Pics of Pairs--Large and Small Versions of the Same Model

ChazzyP said:
...Corey seems to have one of every Benchmade that was ever produced...
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I started to head down that path but realized that would exceed my income, so I had to turn back. I'm turning my focus more towards getting all the different variations of the models I enjoy the most. I'm sure that could easily exceed my income as well though.


ChazzyP said:
...I'm casting about for a matching 710 and 707 to outfit with some custom scales. I could just use the -1401 for that side of the equation, but I doubt I'd be able to find or spend the money for one of those 50 707's in M390. We'll see what comes along…
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I saw one of those blue/cf 707s come up for sale about a week ago, probably at a descent price too, it was just more than I was willing to pony up for it. Good luck in your search.
 
I showed the Bone Collector lockbacks a couple days ago...here are their "Hunt" descendants...15051-2 Big Summit Lake & 15056-2 Small Summit Lake. I think this is the last "unique" pair that I have. Got plenty of other renditions of models I already posted though.

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-Corey- said:
I showed the Bone Collector lockbacks a couple days ago...here are their "Hunt" descendants...15051-2 Big Summit Lake & 15056-2 Small Summit Lake.
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I've almost pulled the trigger on various Hunt Series knives on several occasions--it's a very attractive line, especially the wood (or Dymondwood) models. The two-toned G10s not so much. I bought my son a wood-scaled Crooked River for his birthday. It was so sweet I gave it to him a month early. The scale split before his name-day and off to Benchmade it went for warranty work. There's probably one of those in my future--just a great (big) blade shape.
 
Elgin said:
Just got the larger one today.
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Those are the Moki Blakiston Fish Owls, Elgin? Very reminiscent of the Al Mar Eagle/Falcon/Hawk lines. If I could find the Hawk with the Talon blade and thumb stud in cocobolo to go with my Eagle I'd have another pair to show. Just don't seem to be any around.

Edit: I guess I meant Falcon--that's in between the Eagle and Hawk, no? Bird confusion….
 
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I'm a fan of the wooden handles as well. I've got quite a few of the Hunt folders and I'm happy with em. I wasn't overly impressed with the Crooked River when I first got it, but every time I pick it up I like it more and more. It's a bad a** blade for sure.
 
ChazzyP said:
OK, I think I'm officially out of pairs. I sure couldn't keep up with Sasquatch if he pressed the issue (Joe's right--who could?), my guess is Ted has as many rabbits to pull out of his hat as he might choose...

Keep the pics coming, guys, this thread is a lot of fun and I'm sure there are plenty more interesting pairs out there...
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I took a look and I guess I have a bunch more. Here's a pair you've probably never seen before a set of leather covered SOGs reminiscent of the old leather covered keychain knives you bought for 50 cents in the vending machines at the turnpike rest area. If you're older than 45 you probably remember the ones that you bought in the souvenir stores where they sold bags of polished rocks and hand one of those souvenir penny stamping machines. They always sold those TRIM TRIO 3 blade knives with a leather cover that had the tourist attraction stamped on the leather. Can't find one with the leather on it, they usually rotted off but here's a pic to jog your memories. Maybe someone here has a knife with the leather still on it like from Niagara Falls or South of the Border.

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Here's the 2 SOGs anyone ever see these before?

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So it's true Ted????? You ARE over 30???
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I have never seen those or anything with leather scales!!
Too cool!! And we all knew you might be able to dig up another pair or 2!!
Joe
 
T. Erdelyi said:
I took a look and I guess I have a bunch more. Here's a pair you've probably never seen before a set of leather covered SOGs reminiscent of the old leather covered keychain knives you bought for 50 cents in the vending machines at the turnpike rest area. If you're older than 45 you probably remember the ones that you bought in the souvenir stores where they sold bags of polished rocks and hand one of those souvenir penny stamping machines. They always sold those TRIM TRIO 3 blade knives with a leather cover that had the tourist attraction stamped on the leather. Can't find one with the leather on it, they usually rotted off but here's a pic to jog your memories. Maybe someone here has a knife with the leather still on it like from Niagara Falls or South of the Border.
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Never in my lifetime, although that's not that long a span of time, those are really neat [emoji106]

