Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Kid takes after her pops 😉

I daily carry the same ZT I bought myself the day my divorce was final.
Over 5 yrs
I’ll admit to having lost or misplaced two or three knives since I first started carrying one daily as a kid. Though, in my defense, more than one of those had help getting lost.

It actually bothers me that I just recently had to semi-retire my EDC Kershaw leek. This after over 25 years of daily service. I have to disassemble it and figure out if it needs a replacement part.

If you are low budget and not necessarily outdoors all of the time, that knife carries a good edge and is tough. I use a heavier knife if planning outdoors events.

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Kid takes after her pops 😉

I daily carry the same ZT I bought myself the day my divorce was final.
Over 5 yrs
I’ll admit to having lost or misplaced two or three knives since I first started carrying one daily as a kid. Though, in my defense, more than one of those had help getting lost.

It actually bothers me that I just recently had to semi-retire my EDC Kershaw leek. This after over 25 years of daily service. I have to disassemble it and figure out if it needs a replacement part.

If you are low budget and not necessarily outdoors all of the time, that knife carries a good edge and is tough. I use a heavier knife if planning outdoors events.

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Had my last knife for 8 or more years, someone decided they needed it more than I did. I sat it down for two seconds at work turned around and it was gone.

Knew who took it but couldn’t prove it....he ended up getting fired for stealing stuff, huge surprise.

Edit- it was an OTF auto and he always wanted to play with it when I took it out opening boxes. When I say two seconds I mean that I sat it down grabbed something behind me and he had walked by, poof gone.
 
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That's when you see how sharp your new knife is. Car tire valve stems are really good for that.
Had my last knife for 8 or more years, someone decided they needed it more than I did. I sat it down for two seconds at work turned around and it was gone.

Knew who took it but couldn’t prove it....he ended up getting fired for stealing stuff, huge surprise.
A pair of channel locks makes short work of them also
 
Yeah but. They are already home and will be easily fixed. No valve stems need a rollback and a ride to the tire shop with a little out of pocket expense.
I always liked the small stone under the valve cap. They usually make it home but wake up to 4 flat tires in the morning.
But I do like the idea of them going down on the trip home in rush hour traffic.
 
All of the pocket knife talk motivated me to get out a few of mine for pictures. Some are old, some are new, every one of them has a story and a few good memories attached to it.
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These are a few of my favorites. All of the ones on the right side of the bottom pic were handed to me by relatives that are no longer with us. My great grand dads fish knife, a couple from my papaw, a couple from my granddad, and a few others from uncles and great uncles.
 
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All of the pocket knife talk motivated me to get out a few of mine for pictures. Some are old, some are new, every one of them has a story and a few good memories attached to it.
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These are a few of my favorites. All of the ones on the right side of the bottom pic were handed to me by relatives that are no longer with us. My great grand dads fish knife, a couple from my papaw, a couple from my granddad, and a few others from uncles and great uncles.
Damn, 5 Chris Reeves??
Nice. I just picked up my first one, bog oak scales.
 
Damn, 5 Chris Reeves??
Nice. I just picked up my first one, bog oak scales.
Guy left a Reeves in my truck and told me to carry it until I saw him again... I’ve never checked a knife was still in my pocket so many times. He could easily replace a $425 knife, but I couldn’t lol.

I have a couple spyderco, a beat to hell Emerson, and some kershaws but I need a Case just because. Also a Zero Tolerance I’ve been always liked their stuff.
 
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Living on ranch property, there isn’t a day that I go outside without a knife in my pocket or on my side. Can someone share what makes the Chris Reeve knifes expensive. Thanks

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Good Question... Similar to why a Cadillac is more expensive then a Chevy or why a Brand name drug is more expensive than a generic drug....
 
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I have a little leather pocket sheath and I will often carry these two in my back pocket at work.

I always have a medium-larger folder clipped in my front pocket. And a small single blade trapper down in my pocket. Sometimes I will carry another more "weapon" type knife concealed, sometimes because of where I'm going, but usually just for fun. I have a Cold Steel Ti-Lite stiletto that at some point took up permanent residence in my work coat right pocket. A Lenox utility knife did the same at some point in the left pocket.
So I'm at work one day and it hit me.... "Oh wait.. am I really carrying seven knives? Oh good lord."
(that's also when it hit me that at that moment I had four flashlights on me as well. What an ass.)
 
Here's a better look at some of my family knives. The men that carried these knives were a different breed. Thankful I get to carry on their legacy. The tiny Old Timer was my first pocket knife given to me by my papaw when I was 5 or 6. I have lots of memories of him running the Schrade with the toothpick of a blade over a whet stone that he kept by his chair while watching John Wayne movies in his last years.

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One of the sexiest cars ever made ‘37 Lincoln Zephyr
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I think the maroon one is James Hetfield's "Voodoo Priest" or something like that.
Pictures don't do the lines justice, the back half is just impossibly long and an amazing thing to see in person.
They really are one of the best looking cars ever made.
 
Good Question... Similar to why a Cadillac is more expensive then a Chevy or why a Brand name drug is more expensive than a generic drug....
I compare it closer to the chrome plated and engraved 1911 you carry on your hip to church on Sunday. It'll get the job done, but you rue having to wipe the fingerprints off of it later. It's a bling thing. You're probably not going to do any serious work with it.
Living on ranch property, there isn’t a day that I go outside without a knife in my pocket or on my side. Can someone share what makes the Chris Reeve knifes expensive. Thanks
I've been in the custom knife game for 20+ years. Higher prices start with high end materials. Titanium frames and surgical steel. But it's mostly supply and demand. I went through the Reeves phase in the beginning. They were a smaller shop then with limited production. Got both NICA Sebenza Tantos because they were limited and CRK said they wouldn't make any more tanto blades. Well the tanto blade is now a regular.

I try to stick with one man shops these days.

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Deryk Munroe Gen 4 and Gen 3 Sigil