Thread: Pocket Knives

I think this topic may have been covered as this is how I was introduced
accidentally to SRP "by following a link while searching for knives".

I have around 30 or so new pocket knives which I have honed myself and
am happy with. I don't have any expensive custom ones but the ones
I do have, pull there weight well. My 2 favorites are my Boker Plus Trance
drop point & a Spyderco Tenacious. Both are plain edge.
Oddly enough, I carry a $12 Mereyco Blackie Collins with a G-10 handle daily, it is strong and seems to rip through anything that it's faced with. It's a plain edge also. I use the Blackie daily for my recycling of boxes/slicing branches up for kindling wood for the backyard fire pit. etc "bought the Boker Plus Wharcom for recycling but the blackie is still holding strong".
Does anyone else collect pocket knives and if so what's your favorite one "or three or ten".

I collect traditional style pocket knives! W.R. Case, Boker, Schrade, Bulldog, Winchester, etc., etc.!
The Tony Bose/Case collaberations and Moore Makers are among my favorites, But the two in this thread have become my favorite!
http://straightrazorpalace.com/what-...l-73-53-a.html
By the way, I have over 70 different pocket knives I have collected!

They are very nice JMS. I think I was well on my way to 70 knives until a hit a wall named str8. I still
browse weekly at a few knives and save a few under my favorites on ebay just in case I get the urge
to get that last great one.

I am pretty partial to the Case Mako Lockbacks. I have about a half dozen of them, but none that were made after 1985. That's about when the Case Company started making them lighter, thinner and IMHO, a lesser knife.
I like the 52087 and 62087 Cases and the Case Mini Trapper. All good knives.
For a sheath knife, Marbles (the older ones) are VERY hard to beat. Buck makes some nice sheath knives as well.
The knife I carry every day, is a Case 52087 (stag, two blade, small jack knife) that was manufactured in 1978.
The first knife I ever owned was a Case 62087 (same configuration as a 52087, but with red bone scales.) Dad bought it for me before I was twelve. Maybe that's why I like that pattern so much.
I have some nice knives, but I try to never forget something I once read:
Hillberg's Dictum: Never carry a knife too expensive to leave stuck in someone.
Pat Hillberg

benchmade makes a whole lot of nice knives, same with chris reeve. You absolutely cannot go wrong with a chris reeve sebenza.

The two in my avatar are William Henrys - a T10CF - carbon fiber scales, used to be my EDC (every day carry) and a B10-A250D (an automatic). I now EDC three knives - a Chris Reeve Mammoth Ivory Mnandi, a Mike Alsdorf custom slipjoint, and a Matt Bailey fixed blade knife. Even the fixed blade - in a sheath on my belt - rarely gets a second look anywhere here in the South. As far as knives that I own? I have a one of a kind William Henry collector's only knife, a Spyderco, and a few other custom knives. I would have lots more knives, but most of mine (and most of the knives I've purchased) are in my father's collection - and he has quite a few.

Byrd, CRKT (with regret looking back) a Swiss Army knife, a Leatherman TTi and I'm making my own fixed blade.

I love knives.

Before razors I was collecting (big word) pocket knives. I have about 250 of them plus a dozen or so of hunting knives.

Like most collectors I have Case's knives, they are great. But I also have Puma 4 Star, Spyderco, Rigid, CRKT, Browning, Buck, Queen's, Schatt&Morgan, Remington...
I also have many Victorinox, Wenger.
When traveling in France for vacation I picked up a few Laguiole, Akma, Jacques Mongin, Douk-Douk, Opinel and Thiers knives.

Laguiole are great knives when you get the real thing, They're many counterfeit on the market so you have to be careful.

One of my best Is a Laguiole that was hand made in Cordes-sur-Ciel. It's Ivory and Damascus, one of a kind (see photo).

When I go to a restaurant for a steak I always bring a Thiers Chambriard, stag handle, carbon blade knife. It's a beautiful, fine cutting knife and gets lots of attention.

My everyday carry is a Puma 4 Star all stainless 2¼" blade, serves me well for daily chores. For my more formal outing I'll carry a beautiful Case Select XXX Pearl Doctor….preeeeety. For many years I carried a Browning 4081 but it was a bit big and heavy so I went for the smaller ones.

P.S. Here in Quebec we are not allowed to carry knives or pocket knives. It is punishable by a one year prison vacation…But all street gang crimes are committed with knives and I don't see any sentence being hand out.