What kind of pocket knives do/did your parents like to carry?

[APS]

My Dad has been carrying a Gerber EAB that I gave him a few years ago. When I think of all the stuff he does (he's a lot handier than I am) it always makes me rethink all the crap I carry around in my pockets and the twisted-logic-justifications I come up with for buying another relatively expensive knife. I've given him a Native but I've never seen him use it.

[BigBill5953]

My mom carries a Leatherman Squirt S4 in her purse and before that was a Victorinox Classic. My dad carried a Vic Spartan for years then I gave him a Deluxe Tinker and he carried it for a couple years until I talked my mom into getting him a Custom Syph007 Pioneer for their wedding anniversary.

[Mako109]

I talked my mom into getting him a Custom Syph007 Pioneer for their wedding anniversary.

My ears perked upon reading this and I just did a Google Search. Thanks for clueing me in. I love SAKs and must have a least dozen; some can use a few mods :)

[ASmitty]

My dad has been a SAK man as long as I can remember. He favors the 58mm sized models, but he also has a Spartan with the words "The Evil Penknife" engraved on the handle. Don't worry, it's not an anti-knife sentiment, it's a tribute to a book we both love dearly. He also still has the same Buck 110 he bought when he graduated from high school (in 1976) tucked away for camping trips. My mom has borrowed SAKs from me on occasion when she needed something, but doesn't carry anything regularly. My grandfather (dad's dad) has owned and carried a myriad of knives and multitools over the years. My other grandfather, carried an old metal handled Schrade Stockman every day for years. My family gave me that Stockman when he passed away and I've got it tucked away for safe keeping.

[ChapmanPreferred]

My dad always carried a small Buck single bladed folding knife 2" closed length. I gave him a number of Spyderco knives which he would rotate or put in the car bag or truck bag. His typewriter repair tool box had a repaired Wayne Goddard with a 2" blade. My mom carries a Cricket PE Lightweight and a small Victorinox Classic in her bag.

[Waco]

Mostly ordinary little pocket knives like the non-commemorative ones in the Case XX catalog. I remember Dad having a big folding Old Timer. Well, it seemed big at the time. It was probably the size of my Endura or smaller.

[w3tnz]

My mother still refuses to acknowledge a knife's use beyond the kitchen, I fear she is a lost cause but my father always has a SAK or multitool handy, I remember borrowing his sak often as a child to use the can opener, but never took much interest in the blades. I really got into knives when I started working, they were neither promoted or discouraged in our house.

[WireEdge Roger]

My dad was partial to the Case Barehead Slimline Trapper model (what a mouthful). He used up several of those during my childhood. My grandpa loved his Case Peanut. In the late 80's I bought both grandpas a Vic Classic, and they both seemed to like them a lot.

Dad and I read Combat Handgun, and we were both really interested in the Police and Endura model that was being advertised and talked about a lot. It must have been around 1991 by the time we actually found both a Police and Endura at a gunshow. I remember how excited I was! We each got an Endura, his plain edge/black FRN and mine serrated/black FRN and we got a plain edge Police model to share :D so for a long time he carried an Endura.

[NoFair]

My father carries a Sage 2 or Tenacious (for dirty work) and my mother a Pink Native. Both got them as gifts.

They used to carry SAKs

[VeloWeave]

my dad always carried a Case or a Buck.

[malice]

My father always carried an Opinel 9 on him, and two SAK's, one in the car and one in his bag.
Grandfather used to carry a couple of no name slipjoints. One of those he carried with him, escaping trying to stay in front of the nazi advance. From his stories I gather it helped him quite a bit along the way...
I guess that's why he always had a slipjoint on him. Maybe he didn't feel comfortable without it.
I'm like that as well, I guess.

[shunsui]

My father had a four blade Camillus slip joint. Large, small, knife blades. Bottle opener/screwdriver. And one blade that broke off, probably a can opener.

The kydex needed the hole enlarged for a Spec Ops sheath.

The Swiss Army Knife is mine, bought it a long time ago and my mother always hated it for some reason. I think she had issues with a $12 pocket knife. She was surprised when I mentioned I still had it.

[PSquared]

For years my mom had an old Joseph Rogers that she got when she started working in a nursery in the 1950s. When she died I found it amongst her stuff and cleaned and sharpened it. It lives with my slippies now. My dad's Joseph Rogers - matched my mom's (but I think it was like a model T, you have any colour as long as it is black) I gave to his brother. The ladybug I had given him about 18 months before he died was on his keyring. It now rotates on my keyring with my collection of Ladybugs and Jesters. In an old cigarette tin were a Basic Tools and a few IXLs and some no name junk - I doubt he actually ever used them.