Pocket Knives - How many of y’all still carry one?

[DougGuy]

I carry one of those stainless S&W folders from Auto Zone, 4" blade, belt/pocket clip, best $9 knife you will EVER use! I got a few of them in case of loss or damage, they won't make those forever so I stocked up on a few to keep for future use.

S&W CK70
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[Electrod47]

Cold Steel Ti-Lite Linerlock Knife clipped in my carhart pants tool pocket and a spiderco 3" in my front pocket when in town.
When in the woods I usually have a 110 Buck Knife on the belt. ( I live in the woods)
In the Army in my younger days as a gunner in the M60A1 I carried the Leatherman of that era, a Electricians knife by Barlow that had a screwdriver blade with wire stripping capability and a good fat straight edge. You can't believe what a man could take apart with that thing. I still have it.

[James Wisner]

I carry two knifes whenever I can.
A Kershaw # 4500 lever lock, and a Gerber LST
JW

[Armorer77]

At 62 yrs , I still carry the govt. issue TL folder . Ed

[curdog]

I carry a small swiss army and a benchmade assisted open................Curdog

[CastingFool]

At 62 yrs , I still carry the govt. issue TL folder . Ed

Almost wore one out as a jury crew chief. Got a second one, but haven't used much.

[gwrench]

I doubt that I represent most of the population but I'd feel naked without a good knife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8YyDyap7wI

[sigep1764]

I carry a Boker AK-74 button opener every day. When I fly to Michigan for Christmas, my brother gave me his to carry since knives on a plane are a no no. I loved it and he gifted me one on my birthday. His is black and mine is red. Really durable little knife. The kids that work for me all think its a weapon until they discover how easy it is break down boxes, open bags/packages, etc. Then they get idea that its simply an everyday tool.

[CastingFool]

Been carrying a pocket knife, before I went in the service (1971) , sometimes, I carried two of them. I have a Buck 110 that I used used to field dress every deer I've killed, except one. That one, I used a small Buck 444, which is my daily carry knife

[Pressman]

Forty years ago I attended a winter warfare course in Norway with the Norwegian army. They politely explained that a soldier without a knife was totally worthless and may a well stay home. They were all carrying "Lap" knives with a 10 inch blade. I had a M-8 fighting knife as it looked like a bayonet so the "brass" never bothered me.
After that education I took carrying a knife as a personal responsibility. Working in an office environment I kept a GT Knives, auto with a Tanto blade in my pocket. Out side I carry a fixed blade. Knock on wood, I have never been stopped or hassled about the very visible knife on my right hip. A 5inch blade is correct for doing anything I may ever need a knife for.

Ken

[gwpercle]

I always have and always will .

One of my Dad's little "life rules" were you didn't leave the house without a clean handkerchief and a pocket knife . He made sure I had one by passing down his worn Case knife when he bought a new one .

He taught me how to sharpen it with a oilstone and how to whittle things out of wood .
When I depart this Earth I'm going to have a clean Handkerchief in one pocket and a Case pocket knife in the other .

Thanks Dad,
Gary

[tai95]

Interesting, my cousin graduated from high school in about 1989, from a small school at the edge of the Ozarks in Arkansas. He said pocket knives were forbidden, but at the time this must have been observed more in the abeyance, because once his coach asked if any of them had a pocketknife because he needed one, and all raised their hands. I got out of high school in 1969 and at that time I had not idea at all that a pocketknife might conceivably ever be considered a weapon. Shoot, about half the pickups in the school parking lot had rifles or shotguns in their gun racks. So from the posts in this thread it looks as though the divide is kind of around age 50 or so, when it appears most school; even rural schools in Arkansas made that decision; some more serious than others. Just a trend I was certainly unaware of until he brought it up.

I graduated after your cousin. In the sticks of NY we were allowed the first day of deer season off as a legal absence. The rest of deer season we would miss first period and come from the woods to school. Our guns were either locked in the car or our lockers. Then Columbine happened and that all changed. I had a kid working for me who was almost arrested because they found a 12ga shell in his trunk during auto shop class.

Within the past few years though my old school started a trap league, so they are once again at least teaching kids some sort of gun education.

[bruce drake]

I've been carrying a Western brand model 062 hunter knife for nearly 30 years. It has brown delrin scales and has a long narrow clip blade that I find perfect for filleting fish and a standard clip blade that I use for general work. Each blade is 3.5" in length so I make a point of not carrying it when I travel by air or if I'm wearing dress clothes but if I'm in jeans, its on my belt.

(This photo is an almost exact copy of mine except my bolsters aren't brass but are nickel silver.)
Bruce

[fiberoptik]

I always have and always will .

One of my Dad's little "life rules" were you didn't leave the house without a clean handkerchief and a pocket knife . He made sure I had one by passing down his worn Case knife when he bought a new one .

He taught me how to sharpen it with a oilstone and how to whittle things out of wood .
When I depart this Earth I'm going to have a clean Handkerchief in one pocket and a Case pocket knife in the other .

Thanks Dad,
Gary

Yuppers, gramps rules— 4 things: got on clean undies? Got a hanky? Got your pocketknife on you? Did you go to the bathroom?
Now I usually have 3 knives on me.
Carried a few in the Corps as well.

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[budman5]

I’m not as hardcore as most of you.
I’ve only been carrying a pocket knife for 58 years.

[Texas by God]

I always have, and I always will.Because every day you might have to cut something !

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[beezapilot]

Swiss Army in my pocket, Buck on my belt.

Here is my Swiss Army knife story....

Good story.

I too carry a Swiss Army knife. Had the same one for over 30 years. About ten years ago one of the scales came off, but they are covered by a lifetime warranty- so I sent it in.

Gosh came back sharpened and new springs and new scales and.. just a great job!

When it left it was configured for a toothpick and a set of tweezers, when it came back it had the toothpick (new) tweezers (new) and an odd little marlinspike that was fitted in the handle as well.

You wouldn't think that a little marlinspike would be so handy. Knot in your shoelaces? Mini-pry bar? Used it for a multitude of things!

One day I decided to sharpen it. Pointy is better than dull, right?

As soon as it kissed the emery wheel it exploded!

Blue goo every where.

Wasn't a marlinspike.

It was a pen.

[panhed65]

I have been carrying 1 or 2 pocket knives since grade school, am 72 now. when I was in school, nearly every boy had at least 1 knife. we also could bring a gun to school, and put it in our locker so we could hunt after school. times change, and not for the better.
Barry

[375RUGER]

Always have at least 2 on me. One is a bench made that stays sharp and ready to cut flesh, the other is the go-to for cardboard and such. I might have 5 out in the truck right now, pocket knives and fixed blades. Knives are like guns to me, I'm never very far away from either, and never far away from a few or several.

[rking22]

Yep, always have a pocket knife. If I got pants on there’s a knife in the pocket. Worked for 30+ years for a large company, lately they said no personal knives”you might cut yourself”. I ignored the idiots and continued carrying and using my knife as always. Never a word said. Might be anything from a fixed blade Barkriver to a German stockman or canoe but there will always be a knife on my person. Been that way for 50 years, don’t intend to change it either.