Pocket knife usage..

[ironglowz]

  AS this video points out, not many men carry pocket knives anymore  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEC4B-4d5nM

  I guess because of my age, I find that strange, but I carry a pocket knife regularly. Fact is with family, my grandkids all know that Grandpa has a knife ...to cut string, a box or do myriad other small tasks.

   Even at church, if someone needs a small "knife chore" done, they turn to Elder Pete..

   I have noticed however, and embarrassingly so, that probably more women have a small knife in their purse, than men have one in their pocket !

   Since i was in the cutlery trade years ago, I have a couple cigar size boxes, each half full of pocket knives, so I switch knives every few days.

  I do have a favorite knife for pocket carry, a Case "Bill Elliott" type 17711 "blackhorn" type, from the 1990s. I would carry it more often, if it were in carbon steel, rather than stainless.

   That shape carries just the right size blade and snuggles down in the pocket real smoothly with no sharp corners to wear out the pocket !

   The 17711 normally comes with a black handle. If it had a carbon blade, it would likely be my #1 carry.

   Do you regularly carry a pocket knife? If so, what make/type ?

 

[Graybeard]

That knife looks to me like a Sod Buster pattern knife. I have one i carried for many years. It now sits on my reloading bench for use there.

If I have my jeans on I have a knife in my pocket. I have a huge collection or maybe just an accumulation of knives so swap up from time to time.

[ironglowz]

That knife looks to me like a Sod Buster pattern knife. I have one i carried for many years. It now sits on my reloading bench for use there.

If I have my jeans on I have a knife in my pocket. I have a huge collection or maybe just an accumulation of knives so swap up from time to time.

  The sodbuster is another very useful pattern, but the Blackhorn is much slimmer at 1/4" thick, so rides in the pocket well. (now #00253)

  Due apparently to the synthetic handle, it is light and low cost for a Case. That handle means the blade keeps just the right friction on the blade.

   https://caseknives.com/products/lightweight-synthetic-mini-blackhorn

[Mule 11]

Case xx xchanger with bone handle. It is a heavy knife and will eat a hole in the pocket so I have to be careful. I like that the brass bolsters poke out each side of my fist. It is ss and would also prefer a carbon blade.

[scattershot]

I?ve carried a pocketknife since I was six. (I?ll be 80 in August). Most of the time I carried a stockman pattern, Buck or Case. These days I tend to carry a Swiss Army Electrician, mainly for the sheep?s foot blade to open packages and such.

Like you, I hve found that most younger guys don?t carry a pocketknife any more. If they do, it?s some kind of tactical, sudden-death-in-all-directions combat folder.

[gene_225]

Like many older guys (80) I have carried a pocketknife since I was a lad. You weren't supposed to take one to school even then, but if it never came out of your pocket, you were good. So, I was good. When I was in the service, I started carrying a Sears pen knife with a screwdriver because carrying a screwdriver with my uniform was a no no, now I carry a Saber pen knife and a Leatherman Squirt. Like others, if someone needs to cut something, they ask Gene to borrow one.
On the negative side, when I had a stroke a few years ago, my youngest daughter took me into the ER and they wanted all "weapons" out before they would let me in. Being a tad confused at that point, I knocked my pocketknives on the floor and started to try to pick them up. Not going well, I looked up and the guards had their hands on their pistols. My daughter gathered the knives up and ran them out to her car. But I thought I was going to get shot. Now If I go to a hospital, I try to leave all knives and metal objects at home. That's the world we live in now.

[ironglowz]

Like many older guys (80) I have carried a pocketknife since I was a lad. You weren't supposed to take one to school even then, but if it never came out of your pocket, you were good. So, I was good. When I was in the service, I started carrying a Sears pen knife with a screwdriver because carrying a screwdriver with my uniform was a no no, now I carry a Saber pen knife and a Leatherman Squirt. Like others, if someone needs to cut something, they ask Gene to borrow one.
On the negative side, when I had a stroke a few years ago, my youngest daughter took me into the ER and they wanted all "weapons" out before they would let me in. Being a tad confused at that point, I knocked my pocketknives on the floor and started to try to pick them up. Not going well, I looked up and the guards had their hands on their pistols. My daughter gathered the knives up and ran them out to her car. But I thought I was going to get shot. Now If I go to a hospital, I try to leave all knives and metal objects at home. That's the world we live in now.

  Yes; knife/gun hysteria and blindness may contribute to less carrying a knife.  ..But do you suppose that goes as far as frowning upon even a pen knife?

  Before leaving Germany in 1965, I purchased a 3" Boker Tree brand congress knife. Four great carbon blades, but I should have bought a pen or stockman...since the congress pattern just doesn't feel right in the pocket.

  I'm nearing 90 now, and it seems when I was a kid, almost all my friends carried a pocket knife too..usually a well worn, hand-me-down. Sometimes when tempted greatly I would part with one, either for what I saw as a better knife,or perhsps a "stag" hndled cap gun..