Just wanted to get your blood flowing again...scares me when things like that happen

Mostly I like my pocket knives with caps. I'd have a hard time ordering one without it. However, I wonder if on that particularly awesome knife you have it'd be better to leave it without the cap just for the sake of showing off the ivory. I'd need to have one with and one without to be perfectly happy.

Like these?

Aarrrgggghhhhh...... I'm choking, I'm gasping... Air, please...!!!! You're something else, John. Simply amazing. I know there are zillions of different knives and fantastic collections, but yours is the one I prefer. Congratulations.

And now that I have the chance of seeing both knives, I do like the one without the cap ever slightly better. That ivory is beautiful. Thank you so much for the pictures.

I prefer the cap with ivory or pearl...just in case it gets dropped....but its not really an issue with me... I carry a better knife that is barehead in stag

"I carry a better knife that is barehead in stag"? Would you please explain? Pictures?

By the way, this, I know, is an unfair and stupid question, but of all your Bose knives, which would be your three or four favorites? Second question, if I could only have one Bose knife, which would you recommend I have?

Thank you for your patience, John.

If I were to carry any pattern other than a WTrapper I think it would be a Three Blade Stockman......a Five blade would be a little toooo thick to pull off unless in was a 3".

Yup, I concur. I gave a three blade Stockman to a nephew some years ago. Maybe ten years ago; time flies. Sadly, he's not much of a knife user but I know his son will inherit that knife someday. He treasures that knife. He's a sophmore in college now.

Hell, I often think that I should've kept that knife. Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Just order another...no brainer