Do you run around 'half naked' ?

[ironglowz]

   
     What ever happened?  It seems at least 4-5 times a week I am asked, "hey Gramps, loan me your pocket knife" ?  Why doesn't every man carry a pocket knife?  It seems that any man caught without a pocket knife in the 1950s or 1960s, may as well have been partially naked! ...And some women carried purse knives too! Why not today? Do you still carry one, or do you run around "half nekkid"?

[Bob Riebe]

      I carry one 98.6 percent of the time, but I lose them too often when I am doing garden or yard work.

[gypsyman]

  Can't think of when I don't have one in my pocket. Maybe when I'm lounging around the house with my lazy shorts on.

[victorcharlie]

I carry one just about all the time, and have all my life.  We traded them in highschool and junior high home room.  To answer the question, schools have banned them as "bad" "evil" weapons that kill people.   

I wasn't allowed entry into the local court house because I had a small pen knife.  Seems these days, little makes and sense.

[moamonkey]

There?s one in my pocket almost 100% of the time. I have a drawer full, some I bought 40 years ago. It?s a natural part of my attire.

[Mule 11]

I carry one just about all the time, and have all my life.  We traded them in highschool and junior high home room.  To answer the question, schools have banned them as "bad" "evil" weapons that kill people.   

I wasn't allowed entry into the local court house because I had a small pen knife.  Seems these days, little makes and sense.

Don?t worry, they have DEI hires there to protect you. When you need help, cops are generally only 5 minutes away.

[moamonkey]

My wife was in the hospital earlier this year. They wouldn?t let me in because I had a small muti-tool on me. Absolutely stupid. There were a hundred tools in that place I could have grabbed if I?d wanted to do real damage.

[Bob Riebe]

My wife was in the hospital earlier this year. They wouldn?t let me in because I had a small muti-tool on me. Absolutely stupid. There were a hundred tools in that place I could have grabbed if I?d wanted to do real damage.

     Up here, if  you are going to the Trauma Center, a place where you sit for one half hour till they get to you, real often, you have to empty your pockets.
     BUTT
     If you have an appointment, you can just walk right in to the waiting room, no pocket checking.

[gene_225]

Mostly not. Except when going to the Hospital to visit or for an appointment. But the first time I ran into that was a couple of yeas ago when I was having a stroke. Went thru the metal detector to the ER and had to empty my pockets. Had several knives in my pockets. In my confused state, I managed to knock the bowl on the floor and knives went flying everywhere. Fortunately my daughter was there, having driven me in, and picked them all up and took them out to her car. But the cops were all standing up with their hands on their pistols. I thought I was going to get shot; knew I was in trouble.
Spent three days getting treated for the stroke before they sent me home.

[scattershot]

I have carried a pocket knife since I was six. That?s a long time, believe me. Generally, if I have a pocket, there?s a knife in it. I don?t understand, either.

[ironglowz]

I carry one just about all the time, and have all my life.  We traded them in highschool and junior high home room.  To answer the question, schools have banned them as "bad" "evil" weapons that kill people.   

I wasn't allowed entry into the local court house because I had a small pen knife.  Seems these days, little makes and sense.

  Yes, trading pocket knives etc., seems like it was a regular event during my school years.  Must have started such swapping in about 5th or 6th grade. Mostof the time I upgraded by trading, but some times I was "taken to the cleaners", by a knife that wouldn't hold an edge.

[Drilling Man]

             Do you run around 'half naked' ?


  For a minute, I thought you was one of those funny dudes, and you was going to ask us for pictures!!

  DM

[Bob Riebe]

           I said earlier I lost a LOT of knives, and they were the ones I usually had spent good
 money for.  -  well I always forget, between my Dad and Grandfathers, I have a fairly good number of
 knives I could just sharpen up and be just as usable, for free, as the one I bought and lost.

           The ignorance of youth - even as I became an old fart.

[AtlLaw]

          ... I lost a LOT of knives, and they were the ones I usually had spent good money for. ...

Me also!  Then I stopped carrying one altogether when they wouldn't let me in the Court House (where I worked!) with one in my pocket!

[ironglowz]

          ... I lost a LOT of knives, and they were the ones I usually had spent good money for. ...

Me also!  Then I stopped carrying one altogether when they wouldn't let me in the Court House (where I worked!) with one in my pocket!

  Zounds !  How do they expect an esteemed barrister to sharpen his quills without a proper pen knife ! I would wager they never denied John Adams or John Hancock their knives at the door !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UGYlEVq1AQ



   

[Mule 11]

They give you a machine gun as a kid then will not let you carry a pocket knife as a man.

[ironglowz]

They give you a machine gun as a kid then will not let you carry a pocket knife as a man.

  ..And of course, the usual hoods would never break that law...  That's why the lefties keep making new laws...that criminals never obey..

