Boat Anchors, let's see them.

These probably HAVE anchored boats.Ships maybe.( :
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Seals those 184s are sweet !!!

I consider my boat anchor (2 dot in 440c) a close friend who never complains when it rains.
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I have a Kabar 1189 lockback that's pretty much a beast, but the Gerber FS IIIs are definitely heavier than the Kabar. I've got two of them. Need to carry one on each side to balance out. :)

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Jack, that looks like a handful. I thought I had seen all the Gerbers from those days but I missed that one. Nice.
 
knarfeng said:
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?"
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You all heard about the constipated mathematician then too, right?
 
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knarfeng said:
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!
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Thank you.

I also have a couple of older Faber-Castell slide rules.

It is hard to believe that we reached the moon by using these old "slipsticks" to do the calculations lol.
 
Rsmith_77 said:
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 :D
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Most of us " seasoned " guys have thick skin. That said, we can be a little cranky sometimes, so havin some manners isn't a bad thing

Modoc ED said:
Kershaw 1050 Folding Field

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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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I had one of the Kershaw 1050's. They really are a nice knife. Different, but nice...
 
yablanowitz said:
The Gerber Folding Sportsman was the lightweight.

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I'm really liking that one Jack. Mack and I were talking about earlier Gerbers, just a little bit ago.
It got me thinking, so I Googled vintage Gerbers, and found a picture of one like yours. I too had never seen one before, but it really caught my eye
 
No pictures as I passed it on to someone who would appreciate it more, but I haven't seen the Schrade 125OT yet. In case I posted the wrong model number I'm referring to the two-blade version.
 
I've got that same Game Warden. I bought it 1972 right after basic training. Carried it every day for the next 6 years.
 
Rsmith_77 said:
i WAS about to ask..
but didnt want you "seasoned" gentlemen to think ill of me ;)
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Sorry about that Mr Smith! :D

Modoc ED said:
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 !!!:)
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Some of us have been pickled a few times too ;) :D
 
WA Martin said:
No pictures as I passed it on to someone who would appreciate it more, but I haven't seen the Schrade 125OT yet. In case I posted the wrong model number I'm referring to the two-blade version.
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The 125OT was the single blade liner lock, the two blade was the 25OT.

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Those are about the same weight as that Gerber Magnum Folding Hunter. I need to dig out my old Lakota and snap a pic of it.
 
Seals said:
These probably HAVE anchored boats.Ships maybe.( :
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I think that was the issue knife in Space: Above and Beyond. It was a nice touch that the Marines still called it a Ka-bar. (Too bad they didn't give someone pointy ears and call the show Star Trek: The War Before; it might still be running.)
 
yablanowitz said:
The 125OT was the single blade liner lock, the two blade was the 25OT.

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Those are about the same weight as that Gerber Magnum Folding Hunter. I need to dig out my old Lakota and snap a pic of it.
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Nice showing there! :thumbup:
 
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