K-bar help please

[dkonopinski]

This is an old Ka-bar 1071 which I received on Saturday. It's had a good dose of elbow grease which was much needed and it is now fit to be inducted into the collection.

Apologies in advance for the crummy pics.

In pic1 you will see that the knife appears to have an extra liner.

In pic 2 you can see, just about, that this has enabled them to cut a shallow scoop out of the liner & scale to expose the nail notch on the pen blade.

My questions are:

1. Were all Ka-bar 1071's like this?
2. Anyone got any pics of this make & pattern?
3. Anyone seen this on any other slippie?

Thanks in advance

David

 

[thawk]

Schrade did the "easy open" thing on a few of their 3.25" jack patterns. The 33OT and 833UH had a cut out (sometimes) on the front side for pen blade access. Camillus is another maker that did.

Here is a picture of a Camillus 165. They cut out a groove for the pen blade on the back handle.