The Fury, unleashed after 30+ years slumber

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Probably bought this when I was 10 or 12 years old in Helen, Georgia. Cool knife shop that also had throwing stars. Looking back can't believe my parents let me have all that stuff.

I have not seen this one for 30 years, recently sent to me from home on the east coast. 440 Stainless from the early 80s.
 
Awesome!
The things parents would give to their
kidz back in the last century...
A whole lotta folks were equally awed by this too...
I can't imagine anyone who would consider
any of these to be grail material :-)
 
GIRLYmann said:
Awesome!
The things parents would give to their
kidz back in the last century...
A whole lotta folks were equally awed by this too...
I can't imagine anyone who would consider
any of these to be grail material :)
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I've got the fixed blade defender, always wanted the folder.
Not anymore of course but I used to.
I don't know exactly what kind of steel it's used from but it has proven hard to put an edge on in my recent attempt, I don't remember if it was ever very sharp but thought it should be when I rediscovered it and it's still not exactly hair shaving sharp.
 
Most early ones were taiwan made and at
least an entire decade well before the PRC
made in roads into the hunting and recreational knife export market.
Back in the day economically priced
Taiwan imports were mostly 420J
stainless steel for the better part of those
marked simply as sugical stainless steel.
Yeah, the exact same stuff many a young
Rambo wannbe tried to saw down the entire row of backyard trees with :)
 
I had both of those when I was an 11 or 12 years old.

My knuckle version was a Valor, and proved to be a very safe knife, mainly because the finger stalls in the handle were tiny and a little sharp. So carry time was limited. There was also the sneaking suspicion that it might turn into a finger guillotine if used hard.

The Tiger was a whole different kettle of fish. I wasn't lucky enough to have a Japanese version, mine was made in good old Pakistan. I'm not sure where it came from during that summer, but it became a major piece of trade bait, taking only brief respites when it was captured by a parent, and jailed at the back of a closet or top of the refrigerator for a few days.

That turned out to be a truly dangerous knife. The knife's lock would fail 2/3 rds of the time when it relatively new, and turned into basically a slip joint a couple of months in. And after 3 months of boys being boys it was left with a dubbed point and only 2 1/2 of its original scales attached.

It was the first knife I remember throwing away.

The summer after that I discovered Spyderco's Zytel (FRN) line, and all these were mostly forgotten :).
 
GIRLYmann said:
Most early ones were taiwan made and at
least an entire decade well before the PRC
made in roads into the hunting and recreational knife export market.
Back in the day economically priced
Taiwan imports were mostly 420J
stainless steel for the better part of those
marked simply as sugical stainless steel.
Yeah, the exact same stuff many a young
Rambo wannbe tried to saw down the entire row of backyard trees with :)
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If memory serves, Fury knives were made in Japan. In the early 1980's Japan was still a "low cost supplier" for budget knives.
 
Those were the glory days of ninja and karate movie flicks.
Just the kinda thing to strut with a whole lotta closet ninja attitude :-)
It was a james dean glamour knife
in its day amongst juveniles, if i may say so.
 
GIRLYmann said:
Those were the glory days of ninja and karate movie flicks.
Just the kinda thing to strut with a whole lotta closet ninja attitude :)
It was a james dean glamour knife
in its day amongst juveniles, if i may say so.
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No doubt man, influenced my life. Went from Georgia to Hawaii, then lived all over Asia for 5 years before returning to Hawaii. Studied a few different fighting styles, had adventures. Got friends to come along for the ride. Now helping my kids get into knives. Carved them some Oleander spears last week.
 
Lol! Didn't turn out too badly now did you ;-)
Yup, martial arts is all about self discovery,
in building confidence and self-discipline.
It helped to divert the wrong reasons for knife carry as a force of habit...
and that's when finally the day came
for the tiger to stay locked away as
a keepsakes of youthful ignorance ;-)
 
Helen is a cool little town.
i worked there one summer in the late 90s. dont remember too much other than the whole bavarian theme and there was a little hole in the wall bar that had steak sandwhiches, which were an honest to goodness ribeye on a roll.
 
^was Der Pizza Haus still there? Real unique spot, north Georgia mountains were great, I believe the Chattahoochee or one of its tributaries runs nearby. Never tubed there but saw people enjoying that close by.
 
Ok, I think this is the one: alpine pizza helen ga

Cool place all around, I wonder if I’ll ever see it again. So far away.
 
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