Anyone Ever Use A Blade With A "Gladius" Tip?

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Hey, everyone. Just thought of something that it seems someone else actually has already put into practice: the "Gladius" tip. I don't mean like the sword, I mean like on the Boker Reality Based Blade. I think this would give a good mix between tanto & karambit. What do you guys think? I'm figuring that it would cut quite a bit deeper than a regular straight blade & gives a little bit of a "bite" in terms of weapon retention, but also can be used to stab in a way that's good both for piercing & for making a large wound. Someone can use this for a lot of tasks outside of confrontations, too.
 
It'd be nice if you posted pics

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Dont expect to make deathly lethal operator wounds with a folding knife. If you managed to stab someone with a shovel the wound would be deadlier and more lethal. It is important to know that what you have does not make you what you are. It is what you can do with what you have what's important. Many Green Berets carried traditional Buck folding knives and they did fine with them before the tacticool fashion appeared.

Looking at it, the tip design looks more brittle than average. If you can't use your tacticool folder for tacticool stuff, instead just doing light stuff, why would you not carry something lighter and thinner that will perform better anyways? Thats actually what's really tactical.

What I do like about it is that it actually has a good portion of serrations. Many tacticool knives with a combined edge fall on this department, and for what you're gonna use it you probably wont need that much blade anyways.

All in all, an interesting design, but I dont think it's the ultimate end all design. Just one more.
 
please brush up on the basic function principals of blades before starting another one of this tacticool threads.
a real gladius would actually be way more effective for stabbing and slashing. a "gladius" tip as you call it will do shit for the depth of a cut and as far as stabbing piercing goes, there are other weapons (hint: daggers/stilettos) out there for that.
yes, you can stab with almost any blade, yes, a tanto point might pierce a little bit better, still this is just a stupid request.
 
DPC: I don't know how to post pics. I get what you're saying about your ability to do things, but some of that hinges on the effect of the tool. Using a ruler as a crowbar isn't very effective, even if you're strong. I wasn't looking for "tacticool," but a bit of extra in the slashing department (like a karambit, where it's a bit deeper & the "stab & rip" wound is more painful) while still maintaining some straight stabbing ability. Sure, I want general utility purposes- but I REALLY want a bit of extra in the confrontational department, since I might only have that & someone else might be amped-up on who-knows-what & be decently equipped. I know someone's going to say something about bringing a knife to a gunfight, but sometimes it happens.

vilePossum: I am fairly astute in blade dynamics, I was just asking because I didn't have any opportunity to try that one out. I don't figure I can carry a real gladius in general (it being a sword & all). I also didn't come up with the name "gladius tip." I also wouldn't think it would be bad for cutting, at least with a non-serrated edge. Didn't directly say that, but I also didn't figure I needed to.

It's a "stupid request"? How, exactly? I was thinking about a tanto with a bit more in the slashing department. This is what I came up with. I realized that someone had made something along these lines & asked how well it works. Where is the stupidity?
 
To be clear: This is meant as an all-around utility knife with extra in the combative utility department. I didn't get into all the details, because I was just asking about the blade. The multi-tool is good for lots of tasks that a knife doesn't work well for & I figure it's good to be able to do a lot with your hands (combatively or otherwise). This is meant as something you can use at work (cutting rope/string/tape, opening boxes, prying open lids, etc...), use in the bush (carving, drilling, striking sparks, etc...), use in a fight (retention, slashing, stabbing, striking, etc...), and use in emergencies (cutting through seat belts or dive straps, breaking glass, prying open stuck doors & drawers, etc...).

The way I look at it, this can be used WELL for all these things. It would be a good general knife, but there's that bit of extra from the swoop in the blade for slashing in a fight & for cutting through straps or similar things. The retention & glass breaker from the ring is something that wouldn't get in the way of any of the other stuff & it would be plenty helpful if you ever needed it at all. Without the curve in the blade, it's just a Fox Dart with a lockback & a different shape for the finger ring.
 
It's just the way things go around here, man. If you ask about almost any knife in terms of its defensive capability (even if never uttering "tactical" in your post) then you're highly likely to get roughly the responses you already have. It's something that, apparently, a lot of people feel strongly about. Dunno why.

Anyway, that Boker actually does have an interesting design due to the partial serrations being "contained" by the recurve, which makes some sense on a tanto. I bought a serrated Kershaw Blur (although not a tanto) for the same reason, as the serrations would never getting in the way when I didn't want them. The RBB also meets one of my requirements for a self-defense blade, which is to have two methods of ambidextrous deployment, in this case being a flipper and a thumb disc or whatever it's called. I just don't care for the overall look of it.
 
Just get you a Gerber MK2, the vintage style with the wasp shaped blade. The best example of a modern day gladius shaped blade.
 
Well Jim Skelton has been posting pics of this the last couple days. Maybe ask him
 
It seems to me the very aim of a "gladius" tip is stabbing. I see no great practical uses for that tip in everyday stuff. As I see no everyday application for a Fairbairn Sykes dagger. The recurve edge, on the other hand, could be fine for cutting rope, tarp, cardboard... At least, for the sake of sharpening, stay with the plain edge version. I'd say, if you're really attracted, buy it, use it and tell us what an EDC it can be.
 
I've got both the serrated and plain blade RBB folders as well as the fixed blade version of the design. Oh yeah, they're super cool. Of course DPC has to weigh in with the seemingly fashionable point of view that knives are ineffective, claiming that a shovel is a better weapon...and of course it's so convenient to have a shovel close to hand at all times isn't it?
 
To my eye, the boker posted is sort of a combo between a serrated blade and a kiridashi with how it would be used in most cases. In a strange way it makes more sense to me as the final section for a combo edge, rather than a short curve as is normal. As far as from a SD perspective, I have no ideas there. Seems like it would hang up more, but that is based on 100% conjecture.
 
vilePossum said:
please brush up on the basic function principals of blades before starting another one of this tacticool threads.
a real gladius would actually be way more effective for stabbing and slashing. a "gladius" tip as you call it will do shit for the depth of a cut and as far as stabbing piercing goes, there are other weapons (hint: daggers/stilettos) out there for that.
yes, you can stab with almost any blade, yes, a tanto point might pierce a little bit better, still this is just a stupid request.
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Easy now, no need to get high blood pressure over things, is there? Disussion is good, learning is good, teaching is good, arguing, insults, and derailing threads are all bad.
 
Thanks for the reassurance, guys. I didn't think it was such a bad thing to ask a question about a blade that I never used, either.

Larry Turko: So how does the plain blade work? Is it comparable to a karambit for slashing? I know it's not likely to be AS good, but is it much better than a regular straight knife?
 
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