Bud Nealy 'Pesh Kabz'.
I've always liked the work of master knife maker Bud Nealy, I purchased this 'Pesh-kabz' from Bud a week ago at NYCKS, the blade design influence goes back to a Persia-Iran-Afghan knife blade shape/style designed to penetrate chain-mail armor during the 14th-16th centuries.
Bud Nealy is recognized as one of the top knife makers in the world.
He is best known for his patented MCS (Multi-Concealment Sheath) System, a sheath fabricated from kydex (an ABS/acrylic alloy) which can be fitted with any one of five attachments offering nine different carry positions.
Hundreds of his MCS System knives are carried daily by plainclothes police, undercover agents, members of S.W.A.T. and R.A.I.D. teams, U.S. Embassy guards, executive protection and EMT personnel, newspaper reporters and others who work in or travel to unsafe neighborhoods.
Bud‘s knives are included in the collections of musicians/performers Deborah Harry, Bobby Rondinelli of Black Sabbath, Grammy nominated/award-winning jazz artists Dave Liebman and Phil Woods and Steve Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith. Actor Scott Glenn owns one as does the director, Terry Gilliam, and Saturday Night Live producer, Jim DeAngelis. One of Bud‘s knives was used in a ”Father Dowling Mystery” segment, another is owned by Judge Lance Ito (of O.J. fame) and Bud‘s 5” Kinzhal is the personal carry of Major General Aleksandr Korzhakov, Head of the KGB in the Soviet Union under Boris Yeltsin.