I found an archived post from 99 with long dead links to info regarding Fairbairn Cobra blueprints and technique book, along with Fairsword blueprints. Anybody have any info? It’s my understanding that current Cobra reproductions are based on prototype pictures, not the final design.
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Fairbairn Cobra & Fairsword info
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Fairsword is a second / third gen Smatchet design -
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https://combatives.forumotion.com/t3150-the-fairsword-by-phil-matthews .
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Everything I've seen on the Cobra comes from William Cassidy -
These were the pages of new material he put out with it -
https://archive.org/details/Fairbairn_Manual_of_Knife_Fighting_William_Cassidy/mode/1up .
The Cobra was supposedly developed sometime during his time in Greece and Cypress for one of their special police forces.
It's hard to tell the wheat from the chaff with the Cassidy stuff, as it all came out after Applegate, Fairbairn, etc.... were dead and couldn't refute any of it. Cassidy is an odd man.
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The other knife Cassidy showed pictures of is the Fairbairn / Millerson, I can't get the picture to link, but type the name into google images, and it will come up. Millerson was the military machinist that helped prototype some things. Not much is known of the knife.
https://combatives.forumotion.com/t3150-the-fairsword-by-phil-matthews .
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Everything I've seen on the Cobra comes from William Cassidy -
These were the pages of new material he put out with it -
https://archive.org/details/Fairbairn_Manual_of_Knife_Fighting_William_Cassidy/mode/1up .
The Cobra was supposedly developed sometime during his time in Greece and Cypress for one of their special police forces.
It's hard to tell the wheat from the chaff with the Cassidy stuff, as it all came out after Applegate, Fairbairn, etc.... were dead and couldn't refute any of it. Cassidy is an odd man.
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The other knife Cassidy showed pictures of is the Fairbairn / Millerson, I can't get the picture to link, but type the name into google images, and it will come up. Millerson was the military machinist that helped prototype some things. Not much is known of the knife.