There’s lots of use left in the first two, and the bottom one hasn’t even made its first cut yet.
I used to loose pocket knifes regularly, but that little EDC seems oddly unloosable. Once, I lost it outside in the winter, while ice fishing at my in-laws place. They found it the next spring, laying in the pine needles, next to the dock.
I got that one at a junk sale, at a local tractor show, from a box of pocket knifes priced at $ 1.00 ea. I had to sort thru quite a few, to find one “made in USA”. The tip of the small blade was broke off, but the main blade was intact. I reshaped the small blade on my bench grinder.
On night, we were having an axe throwing contest out by the campfire. It took me a number of throws to get that little knife to stick in the bullseye, and I noted that half the grip insert was broke off on one side after that. I carried like that for a year or two, then finally got around to repairing it with JB weld a few months ago. It’s almost good as new again.
I’ve used a few different hunting knives, but that Shrade Sharpfinger is definitely my favorite. I think I paid around $ 15 for it new, maybe 35 years ago. My father in law gifted me an old Buck 110 folder, about 20 years ago, that I always make sure to use when I’m hunting at his place. The Shrade is so much better. It holds an edge better, cleans up easier, and skins and guts faster, thanks to that little slitting notch on the back of the tip.
I only carried that big stainless Bowie on one or two hunts last year, when it was raining, because I didn’t want to get the carbon steel blade on my Shrade rusty, or get the leather sheath wet. The Bowie has a nice weatherproof sheath.
