Ungentlemanlike - Traditional Bad Boy Knives

[barleywino]

This A.G. Russell Sunfish might make some folks wonder why I need such a big, fat knife. If asked, I would tell them that I don't need it. I just like it.
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I also have that knife. Just got the Finch version of a sunfish, their Buffalo tooth, which is a flipper and a bit less chunky feeling

 

[Markeologist]

I bought my first 110 in 73 just before my 13th birthday and carried it daily. I do remember; however, seeing those quick open custom sheathes and first thumb stubbie things with 110s being carried by those who were less “outdoorsy” than me and my buddies, more the “carney” type. That was when the 110 became a bad boy knife. That said, out here in Calif, the status of the 110 was slightly eclipsed by the Rigid Apache, when someone pulled out an Apache, the 110s tended to stay in their sheaths!

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Tyson A Wright

 

[Augie]

An old Maher&Grosh that was marketed as a bad boy knife.

 

[Badger28]

An old Maher&Grosh that was marketed as a bad boy knife.



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Now that’s a swedge! Thanks for including the old advertising also. Love the prices of yesteryear, 3 for $2? Google says that’s about $70 today, not a half bad deal

 

[Markeologist]

An old Maher&Grosh that was marketed as a bad boy knife.



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I’m still trying to make sense of the testimonial from W.S. Lung!

 

[Sidehill Gouger]

Maher and Grosh also had another ad with a testimonial about two Mexicans using this model in a knife fight. Wouldn't be my first pick for an altercation but I guess times were different back then.

 

[Jack Black]

Maybe I'll carry my Tod Cutler Renaissance Stiletto for Guy Fawkes Night tomorrow!

 

[Finn Wolverine]

I think there's something ominous in cheap, used, but well taken care of knives; they are highly capable to do the job (whatever it is), and possible to dispose of without insurmountable heartache, if it ever comes to that.

 

[black mamba]

I rarely even think about such things, being now old and fat and worn down, but the most ungentlemanly folder I have is the Hammond Cruiser, specifically designed as a fighting knife. It happens to fit my hand beautifully! Shown here with a more gentlemanly Moore Maker stockman.

 

[Boattale]

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[Machine Gun Joe Viterbo]

Few knives are as ungentrified as the sodbuster.