Fairbairn Sykes Knives

[frc505]

always wanted one never found one at a decent price
but those hill knives look great i'll be putting one on
my wish list. from what i hear fairbairn and sykes were
in china and observed alot of knife fight while with the shanghai
police and decided to design a fighting knife for the british royal
marines along with sykes

 

[Skysoldier]

I have two of the MacDonald knives a first and a second pattern and they are very high quality and Mr MacDonald is a great guy to deal with.

 

[hookermj]

I have two of the Pooley Sword F/S knives, exact copies of the Second Pattern ones made by Wilkinson during WWII. They are beautiful, but needed a bit of attention from George Tichbourne, to make the edges a bit keener.

 

[hookermj]

I just ordered one of these. If it's anything like the ones pictured, I can hardly wait to get it.

 

[hasuji]

Hi

Are there any devoteds FS collectors on this site?

Can't seem to find any FS specific threads.

Regards Dutchy

Hello I have not been on here in a long time but I guess you could call me devoted or perhaps addicted. here is my website if you have not already found it. http://www.fairbairnsykesfightingknives.com/
I have both Parkinson and MacDonald custom knives as well as ones made in Australia.I also have a wide selection of WW-II commando knives up to today's commercial ones which are mostly crap. Hope anyone who is interested will come visit my site and enjoy yourselves.

 

[Steven65]

I am a big fan. I collect FS/V42 style custom knives.

 

[Alberta Ed]

There is an excellent section on William "Shanghai Buster" Fairbairn and Eric ("Bill", as in Dicken's shady character) Sykes, and the knife they designed in Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton. Both came from the Shanghai Municipal Police, where Fairbairn established the Riot Squad, a team of 120 hand-picked men who he trained in "gutter fighting" to combat the city's armed gangsters, drug runners and violent criminals. Fairbairn and Sykes were masters of silent killing and hand-to-hand combat. Sykes was reputed to be one of the best crack shots in the world when it came to shooting from the hip. Fairbairn was known to his friends as "Delicate Dan" but referred to himself as Mister Murder-Made-Easy. Together they trained British commandos for World War II. You wouldn't want to confront either in a dark alley.