Can somebody please tell me what kind of knife this is?

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SilasTheGod

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A friend of mine just sold me a knife. It was a bit scuffed up, but it was very sharp, and a good deal. I got it for $10. I can't identify it though, it seems to have a bowie style blade, and it has a finger indention in the handle. I can't for the life of me tell what type of knife it is, though.

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Looks like a decent enough beater, but I doubt you'll find a brand name to it. It looks like something that Master or United Cutlery might put out.

Welcome to the forums! :)
 
I'm not really looking for a brand name. I'm looking for a 'type'. Like a bowie knife is a bowie knife, a switchblade's a switchblade, a balisong a balisong. I'm looking for what I can call it.
 
Cheap folding bowie. The local pawn shops around here sell them. Real 18thand 19th century folding bowies were usually exceptionally well made. This one is not. For a good modern version check out the Spyderco Chinook.
 
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Cheap folding bowie. The local pawn shops around here sell them. Real 18thand 19th century folding bowies were usually exceptionally well made. This one is not. For a good modern version check out the Spyderco Chinook.
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It doesn't fold. It's fixed.
 
China made, I think I had one when I was a Kid. Hell it still may be floating around the garage.
maybe a good beater
 
I actually have one of those :o, 'cept mine has saw teeth on upper spine. It IS a fixed blade, and is a piece of junk. The handle (also including the guard & pommel) is made out of some sort of pot metal and the scales are some sort of hard rubber. The blade is made out of old pop cans (actually I think it might be that 420j crap), but it does sharpen-up pretty well, and stays sharp as long as nothing is cut with it. It also seems to be fairly rust-resistant. That thing on the back of the handle is actually some sort of miss-placed lanyard slot...It does not move. It is a rather heavy knife for its' size. There are NO markings anywhere on the knife.

Here's a picture of this junk knife that I took with my webcam:

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Yes it is a subhilt bowie by definition.
It was rampant to find these flooding the market circa the late 80's thru mid 1990's.
First seen as the Japanese designed known as the Green Beret's Commemortive Knife.
Later, Taiwanese and then Chinese knock offs.
At any one point in time under different brand and model names in essence it was carried by United Cutlery, Fury Knives and look out for Tomahawk Brand!
As for the pictured knife, in spite of what looks to be a functional back spring locking notch device; i bring to your attention the length of the blade which appears to actually exceed the handle length. And so it could possibly be in actual fact, a fixed blade made on the cheap by some distant manufacturer trying to save on production cost by utilizing the mouldings of an existing folding model.
 
Its called the defender or at least it was in the Boy's Life where I ordered mine. Think mine was $20. Cheap 420j if I do recall. Nice feel and isnt a bad blade
 
glockman99 said:
I actually have one of those :o, 'cept mine has saw teeth on upper spine. It IS a fixed blade, and is a piece of junk. The handle (also including the guard & pommel) is made out of some sort of pot metal and the scales are some sort of hard rubber. The blade is made out of old pop cans (actually I think it might be that 420j crap), but it does sharpen-up pretty well, and stays sharp as long as nothing is cut with it. It also seems to be fairly rust-resistant. That thing on the back of the handle is actually some sort of miss-placed lanyard slot...It does not move. It is a rather heavy knife for its' size. There are NO markings anywhere on the knife.

Here's a picture of this junk knife that I took with my webcam:

Junkknife-1.jpg
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Thanks! It is kind of a crap knife, I admit, but it was cheap as dirt and it'll find a place in my collection. I'm kind of new at collecting knives, you see, and I don't have many...about 6 or 7 knives, one balisong, one 14-inch survival bowie, two pocket knives, one chrome blue and one black spyderco, and this thing. It seems to be a nice knife by my standards, I guess, but what do I know, i'm not really a veteran to knife collecting.
:D
 
Wow. I forgot about that...

I used to have one with that EXACT handle, but mine was a folder. It also had an extension on the blade that you could use to open it one handed.

It was fricking sweet when I was about 12.
 
I'm pretty sure I've seen this in a folder version. I think that the same parts are used for both fixed and folder versions which explains the lock release indent.
 
SilasTheGod said:
Thanks! It is kind of a crap knife, I admit, but it was cheap as dirt and it'll find a place in my collection. I'm kind of new at collecting knives, you see, and I don't have many...about 6 or 7 knives, one balisong, one 14-inch survival bowie, two pocket knives, one chrome blue and one black spyderco, and this thing. It seems to be a nice knife by my standards, I guess, but what do I know, i'm not really a veteran to knife collecting.
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there is hope for you yet! :p


but really, i always say buy what you can afford, and enjoy what you buy.
 
the MX 45 is the folder version of this knife. my father have one since something like 15 years.

My friend had the exact same knife a few years back.

I'd see one in a local music store last year beside of some sort of lord of the ring swords .

I don't know how the blade is attachet to the handle,maybe i'll go to this store to see if they still have one.

I really love the handle & blade shape on this knife but nothing more.
 
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