My wife thinks...

[glenn57]

I have issues. She thinks I have a fetish with knives, but you guys can see I really don't 

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[mike89]

could have more but now have thinned a few out...   just like guns!!!

[Rebel SS]

Naa, can always use a few more!

[deadeye]

Nice collection there Glenn57

[Jerkbiat]

Nah. That's like saying something is to much fun.

[glenn57]

Nice collection there Glenn57

thanks deadeye!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

Boy, do I have a deal for you....read yer E-mail......

[gophergunner]

I've got a few knives, but only a couple decent ones.  To me, knives are a tool, and I use them as such, so my stuff shows the wear of useage.  I don't have any of those purty ones in a display case.   One of my favorite knives is one that was made out of a piece of tool steel that came out of one of the steel mills that used to be in Youngstown, Ohio.  Hand ground, with crude home made wood handles, it reminds of a better time for the Steel Valley.  During WWII, Youngstown was one of the biggest steel producing cities in the world.  Mom was part of the Rosie the Riveter gang-she made tank treads, of course in one of the mills.

I have my dad's Buck 110 Folding Hunter.  The steel's so hard in that knife, it's tough for me to sharpen.  That old knife has probably gutted a bus load of deer over the years.  A couple well worn old fillet knives, and of course a Leatherman multi tool that never leaves my side round out my arsenal of every day "users."

I also have the knife my dad Marched across Europe with under General Patton.  It's a 1918 Trench Knife.  A really nasty looking hand to hand combat implement.  Brass knuckles, and a nasty little thing on the end to bean somebody on the head with as a last resort.  This knife was made for no other reason than to kill Germans, and in Dad's hands, it did on one occasion when the lines collapsed at Kasserine Pass, and the combat became upclose and personal.  The blade still has blood stains on it.   Dad was an excellent shot, and could take care of himself pretty good with his hands too.  I'd have not wanted to encounter him in a battlefield somewhere. That one stays next to my bed, should I ever need it, and to remind me of my father.

[deadeye]

Cool story, gopher.  It's nice to have a story behind some of the old things we have. Yours is exceptional.

[delcecchi]

I have some knives (and guns) from my father but nothing like that.   He had some stuff from ww2, but we played with it until it was beat up and it went in the trash at some point, except for a couple of shirts.   Helmet liner, canteen, pistol belt, etc.   

I have his model 12 that shot a lot of ducks though.  Too bad I could never hit anything with a shotgun...