Okay, fess up. You KNOW you can remember the "old days."

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Lavan

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I was sitting in the car today thinking about what I was going to do with my Fallkniven and suddenly I remembered ....way.....back ..... when....
When I.... never .... THOUGHT about my knife. I had one in my pocket and a Buck 110 ...somewhere... in the gun cabinet, but that was IT!

I could find my knife when I needed it because I never lost track of where my pocket was. However, that was the extent of it. If I got the knife out to do something with it, it was either dull or dirty or both.

And NOW....fully infected with this stoopit KNIFE BUG.... I catch myself thinking of a stoopit knife even when I'm not about to use it.

YOU DO TOO! You....KNOW... you do.

:D :D :D
 
me too! :( but I did that when I was really into cars.... which
is a much more expensive hobby. So thinking about knives
is a much cheaper obsession.
 
So what part is about the "old days"? I've been thinking about knives since I was four :D
 
In the good OLD days, I always knew where to find a fresh piece of flint or obsidion.
 
I don't think about knives when I am thinking about camera equipment or guns... :D

David
 
Lavan said:
...suddenly I remembered ....way.....back ..... when....
When I.... never .... THOUGHT about my knife. I had one in my pocket and a Buck 110 ...somewhere... in the gun cabinet, but that was IT!

YOU DO TOO! You....KNOW... you do.
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Actually, no, I honestly do not remember a time when I didn't think about knives on a regular/constant basis. I can remember drawing up knife designs when I was in kindergarten. I made my first knife in the second grade, and haven't stopped since. Guess I've just been fascinated with them my entire life.
 
I carried a pocket knife on and off from the time I was a young boy until I was about 30 , then I switched to "every day".

I remember when I made the switch too, it was shortly after my wife and I bought our first house. I had just gotten a delivery of cheap pocket knives from Smoky Mountain. I put one of the folders in my pocket and couldn't believe how convenient it was to always have a knife while doing chores around the house.

As far as accumulating knives, I've been doing that since I was a teenager. I would keep a Smoky Mountain or Sportsman's Guide catalog next to my bed and go though it for weeks before I mailed in an order. I would usually get three or four knives at a time from Smoky and not reorder until the next catalog came. Of course there were always those ads in gun magazines.

But the Internet has made it way too easy to hunt down and buy whatever we can think of, plus forums like this added a new dimension to the entire experience (I mean that in a positive way). For me this was the start of always thinking about knives, but I have other hobbies that occasionally get my attention too.
 
Before I knew what the hell I was doing, I actually carried a Smith and Wesson SWAT knife for a while :eek: .
 
S&W? Smoky Mountain? Back in the good ol days, Gerber was the new player on the market and you had to get over the "baby food" association with the name.

Cheap junk Japanese imports ruled the market at $2.49, real competition to Schrade, Buck, Ol' Henry, and the Germans were still importing metal shell handled slip joints on a chain - but they no longer had "Boy's Knife" on the blade. Combat knives were issue, period. You had to be a real knife nut to have heard about Randall.

There were no knife shows, no knife magazines, no knife reviews, just ads in the hunt and fish monthly. A street knife for SD was the long bladed fishing pattern - no scale removers, please.

Nobody thought anything about taking a knife to school - except that you were trusted at home, and if you screwed up, you would regret it for a long time. Teachers borrowed them if they had forgotten theirs, or it was too inconvenient to fetch at the moment.

Those clunky flint blades in the rawhide sheath weren't really EDC friendly back then, were they, Esav?
 
tirod3 said:
S&W? Smoky Mountain? Back in the good IL days, Gerber was the new player on the market and you had to get over the "baby food" association with the name.

Cheap junk Japanese imports ruled the market at $2.49, real competition to Schroeder, Buck, Ol' Henry, and the Germans were still importing metal shell handled slip joints on a chain - but they no longer had "Boy's Knife" on the blade. Combat knives were issue, period. You had to be a real knife nut to have heard about Randall.

There were no knife shows, no knife magazines, no knife reviews, just ads in the hunt and fish monthly. A street knife for SD was the long bladed fishing pattern - no scale removers, please.

Nobody thought anything about taking a knife to school - except that you were trusted at home, and if you screwed up, you would regret it for a long time. Teachers borrowed them if they had forgotten theirs, or it was too inconvenient to fetch at the moment.

Those clunky flint blades in the rawhide sheath weren't really EDC friendly back then, were they, Esav?
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Funny you should mention Gerber. Gerber was one of the first knife brands I drooled over. I remember seeing the original Paul knife back in the 70's at the Woodbridge Mall in NJ. $75.00 was way over the budget of a typical teenager.

I didn't get my fist Gerber until the early 80's and it was a Blackie Collins Bolt Action. I got it on from a catalog, it might have been Smoky. Back then $29.00 was expensive for my budget. I still have it and the fit in finish is amazing.
 
"And NOW....fully infected with this stoopit KNIFE BUG.... I catch myself thinking of a stoopit knife even when I'm not about to use it". Quote from Lavan

Just what is a "Stoopit" knife? If I remember correctly, I spent more time thinking about girls, than knifes, now it's the other way around. Stoopit???
 
I prefer to think back with horror on the BAD OLD DAYS when knives were not an all consuming passion, dark days indeed:eek:
 
In my college days (late 70s-early 80s), my collection consisted of a John Primble Congress pattern slipjoint, a Buck 110, a Buck 120 General, a Shrade Sharpfinger, and a Gerber Mark I. I bought a knife once or twice a year instead of weekly. :rolleyes: Those were the good old days! ;)
 
Boys, I'm 52 years old and being from Almost Heaven I have carried a pocketknife since I was about 7 or 8 years old. Including to school. We never gave it a second thought. Back then it was a Schrade or an old Tree Brand. But you know those were and these still are the good ol days cause I can and still do carry a knife..or two.
 
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