The original Eye Brand is still German made.
Eye Brand Two-Blade Yellow Baby Butterbean GEBBY
This Eye Brand baby butterbean pocket knife has mirror polished stainless steel spear point and pen blades with nail nicks and a special celebratory blade etch.
smkw.com
They’re a hundred dollars,
SMK has exactly one old stock Pre Tariff Classic Carbon Canoe left in stock:
They are $22 with shipping.
I own both, and the Classic Carbon is what Solingen knives were before I was born, thick blades, perfect fit, match striker pulls, fancy as fancy ever was.
Here’s the problem.
I don’t need more than one pocket knife, much less dozens upon dozens.
My father, who used his pocket knife every day, would spend two or three dollars for an Imperial and toss it when Wimpy Lowery at the Western Auto sharpened it so much a blade broke.
He would also buy another “dollar watch” at the Western Auto when the old one quit.
Sixty years ago my father would get a milk check every two weeks that was close to a thousand dollars.
It was not all profit, but we lived very well, and when he died he had exactly one pocketknife and one dollar watch.
Are we better off today with our piles and mounds of trinkets?
