Three months now!

cbl51 · **on:** February 21, 2016, 07:44:12 PM

It's been a very long time since I did not have the obsession to not carry a different knife every few days. Beiing a life long knife nut, I've always had a handful of daily rotation, especially amount tyne traditional pocket knives I used to carry everyday. A stockman pattern, a fw barrows and sodbusters. A peanut. But it all seems to have changed.

I'm sure I wrote here about how when I fist got to our new home in Georgetown Texas, I wandered into a junk/antique store by chance. I NEVER do that kind of thing, but I was drawn to this one store on the town square while waiting for the better half. I ended up finding a dirty and neglected tinker in otherwise very fine shape for 10 dollars. The original factory edge was still on it, and the tools were mostly unused. Just needed a warm bath with some Dawn dish detergent and some mineral oil in the joints.

Well, it's been three and a half months now since zI rescued that tinker, and it has become a steady pocket companion. Only a few times I tried to carry something else, but each time I had the feeling I couldn't wait to get back home to swap back to the tinker. In that three and a half months, it's been a fine companion.

Now, after a lifetime of being a knife nut, and having a large number of pocket knives come and go, could I have found "the one?"

My dad carried a little Case peanut of this whole life, until the last ten years when arthritis made a regular pocket knife uncomfortable, and he switched to a Christy knife. On another forums we talk sometimes in awe about the 'one knife man' and how they got by with just the tone pocket knife. I am wondering now if I have arrived at that place. For the past three months that tinker has been my "one." It's almost like some weird karma that I arrived in Texas, and within a 48 to 72 hour window, I find a SAK in a second hand shop and it takes over my pocket and I don't want another knife anymore. I can only wonder if Texas has it's own red gods of fate?

Here's the mysterious tinker with the ever present classic in the keyring sheath.

powernoodle · **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2016, 08:04:19 PM

For those who want to emulate Carl, that same combo - Tinker + Classic SD - is available on Amazon Prime (U.S.) for $22.91 shipped.

Of course, a new Tinker won't have the character of cbl's, but you can add your own.

Humppa · **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2016, 08:22:49 PM

Carl.. thanks for sharing your thoughts

Yes, the little Classic and the Tinker work well together. Here, in Germany, when people here the term "Pocketknife" many think on an SAK first. All the other stuff comes later.

But maybe... it´s one of the Texas things on your side, my friend.

SAK Guy · **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2016, 08:38:24 PM

Quote from: Humppa on February 21, 2016, 08:22:49 PM

Carl.. thanks for sharing your thoughts

Yes, the little Classic and the Tinker work well together. Here, in Germany, when people here the term "Pocketknife" many think on an SAK first. All the other stuff comes later.

But maybe... it´s one of the Texas things on your side, my friend.

Like Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel always says : "Texas, it's not just a state, it's a state of mind......"

jalind · **Reply #4 on:** February 22, 2016, 04:20:25 AM

You have found that mythical paradise of peace, happiness, and a Zen-like oneness with The Universe that other men only dream about for an entire lifetime without ever achieving it: OKN!

John

(OKN: One Knife Nirvana)