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

The 1980s:

Still alive ack then . . .Bill Moran, Bob Loveless, Bo Randall . . . and you could buy their knives Barnd new from their table at the various Blade Shows.

At the lower-end were the Gerber Mk2, USMC Ka-Ber in original GI surplus condition, the Airforce Pilot's Survival knife in fixed blades'

B boy Scouts I knew were buying plenty of surplus blades and abusing the heck out of what are now priceless collectables.

Buck was selling the heck out of the 110 and 112 folders.

440-C was the stainless of choice for production knives while custom makers were going to 154 CM.
 
I remember the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, etc. Carried various knives back then; still have some of them.
Played Mumbly Peg in the school yard at recess. Teachers never thought it anything about it. Every guy
carried a pocket knife (and some girls). Your pocket knife was your most prized possession. THAT was the golden age.
 
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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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It's Johnson :rolleyes:

Introduced in the 70s, but perfected in the 80s:

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Had a couple slip joints back then that are long gone. Only other one I remember having was the lame Rambo ripoff that I posted earlier.
 
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David Mary said:
Can you show it open?
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Sorry this thing is so reflective I am having a hard time with a good picture, it is not black.
yablanowitz said:
No, but that collection has more than doubled in size since that picture was taken. What steel is yours?
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G2 Stainless, it is pretty old. If you are interested in it PM me.
 

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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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Hey Stelth- I have that same knife with finger guard! I've never seen another since 1985. I spent that summer boating with family in Sweden and these were all over the place in every boating supply shop at every marina. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Mine says "Hanes Design" on the blade. I tried to beat it up as best as possible as a Boy Scout, but it was just too well made. Great knife!
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Hey Cheesemaster!
I suspect yours is made of better steel than the Parker-version I have. Mine has a black coating on the blade, but that didn't stop the rust. I'm pretty sure Parker was a major-league intellectual property thief.
 
vjb.knife vjb.knife thanks, I was actually wondering if I was reading "right hand Spyderedge" right. I expected the serrations to be on the non-show side for some reason.
 
vjb.knife said:
Either the late 70's or very early 80's. I am fairly certain that I bought my first one with cocobolo grips in 1980 and it was a number 1.
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I just looked up some info and I believe they started making them in 1977. There is a number inside each of them denoting the production year. I still have a final production model which has black micarta grips with an engraved image of the Gerber Factory on them. I will have to dig it out and take a picture for you. Then thay made a cheaper version around 2002 for a couple of years.

check this reference http://www.dougritter.com/Paul_Poehlmann.htm
 
I turned 12 in 1980. With the exception of one Spyderco and a Leatherman, I mostly still carry the same knives I carried in the '80s ...... Old Timer, Victorinox, Case, Buck. I don't, however, carry some of the POS knives I accumulated as a kid.
 
I remember the made in USA Schrade/Uncle Henry/Old Timer/Imperial, Camillus, Western, Buck, Utica (they still made stockman's, Barlows, and toothpick patters, among a couple others in the 80's) Craftsman (made by Camillus), Colonial, and several other brands that were made here before they went bankrupt and the new owners moved production off shore, or slashed their traditional patterns to just a couple, or dropped them entirely, and introduced some lines contracted offshore to their specifications.
I paid almost as much attention to the new fangled "modern"/"tactical" folders then as I do now, and had about the same desire to get one. (near zero ... Off hand the only one that tempted me was the Buck 184. However, it wasn't "worth" a weeks wages to me to get one.
 
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