Besides CPK knives, whaddaya like?

ferider said:
Two more sheath photos for EMCEE EMCEE .... click to zoom in. Simple but effective, IMO.

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I really like these styles of pocket sheaths in both leather and kydex. Makes it very convenient to pull your knife, use it, and re-sheath without as much focus/care/precision as a really tight fitting sheath.

Sure, if you hang upside down and shake around the retention might not be enough, but that's not really something that concerns me. If I'm in a situation where more retention is required, I'm not typically pocket carrying a small blade.
 
WValtakis said:
Survival Sunday, grabbed the Buck Knives model 184 "Buckmaster" just in case I find myself in a sticky situation 😂
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Nice! You have the original version without the machined… blood groove?

I still have mine, somewhere. I was surprised to learn what these were going for on eBay, but never bothered listing mine because it’s used.

In a sea of the cheap, Made In Taiwan, pot metal hollow-handled survival knives; this was the one most guys lusted after (the real-deal Jimmy Lile knives being unobtainium to the average teen in the 80s).

After saving up for it back in the 80s, it definitely taught me some things about “looks cool” vs functional. Trying to actually use it, made me switch to the Cold Steel Trailmaster 😅

One of my buddies had the Aitor Jungle King. That one was actually somewhat functional. The sawback was actually usable (unlike the ‘saw’ on the Buckmaster, that doesn’t saw worth a darn. It ripped wood, very inefficiently, when I tried to use it. The little 3” wood saw on my Victorinox SAK, was MUCH more effective as a saw).

The Aitor’s blade profile was also thinner, and much more effective as a knife, not to mention they actually included all the little survival items in the handle, and one of the coolest features was the sheath converting into a usable slingshot.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Nice! You have the original version without the machined… blood groove?

I still have mine, somewhere. I was surprised to learn what these were going for on eBay, but never bothered listing mine because it’s used.

In a sea of the cheap, Made In Taiwan, pot metal hollow-handled survival knives; this was the one most guys lusted after (the real-deal Jimmy Lile knives being unobtainium to the average teen in the 80s).

After saving up for it back in the 80s, it definitely taught me some things about “looks cool” vs functional. Trying to actually use it, made me switch to the Cold Steel Trailmaster 😅

One of my buddies had the Aitor Jungle King. That one was actually somewhat functional. The sawback was actually usable (unlike the ‘saw’ on the Buckmaster, that doesn’t saw worth a darn. It ripped wood, very inefficiently, when I tried to use it. The little 3” wood saw on my Victorinox SAK, was MUCH more effective as a saw).

The Aitor’s blade profile was also thinner, and much more effective as a knife, not to mention they actually included all the little survival items in the handle, and one of the coolest features was the sheath converting into a usable slingshot.
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The Aitor was sweet, I've been meaning to track one down.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Nice! You have the original version without the machined… blood groove?

I still have mine, somewhere. I was surprised to learn what these were going for on eBay, but never bothered listing mine because it’s used.

In a sea of the cheap, Made In Taiwan, pot metal hollow-handled survival knives; this was the one most guys lusted after (the real-deal Jimmy Lile knives being unobtainium to the average teen in the 80s).

After saving up for it back in the 80s, it definitely taught me some things about “looks cool” vs functional. Trying to actually use it, made me switch to the Cold Steel Trailmaster 😅

One of my buddies had the Aitor Jungle King. That one was actually somewhat functional. The sawback was actually usable (unlike the ‘saw’ on the Buckmaster, that doesn’t saw worth a darn. It ripped wood, very inefficiently, when I tried to use it. The little 3” wood saw on my Victorinox SAK, was MUCH more effective as a saw).

The Aitor’s blade profile was also thinner, and much more effective as a knife, not to mention they actually included all the little survival items in the handle, and one of the coolest features was the sheath converting into a usable slingshot.
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I stabbed a feral hog with my Buck and it was an ordeal to say the least trying to pull the blade out quickly (with saw caught on ribs) while the hog was spinning. That was the last time I used a ‘saw back’ for that task!
Chris Reeve Project 1 was the perfect knife for that.
 
beeinak said:
I stabbed a feral hog with my Buck and it was an ordeal to say the least trying to pull the blade out quickly (with saw caught on ribs) while the hog was spinning. That was the last time I used a ‘saw back’ for that task!
Chris Reeve Project 1 was the perfect knife for that.
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On a funny note regarding this exact topic, I learned the same lesson stabbing a slab of pork ribs with my Buckmaster.

Mom: “Why are there all these cuts and punctures in my slab of pork?!!! YOU!!! Playing with your damned knives again?!!!” 😬 “Uhhh… sorry, mom…”

😂😂😂

Ever since then, it’s always made me laugh watching scenes in movies with people using these kinds of knives to stab multiple bad guys, quickly.
 
bluemax_1 said:
On a funny note regarding this exact topic, I learned the same lesson stabbing a slab of pork ribs with my Buckmaster.

