Glad I saved my $29…
As a kid in 1986– in an age where action heroes were shirtless, spoke with an Austrian accent or a mumble, and carried a big fixed blade– I downright pined for one of these $29.95 specials every time I browsed the gun mags of the day while camped out at the news rack of the local T.G.&Y.
Glad I wasn’t able to cut enough grass to afford both a wildly addictive Testors scale model habit, as well as my nascent knife wanderlust. That tang-less 420SS thing looks like pure junk-o. But hey, it had a compass!
Wasn’t it about 1986 when T.G.&Y. Went out of business and its stores taken over by Walmart and KMart. Hometown stores taken over by monsters.
“Hollywoodization” make everything look good on the Silver Screen until it;s actually used in the Real World. Then it doesn’t perform up to expectation. But then again, having five or six of something to represent a single item shown it the movie also doesn’t hurt and seldom ever makes it out into the press that at least half of them Broke while making that specific scene…
My first straight knife was a 4″ Remington, probably a gift from my dad upon becoming a Boy Scout. Had the Cub Scout folding knife (lost to time) and still have my Boy Scout folding knife, and by now a bunch of others.