Ancient Edge Hissatsu

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marklee

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Anyone have any experience with this one? Nice ad, the knife looks good, but you know how advertising is...

Thanks.


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If you always succeed at failing, which did you do?
 
Saw and handled one at the Blade Show, it is a tough looking knife! The blade is exceptionally thick, thicker than the ad shows, very strong knife! Of course I couldn't use it there as they would frown on me hacking their booth up
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, but I'm sure that it would hold up very well, plus the handle was good and grippy.

Perhaps others that own one can speak more, but hope that helps?


G2

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain

www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Cabin/7306/blades.html

 
If this is the knife I'm thinking of, one of the more recent ads has the knife superimposed over a combat rifle with some copy about what a great fighting implement it is. It was indeed a beautifully photographed ad -- and the handle, in particular, looked like a very secure gripping surface -- but I have too minor gripes with Ancient Edge:

1. Earlier ads were insulting, saying something like "You've never been in a fight, you've never been in the military, you don't know which end of a knife is up, and we can tell by the knives you buy." The implication was that "real men" or whomever would want one of these Ancient Edge knives so as not to be lumped into the carport commando category -- but the result of the ad was a sneering, arrogant contempt for the very consumers A.E. was probably hoping would buy their product.

2. While it looks like a nice knife, I question how safe it is for a combat blade to lack a guard.

All that said, I wouldn't mind if someone was to give me a Hissatsu. Maybe next Christmas. Gary, I'll have to get in touch with you on a sheath for it. *laugh*

Razor

[This message has been edited by Razoredj (edited 01 July 1999).]
 
HAH, Razor, I'll pass it along to you know who! The handle swells up so the `guard' is not too bad, but a tsuba would have been a better idea, as I recall the blade seemed like it was at least 1/4" thick or more! very thick blade, had a real main purpose! I wouldn't think it would be a good all around knife, just the sticking kind. But that is taken from just holding it for all of 3 minutes or so at the booth, the fellow there was very nice to talk with and was willing to answer any questions I had concerning it.

Don't recall the ad you mentioned, just the one showing the knife alone and something about depending on something for your life. But then I'm so old now.....can't remember all that well...

G2

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain

www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Cabin/7306/blades.html

 
I saw one at a Gun Show a few months ago. That knife is no where near worth the $399 list price for it. It struck me as a 120 range knife. I wasn't that impressed with it at all.

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I mean, if I went around saying I was an Emperor because some
moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, people would put me away!


 
This knife/sheath combination may be the single cheesiest and overpriced factory knife ever made.

It is really pitiful!

The sample I examined at the blade show was poorly ground, dull, poorly polished and felt like a wet biscuit in the hand. The faux rayskin handle sans guard is a cut finger/hand waiting to happen on a "combat" knife.

The sheath is a fragile, rattly nightmare that makes one of Blackie Collins' look simple. It couldnt even hope to be mil-spec.
Both samples at the show were already broken!

Supposedly the Ancient Edge people have a real "Spec-War Expert Knife-Fighter" on their team. Apparently he also has a very active imagination.

Buyer beware....
 
WOW, $399 price tag? I didn't realize they were asking that much for it, and as they mentioned above, the sheath was not very impressive.

I'd put it in the $150 class or lower, but not the $399, for half that I'd get an Ed Schott Lord Wharncliff's Mistress blade in CPM 3V, which I had to put off for a while, but have intentions of getting!

G2

399, still amazes me.....

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain

www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Cabin/7306/blades.html

 
Thanks for the input. Those of us who didn't get to go to the blade show appreciate comments from those that did.

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If you always succeed at failing, which did you do?
 
Damn Anthony, not a wet biscuit! I too saw the ads early on and out of mere interest emailed the company who's web page was under construction, bla bla bla. Finally after several attempts to contact them someone contacted me via email some seven weeks later asking if I was still interested in the information. I responded telling them that so much time had passed that I'd lost interest in things sharp altogether (not). I've never handled one, but the manner in which they conduct business was enough to turn me off.
 
I bough two of them at the Blade Show for a friend and found the grip quite safe, though I tend to prefer HUGE guards, just in case, you know. As for the the quality of the blade, I haven't tried it but both mine were sharp. I found the sheath quite clumsy and would make a kydex sheath if the knives were mine. Nick Saganis was very polite and I think the knife was selling for US$ 250,00 retail. Hope this can help you.
Best regards

Ivan Campos
 
I bough two of them at the Blade Show for a friend and found the grip quite safe, though I tend to prefer HUGE guards, just in case, you know. As for the the quality of the blade, I haven't tried it but both mine were sharp. I found the sheath quite clumsy and would make a kydex sheath if the knives were mine. Nick Saganis was very polite and I think the knife was selling for US$ 250,00 retail. Hope this can help you.
Best regards

Ivan Campos
 
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