Your dads pocket knife

[tmschuller]

Hey all just going thru a old box and found a pocket knife my dad carried.. he had bought me one identical to it for Christmas when I was 10. (mine the ex wife threw out with about 10 other knives I had in a bag years ago..) Nothing fancy, a Sears Craftsman- 5 function type. Its shows the sharpening he did on the can opener/knife sharpener we had on the kitchen counter...
So , what do you all still have from pops?? I will post a pic later.. lets hear about them and see them. Merry Christmas!!

 

[T.Lex]

Do emotional scars and distrust of authority count?

(I keed, I keed.)

 

[indiucky]

I've got dad's old Camillus camp knife he carried in Boy Scouts....

 

[Doug]

I have the 1911 he used as a target pistol in the late 50's and early 60's. The locking lugs had been shot pretty loose, so I acquired a Remington-Rand barrel and slide to match the frame. I also put the correct safety and other parts to make it as it was in 1943. It is now like the one he would have carried on Okinawa.
I also have his and my father-in-law's dog tags from WWII.
The greatest generation will never die.

 

[HoughMade]

My 1951 Allis Chalmers B. Dad bought it in '93. It was an impulse buy because it reminded him of his Dad's first new tractor when he started farming.

 

[indiucky]

I love that tractor Hough....

 

[Thor]

For a tractor: I have the 1965 Jim Dandy lawn and garden that my dad bought new (I was with him when he picked it out and spent a lot of time mowing the yard on it) with all the implements, snow plow, cultivator, mowing deck...just can't find blades for it anymore.

For a knife: I have a well used Kabar 3 bladed stockman with antler stocks.

 

[rvb]

Dad's still kickin, so he would be ticked if I took his pocket knife... haha
I do have his dog tags though....

-rvb

 

[Cameramonkey]

Dad carried a Buck folder on his belt. He ran it razor sharp. As in use it to shave sharp. I remember he would have small bald patches on his forearm from testing its sharpness as he worked the edge. It sits in the vault with his MCSD special deputy badge.

 

[HoughMade]

I have my Dad's pocket protector with 2 pencils, a pen and a mini slide rule- old school engineer.

 

[4651feeder]

A brother got the Marbles sheath knife from the 40's, I have an old pearl handled pocket knife used to clean his pipe back in the 60's. Also recently realized I posses a lot of the guttural grunts and gestures that he had.....OMG, am I turning into our Dad?

 

[indiucky]

Also recently realized I posses a lot of the guttural grunts and gestures that he had.....OMG, am I turning into our Dad?

I saw this geico commercial last night and LMAO...

[video=youtube;XMaIFg-gMIk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMaIFg-gMIk[/video]

 

[OurDee]

Dad's got a Paul knife I like. But I doubt I'm in the will. Probably be lucky if anyone tells me when he passes.

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

A small mentioned in another thread, I got my dad’s bowling ball when he passed since his wife couldn’t think of any use for it. I do have an old Camillus Boy Scout knife that my grandpa had as a scout leader.

 

[Thor]

I have my Dad's pocket protector with 2 pencils, a pen and a mini slide rule- old school engineer.

Nothing wrong with that...I've still got a slide rule here somewhere...

 

[thunderchicken]

Nothing wrong with that...I've still got a slide rule here somewhere...

Ok so my dad still talks about havingvused a slide rule. But I have no idea what one is

 

[Joniki]

I have an old Solingen hunting knife my dad inherited from my grandfather. I remember watching him skin rabbits with it nearly sixty years ago.

 

[HoughMade]

Ok so my dad still talks about havingvused a slide rule. But I have no idea what one is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

Guys like my Dad could use these faster than most people can use a calculator. My Dad developed surface to air missile guidance systems and testing apparatus for the same with one of these. NASA sent men to the moon.

 

[Old Dog]

Between my 2 grandpas and dad I have 28 blades of various heritage and quality. I will not part with any of them because they all have memories attached of hunting, butchering, carving etc.

 

[boogieman]

My brother got my dads knife. He always carried a 2 blade Old Timer. The longer blade was usually dull from using it as a prybar or screw driver or who knows what else. The shorter blade was always sharp as he could keep it. I got his old cowboy hats. He had one he would wear while working that was about wore out and another "good" one he had for church and weddings.