Rob’s blog<\/a>, and thought about carrying a pocketknife.
\nIt’s a uniquely male thing, though more women are beginning to do so, but in my generation, you were nobody if you didn’t have a knife to play mumbletypeg or whittle or skin the occasional squirrel.
\nThere were four kids my age in my neighborhood, and I was the last to get his own knife. I kept mine sharper than anyones, though.<\/p>\nThe knife I carry, the knife above, is an old timer. I never liked stainless knives, because the edge isn’t easy to produce or keep. I prefer the little extra work to keep a carbon steel knife clean.<\/p>\n
Anyway, that little knife never left my side until I was twenty seven, when I bought it’s brother, a three bladed old timer (clip, sheepfoot, spey) again in carbon steel, and with hardwood scales instead of the imitation stag. <\/p>\n
Three days after I started carrying that knife, Dad died. At his funeral, alone in the room with him just before the closed the coffin, I took that shiny new knife (I’d just sharpened it sharp enough to shave with) and put it in the breast pocket of Dad’s suit. Yeah, more for me than him. <\/p>\n
After we buried Dad, I came home and took the old knife and put it back in my pocket. It hasn’t left me (other than on business trips) in nearly twenty years. Sometimes I also carry a swiss army, sometimes also a leatherman in a sheath, but this knife is with me always. <\/p>\n
Anyway, I’ve used that knife to peel potatos, to clean my fingernails, cut steak, clean fish, clean squirrels, trim hair away from burs in the dog’s tail, and a million other things. <\/p>\n
Yes, I clean the knife between those things.<\/p>\n
A knife is a man’s jewelry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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