Ka-Bar ZK-War Sword Knife? Anyone have one?

Legit Kabar heavy bowie. taiwan, china... same broken cheapy junker. i was walking in my door grabbed the door frame with knife in hand, felt the tang break at the handle where i was holding it. didnt think about it till i went to use it an hour later. i would never sit on a knife after watching my custom bowie slice through the sheath with no effort and it was on my side as i was getting in my wheelchair, thank god! the kabar was too cheap to bother replacing to possibly have happen in the field although i sent them the blade and got $$ back.
 
Cyblade said:
I gotta wonder if the people that talk smack about the ZK blades would say anything if they didn't have the green handle scales and didn't have the name Zombie attached. Cause if you stick the black handle scales on it (included for FREE) it just looks like another knife in the collection. Hell they could have called it the MK1 Combat Bolo or something and nobody would have said anything about it or started saying that "Ka-Bar is going down hill" (an actual quote from some firearms blog). You don't like the green change the handle scales and put black paracord on the sheath and enjoy a decent knife at a great price.
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I wish I could like this again! !
 
now that the Zombie line has officially been discontinued, I fully expect the knives from this line to become particularly collectable one day.... they were a departure from the norm for Kabar, and not without some novelty factor....I do not believe they were particularly well received as a group by the consumer which means relatively low circulation....

Fairly low production numbers + short production run + novelty factor + just really cool blades that are still VERY functional = perfect storm for adding collector value down the road....

just my 0.02

I have 1 of each NIB ( just in case )
 
Cyblade said:
I gotta wonder if the people that talk smack about the ZK blades would say anything if they didn't have the green handle scales and didn't have the name Zombie attached. Cause if you stick the black handle scales on it (included for FREE) it just looks like another knife in the collection. Hell they could have called it the MK1 Combat Bolo or something and nobody would have said anything about it or started saying that "Ka-Bar is going down hill" (an actual quote from some firearms blog). You don't like the green change the handle scales and put black paracord on the sheath and enjoy a decent knife at a great price.
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Yep, that sums it up. People get up in arms about the "zombie" thing and overlook that it's actually a nice solid knife(to the OP, more a camp knife, not a machete). Exactly as you said, if Ka-bar had released it with the black scales and called it something like your Combat Bolo idea, people wouldn't complain a bit about it.
 
Mine came with extra black scales, so I switched 'em, looks very "tactical" now. As others have said, it's very light and fast. Not big enough to be a real machete, but somewhere in between a large camp knife and a small machete. The first ones might have been made in Taiwan, but later on, they were made in USA. The blade indicates where.
 
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