What are on your wish you had kept list from 1980-2000?

MTHall720

MTHall720

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I have been regaining interest in locating some of my old favorites in the under $75.00
Price range of folders from Kershaw, Buck, CRKT mostly.
I'd like to see what's on your list
 
Not a dang one, they were all crap, the good ones in the lat 90s I kept however.
 
I never sold off a good knife. I'm glad I sold my no name hollow-handled survival knife in the late 80s.
 
Being born in '93, my list was REALLY small. Years ago, I had this little 3 blade stockman (it may have been an old Case) that I ALWAYS carried with me. Never used it and usually forgot it was even on me, but I always had it. One day I just lost it. I look frantically for a week, then gave up. That thing was my first knife. I really miss that old thing.
 
Didn't get into knives till late 90's. Do wish I had kept Benchmade Sentinel, Microtech Manual SOCOM, Benchmade 3000 Auto, Benchmade 850 pearl.
 
I started collecting in the early 70's. Fortunately, I've kept most of what I wanted to keep.

Contrary to popular belief, there where good knives made way back when, Buck, Kershaw and at the time the cream of the crop, IMO, Gerber. They aren't even a shadow of their former selves, but they used 440C, very well heat treated in their early folders (when 440C was what quite a few custom makers used), L6 in there survival knives (VERY tough steel) and M2 in there Armorhide hunters. Unless one was in the tool and die industry or metallergy, most folks didn't know what M2 was.

A couple that I wish I had kept were an original Paul knife, and a Mark I and Mark II from Gerber.

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I sold an early 80's Gerber TACII on eBay to fund a Para D2. Love the Para but I wish I hadn't sold the Gerber as I carried it with me in the Marines on many a deployment. My KABAR was my utility knife and my TACII for combat.
 
I had, and lost, one of the original Gator's.

I also owned a Boker Infinity ceramic that I think I got in 1999.
 
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