I need help identifying this knife, I purchased it back in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s thru a late night tv ad 1-800 number, it is part of a set that came with different knives for different tasks, it came with a lifetime guarantee, as you can see it has survived normal use since I bought it. I have not put it thru a torture test, just normal kitchen use. Wondering if anyone knows the company that made it, says it was made in China. My guess it was then sold in the USA under different rebranding.
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Found these knives with the same handles sold under the brand "Sportsmans Dream". But it's not unusual for mass-produced Chinese-made kitchen knives to be sold under different brand names.
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Wonder what happened to that company, they had 1000 Apex Street, Nashville TN, 37206 as a business address for ordering and warranty claims, you would send $1 and the knife along with proof of purchase and they would send you another knife. Checked on google maps and it is now a converted massive warehouse turned into a church. I am dying wanting to know what happened to this company, who designed the handles, molding process, blade serrated patterns, who owned the company, etc . What can I say, I am a history buff LOL!!!!!
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I have the Adirondack Knife like the one in killgar’s picture. I know nothing about it. Didn’t even know it was called an Adirondack and I have no idea where I got it. I remember getting it early in my knife collecting hobby. Maybe around 2007 or so.
The handles are made using a process called injection molding. They are likely nylon.
As for the rest of the information you are interested in, I doubt you will ever know.
It looks like they were just another import company importing products from China, and went out of business. Not an uncommon story.
It also looks like they pre-date the internet, which can explain the lack of information about the company. I found trademark applications for two different references for "Sportsman's Dream", one from the late 1970's through early 1980's, and one from the late 1990's to the early 2000's, both applicants selling cutlery, but I don't know which one, if either one, sold your knife. There is no other information included in the trademark records to provide any further leads of investigation.
I read that paper insert, and it says to wait 6 to 8 weeks for a refund or delivery of a replacement knife. Waiting "6 to 8 weeks for delivery" is definitely an old, pre-internet concept.
The set I posted before doesn't have your particular knife in it, perhaps there were different sets, or maybe the owner of that set lost or ruined that knife. I saw this set that does have the same knife (red arrow), described as a "bait and paring" knife on the paper insert. This set was also sold under the name "Sportsman's Dream".
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The Tribe named him killgar because he kills fast. What does -gar mean? Nobody knows.
It just sounds Caveman.
And Caveman like knife!
Yes, I remember all the knives in the picture, one by one they went on to better lives I guess :^). I do remember being somewhat disappointed by the size of the knives, LOL, late 1980’s insomnia tv marketing!!!! the only one that survived is the one I posted LOL, before that the “saw closed handle knife” was the latest to disappear around 9 years ago, idk, that was a well made set for the cost back in those days.
Amazing that such an affordable blade has managed to survive 30+ years, don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t run the thru a “cold steel knife torture test” if my life depended on it, but still, under normal use these knives did pretty good for their price point back in the day :^)
This thread reminded me that I still have the remnants of a set of Ginsu 2000 knives (one of the few survivors pictured below). These were the knives with the commercials showing someone cutting through an aluminum soda can, or chopping a log, and then slicing a tomato.
I'm no kind of cook, so I've never felt the need to buy any kind of expensive kitchen cutlery, and the knives have actually served me well for several decades. Those serrated Ginsu edges really cut well.
Here's my most memorable Ginsu 2000 experience- I had an old sofa bed I wanted to get rid of, but I didn't want to have to pay to take it to the dump. I had one of the big, plastic trash bins with the wheels and hinged lid, the kind where the trash truck picks it up with a big hydraulic arm, so I figured I could break the sofa down into pieces small enough to fit in the trash can and get rid of it a little at a time each week.
So I dismantled the sofa and bed frame, but the mattress was too big to fit in the can, I had to cut it into pieces. I tried a variety of knives and utility razors, but the mattress cover, and the fiber fill inside was too tough to cut. Then I thought of the Ginsu knives. So I grabbed one (the second one from the right in the bottom pic), and to my pleasant surprise it sliced right through the mattress.
It just goes to show that sometimes cheap knives get the job done
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