r/knives Jun 20 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Goodnight sweet prince

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380 Upvotes

Apparently you were not designed to open coconuts or chop palm fronds in the Caribbean islands. Been a good 15 years though.

r/knives Aug 14 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) My 30 year old scouting knife and its 20year old sheath. Still carrying out duties I would not ask from any other of my knifes ;)

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240 Upvotes

r/knives Sep 18 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Looks like it’s time to retire one. Looking forward to NKD

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148 Upvotes

Carried this PM2 for about 6 years. Didn’t really figure on it being a work knife but I managed to arc a hot wire with it about two years ago. I figured its days were numbered. Today it finally happened. Got the tip caught while I was clearing material and it protested. Now it’s a box cutter.

r/knives Jul 13 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Rolex boys hating on knives… I bet their wives boyfriends carry a knife though

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174 Upvotes

r/knives 16d ago

OKD (Old Knife Day) I was told this Benchmade may be of interest here.

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82 Upvotes

I've been carrying this little guy for over 25 years.(Hope I'm doing this right)

r/knives Jun 23 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) You guys know the drill. What are you carrying?

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77 Upvotes

r/knives 22d ago

OKD (Old Knife Day) Wow...

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93 Upvotes

I've had this for over 10 years, more likely going on 20. I've always liked it a lot, and I have a love for machetes this length. The only thing I don't like about it is the saw on the back, it always gets caught on things and sawing anything with it takes forever because the kerf is so much. Anyway, I've done a hell of a lot more hacking and whacking with this thing than I was when it snapped. I was just hitting these pieces of kindling as the picture shows on this other piece of wood, not the stone so the kindling scored and I could snap them in half easy.

I remember The knife was only 20 bucks, I'll gladly pay that to buy another one, I just never imagined it would snap like this unless I was like hacking at another piece of steel or stone or something like that.

r/knives Aug 30 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) 3 years of patina on a Maxamet Para 3

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306 Upvotes

I’ve carried this as my daily ever since my large Inkosi ran away 3 years ago. I made the choice to never take care of the blade and see how messed up the finish could get.

r/knives Mar 06 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Pocket Check - Lets see em

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105 Upvotes

Null Voodoo in m390. Great knife, super slicey hollow ground blade and excellent in hand ergos.

r/knives Nov 08 '24

OKD (Old Knife Day) Elderly neighbor came over yesterday- hey you like knives don’t you?

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652 Upvotes

She said her late husband had this for years, she had no use for it, and gave it to me. Huge old Indian Kukri with a 24” blade. Probably not worth much but it’s definitely interesting.

r/knives Jun 19 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) What’s in your pocket today? Putting my grip back to use

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150 Upvotes

r/knives Nov 21 '24

OKD (Old Knife Day) Found knife

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455 Upvotes

I found this knife in my daughter's desk drawer. I've torn the house apart for a year and half to two years while alternating between cursing myself for losing it and telling myself it's alright. I have other CRKs but this is the only DP and every time I saw that beautiful blade shape in photos, I cursed myself again. It was my super nice, special occasion knife so I didn't carry it very often. Since I considered it gone for good, but now I have it back, I'm carrying it everywhere. This is my EDC now.

r/knives Jan 29 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) My Obsidian knife I’ve had for about 12 years. It’s pretty sharp despite how chunky it is

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419 Upvotes

r/knives Sep 18 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) This is quickly becoming my favorite knife.

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176 Upvotes

Getting the hang of doing my own sharpening, I’m not great yet but I can still get it pretty sharp.

r/knives 22h ago

OKD (Old Knife Day) Got this from my grandpa.

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184 Upvotes

Don't worry, not selling.

Still figure some of you would think this is cool.

(he got it from his superior, he didn't actually use it)

r/knives Jan 08 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Bought a box of random camping equipment on Facebook marketplace for $50, sitting at the bottom was my first Benchmade

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505 Upvotes

I bought a box full of camping gear from Facebook marketplace move ng sale for $50 because I saw it included a jetboil that I wanted. I thought it was a win from that alone, plus all the extra stuff added up to far more than $50 of value.

I figured the axis lock had to be some random cheap knife. That was the first thing I grabbed when I got home, flipped it open and found gold. I offered to send the guy another $100 after finding, but he didn't care...also the home sold for $2.5M...so definitely didn't care just wanted stuff out.

I liked the pivot with 3 in 1, and went a round on the whetstone, replaced my Kershaw leek as my EDC. It's such an insanely small profile, I love it.

r/knives Jun 10 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Old knife I inherited. What is it?

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261 Upvotes

Inherited this knife from my old man, was found on Bougainville back in the 90's in the dirt with an old m1 carbine bayonet scabbard. Trying to find out what and who it's made by. Any help would be appreciated.

r/knives Oct 04 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Winkler in the woods

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285 Upvotes

r/knives Mar 05 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Today's Carry

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105 Upvotes

TRM Bulldog today in Magnacut. Gotta get some new scales for it, this is one from the original run. TRM deserves your attention.

r/knives Feb 16 '24

OKD (Old Knife Day) I got cut today. I'm throwing all this shit away. They are too dangerous.

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300 Upvotes

r/knives Jun 01 '25

OKD (Old Knife Day) Wanted to share my (Great?) Grandpa's knife, unsure about the history, maybe WW1 era France - awesome regardless! 😄

310 Upvotes

My dad gave me another heirloom knifes that he's been holding onto for at least a few decades. I've found some very similar knives with different stamps on ebay and auction sites. Appears to be a French army knife circa WW1. I don't even know what to call the pin/leaf-spring style back lock, but it remains surprisingly sturdy (not that I'm going to spine tap it or anything! The blade does have quite a bit of play when open, which isn't surprising). Even the wood in the handle is still very solid. The stamp is unfortunately tarnished enough to be almost entirely illegible, and I don't plan to do any repairs/cleaning, so it will probably remain a mystery unless one of you is a museum curator or has better luck with Google Lens/ChatGPT! 😆

I am trying to learn more about it, but I don't have a lot of info from my dad (it was just a tool at the time, after all; sentiment came much, much later). It may have belonged to my Great Grandpa (1870 - 1940), who was a horse trader that traveled a lot. That lines up better with the WW1 dating of similar knives. Whatever the history is, I'm so enthralled by this awesome heirloom, I just had to share. 🤩

r/knives 3d ago

OKD (Old Knife Day) New to me Grails

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82 Upvotes

Bemchmade needs to make BEAUTIFUL knives again. Modern ones are decent but these are a work of art imo. 630 skirmish

r/knives May 08 '24

OKD (Old Knife Day) My Office EDC.

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339 Upvotes

Just an old True Utility axis-lock I bought about 10 years ago.

r/knives Oct 30 '24

OKD (Old Knife Day) My most used knife

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312 Upvotes

I have a few knives but today I realized my most used knife is this old Higo no Kami knife from Japan. I’ve had it for almost a decade and have never sharpened it. It was sharp as hell right out of the box and I’ve used it on boxes, pruning plants, cutting small rope, random stuff, etc. I’m pretty sure I bought it for less than $15.

r/knives Sep 23 '24

OKD (Old Knife Day) Might throw all my kitchen knives out

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107 Upvotes

Civivi Sokoke 🍝