Your image of 1990s knives

I was a young teen in the late 1990s when I started getting a few more modern folders for the time. Started with some no name imports with teeth and pocket clips. Then not too much later I got my first Spyderco Endura. Early model with molded in plastic clip. The S&W SWAT knives really personify the 90s knives for me. The tip down, pivot screw holding the pocket clip on. Also the Buck Crosslock. I seen a lot of my stepdads cop/fire buddies carry those in uniform. Same with the cold steel voyagers. The Gerber EZ out comes strongly to mind. I recently got a first production run stamped in big letters/numbers 1995 on the blade. I also got a Schrade Clip Hanger around 1998-99 and carried it a lot. It was cheaper and I was a kid ha ha. I recently bought one for nostalgia.
 
My first "modern" knife was a SOG Pentagon Elite 4" liner lock I bought in 1996. Previously, I had been given a Wenger Nomad in 1986 for my 7th birthday, and a Case large lockback for my 12th birthday (1991). But for sure I think of tactical knives as being the big deal in the mid-late 90s. That and fantasy knives. I remember my neighbor would always get the SMKW catalog and I would drool over the Gil Hibben fantasy knives.
 
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I was still quite young in the 90’s, but I think of knives such as the original spydercos, benchmades, cold steel, and Emerson folders. I don’t recall the year but I drooled over an article in a knife rag about the original spyderco chinook, they were skinning a deer with it.
I also had a CQC-7.

Used to make wish lists from SMKW catalogs, writing down item numbers to narrow down later before I sent a mail order in.
AG Russell catalogs also, though at that time I was weary of the Japanese made stuff AG used to contract.

I miss the days of going into department stores and fondling the old timers, uncle Henry’s, and bucks in the display cases. I seem to recall being able to buy a new 8OT for $20-$25 back then.

So many tactical things, throwing stars, blow guns, spikes, and daggers. Meyerco/blackie collins, Gil hibben.
Also sharpening on small Arkansas stones with honing oil, I can still smell the oil Schrade used to include in some blister packs.

Remember the Old Timer Beast? I had the large and small, recall shaping some walking sticks in the Appalachians with one of those, partially serrated of course. Had a Schrade Cliphanger as well.

The 90’s were good to me, or at least in memory they were.
 
Will show more when I find them as I am cleaning now, but I found the responses very interesting especially how some have stood the test of time the Police model being as a '90s design yet I as a younger man carry a P4 with updated serration pattern and steel while the originaI luckily still exists too (need one) and consider it and it's updated serration pattern to be top class, no need to fix what ain't broken. Also included modern equivalents of older folders such as the Matriarch 2 next to my ATS-55 Civilian as well as a modern S45 TI PM2 to next to my 440V Military as I do not yet have a Military 2 to because I'm waiting for it to come out in a tool steel.

There are some like my P4 and Endura mod that are the only current examples,of,the knife I have, as well as the GIN-1 Snap-It which I do,not have thr modern equiv. Think it is still made but not with the rubber inserts.
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SOG stingray, and a few of the SOG fixed blades like the Government, NW Ranger, 5th Special Forces, and Seal Team Trident. Another comes to mind, the Gerber EZ out in ATS 34, which was the big steel for a time in the 90s. Used to couldn’t wait for the SMKW catalogs and the flyers from Cutlery Shoppee With special close outs. Cold Steel was just getting big too With the Voyagers and the TrailMaster. And funny knives with a round hole, Spyderco made a big splash.

I also carried a SA in red scales as it was the one I could afford and did the job, started learning about the different models too.

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154cm and ATS-34 were the bees knees.
 
I still have my 90's AFCK. Does anyone even make titanium liners for linerlocks anymore? Wish I still had my BG42 Sebenza. Loved that steel. My image of the 90's is that it was the time for introduction of high performance knives. It was also the beginning of the internet spread of knife discussions, which never happened before. There was less BS than today and more performance talk. But there are more options today.
 
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