thanks for the kind comments on the S&W. It certainly held its own today. Yes, the awards banquet has consumed 6 of the past 4 weeks of my life. We gave 34 youth/high school and 3 adult (coach/booster) sports awards out tonight over a little more than 2 hours. From baseball to ultimate disc, from gymnastics to rifle, we try to cover them all (oh, and ice hockey). We've got kids going to West Point, the Naval Academy, and a slew of other great schools. My favorite was a high school wrestler who has very good grades (close to 4.0), works with disadvantaged youth, and was homeless his sophomore year - having to run a mile and a half from the shelter to his high school each morning to make before-class practices. He had an undefeated season this, his senior year, and is our state champion. Makes you blink a little when you look in the mirror.

Thanks for sharing this. And yes it does.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

I know Patton wasn't involved with D-Day, but it's a good reminder. The other is a WW2 era Camillus post exchange resale knife. A few of which I'm sure was carried stowed away in a pocket or ruck, and carried across that hell of beach. Carried in honor of my neighbor growing up. A First infrantry soldier who I know fought at least from Sicily onward to the close of the war. A man who'd tell me stories of his experience, and things he'd seen. A man who after the war went on to occupation duty in Japan, and married a Japanese woman. I only know of her from pictures in his home,he wouldn't talk of her. I could go on and on of the things he told me, but I won't. Its enough that he got to tell someone. So today's carry is in honor of Woodrow, a nice old man who always had a reese's cup and a story for a annoying little kid. Thank you Woodrow, and all of your brothers from every country that stormed the nightmare hell of that beach.

 

[dc50]

Beautiful Dave! Is that an 89?

Thanks, Dwight, yes its an 89 executive whittler.

 

[dc50]

 

[Mingecutter]

A little smaller than I usually carry, at 3.25" closed, but really enjoying this one in yeller delrin and CV!!

Case 32087 half stockman/pen knife (single spring)

 

[surfer]

Carrying these 2 today :
And a C. Lutters LOEWEN MESSER ( Lions Knife )


It looks like some previous owner hammered on the spine edge of the blade and tried to cut through a nail . You can not see the damage to the spine , but I certainly can feel it .
Both of these knives really take an edge .

Harry

Hello, I just saw, that you purchased an old Lütters folder! This is my favorite traditional knife brand, if you're intersted in, some details...
Löwenmesser (lions knife) are very famous under north sea fishermen, the model you have are used to kill and gut the fish.
The writer Kristin Kube wrote a book about the life of the fishermen of the northsea and there is a chapter about their knives, obviusly all made by Lütters, the interviewed fishermen and captains often saw them as some kind of talisman.
Here a link, it's in german..
https://books.google.es/books?id=0X...Bs8Q6AEIMzAB#v=onepage&q=loewenmesser&f=false
The company exists since 1840 and is still produceing, allthough each year less models.
I had the luck to get a few of their sheepfoot folders still with steel bolders, as today they produce these without bolsters.
They are not interested in the colectors market as they sell in big amouts to fishery companies, agricultural , etc.
When you walk trough the harbours of northern germany and denmark (Hamburg (where I'm from), Esbjerg, Tönning, Büsum, Helgoland, Hanstholm, etc) from time to time some old guy pulling out a Löwenmesser
Due to the lion on your knife, I think it's from the 50ies or earlier.
Here the link to their page, on the bottom you can download an article from the german knife magazin "MesserMagazin" about Lütters.
https://www.loewenmesser.de/index.php/de/

Regards
Nicolas

 

[lucky22]

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What bad things do I need to do to get one of those.....

 

[Whetstone39]

Hoping to wring a little more luck out of this trio for the game tonight, very exciting to be this deep in the NHL playoffs for the first time. I polished and oiled the Queen Barlow, hopefully I didn’t burnish any of the luck away .

 

[Prester John]

Where is the Texas and Lexington? I think I toured the Texas as a kid but we never went to Sam Antonio. Went to Houston several times as I have family there. I'd love to see a carrier.

The Lexington is in my home town of Corpus Christi. It is permanently moored here, and is a museum now. Saw service in WWII. It's the second Lexington: "the Blue Ghost", thought to have been sunk several times by the Japanese.

The Battleship Texas is in Houston, near the San Jacinto monument (15 feet taller than the Washington Monument), where Sam Houston defeated a larger force of Mexicans under General Santa Ana, and won independence for Texas on April 21, 1836. The battleship saw service in both world wars. Smaller than the Lexington, of course, and you can tour it. Was under partial renovation last year when I last saw it.

 

[5K Qs]

Once again, I've let myself get so far behind in this thread that I've been "lapped by the pack". In an attempt to catch up, I've quoted my favorite post or two from each of the pages I hadn't read yet.

