re: Pocket knife recommendations

11 year olds don't keep knives for life .... they lose them.

Ask me how I know.

If you're lucky you'll find some of them in the yard.

In the meantime, buy Rough Riders or eBay or Amazon. They're handsome, they're inexpensive, you can teach your son to sharpen them, you can afford to get him a nice trapper style or something along those lines .... and when he loses it, it's not the end of the world.

If he does manage to keep it for life he can pass it down to his Sons, along with all the pocket knives he collects on his own including the really nice one you award him once he's graduated college and settled into his first real job.

Good Luck