Pen/Jack Knife...did you have one as a kid?

These days they are classed as "lethal weapons", and are employed as such by some youngsters.

How times change!

In my day, as a child (late 1940's-mid 1950's) it was a normal thing to have a Pen Knife or a Jack Knife.....a useful tool which served it's time as an everyday multi-purpose accessory for making Peashooter's, whittling wood, etc. Scouts always had them too..

Did you have a knife as a kid?

What did you use it for?

Take a trip down Memory Lane with Yours Truly.

I had a flick knife, I used it to eat apples, chop various things in half and it came in handy for allsorts of other things that slip my mind.

That was only the 90s

I had a 'Swiss Army' style pen-knife which I used a lot as I spent a fair amount of time roaming the local countryside, doing my Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, helping in the garden, building 'dens', etc. This was the 1970s.

I also belonged to a 'military modelling' society at school and so once a week showed up with a craft knife kit with blades as sharp as a razor.

I also had a 'pruning knife' - a curved 'clasp knife' sort of thing that folds out for use. I still have that - I occasionally use it for sharpening pencils. A few years ago I had need to visit a Court Building, and realised just as I was walking through the door that I had the latter knife in my bag, having been showing it to someone at the office. I made my visit teh following day...sans knife.

I used a penknife at an early age to fashion a peashooter from (would it be? a Cow Parsley Stalk).

I'm not well up on nature's plant names.

I always carried one as a child, had sheath knives in the scouts.got several lock knives of different sizes including special forces type and 2 or 3 swiss army types kept in cars and rucksakc. Ieven managed to pick up a flick knife in Rhodes the other year.

I always carried one as a child, had sheath knives in the scouts.got several lock knives of different sizes including special forces type and 2 or 3 swiss army types kept in cars and rucksakc. Ieven managed to pick up a flick knife in Rhodes the other year.

Flick Knife???

You'd even've been banned from the Cinema House("Flea Pit") Cinema in Rotherham with one of them on yer, willman.

Only the usherettes were licenced to carry them on their person.....when they had Dandelion & Burdock drinks on their trays.

I was surprised when i acquired it 2 years ago, it's not a stiletto its a lock knife type.

it comes in handy on occasions.

I still have a jack knife and use it almost every day for getting stones out of horses hoofs.

I have had various types of penknives, but none of them could compare with the plastic handled steel bladed penknife I was given as a memento of the Queen's coronation in 1953. It didn't last a day, the blade broke off the first time I tried to sharpen a pencil with it

Sometime in the late 40's, Princess Elizabeth came to Sheffield & we were given little blue pen knives at school, with the coat of arms on them for a souvenir, I think the girls got a mug, how times have changed.