Les Stroud Camillus Knives- ?!

Shotgun said:
Be lucky they're riding motorbikes. Here in Portland a biker is someone pedaling a bicycle. Either a hipster or someone in spandex.:rolleyes:
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LOL :D I'm trying not to picture what Spandex survival gear would look like. :D

"carbonitride titanium non-stick technology"

Thank goodness someone has finally figured out a way of heating appetizers outdoors, on a knife blade, without leaving that sticky mess behind on the blade. :D
 
555 said:
Good Point.

Survival has aways been around, Les just made it Popular/Pop.
And this Knife is marketed to the Pop Survival crowd. :D

Remember back in the day of real Bikers, before there were Pop Bikers riding down the Freeway on HD Motorcycles? :D

The future of the Woods will look different from today, populated with Pop/Poser Survivalists running through the Forest. :eek: :D


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I actually disagree. Soon enough "survival" will become unsexy and tired and all those pop/poser survivalists will toss their "survival" knives and "survival" cord and "survival" urine travel mugs w/handle and straw into a box and put it in the basement to gather dust. So you will never see those goofs again.

But! Then some other guy will do a show or a movie with a knife in it, and everybody will have to have one of those. Like "Real Life Trapper Adventures" comes out, and everybody is going to be running around wearing a coonskin cap and carrying some knife that vaguely resembles what an actual trapper would have used historically. And we will all laugh and laugh, but the host of "Real Life Trapper Adventures" will endorse some crappy knife, and will laugh at us while rolling around in a pile of money in his beach house in Cabo.
 
555 said:
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LOL :D I'm trying not to picture what Spandex survival gear would look like. :D

"carbonitride titanium non-stick technology"
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I understand the inside of Lynn's bike shorts are coated with that stuff.

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I just want it to be known that, I'm a fan of the Survivorman TV show.
Les takes fans of the outdoors on adventures to places where most of us will never see or experience in our lifetimes.

Les is like everyone else, working at what he knows best to make a living and if we like it or not, it's a business.
It's a rare person who does what they do, not for the money and it's the lucky ones who also enjoy what they work at to make that living.

Money collecting isn't a whole lot different from knife collecting or any other collecting people get into.
Once you start collecting, you want more or higher dollar items for your collection. :D
 
marcinek said:
I actually disagree. Soon enough "survival" will become unsexy and tired and all those pop/poser survivalists will toss their "survival" knives and "survival" cord and "survival" urine travel mugs w/handle and straw into a box and put it in the basement to gather dust. So you will never see those goofs again.

But! Then some other guy will do a show or a movie with a knife in it, and everybody will have to have one of those. Like "Real Life Trapper Adventures" comes out, and everybody is going to be running around wearing a coonskin cap and carrying some knife that vaguely resembles what an actual trapper would have used historically. And we will all laugh and laugh, but the host of "Real Life Trapper Adventures" will endorse some crappy knife, and will laugh at us while rolling around in a pile of money in his beach house in Cabo.
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I agree. Things come and go. I think for most, it's a Fad. Or fear of the times we live in.
The real die hards will make it a way of life.

Heck, There was a survival Fad back in the day, where people would have Fallout Shelters at their Homes. :D
 
555 said:
My Broker is EF Hutton and EF Hutton says: Smatchet. :D:D:D
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That's a tough one. It takes a real "set" to slap the word "Smatchet" into the name of a knife and pass it off to the posers. Like take a bunch of cheapo slippes and call them "Micro Pocket Smatchets." That's a tough sell, especially without Fairbairn around.

What I'm looking for is something "Rambo." Like Kevin Costner does some "pioneer" kinda blockbuster movie with a knife in it, then I take a bunch of any old cheap knives, beat on them with a ball peen hammer, throw them in the Weber grill for a while, and sell them as "Marcinek Pioneer Brand."

That's the kinda "sexy" I want to be ahead of. You and me 555, we will make a ton of coin.
 
"Les Stroud"
"Bear Grylls"
"Made in China"
...are all terms that would make me steer clear of any knife offering.
 
I am a big fan of les stroud. If you whatch survivorman he often uses cheaper canadian tire type knives. so it is possable that he doesn't see whats so wrong with the knives himself
 
If they are anything like the Camillus fixed blade I bought then anyone trying to survive with them is boned. I bought this http://www.camillusknives.com/product/86797.0.0.0.0/18537/_/9.25''_Fixed_Blade,_Bamboo_Handle from walmart online with another fixed blade as a combo pack for a decent price upon opening the clamshell pack the metal bolster FELL OFF no epoxy was even holding them on. Called Camillus and they sent me a replacement I opened it up and now the bolster just rattles. It would have been a nice knife except now I'm nervious about using a knife that already came broken kinda tells me all I need to know about their QC process and on top of that the sheath was a cheap crap nylon that reminded me of the one I got with my 19.99 Gerber Profile or a Frost Cutlery knife. Maybe they cleaned up their act but I ain't gonna spend my cash until I see some reviews saying they aint broke right out of the box and they won't break under use.
 
For what I have seen on the show, Mr Stroud isn't really a knife guy. In the africa episode he brought a black rambo knife "because of the lions".
 
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