Knifes

Every Man Should Carry a Pocket Knife

I do. My knife of selection, at least for the moment, is a Kershaw. I currently bear the Chive 1600. Kershaw knives convey a lifetime warranty. The Chive is a tough, thin, practical knife with a blade that holds an cutting side fairly well and comes with Kershaw's patented SpeedSafe initiatory system - almost switch-blade like in quiescence and speed. It retails for $53, but I bought this one used for $10. It's in completed condition. I've carried a pocket knife since I was a very not old boy, probably around 7 years old. My first knife, which I still have, was an Old Timer given to me by my grandpapa.

Growing up in Western Virginia, a pouch knife was considered "standard equipment" for every boy. I can call to remembrance playing mumbly-peg (or "mumblety-peg"), comparing knives with other boys, and "whittlin' sticks" together. Playing mumbly-peg today in a management school would get a boy expelled and require that some dwindle psycho-analyze the poor kid. Amusing, we never had school shootings when Bibles and pouch-knives were allowed in schools. In our novel age of "homeland security" (a joke), the feminization of American males, and boys who tender video games to the great in the open air, carrying a pocket knife is seen by many as extraordinary and old-fashioned....

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