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

[stabman]

I thought that was the 60's.

And the 90's...I don't remember them too well either.

 

[james terrio]

If it was featured in SOF magazine, it was cool. If it was featured in F&S or Outdoor Life... :yawn:

Boot knives. I remember boot knives and push-daggers being all the rage. If you had a rich Daddy, you'd get the Gerber and Cold Steel versions; if all you had was a paper route, you were stuck with the CHINA STAINLESS "brand"

 

[Stelth]

Anyone remember knives from the 80's??
Hell yeah! I still have mine, too.
Gerbers:

Schrades:

Bucks:

A.G. Russell:

Big assed Schrade stockman:

Camillus:

Ti Buck:

and the ultimate 80s grail.....

Buckmaster 184

 

[cEdge]

I used to get so many catalogs (or is it catalogues) back then, I think I came across a few recently but those were headed for the recycle bin. I (still) have some of the knives from the 80's. Gotta love that ubiquitous 440 stainless

 

[Blue Sky]

Some old Westerns. One or two of these may actually be late 70's, but close enough I hope...

 

[Stelth]

Those are really nice, Blue Sky...I've bid on a few but haven't won one yet.

 

[Blue Sky]

Thanks! They are nice, solid knives. I have a couple others that are users, just no pic's of those at the moment.

 

[Omega Leather Works]

This thread is totally radical!

Psych!

I just used my dad's Buck 110 as I was but a wee boy then.

 

[whetrock]

I don't remember the 80's seeing as I was born in the 90's , but I do admire my Bucklites, like my 426, it's even got the kwik-thumb, which is sort of a more modern rendition of the old, One Armed Bandit .

 

[TAS]

Sorry for the picture quality but these are 80's.

 

[Dirtknap]

Schrades here too. Still going strong:

 

[Stelth]

Nice 165 Dirtknap!

 

[elkins45]

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Gerber magnum folding hunter. I still have mine- it was the first good quality knife I ever bought. I paid $40 for mine at a knife shop in Gatlinburg but unless my memory fails I bought it in 1979.

 

[cbach8tw]

My first real knife was a Kabar Marine Corp knife, leather handle. Still one of my favorites.

 

[blame it on god]

I remember the hollow handle survival knives being the thing to have back then. I was too young, had no money of my own and my parents would not buy me one. I was lucky to get a boy scouts SAK.

 

[JTC]

Buck Bayonet. Put this one in layaway back in the 80's and paid it out over a couple of months.

 

[tiguy7]

The Buck 186 Titan came out in 1986. They made them for 6 months or so and then switched to the 560. I have/had Boker Titans, Gerber LST's, Puma 110 clones, Buck Selectors, Hackman butterflies, etc., but putting exact dates on these would require some research.

 

[Paul Brach]

I went to the Knifemaker's Guild show in Kansas City in the mid 80's. I met Jack Crain there and saw his knives for the movie Commando before the movie was released. I met Wayne Clay, who made great Loveless style blades. Bob Terzoula was there with some tactical fixed blades that were made in such a way that they wouldn't conduct electricity into your hand. (In case you missed a guy and hit an outlet, I suppose). There was the amazing "soul seeker" that Paul Fox made from a Paul Ehlers design. It had ruby eyes and would stand up on the table. A guy named Paul Jarvis showed us how to do over the top embellishment with gems and gold. I saw a dagger by James Schmidt with symmetrical ladder pattern Damascus that was without equal at the time. I met Harumi Hirayama and marveled at the intricate abalone inlays in her delicate folders. I tried to tell her how much I liked them and then realized she didn't speak a lot of English---but fantastic work that still blows my mind. It was also in the 80's that Michael Walker started making a folder mechanism that he called the "Liner Locker". So many others I have forgotten.

Guys, the 80's were a great decade for knives.

 

[tirod3]

I was in IOBC. So, we got to carry whatever big knife we cared to. I usually had a Gerber MkII, or the Glock field knife, which was just slim enough to wear upside down on the left field gear suspender. Since it had a locking sheath I never worried about losing it. The Gerbers, tho, would poke you in the ribs all the time, plus tying one down made that leg hot for lack of air circulation.

Let's see, flipping thru my Knives annuals, '84 - '89, hmmm. Had a Tekna boot, later sold it but still have the velcro straps with spring loaded buckles for skin diving. Cold Steel had the Urban Skinner and some kind of new plastic stuff for sheaths called kydex. Normark made folders. Benchmark , the SOS or Moray. Frank Vought "Outfitter" knives got some recognition. Kershaw had the rubber handled Task Force folders. Calmont came out with a deer knife. Leatherman was introduced. Coleman bought Western and made it disappear. Remington came out with their own, still have the shotgun folder with a choke wrench. SOG, Muela, and Aitor appeared, along with Outdoor Edge and some new sharpener called DMT, with diamonds on perforated steel molded to a handle.

I bought a Queen button lock folder, weird because it was nearly squared off vs the older ones I had seen. Pretty much used a Gerber LST for use every day, before we even knew what Every Day Carry meant. I heard about Terzuola and he made a bigger impact on the market than maybe we give him credit for - it was the first ruggedized folder you couldn't break, with some weird industrial glass filled handle material. Later that inside locking strip from Walker got married to it and somebody starting making a tanto bladed liner lock knife with G10 handles he called the CQC7, and then some other company started making a nice copy in volume, which made me spend the most I ever had on a knife - $96. I quickly discovered the teflon coating wasn't all that, but I still have it - A Benchmade Emerson CQC7. But that was the 90's.

The 80's. Sure didn't remember, I had to look in the books. What I remember most was that nobody made a tactical knife, we didn't even know they were called that or what they looked like. We sure knew what it was when we saw one, though.

 

[jc57]

I actually bought these in the late 70s, but close enough.