THE KNIFE I CARRY

“My current EDC is a but there is no story behind that. Not so for my first two EDCs I have from my youth more than 50-plus years ago. While in the. Around the same time a friend had a I wanted something fierce. I just thought it was so cool. I could not win it from him or get him to trade for it—at least not until I got a nice-looking pearly marble from another friend in trade—and he wanted it. (Pearlies, tiger eyes and steelies were the best marbles to have.) So the trade was made and that’s how I obtained the first two pocketknives I owned and still have. Achieved by salesmanship and bartering, and no cash—the good ol’ days!”