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Remember the 1980s?
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What a flashback! I never watched the series (I think they never showed it here) but I remember drooling on their toys in toy magazines.
Or the '60s. Dirt cheap bayonets - and M1 carbines. But I was too young at the time to buy the latter.
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My dad (born in 1949, for reference) tells me of wooden barrels full of M1 Garands and Carbines being sold in hardware stores like garden rakes.
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I was cleaning out my childhood home and lookie what I came across in the attic (referenced in post 54).
They were, even in the late 80s and early 90s.
Back then, they actually had surplus stuff.
Gun and knife shows were cool too.
Last time I went it was getting...sad.
No cheap bayonets and flak jackets anymore.
Is that a stubby/echo top opener on the blade?The 1980s remembers you.
I remember the days of bins full of "Survival Knives" in drug stores for $5 each.
Guess what?
This one survived.
My friend has had it since we were kids in the 80s.
He brought it out to the woods...and we survived!
(we didn't actually use it though...)
Looks like a “clino” on the blade too? Surveyors and powerline designers use those angles to profile the ground line for drafting!I remember, the best years of my life! Still have this one. Compass in the butt still works and has the first aid kit in the handle. The D guard comes off so you can make it into a spear head.
In the pen?
I bought a Rothco ramster from Amazon LLC recently - clone buck 184. Nice looking and good handling like knife!
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Yeah, exactly the same knife with the compass, in black.I still have it somewhere unfortunately the handle broken an inch after the guard during a Rambo throw at a Tree.I did try repairing it several times but it kept breaking.I ultimately repaired it with a round piece of aluminum held in with a few screws from outside and a hole for the blade's threaded tang to go through, to be bolted on inside the handle.I threw the cheap vinyl sheath and sharpening stone out years ago.I am not sure about the compass, it's probably in a box or gone.
Don't think I paid $5 USD more like $10 or even more,plus USPS First Class Mail shipping to Canada. Collected my bills and coins, and mailed then in an envelope to the US.
In a few weeks, it was delivered to my front door.
Talk about the old days......Trust and honesty.
Don't think I paid $5 USD more like $10 or even more,plus USPS First Class Mail shipping to Canada. Collected my bills and coins, and mailed then in an envelope to the US.
In a few weeks, it was delivered to my front door.
Talk about the old days......Trust and honesty.
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Edge Co. Straight out of the ‘80s
Oh, I remember. Fondly.
This is the single most experiential piece of hardware i have ever owned. It taught me everything you should never, ever, ever do with a knife.
Left in the rain. Left in a tree. Left buried. Left in the creek. Left where my cousins could get hold of it. Thrown at anything that looked like a target. Pried open the rusty trunk of an abandoned '70's gas hog. Opened countless cold pops, and maybe a few beers before it was legal. Don't tell. Hammered, sharpened, blunted, reground and resharpened and immediately dulled again. Never reforged. Left in the attic. The mere fact that I still possess it in any condition is a testament to just how hardy an educational implement it is. We wanna squabble about super steel? I spent my most formative years hatefully abusing this knife and it lived.
One of my very first actual restoration projects was to bring the blade tip back from a crumpled paper airplane to something more like a cheese knife. I didn't say it was a good attempt. Don't stab rocks, kids.
Yeah, I learned more in decades since, but you keep something like this around to remind yourself how far you've come. I absolutely love this piece of junk.
This is the single most experiential piece of hardware i have ever owned. It taught me everything you should never, ever, ever do with a knife.
Left in the rain. Left in a tree. Left buried. Left in the creek. Left where my cousins could get hold of it. Thrown at anything that looked like a target. Pried open the rusty trunk of an abandoned '70's gas hog. Opened countless cold pops, and maybe a few beers before it was legal. Don't tell. Hammered, sharpened, blunted, reground and resharpened and immediately dulled again. Never reforged. Left in the attic. The mere fact that I still possess it in any condition is a testament to just how hardy an educational implement it is. We wanna squabble about super steel? I spent my most formative years hatefully abusing this knife and it lived.
One of my very first actual restoration projects was to bring the blade tip back from a crumpled paper airplane to something more like a cheese knife. I didn't say it was a good attempt. Don't stab rocks, kids.
Yeah, I learned more in decades since, but you keep something like this around to remind yourself how far you've come. I absolutely love this piece of junk.