I don't leave my house without my pocket knife and North American Arms 22 short mini revolver in my right front pants pocket. Both are about the same size and are small enough that I forget I even have them, which has caused a few white knuckle trips back from New York and Massachusetts, both of which are only 5 miles from where I live in VErmont.

oneatatime wrote on Nov 12^th, 2026 at 11:57am:


Is that a knife in yoour pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Axes are sharper than some of my knives.

I have carried a pocket knife since I have had pockets. If I have my pants on I have my knife and my Leatherman on my belt. I use them every day in my work or fixin' stuff around the house. 
Stay sharp
Gunny

Carried a Swiss Army knife since grade 3 and now I carry two of them - but not through the airport and now they have metal detectors at the hospital as well. 
Came into the hospital on a stretcher in September and they never found the two knives.
Found a Swiss Army knife is not adequate to skin a moose though.
Buck knife with a Browning steel works better.
Westerner if you want them sharper I was trained to sharpen the axes used in logging competitions.
Yours need more of a bevel and flatter bevel to get a better razor edge.
Never use a grinder only an axe file to precisely sharpen.

Patients now going into the Alberta Emergency Rooms must now go through a metal detector.
Too many incidences of people on drugs assaulting health care workers.
When I was in emergency a native lady who had been arguing with her husband had stabbed him.
They made sure she was no longer armed before the police came to retrieve her while they were patching up the husband.

I make a knife now and then. Here's the last one I made a year or two ago, my keeper because the curly maple scales came from a block of wood I rescued from my grandfather's shop when he died in 1973 - took me this long to find an important use for it, haha!

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Blade is A2 steel, hardened and drawn very little. The blade was left pretty brittle so as to hold a keen edge, and it surely does (I know, don't call me surely). It's ok as long as I don't drop it on a hard surface or pry with it. I can remember those protocols but I don't dare let a blade go to a recipient like that.

I'm starting to thin the herd on knives too. Here's one I put up on eBay: (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

I don't carry "a" pocket knife. 2 is 1 and 1 is none. Also carry 2 flashlights. If you don't carry a small flashlight it's hard to believe how much you use them. 

Have misplaced my smaller flashlight so here is a new one in the package. Haven't given up on finding the old one yet. 

Left front pocket large clip flashlight and small knife with keys and nitro bottle.    Right front pocket was a Kershaw blur but has recently been the auto knife. Small flashlight goes in right watch pocket. Use to carry a Leatherman wave but it hasn't been worn in a while.