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[steve71]

Hi there from across the pond ,can anyone tell me what the big knife is in the picture ? thanks...

 

[melt]

it looks like an Ontario Knife Company SP 5 Bowie, but the sheath is custom kydex.
http://www.ontarioknife.com/specplus_pg1.html

 

[tknife]

Looks like the Ontario survival Bowie.

 

[j williams]

Looks like an ontario bowie to me too.

 

[Return of the J.D.]

Ditto--that's what it is, I'd say. Chops nicely, flat grind makes it slice well, too. Cliff Stamp found that these snapped rather more easily than some other knives such as Himalayan Imports khukuris and Ontario's own "Marine Raider" Bowie, model SP10--but the fact that it doesn't hold up to as much abuse as those sharpened prybars can does not necessarily mean it's not a good knife. You could carve a Thanksgiving turkey or a Christmas ham with the flat-ground Survival Bowie with no problem, whereas the more-abrupt sabre grind of other knives might make that less easy. Here is Cliff's Bowies-and-khukuris review that I had in mind: http://www.cutleryscience.com/reviews/face_off_II.html The steel is good--it's 1095. Pretty comfortable in hand. You could probably get one in the U.S. fairly reliably for around 40 or 50 US dollars, if you haunted eBay for a while.

 

[steve71]

Thanks for the info you guys...:thumbup:

 

[udtjim]

I have one of those as well. Very good monster knife.