Mom: “Why are there all these cuts and punctures in my slab of pork?!!! YOU!!! Playing with your damned knives again?!!!” 😬 “Uhhh… sorry, mom…”

😂😂😂

Ever since then, it’s always made me laugh watching scenes in movies with people using these kinds of knives to stab multiple bad guys, quickly.
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Too funny! Moms put up with so much🤣
Stabbing hogs taught me a lot about what I do/don’t want in that type of knife. I like the idea of a couple of slots by the handle for breaking wire, but otherwise I prefer a real saw.
 
bluemax_1 said:
On a funny note regarding this exact topic, I learned the same lesson stabbing a slab of pork ribs with my Buckmaster.

Mom: “Why are there all these cuts and punctures in my slab of pork?!!! YOU!!! Playing with your damned knives again?!!!” 😬 “Uhhh… sorry, mom…”

😂😂😂

Ever since then, it’s always made me laugh watching scenes in movies with people using these kinds of knives to stab multiple bad guys, quickly.
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My high school history teacher was a big history buff (I know it sounds like it Should be a prerequisite?) But in this day and age, idk?

Anyhow every year he would put on a presentation in the auditorium. He bring in ALL kinds of WW1 memorabilia.....Uniforms he'd be wearing. Knives, guns (real) and bayonets, tools, Everything that would of been in the trenches.
This was in the late 80's.
I remember certain bayonet styles he had, he said were Illegal, and if you were found with them, using them....he said your Own guys would use them on you! Haha...Yikes. One style was a sawback that pulls the guts out.
And the other was more pyramid -like shaped, Pushing all the clothes and dirt inside the wound, guaranteeing infections and a miserable death.

Fun Class.

I can still remember him wearing US, and Nazi uniforms.I

*edit...sorry, off topic.
Just sawback, wound cavity memories.
 
beeinak said:
Too funny! Moms put up with so much🤣
Stabbing hogs taught me a lot about what I do/don’t want in that type of knife. I like the idea of a couple of slots by the handle for breaking wire, but otherwise I prefer a real saw.
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Oh, on THAT particular note;

I only recently read a thread from 2022, on Buckmasters, mentioning that the earlier examples were somewhat brittle.

After seeing the scene in Rambo (2?), where he used his knife to break the barbed wire, I tried doing that with the stupid sawback on mine, and learned 2 things;
1) barbed wire that isn’t older than Methuselah, and rusted to heck, DOESN’T break easily
2) yeah, I think my Buckmaster might have been a little brittle, because despite those saw teeth being thick and overbuilt (hence being useless as a saw), trying to pry the single strand of barbed wire to break it, chipped the corner off one of those saw teeth 😝
 
bluemax_1 said:
Oh, on THAT particular note;

I only recently read a thread from 2022, on Buckmasters, mentioning that the earlier examples were somewhat brittle.

After seeing the scene in Rambo (2?), where he used his knife to break the barbed wire, I tried doing that with the stupid sawback on mine, and learned 2 things;
1) barbed wire that isn’t older than Methuselah, and rusted to heck, DOESN’T break easily
2) yeah, I think my Buckmaster might have been a little brittle, because despite those saw teeth being thick and overbuilt (hence being useless as a saw), trying to pry the single strand of barbed wire to break it, chipped the corner off one of those saw teeth 😝
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I have broken old barbed wire that way (I found the single strand with my shins while running after hogs in brush while carrying my bow 🤣), but bent it back and forth quite a few times before it snapped.
The saying use the right tool for the job is very wise!
 
beeinak said:
I have broken old barbed wire that way (I found the single strand with my shins while running after hogs in brush while carrying my bow 🤣), but bent it back and forth quite a few times before it snapped.
The saying use the right tool for the job is very wise!
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I suspect that issuing the Buckmaster to Navy SEALs, and learning the deficiencies, is what led to the Phrobis M9 bayonet (with the dedicated wire cutter function built-in).
 
when I was a kid, convinced I NEEDED a 'survival knife', I saved up my money for a long time and bought myself a Gerber BMF- no saw. One of the first things I did with it- a la Big Trouble in Little China- was to try and cut a glass bottle in half. I did not achieve success, as you might imagine. I held onto it for a long time, and eventually gave it to my brother.
 
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I'm nostalgic about the Buck 189T. I bought one when they first came out in '98 and my friend called it the Death To All Mankind knife.
I forget the details, but it had a flaw and the store messed up getting it exchanged and ultimately gave me a refund. I'd love to own one now...
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Lorien said:
when I was a kid, convinced I NEEDED a 'survival knife', I saved up my money for a long time and bought myself a Gerber BMF- no saw. One of the first things I did with it- a la Big Trouble in Little China- was to try and cut a glass bottle in half. I did not achieve success, as you might imagine. I held onto it for a long time, and eventually gave it to my brother.
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Another of the chonky survival knives of the era, but IIRC, the one time I got to check one out, it also had a better blade profile than my Buckmaster.

The combo of the thiccccc blade and steep hollow grind made the Buckmaster OK for cuts to about 1/2” deep. Then the blade rapidly got so thick, it was a PITA to cut deeper.

PITA for feathersticks, wood shavings for firestarting. Couldn’t bite very deep when chopping etc.
 
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