Remember the 1980s?

stabman said:
It's pure 80s!!! :cool:
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I enjoy the script of that commercial. It is deceptive but well written; it doesn’t actually lie. I like the “It’s the best selling survival knife that we sell” line. That was long before the internet so it was made to air on local TV channels. Most likely during the Saturday morning children programming content, since its target demographic would have been about the age of the young man in the commercial.

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Culprit99 said:
D DangerZone98 , you're Wanted Dead or Alive after that comment. You might even be Shot Through the Heart because for the rest of today I'll be Livin' on a Prayer while I'm Blessing the Rain down in Africa. LOL! You just Went to the Danger Zone!

I now have a playlist for the drive home this afternoon. :)
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Hey friend. Glad to spread a lil joy and nostalgia. Even if it’s a digression from this thread.

I’m a twentysomething with an unhealthy 80s music obsession.
 
Still have this one. Everything 10y old me needed.

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vjb.knife said:
The 1980's was my heyday for knives. I had already started collecting Gerber but when I graduated college and started working as an Engineer I got into Al Mar, Benchmark, Pacific Cutlery, Blackjack, Randall, Brend, Spyderco, Timberline, Cold Steel, SOG, etc. etc.
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Choctaw Dan said:
1980's? Yep.

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What beautiful blades you gents have.....Remembering my lust for most of your knives in my teens.......The Brend And the Bob T. knives were creme de la creme......

Those Gerber blades have me remembering what great blades they made..........till they didnt😡.

Thanks for sharing em!!!
 
In 1980 I was in college and working as a waiter in a mall diner. There was a sporting goods store in the mall (Herman's World of Sports) and I'd go there on my break.
They had a decent knife counter with a few Gerber daggers, the smallest costing $75. I wanted one so bad, but that was about 2 days' pay.

One day a group of girls about my age were at the diner and I was waiting their table, one of them was showing the others the knife she had just bought.
And it was one of the Gerber daggers, I just sighed to myself.
 
cbach8tw said:
Maybe not, occasionally when you hit some flea markets, or old antiques malls, you find the old carbon steel kitchen knives in carbon steel, thin edges. Like Old Hickory, they are hard to find at times if not totally worn. If you have some skill, you can reprofile it with Dremel tool or give it new handle scales. And some old SA knives or buck knives and all the inexpensive copies.
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Yup, one of my favorite flea market finds is a carbon steel Foster Bros scimitar that I picked up for a quarter.
 
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Here is one I got from an estate sale. Just kept it the way it is, though it good be a good candidate for a re-handle job.
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People who visit my place are amused to find my knife block is a hodgepodge of vintage carbon steel knives, all different brands and all different shapes. I prefer them to anything else I have used. My wife loves her Shun, I love my Old Hickory.
 
crom said:
People who visit my place are amused to find my knife block is a hodgepodge of vintage carbon steel knives, all different brands and all different shapes. I prefer them to anything else I have used. My wife loves her Shun, I love my Old Hickory.
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You still use them? Sharpen up and have at it in the kitchen? Coolio.
 
jfk1110 said:
What beautiful blades you gents have.....Remembering my lust for most of your knives in my teens.......The Brend And the Bob T. knives were creme de la creme...... Those Gerber blades have me remembering what great blades they made..........till they didnt😡. Thanks for sharing em!!!
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I believe that is when I also discovered Chris Reeves solid steel hollow handle knives, then they were made in A2. In magazines, never could afford them.IMG_0655.jpeg

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cbach8tw said:
I believe that is when I also discovered Chris Reeves solid steel hollow handle knives, then they were made in A2. In magazines, never could afford them.
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This is a common theme I am seeing in this thread and was my experience too. Minimum wage was like $3.35 an hour and I just didn't have very much disposable income back then. I guess that's why most of my collection consisted of a $5 no name junk machete, an old Hickory butcher knife, the survivor, and a bunch of cheap gun show/flea market Pakastani junk 😂
 
chevyrulez1 said:
This is a common theme I am seeing in this thread and was my experience too. Minimum wage was like $3.35 an hour and I just didn't have very much disposable income back then. I guess that's why most of my collection consisted of a $5 no name junk machete, an old Hickory butcher knife, the survivor, and a bunch of cheap gun show/flea market Pakastani junk 😂
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Yup. 3.35 an hour for my first job in the 80s at Shakeys Pizza Parlor. I would get my paycheck and then go buy cassettes or albums at the music store in the mall, then if I had any left over, we would rent a movie at Erol’s video store, VHS and Beta sections. That was the store before Blockbuster.
 
cbach8tw said:
You still use them? Sharpen up and have at it in the kitchen? Coolio.
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They don't all get used with the same frequency but otherwise yeah. My go to's are my Foster Bros scimitar and two butcher style Old Hickory knives. I keep them screaming sharp.
 
Choctaw Dan said:
Merciful heavens, you folks are making me feel positively ancient!!! In the 80's I was married with a pre-teen son 👨‍👩‍👧 and a mortgage. :confused:

I've been collecting since about the age of 12, often with many years between purchases.
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Yup, you’re old. 😁. I cannot complain, I have two hip surgeries, the 2nd in one week.
 
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