💥Blast from the Past💥 (unofficial nostalgic older knife thread)

jfk1110 said:
I miss my snakewood Diablo and the D2 sneaky auto....😥. Still have the coco lobo d\a though..😉
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I never had the d/a Diablo and that snake wood was always elusive. I did have a Lobo but gave it to my best friend as a wedding gift over a decade ago. Now he's divorced and the last time I saw the knife it was rusted pretty badly. He did think it was the coolest knife ever, so it was worth it! I do miss that knife a little bit when I see yours!
 
Microtech Ultratech DE in satin finish from January 2004:














Specs:

Blade length: 8,2 cm
Blade finish: Satin
Steel: 154CM
Hardness: 60HRC
Handle thickness: 11,0 mm
Handle width: max 23,0 mm
Handle material: Mil-Spec Type III hard anodized 6061-T6 aluminium
Length closed: 11,7 cm
Length open: 20,3 cm
Pocketclip: 301 stainless
Slider button: 303 stainless
With nylon belt sheath
 
The Kershaw 1031 Camp & Stream is a high quality fish filleter with semi-flexible blade, and was only produced between 1980 and 1985.
Still in like new condition and complete with original box & papers.
The factory edge on this knife is still "tree-topping" sharp, meaning it can shave hair above skin level.





















Specs:

Overall length: 10.47 inches (26,6 cm)
Blade length: 6.26 inches (15,9 cm)
Blade thickness: 2,0 mm
Steel: sub-zero quenched AUS8 stainless
Hardness: 57-59 HRC
Handle material: ergonomically shaped Phenolic resin & brass bolsters
Weight: 147,0 grams
Sheath: Leather
 
I have no idea how old this BSA knife is.
Wifey bought it home from a yard sale And I cleaned it up a little. Then made a faux vintage sheath for it.

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Here is a unique older pair. A Gerber "Trout & Bird" knife, and a "Mini-Snick" knife. The "Trout & Bird" knife was introduced in the late 1960's and was advertised as "Specifically designed for cleaning trout, bass and other game birds". The "Mini-Snick" was sold in the Gerber Cutlery Knives series. The cutlery knives originally had polished aluminum handles, but a small number of them were also sold with the Cats-Tongue and Armorhide coating on the handles. The Snickersnee knives were sold in 4 sizes. "Mini-Snick", "Little-Snick", "Snickersnee", and the "Big-Snick". The sheath here is unique, as I have never seen a Gerber side by side leather sheath for two knives from this area. Gerber did sell some larger hunting knifes, like the "Big Hunter" and the "Magnum Hunter", that came with a leather sheath that had a small "Pixi" knife or sharpening steel added to the front of the sheath. These were sold in the 1960's and 1970's. I don't know if this set was a prototype set, but I have never seen this in any of Gerber's advertising information.
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Here's some Gerber goodness from the turn of the century. An original first edition cast Titanium handle Gerber Airframe. For those of you who have a Spartan Harsey Folder, this is its grandfather. 3.75 inch blade, nested liner lock.

Only about 1800 were made with the Titanium handle before they gave up due to rising production costs.
 

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Ebbtide said:
I have no idea how old this BSA knife is.
Wifey bought it home from a yard sale And I cleaned it up a little. Then made a faux vintage sheath for it.

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I have one just like it with no tang stamp snd the original sheath. It was my step fathers when he was in the BSA. He would be 80, so, I’m guessing somewhere around ‘55-‘57. Just a guess though.
 
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It's in there😂😂🤣🤣
Bought it years ago opened it realized the scales are so aggressively textured I wouldn't have a pocket left if I carried it and put it away.
I have another I bought used put away that I'll have to find and post pics of that I sanded the scales which made it much better. That one I broke the pocket clip on which buck recently was nice enough to send me another of.
 
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My brother (now deceased) and I rode our motorcycles from Colorado up to Alaska in 1987. On our way we stopped at a small place that sold knives where I picked up this knife from a Mister (Irwi?) Campbell who put IRBI on his knives which stood for I’ll rather be independent. I picked this skinner there. Don’t remember the steel but it always brings back fond memories of an amazing rode trip.IMG_2514.jpegIMG_2515.jpeg
 
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