Northern grandson is a knife addict

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The oldest northern daughter visits 3 times a year. Grandson Matt 10 yrs old loves knives. He brought his meager collection of 4 plus his scout knife.
The scouts did a good job with safety but only rudimentary sharpening knowledge. The kid is sponge. Taught him to take the edges from somewhat sharp to scary sharp. His scout knife
and Buck fixed and A/O folder are his go to for camping so we got them first.
All the folders need oil.
After his were done we started to poke around mine. No small feet since I got few dozen. We do a few day since I am recovering run out of gas real easy. (Fem-pop bypass with 72 staples on June 26th
Yesterday they went to flea market with Nana.
I get a text and picture says
"Hey G-pa is this good for $10.00?"
It was a USA Schrade Walden Old Hickory 1940T!
I told him if the blade was good and it snapped and locked tight grab it.
It is in good shape. A little oil and cleaning, some sharpening and he has a lifetime pocket knife.
Today he was bugging me about "seeing knives."
Not having a lot of energy I told him go to the bottom draw of the file cabinet and grab 3 fixed blades.
A Becker necker he thought was cool
One I made that he liked
And an old M 16 bayonet He went nuts about.
He willingly cleaned oiled them, more for practice than need, but he kept going back to the bayonet.
He went on and on about how cool it was but realized it was not a practical camp knife. Just an heirloom and collectable. All morning he held onto that thing, finally I Told him maybe it should at your house!
He went nuts happy, big hug and 87 thank you's

More tomorrow with pics if I feel like it.
 
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Sounds great! I wish I had a grandpa to teach me which knives are good buys and how to sharpen them. I know next to nothing about blades. I use a steel to keep my kerhaw leeks and scallions usable but other than that I'm ignorant.
 
I wish I had grandsons! But I love my 4 grandgirls to death even if they're not into knives. Good for you Doc, bet that was fun!
 
Doc

Way to go with your Grandson! I have two Grandsons (though both are a little too young to be having knives), along with a number of sons and daughters, who will be partaking of some mighty fine knives from my collection!
 
Wish I could share my interests in knives and guns with the next generation of my family. The only interest any of them ever expressed in my stuff was when I was wearing a Case Trapper in a belt case. My nephew wanted to know why I was carrying a weapon with me. Sigh.
 
Bikerdoc,

Good on ya about the grand kid.

I was going to seek sympathy from you guys for my nine staples and missing sections of two vertebrae from 28 June and just getting to be able to walk 100 yards just today with out issue, but Jiminy I am up staged!

I got stopped at Church one day for my gnarly dogwood cane and given a talking to about not bringing weapons to church....good thing the complainer did not have X-ray vision!

-kBob
 
KBob wishing you a fast recovery. Love the cane story. The only time anyone ever gave me grief about my cane I educated them on the Americans with disabilities act
 
Uh Oh, knives are the gateway weapon ...

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When I was 10 years old I would have loved to have my grandpa teach me how to sharpen knives and make things. I bet your grandson would like to have you teach him how to make a pocket knife from a kit. This way he will lean skills that will be helpful later in life.
 
Great story, hope you guys with staples heal soon. I have a son 22 and a daughter 18 and they love knives. I just saw my nephew and he asked , what I had on me. I had a small K Bar TDI , my forever Spyderco Dragonfly and CRKT Hisatsu. I asked him, what knife I should by him for Xmas and his eyes lit up. He said that he will let me know. Got to pass on the knife faith.
 
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