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Thursday night, I went to my dad's house after the gym to pick up an exercise mat for my wife.
While there, he gave me some knives he had zero use for at all.
Two were United Cutlery throwing knives I will likely give to a friend.
One was an old dive knife from when he was a teen; I will keep that.
Two were totally hideous pieces of crap that were given to him by people over the years...you know, "You like knives, right? Here's a knife for you!" "Thaaaaanks... :barf:"
I traded them to the pawn shop for season 2 of The Walking Dead, and 300, Rise of an Empire (much better than those horrible, horrible knives).
But then there was also the knife I went onwards to take a hike with...this.
This is a copy of the Buckmaster, back from the mid 80s.
My friend had it, and I wanted it so bad when I was 13 years old.
After a bunch of trading sessions where I failed to get it, it was finally mine.
I gave it to my dad in the late 90s for a birthday or something, and it never got used.
But now it is mine yet again.
The sheath's webbing had practically disintegrated, and the screws holding the snaps on had pulled from the crummy Taiwan glue holding them in (this was from when Taiwan was not a country that made quality knives).
The horrid saw-back did make a decent notch cut:
It looks better surrounded by more expensive, classier knives:
It stabs stumps okay too:
But your survival needs better depend on stabbing stumps, because it can't chop worth crap.
Too much weight in the handle, and the round handle likes to roll.
It also makes a terrible, terrible improvised machete for cutting through tall grasses...my Umnumzaan did better (seriously, it did! It was really sad).
And this is how I carried it, in the stock sheath for the BK7:
Man, how I wanted that knife as a teen.
Now I am glad to have it only for nostalgic purposes.
It is truly a terrible knife.
While there, he gave me some knives he had zero use for at all.
Two were United Cutlery throwing knives I will likely give to a friend.
One was an old dive knife from when he was a teen; I will keep that.
Two were totally hideous pieces of crap that were given to him by people over the years...you know, "You like knives, right? Here's a knife for you!" "Thaaaaanks... :barf:"
I traded them to the pawn shop for season 2 of The Walking Dead, and 300, Rise of an Empire (much better than those horrible, horrible knives).
But then there was also the knife I went onwards to take a hike with...this.
This is a copy of the Buckmaster, back from the mid 80s.
My friend had it, and I wanted it so bad when I was 13 years old.
After a bunch of trading sessions where I failed to get it, it was finally mine.
I gave it to my dad in the late 90s for a birthday or something, and it never got used.
But now it is mine yet again.
The sheath's webbing had practically disintegrated, and the screws holding the snaps on had pulled from the crummy Taiwan glue holding them in (this was from when Taiwan was not a country that made quality knives).
The horrid saw-back did make a decent notch cut:
It looks better surrounded by more expensive, classier knives:
It stabs stumps okay too:
But your survival needs better depend on stabbing stumps, because it can't chop worth crap.
Too much weight in the handle, and the round handle likes to roll.
It also makes a terrible, terrible improvised machete for cutting through tall grasses...my Umnumzaan did better (seriously, it did! It was really sad).
And this is how I carried it, in the stock sheath for the BK7:
Man, how I wanted that knife as a teen.
Now I am glad to have it only for nostalgic purposes.
It is truly a terrible knife.
You have such a good attitude about this hobby, very refreshing!
