Remember that 'Survival Knife' you had as a boy?

[Doc In UPlace]

When we were kids, the term "survival knife" hadn't really been invented yet. Mostly it would have been a fixed-blade such as a Buck 119 or Randall 1-7 or similar...

 

[Doc In UPlace]

Coming to think of it, I don't think automobiles or radio had been invented yet, ether.

 

[mjbskwim]

I remember that stupid wire wood saw. If you tried to use it the damn thing would snap and it was hot. Burned the crapp outta me. But we all had to have one!

You obviously didn't have an Italian friend to teach you what that was really for

 

[g.i. joe]

In the '80's I always wanted a Buck "Buckmaster". It wasnt till the 90's that I got my first one. It was a complete 184 in really good condition, I got it at a gun show for $25! I had to sell it a few years later (for $75, thinking I had made a killing) and was always on the lookout for another one. I finally got one on CL for $75, Then I decided to customize it. You might say bring it up to speed with the current tacti-cool program. Here it is before and after. Cerakote finish, new custom nylon MOLLE on the sheath with drop leg attachment.

 

[The Heretic]

I always wanted one of the Chris Reeve knives - the one piece hollow handle ones he used to make:



But I just couldn't justify the cost.

So last winter I got one of these instead:



Crappy sheath, too heavy, poor balance and I am sure the steel is nothing to right home about - but it is one piece with a hollow handle and is more or less a copy of the CR knife.

 

[teflon6string]

Thinking back about mine, circa 1970, I could never bring myself to actually test-drive any of the survival supplies inside the handle under that clear plastic cover (big@ss storm matches. fish hooks, 1/2 lb test line). I didn't know when I might really need them, right? Perhaps if there'd been some condoms...

 

[The B]

A bit younger than some of you boys, I had (and still have sitting on my bookshelf in my office - my boys love to oogle over it any time they're there) a "21st Century" KaBar, with a matte high-carbon stainless blade and kydex sheath. I packed it on all my early backpacking trips but learned pretty quick that a huge bubblegum heavy bubblegum knife just isn't as useful as it seems..

Plus the kydex rattled like a sonuvabubblegum. I had to pack it with duct tape just to keep it down to a low roar.

 

[The B]

bubblegumin' bubblegum bubblegum bubblegum, is there a single bubblegumin' expletive that doesn't get censored in this mother bubblegumer?