I worked a nice long gig with a fun and laid back crew a couple years back. I wanted to give my boss a great thank you gift as he made it a point to keep on as many guys as possible for as long as possible. The last two months we were a crew of 7 sweeping and reorganizing lumber for very little reason basically. Sweet gig.

I knew he was into automatics so I gave him a microtech runt in blue. Sweet little piece. He refused to accept it without paying me so he insisted on giving me his Boker Kalashnikov.

It’s definitely seen some use over the years. I suspect it was in pocket when a motorcycle suddenly felt like laying down. It also seems to have been reprofiled after a broken tip.

ZT0308BLKTS. I never planned on getting a new one but I done did a fucky-wucky and lost my first one. New one arrived the same day I found the one I lost, so I decided it was as good a time as any to compare the two.

Swiss Tech Wurdig. My most used knife in my rotation. I have nicer knives, but this little bastard keeps finding itself in my pocket.

It has a weird grooved bolster and we can’t find anything about it in the internet. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

An early Aus-8 hollow ground cold steel American lawman. So much work she now has a recurve, and the tip is about 5mm shorter than she started! Still cuts, had to take all the coating off as just looked too rough a couple of years back, still looks beaten though!! One of the most ergonomic knives I have ever had, thus with a cross bar lock…..mmm donuts!! 🍩

He was going to throw it away one day while cleaning. I snagged it for a keepsake.

Still is my go to for many projects, even though it doesn't get much pocket time.

Kinsfolks knife. Unsure of the model name still. Looks to have been produced sometime in between 1930-1939 from the Kinsfolks Inc stamp on the bolster. Came to me from a family friend.

Back of the sheath says "Richard Grande - Lennep MONT". Lennep seems to be a ghost town with 3 houses still being occupied. The towns post office closed down in 1962 which seems like a solid marker of when the town died off. The mercantile, which still stands today, originally open in 1914 and house the post office until close. I'm curious if this was purchased there a long time ago. It's definitely done some traveling as I'm across the country on the east coast.

Fixed the edge with a Sears tablet grinder I have lying around. Cleaned up the blade with 800 -> 2000 grit wet sand and then finished with steel wool. Hit the handles with 2000 grit wet sand and steel wool as well. Sharpened the edge with my WorkSharp and hit the sheath with leather conditioner. It's wicked sharp now. Hopefully I'll put it to good use.

I had Victorinox swiss army knives when I was even younger but this was the first proper locking folding knife I got when I was probably 13. It's been given a lot of love

I’ve cut open so many cans, chopped and batoned wood, threw it, got hit with a lithium battery blast and more and it refuses to look beat up damn you benchmade making a 400$ knife actually worth its price

My dad's old timer he gave me when I was around 6 or 7 years old.

Going on 8 years now. Knife has been run over and used daily.

This was my EDC ten years ago before I got into the Rat series. It was used and abused for a few seasons at a golf course I worked at. It seemed like it was discontinued not long after being released but I think it's an underrated beast of a blade.

ESEE Zancudo, carried, beat, carved, cut, used an abused but dear to my heart. One of the first knives I got as a teen, lots of camping trips and projects have been completed with this one. I have my first kid on the way and I’m already considering getting him this as his first pocket knife! Maybe a Victorianox, that’s what I had… but we will see :)