Pocket Knife

[Beast]

I feel underdressed with my opinel no 7

 

[Jaxworx]

I carry a Leatherman Wave everywhere I go that doesn't involve traveling by air. It isn't fancy, but the belt sheath is done in decent brown leather (much better than they used to make).

We keep a small picnic knife in the car, as well (plus another Leatherman in with the spare tire because, well... you know). The picnicker is a Frost fixed blade woodworker's knife, hilted, with a red beech handle and a stamped, blonde leather sheath. Wicked sharp for apples and cheese, and also handy for stashing in my sock when wearing a kilt.

I've loved and lost a number of pretty little pocketknives, most with horn or exotic wood handles, because they fell out of my pocket, got left in a coverall for a few months, or I laundered them into rusty oblivion. Sheathing them on my belt seems much the safer option, and I've never owned a pocketknife (including a couple of very portly Swiss Army knives) that matches the utility of the L-man.

 

[MarkStar]

Queen Cutlery (I am obviously partial to Queen Cutlery) Gunstock in Bird's Eye Maple

Doing lunch duty...

 

[MarkStar]

Vintage Queen Small Stockman which I dyed red.
Also my AKC Leverletto and a K&M Match Safe...

 

[Woodtroll]

Vintage Queen Small Stockman which I dyed red.
Also my AKC Leverletto and a K&M Match Safe...

K&M match safes are nearly bombproof! Nice knives, too.

 

[MarkStar]

Yet another Queen Cutlery Gunstock. This one is in Bone Stag.

 

[steve u]

 

[steve u]

 

[steve u]

 

[steve u]

MarkStar, I had to many knives and not enough pockets...steve

 

[MarkStar]

LOL... I have the same problem!
I usually carry two knives but I still lament not having a good reason to carry more...
Some nice stag you've got there. I don't own any GECs but I do have a Tidioute Cutlery Barlow in Ebony. I'll post that one next...

MarkStar, I had to many knives and not enough pockets...steve

 

[MarkStar]

As promised, here is my Tidioute Cutlery Barlow in Ebony...

 

[MarkStar]

Another Queen Cutlery Barlow...

 

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Queen Cutlery (I am obviously partial to Queen Cutlery) Gunstock in Bird's Eye Maple

Doing lunch duty...

Pardon my ignorance, but, are they eggs? Never seen eggies that colour before.

 

[MarkStar]

Pardon my ignorance, but, are they eggs? Never seen eggies that colour before.

LOL... Yes, those are pickled eggs. When I make my own I don't put coloring in them but some commercially bought pickled eggs are dyed red.

 

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

LOL... Yes, those are pickled eggs. When I make my own I don't put coloring in them but some commercially bought pickled eggs are dyed red.

Well well, you live and learn. Back in the day when we used to have proper pubs here they often used to have a jar of pickled eggs behind the bar but they never had colouring in them.. I trust they taste better than they look!

 

[MarkStar]

Well well, you live and learn. Back in the day when we used to have proper pubs here they often used to have a jar of pickled eggs behind the bar but they never had colouring in them.. I trust they taste better than they look!

I suppose they are an acquired taste but I love them.
For what it's worth that's a pickled hot sausage next to them. Good eating right there. All it's missing is a pickled onion or two!

 

[Peacoat]

I have probably 15 or 20 knives, maybe more, most of them small pocket knives I carried and then retired. After I have carried a knife for several years, and it has been through many adventures with me, I will retire it so it won't get lost. I can then look at it every several years and remember what we have been through together. As we age, I keep the knives in active service for longer periods of time as I find we have fewer memorable adventures together. That isn't a bad thing.

I also have several serious blades that can do damage. Don't carry those. My favorite is a standard Army combat knife the Fifth Special Forces Group at Dak To gave me during my year long vacation in sunny SE Asia many years ago. And my next to favorite is a hunting knife my wife gave me 3 or 4 years ago. Both of these knives stay sharpened and ready to go, out of respect to the ones who gave them to me, but they aren't carried.

Always on my belt is a Leatherman Tool. How I did without one until 30+ years ago is beyond me. I have about 6 of them, and they go everywhere with me, one at a time of course.

 

[MarkStar]

Ka-Bar Swashbuckler

 

[Peacoat]

A nice knife and I love the stone—just beautiful.