Boat Anchors, let's see them.

[Astrogator]

Does anyone remember this one.

It is a Rigid R9 "Apache".

 

[jackknife]

Wow, yeah I remember that one. I was amazed that people were buying and actually carrying the Buck 110, and then I saw that one. It was really heavier than my S&W J frame revolver with 2 inch barrel. It seemed like American knives of the 70's were like American cars of the 70's; seeing who could build the biggest and heaviest clunker. No, put down that flame thrower, I'm only joking, sort of.

I don't remember Rigid being around long though. They seem to have faded out quick, and then I saw the name got bought up and put on some stuff out of Japan.

Carl.

 

[9blades]

That's cool dose it have a blade choil?

 

[knarfeng]

Does anyone remember this one.

It is a Rigid R9 "Apache".

Oddly enough I'm more interested in the cylindrical slide rule than the knife, slide rules being my other hobby. And an Otis King in such nice condition is rarer than the knife. Very nice!

 

[Peregrin]

Oddly enough I'm more interested in the cylindrical slide rule than the knife, slide rules being my other hobby. And an Otis King in such nice condition is rarer than the knife. Very nice!

Oh boy. You're dating us Frank. I remember toting my Post Slide Rule around with me to my electrical engineering, science and math classes. That was a long long time ago.

 

[Jack Black]

Oh boy. You're dating us Frank. I remember toting my Post Slide Rule around with me to my electrical engineering, science and math classes. That was a long long time ago.

I had to explain to someone what a micrometrt was earlier!

 

[knarfeng]

I keep an old slide rule in a shadow box in my cube at work. It's marked, "IN CASE OF COMPUTER FAILURE, BREAK GLASS".

Sigh. More than one Young Engineer has asked, "What's that?"
Me, "It's a slide rule."
YE, "Oh...What's it for?"

 

[Jack Black]

I had to explain to someone what a micrometrt was earlier!

In fact I had to explain what a micrometer was! I wondered what a "micrometrt" was myself!

 

[Vanguard41xx]

Puma Game Warden

 

[Rsmith_77]

In fact I had to explain what a micrometer was! I wondered what a "micrometrt" was myself!

i WAS about to ask..
but didnt want you "seasoned" gentlemen to think ill of me

 

[Mack]

The Gerber folding sportsman has to be the heavyweight champion. I carried this one for thirty years or so before giving it to a friend recently.

 

[Modoc ED]

Kershaw 1050 Folding Field

And my Circular Slide Rule from my U.S. Navy Electronics Technician School in 1965 that I keep in a cubby-hole in my desk. I don't know why I keep it there. I guess it just makes me feel good. We had calculators but for all tests and exams, we had to use a slide rule. They dropped the slide rules sometime around 1970.

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[Modoc ED]

i WAS about to ask..
but didnt want you "seasoned" gentlemen to think ill of me

Seasoned!!!!!!! Heck - some of us have been seasoned, cooked on one side, and are simmering on the other side just waiting to be taken off the grill !!!

 

[rune1279]

I keep an old slide rule in a shadow box in my cube at work. It's marked, "IN CASE OF COMPUTER FAILURE, BREAK GLASS".

Sigh. More than one Young Engineer has asked, "What's that?"
Me, "It's a slide rule."
YE, "Oh...What's it for?"

Ha! At the risk of thread-jack, I carried my grandfather's log tables and slide rule off to college in '94, along with one of dad's vacuum tubes, as dormitory-tchotchkies/good-luck-totems. I was blown away by how few of my fellow electrical engineering students knew what any of them were for.

We actually had to learn how to use a slide-rule in high-school (part of a section on logarithms) -- it's all gone from my brain now, all hail Excel.

 

[Rsmith_77]

Seasoned!!!!!!! Heck - some of us have been seasoned, cooked on one side, and are simmering on the other side just waiting to be taken off the grill !!!

well i figured seasoned was more polite than old and crusty
i trying to learn this whole "couth" thing my southern wife thinks this yankee boy is lacking

 

[festerfromnzed]

I dont know if youd call them anchors but my Case Sharktooth is a heavy knife.....

As is this Camillus.....

 

[IVANKERLEY]

my Buck 110 and my Camillus 110 clone, both excellent knives and i do carry them from time to time, mostly in a belt sheath
gene

 

[Seals]

I love the big honkers.Rigid made some great strong overbuilt knives for a few years.I think the 80's recession took them out.The president of the company,i forget his name,worked for Buck and was the designer of the 110.

 

[sitflyer]

Here's one of my all time favorite Boat Anchors, carried one for years as a teen, mostly used the skinning blade to clean fish for the table, and freezer...

There is just something about this big honkin' folder that you just have to handle one to appreciate, a timeless classic game knife in my mind...



And with over ten million plus sold, who could argue the All Time Champ, and King of Boat Anchors, the venerable 110!!!

 

[knarfeng]

"Boat Anchor", you say?

You need something that will dig into the mud and hold. Something like this Puma fisherman's knife. The weight at the end is a counterbalance so you can weigh your fish by hanging them on the back of the blade.