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I'm sure you guys are going to laugh at me. I'm more of a gun guy, but I have a pretty extensive knife collection, and have bought a lot of knives in the last few months. I was on Arizona Custom Knives earlier in the week and came across a knife I never noticed before; the Masters of Defense "Lady Hawk". I guess I have come across Masters of Defense knives in the past, but never really absorbed the brand name.
Anyway the handful of Lady Hawk's for sale on Arizona Custom were upwards of $300. I went over to eBay and found a nice one with the original box. It was up there with the bidding starting at $150. Had no bids, so I offered $155 for it, and my offer was accepted.
After buying it, I did a little research on the brand, and learned based on the pictures of the knife on bought on eBay, that it was an early US production knife by the original MOD and not Blackhwak which bought MOD in 2007.
It arrived today:
After playing around with the knife for a few minutes, I looked over the perfect condition box and noticed a #1 was written on the product label that was on the box. I laughed to myself, and thought yeah right, this is the very first production Lady Hawk.
As I was driving home from my office about 30 minutes later I was thinking about the #1 on the box and wondered to myself that maybe there was a number on the knife. Sure enough I pulled the knife out and there was indeed a #1 was lasered on the blade in the same font and color as all the other writing! (Ignore the few hairs and dust on the blade. It has a beautiful black satin DLC finished blade. Which in 2003, I would think was cutting edge; no pun intended!)
I figured the "1" signified the particular blade style (serrated, non-serrated), or finish (satin black, satin, stonewash, etc). So I went online and looked at dozens of pictures of lady hawks. I saw older ones, newer ones, ones made by Blackhawk in the US and China; NONE of them had a a number lasered on the blade. The "1" on my blade was put there very intentionally. What does it mean???
The guy I bought it from was the original owner. He was a firefighter and said he carried it and used it on the job. It looks to me like it may have been sharpened as well. It is razor sharp! It is really a very sweet and hard-firing little auto. It is the first auto I have owned that is a liner-lock as well.
Anyway the handful of Lady Hawk's for sale on Arizona Custom were upwards of $300. I went over to eBay and found a nice one with the original box. It was up there with the bidding starting at $150. Had no bids, so I offered $155 for it, and my offer was accepted.
After buying it, I did a little research on the brand, and learned based on the pictures of the knife on bought on eBay, that it was an early US production knife by the original MOD and not Blackhwak which bought MOD in 2007.
It arrived today:
After playing around with the knife for a few minutes, I looked over the perfect condition box and noticed a #1 was written on the product label that was on the box. I laughed to myself, and thought yeah right, this is the very first production Lady Hawk.
As I was driving home from my office about 30 minutes later I was thinking about the #1 on the box and wondered to myself that maybe there was a number on the knife. Sure enough I pulled the knife out and there was indeed a #1 was lasered on the blade in the same font and color as all the other writing! (Ignore the few hairs and dust on the blade. It has a beautiful black satin DLC finished blade. Which in 2003, I would think was cutting edge; no pun intended!)
I figured the "1" signified the particular blade style (serrated, non-serrated), or finish (satin black, satin, stonewash, etc). So I went online and looked at dozens of pictures of lady hawks. I saw older ones, newer ones, ones made by Blackhawk in the US and China; NONE of them had a a number lasered on the blade. The "1" on my blade was put there very intentionally. What does it mean???
The guy I bought it from was the original owner. He was a firefighter and said he carried it and used it on the job. It looks to me like it may have been sharpened as well. It is razor sharp! It is really a very sweet and hard-firing little auto. It is the first auto I have owned that is a liner-lock as well.
I can't tell you what I had for breakfast!