The 80's!! Anyone remember knives from the 80's??

Stelth said:
I prefer your version's updates...the fuller with "Buckmaster" is definitely an improvement.
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The first batches were made by blanking the blades from thick sheet steel. But, the blade blanking machine's blades didn't last very long.
So, they decided to go with the drop forging method, which for a while looked like the former blanked blades, but then at some point went with forging in the fuller with Buckmaster name forged into it. They continued with that until the end of the Buckmaster's production.
I like both styles, but only have the one I pictured above. No way am I going to put out the cash to buy the other variant like the one you own, since spending $800 on mine was ouch enough! 😅
 
Stelth said:
Here's the other side of the 80s. I moved to Florida in 1982 when I was in the middle of the 9th grade. This is some of the junk I bought when I worked as a dishwasher making $3.35 an hour, made in Japan, Taiwan, and Pakistan. Some are Valor Miami branded a couple are Parker. The rest are unbranded. As you can see, I don't get rid of much.
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That the side of the 80s I was on.
I had at least 4 of those knives! :D (The Buck clone, cast aluminum handle dagger, and the skelotonized daggers, but I never got the ninja-cool black bladed one ;))
 
The only 2 good things that came out of the eighties:
Black Sabbath got RJD as a singer.
AC/DC got Brian Johnston
 
Tekna…I remember thinking that was cool…

I don’t think anyone has mentioned “Western”,…I still have my boot knife.

Butterfly knives,… although rare here in CA. I was the only one of my friends who had one,..come to think of it I was the only one into knives….my college roommate started flipping my butterfly knife and it about blew his mind.

Gerber Mk II’s,…or was that the 70’s….
 
Bob Denman said:
The only 2 good things that came out of the eighties:
Black Sabbath got RJD as a singer.
AC/DC got Brian Johnston
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Blechhhh in both cases. What’s next? I swear if you bring up Van Hagar….

When I was a kid in the 80s me and my buddies had Cases, Bucks, Schrades, and a few of us had junk (that we all thought was cool) mainly made by United that we got at flea markets in bigger towns we went to on road trips. If we saved up a while we could get a Cold Steel or SOG, and Benchmades were for rich assholes.
 
bearcut said:
Tekna- they had a very nice dive/survival knife with a slick GRN sheath.

Buck had the 184. Rambo had the Lile, and the 184 allowed the average guy to own something very close to it. I think it cost about $85 at the time, a lot back then. Liles First Bloods went for around $300-400. The 184 sheath had a stone built-in on the backside, and webbing slots for two nylon pouches on the front.

Gerber had the LMF, about as neat as the Buck 184 except that it didn't have the hollow handle. Gerber made some good knives back then. Top notch in fact. Sad where they are today.

Cold Steel was relatively new in the early 80"s. Their tanto folders were very high tech. The kraton handles and the laminated blades were pretty incredible for those used to Buck 110's.

I had them all, and a few other brands that are long gone.

The knives of the 70's weren't nearly as exciting. Buck 110's and KaBars were about as high tech as it got in production blades.
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Sorry, but Lile Rambo models did not go for $300 - $400, if they did I would have owned 4 or 5 of them. The Sly II was $685 (I bought one of them) and the First Blood was at least twice that. Tekna is either still selling that dive dagger or they recently discontinued it. I have one of them.
 
I was 25 in 1980 and really getting interested in knives. I was buying selling and trading knives like it was the stock market. Gerber was my first interest, I probably had 40 Mark II's and bought and sold most of their other models all over the country. I was wholesale buying Cold Steel, Pacific Cutlery (Benchmade), BlackJack, SOG, Benchmark, Spyderco, Timberline and many other brands that don't exist any more. I had close to 500 knives by the early 1990's, and was firmly addicted to sharp stuff. I had moved from Texas to the east coast and met another knife knut and had tables at knife shows from NewYork down Maryland. The 1980's and 90's were a heyday for me.
 
AntDog said:
Blechhhh in both cases. What’s next? I swear if you bring up Van Hagar….

When I was a kid in the 80s me and my buddies had Cases, Bucks, Schrades, and a few of us had junk (that we all thought was cool) mainly made by United that we got at flea markets in bigger towns we went to on road trips. If we saved up a while we could get a Cold Steel or SOG, and Benchmades were for rich assholes.
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I preffered Sammy's other work...
 
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