On Oct 18, 2014, at 6:43 AM, Thomas Conroy  wrote:

> "What pocket knife do you carry every day?
> Anyone here who doesn't carry one?"
> 
> I find that knives are like cats--- they live with you for a while, then they
die or go away, and they break your heart when they do. I'm still in mourning
for my last two carrying knives.
> 
> Sometime in the last year my usual carrying knife dropped out of my pocket.
It's a shock to me that I'd had it for around twenty-five years. Back in the
1980s I started carrying a small fixed-blade work knife rather than a folding
knife. The usual one was a large McKay knife, not Dexter but maybe Hyde or
Murphy
> 
> http://www.rmurphyknives.com/store/leather-knives-
ss4.html">http://www.rmurphyknives.com/store/leather-knives-ss4.html

Earlier in this thread I commented on having found what I called a "pattern
maker's knives that have the blade that feeds thru the handle" and Tim has now
identified it for me. If you connect to his link  to murphyknives.com and go to
http://www.rmurphyknive
s.com/store/blades.html you will see pictured what they call Adjustable
Handle knives & blades. However, they are now only offering the blades. Noodling
about the net I found one listing for the Murphy knife but it is marked as
discontinued. You can find them in aluminum, but it appears the nice heavy brass
framed ones are only going to be available on the old tool market. Glad I
finally found one at a bottom feeder's price.

Bill, whose most used shop knife is a 20+ years old Spyderco serrated edge that
has been sharpened past the serrations.