So how many of you bought on?

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How many of you saved up your pennies and bought one of those cheesy, crappy, hollow handled, Rambo type survival knives when you were growing up? From the back of your Boy Scout magazine or Popular Mechanics? You know the type, 8" blade with the saw back...crappy leather sheath with a pouch for a whet stone on it?

edit- title should say one, not on....please chalk all spelling and grammar errors up to the massive bottle of Lortabs sitting in front of me..
 
Cavalry_Scout said:
How many of you saved up your pennies and bought one of those cheesy, crappy, hollow handled, Rambo type survival knives when you were growing up? From the back of your Boy Scout magazine or Popular Mechanics? You know the type, 8" blade with the saw back...crappy leather sheath with a pouch for a whet stone on it?

edit- title should say one, not on....please chalk all spelling and grammar errors up to the massive bottle of Lortabs sitting in front of me..
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Yup, the second knife I ever bought. A $5 piece of crap from a martial arts store. I think I was 15. At the time, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world! And I still have it tucked away in some dark drawer somewhere....

These days, I wouldn't take one for free! ;)
 
I guess I'm lucky. The first fixed blade I had was one given to me for a birthday, I think, when I was in my early/mid teens. Nothing fancy, just a fairly typical stacked leather handled hunting knife (no name brand). The first fixed blade I actually bought for myself was a 'Puma Genuine Bowie' (stag handled). One of the 'good' ones, from late '70s or early '80s, in the yellow plastic box with the green lid. That was one of the best things I've ever done for my knife education. It showed me, from very early on, what a 'quality' knife is all about. It became very easy after that to recognize the cheap, gaudy, tacky ones at a glance. Never took the bait on any of those.
 
axtalan0 said:
Yup, the second knife I ever bought. A $5 piece of crap from a martial arts store. I think I was 15. At the time, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world! And I still have it tucked away in some dark drawer somewhere....

These days, I wouldn't take one for free! ;)
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Yes indeed (best $5 I spend as a kid). Funny thing is that my knife was really sharp when I got it. I took it camping and got to use the compass, and all the stuff in the handle worked really well (fish hooks, matches).
 
Indeed I did have one. Horrible thing really but of course at about age 11 I thought it was cooler than the proverbial bag of ice cubes and had to have one. Learned soon what a cheap POS it was, heh. Probably still left somewhere in the attic of our old place, it sure would be good for a few nostalgic laughs if I ever saw it again. :)
 
Yep, did it. Was the greatest tho when I was little, especially the cable-saw that was in the handle... hacked apart lotsa stuff with that.
 
I got one for Christmas when I was about 12 or 13, big bulbous compass handle. I was not impressed, I had wanted a "good" one, and this wasn't it, spoiled brat I was. I used it a lot though, even modded it, filled up the handle with glue and pennies! A true custom, pennies probably have more value than the knife.
 
I bought on - but my father wouldn't let me be fooled... Started with a few cheap hunting fixed blades (still have one as a beater) and a buck lockback when I was ~5

The only thing that changed was how much the knives cost... unfortunately
 
I have my old 'stainless steel' china hunting knife i bought from a hobby catalogue when i was like 14
It clicks when i grip the blade and handle and jiggle it around and the ka-bar style buttcap is long gone, i think it was merely held on by friction.
 
I bought my brother one when he was about 9 years old and a huge Rambo fan. My mother was afraid he would cut off an arm so I took all the edge off. Taped it up and painted the blade to match the one in the 2nd movie. He played with that thing forever. Brings back good memories when he wasn't a drug addict.
 
What, one of these things?

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It actually cuts as well as my Spyderco/Hossum Forester, and it has seen a lot more use.
 
i'll confess.

i got one. i think it was like, $20 and i was about nine. the compass was actually pretty good on mine. the blade had the same edge holding properties we usually associate with marshmallows.

boy was my mum pissed at the disposal shop that sold it too me.
 
My Gerber Paraframe that I got when I was 14 is still around right now. I use it to open boxes and what not. I'm surprised by how long it's managed to keep going. I can get a decent edge on that steel too, I think it's 420J or something.

And yes, when I was 14 I thought my Paraframe was the coolest thing in the world. :D
 
The one I got was so cheap the blade would actually bend- by hand- by a 10 year old! Even then I knew it was a POS. I think I salvaged what I could from handle kit and threw the "knife" away.
 
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