A real Gem from the 80’s

Friend of mine once brought one of these out to cut up a brick of cheeze for grilled cheese samwiches.

Got 3 slices and on the 4th the blade snapped clean off the handle.

That knife couldn't even cut the cheeze it seems.
 
Velitrius said:
Friend of mine once brought one of these out to cut up a brick of cheeze for grilled cheese samwiches.

Got 3 slices and on the 4th the blade snapped clean off the handle.

That knife couldn't even cut the cheeze it seems.
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He probably got a Chinese knockoff... lmao


I just watched the ad again, this was that high tech;
"420 MOLECULAR Stainless steel"...
Molecular bruh, not just that normal stuff...
 
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My Dad’s. Now my son’s. Lol.
 
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Wow the 80s. Found mine in my storage trunk of yesteryear. Purchased at the discount store for around $10. I purchased 2 of them one had a shiny blade and black handle and sheath I cant find and this camo one I still have. Inside the hollow handle it contained a cheap survival kit fish hooks, line, a saw and matches. I think that is a bottle cap opener built in the blade.
 

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I had one of those long time ago. I was keep throwing it in a board target till it finally completely shattered at the handle.
I still have the little gray stone from the holster's pouch somewhere in my "knife boxes"
 
Bought one for $5 at a flea market in the mid 80s. Had a black blade. Don't know if there was ever a version with a metal handle, but the one I got was plastic...so lame. And the saw was all folded up in the handle, and broke the first time I tried to unfold it.
 
Fortunately I didn't buy one of these "globe compass with bottle opener" knives, and saved up to buy a Buckmaster. But my friend had one of these. It was marked Japan, as I believe the Taiwan ones came later. It had a black aluminum handle and now I am sure it was a 420j2 blade. I remember these knives were found everywhere back then. A cheap way to play Rambo back then.
 
I am sure I still have a similar one stored somewhere, though I do not remember it having a bottle opener. Everybody had one back then and they were sold in toy shops too.....
 
Wolverine666 said:
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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Wow, thanks for that nostalgic flashback - enhanced by some college exploits from the dim-and-misty no doubt.

In some drawer, I still have my 80s book about the mystical art of Ninjutsu. This Pulitzer-worthy (IMHO) treatise included techniques to avoid detection, silently infiltrate, and dispatch enemies. May I add, that last bit was intended to be applied with extreme prejudice. The author was clearly very passionate and incredibly physically fit. At least far more fit than I was. Consequently, this left my "husky" 10-year-old physique wondering how it was ever going to hang upside-down on the edge of a temple roof by my Tabi shoes. I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that this would need to be done until an unsuspecting sentry happened by, at which point I would permanently end his shift with a flurry of shurikens and poisoned blowgun darts ("pfew-pfew-PFEW"). More realistically, assuming that I could actually get on the roof at all (we are well beyond the realm of theory at this point), I would clumsily fall on the sentry, only hoping that his injuries were worse than mine.

Ahhhh, great days... Thanks again Wolverine...
 
The Blacksmith said:
Wow, thanks for that nostalgic flashback - enhanced by some college exploits from the dim-and-misty no doubt.

In some drawer, I still have my 80s book about the mystical art of Ninjutsu. This Pulitzer-worthy (IMHO) treatise included techniques to avoid detection, silently infiltrate, and dispatch enemies. May I add, that last bit was intended to be applied with extreme prejudice. The author was clearly very passionate and incredibly physically fit. At least far more fit than I was. Consequently, this left my "husky" 10-year-old physique wondering how it was ever going to hang upside-down on the edge of a temple roof by my Tabi shoes. I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that this would need to be done until an unsuspecting sentry happened by, at which point I would permanently end his shift with a flurry of shurikens and poisoned blowgun darts ("pfew-pfew-PFEW"). More realistically, assuming that I could actually get on the roof at all (we are well beyond the realm of theory at this point), I would clumsily fall on the sentry, only hoping that his injuries were worse than mine.

Ahhhh, great days... Thanks again Wolverine...
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Haha , it seems that you and I are cut from the same cloth. Here’s a pic of me back in my prime whilst training. Clearly , I was a human weapon …2258A2C9-CA8F-4651-9233-BB4B535A3DEF.jpeg
That’s me holding the stick over my head. I mean “bo staff”😊
 
The Blacksmith said:
In some drawer, I still have my 80s book about the mystical art of Ninjutsu.
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Ahhh, Paladin Press.

Someplace around here I also have copies of "Black Medicine", "Mantrapping" by Ragnar Benson, and "Get Tough!" by the one and only W.E Fairbairn!

Yeah, I was also on the quest to be the world's deadliest teenager. Didn't work out.

All I mastered was the good ol' Silent But Deadly.... even got a super believable "Wasn't Me!" look.
 
The Blacksmith said:
Wow, thanks for that nostalgic flashback - enhanced by some college exploits from the dim-and-misty no doubt.

In some drawer, I still have my 80s book about the mystical art of Ninjutsu. This Pulitzer-worthy (IMHO) treatise included techniques to avoid detection, silently infiltrate, and dispatch enemies. May I add, that last bit was intended to be applied with extreme prejudice. The author was clearly very passionate and incredibly physically fit. At least far more fit than I was. Consequently, this left my "husky" 10-year-old physique wondering how it was ever going to hang upside-down on the edge of a temple roof by my Tabi shoes. I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that this would need to be done until an unsuspecting sentry happened by, at which point I would permanently end his shift with a flurry of shurikens and poisoned blowgun darts ("pfew-pfew-PFEW"). More realistically, assuming that I could actually get on the roof at all (we are well beyond the realm of theory at this point), I would clumsily fall on the sentry, only hoping that his injuries were worse than mine.

Ahhhh, great days... Thanks again Wolverine...
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Don't have the Survivor anymore, but still got these, so I'm good. Once a ninja, always a ninja!😆

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