Sunday carry - 1970 Case.

That's a great-looking knife, Dean! Pen knife? Half whittler?

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5K Qs While it lasted, i regularly saw the Shadows of Knight play at the Cellar in Arlington Heights.

Quite a coincidence, Harvey! Before I posted about the Shadows of Knight version of "Gloria", I looked up the band on Wikipedia and found out how to correctly spell their name. I also learned that for a while they were the "house band" at the Cellar in Arlington Heights. And you were there!!! I used to like some of those Chicago bands back in the day. CTA, of course, and I really liked most of The Buckinghams' Top 40 hits. Cryan' Shames, Ides of March, ...

Thanks GT, maybe I should send Zorro?!
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Excellent idea, Jack! Zorro knows a thing or two about righting wrongs!

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Dwight, that photo does an excellent job of representing the thrill and the agony that get juxtaposed in the lives of most of us!

It's interesting to see your "constants".
I ponder why you picked those... I assume the math knives because of your work, and the little SAK for its tools, but I haven't quite figured out why the Sodbuster Jr became a constant. Do you carry all those in your pockets, or bags, or in your coat?

John, you're 3 for 3 on the ones you listed. The SBJr is a knife I won in a GAW @BigBiscuit ran to ask for prayers as he went in for his first surgery when he found out about his cancer. I started carrying it as a "prayer reminder" for everyone and everything on my daily prayer list. As for carrying, the Minichamp hangs from a little suspension hanger on the edge of my LFP and the Vic Solo stands in the "inboard edge" of my LFP in a little pouch I made by putting a safety pin through the pocket material. The SBJr and my scrimshawed RR stockman are in a nylon belt pouch that I carry in an outer pocket of my backpack, or vertically on my suspenders if they're narrow enough to fit through the pouch loops.

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Jeff, I always admire that top knife, especially the blade mod you did to the screwdriver; what you ended up with seems like an ideal 2-blade combo!

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That's exotic, Alan!! I grew up on a dairy farm, but definitely don't recognize THAT breed!

I always enjoy seeing your Constants.

Have a good week, everybody!

Thanks, r8shell . That Böker is the bomb!

Grabbed my Churchill this morning.

Jeff, as I told the other Jeff, I always admire that Churchill of yours, for essentially the same reason I admire his modded TL-29: ideal blade combo (even though his has a spear main and yours has a clip main). Your stag is nothing to sneeze at either!

Carrying a couple of new Victorinox arrivals today.

Very cool, Buzz! Those have been on my wish list at DLT for ages, but I can't make up my mind on what style I'd like best. (I'm even considering the Memphis Belle "pin-up gal" version. )

Thank you, Gary. And it is always a pleasure to humor you.

Fantastic fotos of your foursome, Gary!
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Thanks, Dean.

Our Raised Garden finally dried out enough for me to get it tilled up so we could get the Tomatoes , Peppers , Beans , Edge Flowers , and Asparagus planted today and I had this one in my pockets . Sorry about using old pics but it was dark before we got done mowing our yard too .
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Harry

Smashing old lambsfoot, Harry; glad you got the crops in!

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Stag and stag bone today, an A.Wright 'Ashley's Choice' Lambsfoot and an Issard Violon

Great knife pair
You have right there
Jack, Mein Herr!

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WW!! What jigging!

Do i have a problem? I have four knives in my pockets today. ... These things make me happy and that's the bottom line, so this absurd number of daily tools is no problem at all.

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Your rationale seems flawless to me , but I usually have access to 17-19 knives each day in pockets and backpack combined.

My trio is apparently lucky, as the Blues won last night! Funny thing about the Queen Barlow:
It isn’t actually “mine”, but is to be a gift for my nephew when he is old enough, his first pocket knife. It needs a little tlc so I am going to polish and oil it tonight.

Congrats, Tom, on the strategic knife exchange for the win! Man, I would not TOUCH that Queen Barlow until the Cup has a new home!

Queen #10 today

Steve, that is a Happy Jack!!

I bought this a long time ago when I knew very little about knives. This was my very first knife. ... Just that it was an unexpected treat to find my first knife, again.

Congrats on finding your first knife, Harvey!! I've seen that model show up occasionally here on The Porch, and I've always thought it looked elegant and distinguished.

Old Southington in horn that’s new to me.

Congrats on the superb jack, Nick!

I've got a couple of classics for this Twosday, though only one is a knife. One for EDC-ing, the other for easy listening.

- Stuart

I'm not a huge country music fan, but I do have a Hank Williams LP I enjoy!
I am a huge toothpick fan, but I don't have a BB Winchester to enjoy, but I'm glad you do!!

- GT