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palonej said:
So it's true Ted????? You ARE over 30???
😁😁😁
I have never seen those or anything with leather scales!!
Too cool!! And we all knew you might be able to dig up another pair or 2!!
Joe
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One more for the night, Mrs wants me to put the camera away. ;) :)

The Cold Steel version of the Opinel is a beast, I use it to delimb branches, the Carbon V steel CS used back then was phenomenal and this blade was 5" and would chop through 4" trees with no effort.

That's a #8 Opinel for comparison. :)

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T. Erdelyi said:
...the old leather covered keychain knives you bought for 50 cents in the vending machines at the turnpike rest area. If you're older than 45 you probably remember the ones that you bought in the souvenir stores where they sold bags of polished rocks and hand one of those souvenir penny stamping machines. They always sold those TRIM TRIO 3 blade knives with a leather cover that had the tourist attraction stamped on the leather.
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I do remember those knives and the Trim Trio--45 being quite distant in my rearview mirror. I know I had a Trim Trio when I was a kid, but don't recall it being leather-covered. You couldn't cut much with that skinny little sheep-foot blade and the nail file/cleaner wasn't much use on my bitten-down nails, but I sure could open some bottles! Can't say I had one of those leather key-chain knives though I remember seeing them in the countless souvenir shops and rest areas we stopped in on all those driving vacations we took. You're making me wax nostalgic, Ted.
 
Remind me to post a big and little souvenir bowie pic. They had them there to. A lot of my memories centered around travelin' on Eisenhower's dream of paved roads from coast to coast and Canada to South America, an interstate highway system to connect every state and small town rural America with the big Apple's and major cities throughout the continent. It put huge amounts of unemployed people to work, it was a good thing.

Ever hear the story that 1 outta every 5 miles has to be flat, straight and free of overpasses and wires so it could be used as emergency airstrips for the military?

Alright last one... Two Serpentine Jacks, a 70s Queen in Winterbottom bone and an Imperial Platinum Edge one. :)

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T. Erdelyi said:
A lot of my memories centered around travelin' on Eisenhower's dream of paved roads from coast to coast and Canada to South America, an interstate highway system to connect every state and small town rural America with the big Apple's and major cities throughout the continent. It put huge amounts of unemployed people to work, it was a good thing.

Ever hear the story that 1 outta every 5 miles has to be flat, straight and free of overpasses and wires so it could be used as emergency airstrips for the military?
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As I've used up my pairs, I'll wander off-topic into the highway thing. I don't recall the landing strip story. The push for an interstate highway system and various enabling Acts pre-dated WWI and those roadways were considered vital to national defense with the military consulted along the way. General "Black Jack" Pershing's map of 1922 formed much of the basis for the Interstate System as we know it today.

The first half of my childhood pre-dated the enactment of Ike's Dream and not a lot of that system was built by the time I reached my so-called adulthood, although many roads were in place or newer and just re-named to tie the system together. Our family vacations throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states were supported on lots of two-lane blacktops and non-limited-access concrete 4-laners. We'd start out on 17 to go North or 46 to head West. All those roadways were chock-a-block with souvenir shoppes, overnight cabins, early motels, and diners. The Parkways and Turnpikes were just being built and completed. We drove north a lot to Upstate NY, VT, NH, and Maine. Dad was ecstatic when the Adirondack Northway was completed up to Champlain in my late teens and we didn't have to jump off the Thruway and take Rtes 9 and 9W to get to the lake crossing to get to our frequent destination and later our camp west of Smuggler's Notch in Vermont.

Lots of time was spent in souvenir shops on the way and at destinations, but all those trinkets, keychains, and cheap knives are deep in the bottom of some landfill now.
 
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