Brent Beshara Besh Wedge?

I bought a Boker Applegate-Fairbairn Besh Wedge and was very disappointed. I had to use a hair dryer to get the blade out of the Kydex Sheath. I don't know how designed the sheath but they must not give a damn. The edges on the blade were like a letter opener and I doubt they can be sharpened. The Applegate (Fairbairn had nothing to do with it) may be a knife designed by committee based on their combat experience but I don't know of any actual use in the field. The Besh wedge is just another addition by a new committee member. I doubt most people can drive it through bone and why would that have too?

It looks nice in the ads but don't waste your money.
 
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i dunno for sure, but from my opinion on the looks of it.. ( i looked online at Buck Nighthawk a Boker Plus neck knife a Boker Applegate-Fairbanks orwhatever and the Meyerco stuff some other companys use the shape to i think, but i cant remember who ) i think its more of for stabbing, a strong strong strong stabber


i dunno for sure tho, the post up top by RogerWilco is kinda depressing to me because i was thinking of getting one of those same models to try out, just to see what its about.


id really like to see some personal pix of the edge lines and whatnot, maybe someone can enlighten us on how it is to sharpen or if there is any utility value
 
Probably be better off getting a small Boker necker to start with. Boker's manufacturing is pretty good, and you can see what the Besh Wedge edge is all about. There must be a dozen companies out there with this edge design. Buck has a folder with it, very robust knife.
 
I have a couple of models with the Besh Wedge. The Applegate Fairbarn RogerWilco mentioned above, and a little BokerPlus dagger. Being a smart alec, I threw the little BokerPlus into a tree and bent the heck out of the thing- it is very flimsy. Plenty tough enough to stab somebody in the kidney with, but not for much else. The Applegate Fairbarn I have is very nice. Mine came with a nice, mirror edge all around. It is an interesting piece. It wouldn't be very useful as a field knife, but that's not what it's for. It's a dagger, meant for shanking folks. For that purpose, I suppose it would do very well. You aren't going to break the tip on that thing, that's for sure. The tip is the full thickness of the blade, so there is a trade-off of penetration ability for tip strength. It would be like stabbing somebody with a screwdriver, basically. I did a bunch of test stabs into cardboard, and the Besh-Wedge Applegate Fairbarn doesn't penetrate at all with the ease that a traditional dagger does. But it does penetrate- you just have to stab like you mean it. And there is ZERO chance of the tip breaking.

The sheath on mine is typical production kydex. It is not too bad, actually. Retention is good, but the knife comes out easily if you push back on the molded-in thumb break. I have seen way, way worse.
 
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I don't know anything about the Meyerco Beshara, although it looks like a wicked design. I do ,however, have the Beshara designed, Sog Swedge III, which is quite a unique design and stabs and slices like nobody's business.
 
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