[nw_hunter]

          ... I lost a LOT of knives, and they were the ones I usually had spent good money for. ...

Me also!  Then I stopped carrying one altogether when they wouldn't let me in the Court House (where I worked!) with one in my pocket!

I know the feeling, when folks started being mean with those dreaded Asshalt guns, I got rid of all my weapons including those multi bladed pocket knives. No one needs more than one 2 inch blade. We all know that knives kill. The one toting it just happen to be holding it while it does it's dirty work.

[Graybeard]

Nope, don't walk around half naked tho I do sleep fully naked. Does that count?

Around the house I mostly wear sweat pants with just elastic to hold them up so I don't add any weight to the pockets of them. But I have knives in every room in the house even the bathroom and in here in the computer room.

If I go out I do always have a knife in my pocket tho and I also have knives in my Lexus and in my John Deere Gator just in case I forgot to put one in my pocket. I have no clue how many knives I have but way more than I actually need.

I can't rightly say I ever traded off a knife as a youth and don't recall doing so as an adult. I've gifted knives to friends and from time to time have lost some but always seem to find them again.

I have a really old small Case brand hunting knife that was always perfect for field dressing squirrels and rabbits and the like and it was used on some deer also. One day the snap on the holster came open and I lost it. Wow what a lost, I bought that knife as a boy. I followed my path all the way back to where I gutted the deer and found it. I sure never carried it on my belt after that. I put it in my pack.

I have a nice custom knife gifted to me by GBO member Jeff Gleason many years ago. It's a nice knife with what I think is burl wood for the scales. Very nice and holds and edge well. I keep it and one of my two Cabela's fixed blade knifes in the kitchen to use in cutting up maters, pepper and such for the freezer or table.

[Mule 11]

I was rummaging through my wife?s mom and stepdad?s house. They have both passed on. What my bil and her sister did not take was a large case kitchen knife that is now resting in my knife block. Not overly valuable but I like and use it in the kitchen. Kind of off topic but I have been knife busy as of late which is not a bad thing IMO.

[ironglowz]

  Years ago, it was a custom for grandpa to pass on a well worn pocket knife to a grandson.  ...A knife that has sliced many an apple, carved a wooden plug, picked slivers,
   cut baler twine and sundry other routine tasks..

   Now that some guys are not carrying, they can't likely have a well worn pocket  knife to pass on, so Case solved that problem for them ! 

    https://www.amazon.com/Case-Medium-Stockman-00786-Knife/dp/B000IXEWXA/ref=sr_1_3?adgrpid=1343603774719932&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TIc8_hEUA_KWGf1A0AA4-GkxEHEqvjSjt8kfoavnyiz6qQfeEw

[Graybeard]

Today my last long lost knife came home to me.

I had lost it who knows how long ago, perhaps as long as a couple years ago. It's a Gerber Bear Gryls knife. I have them in two sizes, normal and large. This was a normal, perhaps 3.5" blade.

I've looked high and low for it since it went missing with no luck. Today when I got in my John Deere Gator to take a ride-about I noticed an extra knife in the pocket in the dash where my Gator knife resides.

I took it out and looked it over. Had dirt and grass all over it but otherwise none the worse for being outside a year or two. Well the orange scales are kinda looking more yellow than orange also.

Dunno who found it and put it there. Likely Matt or maybe grandson Wyatt. Both have used the Gator recently. Last tho was Matt. He used it to pull the riding mower used by the guy who mows my place out of the pond. I don't think it got into the water but was stuck nose down on the steep angled side of the peninsula.

I'll ask Matt next time we talk if him. At any rate it is now home again. Not the first time it got lost for awhile, I found it the other time.

[DDZ]

Its always a great find to find a knife that you once thought was lost. My every day carry knives now are single bladed locking knives with a pocket clip. Knives with a pocket clip don't accidently fall out of your pocket from laying on the ground working on something or even from sitting.

Oldest knife I have is a fix blade case. Got it at 12 years old when I started deer hunting. So its 56 years old now. The blade has gotten kind of narrow from so many sharpenings. 

[ironglowz]

 It must have been about 20 years ago, when dragging out a deer, I lost my knife. It was a Mora with carbon blade and black & red rubber handle 

  A  couple years later, my grandson was playing a paintball game with some of his friends from school.  One of his friends found the knife, and my grandson knew just whose knife it was, after hearing me bemoan it's loss..

   The rust cleaned off quite readily, and I still have that knife.  Like below, except black sheath..

[Graybeard]

Matt said his friend Eric who mows the grass here found the old knife in the blueberry orchard. It has the clip to hold it in my pocket. How it came out I have no clue but it did.

I've cleaned it up and there was no rust and really no sign of it being out so long other than the orange turning kind of yellow. Tough knives.