I remember my dad giving me my first Barlow pocket knife as a child. I still have it. It is also still sharp because he taught me how to sharpen a pocket knife it on the same day, along with a strong ...

When did pocket knives become demonized? It has somehow become, if not criminal, at least questionable to carry a knife. When I was a boy in the 1950s, every adult male carried a pocket knife as a ...