A real Gem from the 80’s

chevyrulez1

chevyrulez1

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Dug this out of my junk today, good thing we didn’t have YouTube back then, if I had know I was supposed to beat my knives through wood it probably wouldn’t have survived

I did throw it a lot back then, once when it was thrown into a barn door and stuck, the matches lit inside the handle and smoke started pouring out of it 😂 I had to dig the melted survival kit out of the handle.
The compass is gone and the wire saw was used and probably broken, but the blade still survives. After all, it was “The Survivor”

I will save it just in case the zombies show up 😂😂
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Fortunately for me by the time I had a chance to get one of those I already knew better.

Still, any knife can produce fond childhood memories :).

I checked not too long ago just out of curiosity, and they still make them.
 
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Hey, I had one of those. Lost in a 55 gal drum of solvent for a year or more( warning- when battoning thru the steel top do try to stop before breaking thru!) and was still intact when chemical was finally disposed of in accordance with all applicable stat, local and federal regulations.
 
chevyrulez1 said:
Dug this out of my junk today, good thing we didn’t have YouTube back then, if I had know I was supposed to beat my knives through wood it probably wouldn’t have survived

I did throw it a lot back then, once when it was thrown into a barn door and stuck, the matches lit inside the handle and smoke started pouring out of it 😂 I had to dig the melted survival kit out of the handle.
The compass is gone and the wire saw was used and probably broken, but the blade still survives. After all, it was “The Survivor”

I will save it just in case the zombies show up 😂😂
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Classic...
Great story..
So the matches worked, that's a plus, 🤣
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Wow...I remember that commercial.
killgar said:
Fortunately for me by the time I had a chance to get one of those I already knew better.

Still, any knife can produce fond childhood memories :).

I checked not too long ago just out of curiosity, and they still make them.
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Talk about your test of time, Lol 😆
...In on one 😉
B.T.B.
 
I dont remember seeing the commercial on TV back then, I bought mine at a flea market where they had a pile of them on the table. Only marking on it is a "Taiwan" blade stamp, pretty sure they were all made in the same place back then but it would be interesting to see if there were any variations over the years. Of course the box it came in is long gone and so are the brain cells that would have remembered what it said
 
Nice commercial. lol

Only knife commercials I see today are Kitchen knives. Most pretty crappy.

Rich K
 
Yeah...
I had one, or two, or more, I don't know what happened to them. I remember at least one broke. The handle snapped right off when playing with it. I'm not sure what I was doing, but I do remember being really disappointed. I remember the blades on them were soooo soft they bent like a fruit roll up.lol.
Better off swiping a butter knife from the restaurant next time you eat out and sharpening that on the next river rock you find.🙄 I'm not actually suggesting that you should do that of course.lol
Memories...🥴
 
jlauffer said:
But without the bubble butt

Sam Wilson Sam Wilson does hollow handle knives, but don't know if he uses magnacut
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I like his work...his orange matchsafes have been on my radar for a while.

Really like tmhis packlite model, but i'm a bit skeptical about round handles.
 
I remember this type of knife in my “ninja” and martial arts magazines/catalogs circa 1984/85. Unfortunately, my planned career path as a ninja never panned out.

Every now and then I get that ninja urge so I don my black sweat pants and try to sneak past my wife in the kitchen undetected. She says I stomp around like a Clydesdale even though I’m tip-toeing in my black socks. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
 
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