Mini Paratrooper

Daniel Moore

Daniel Moore

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I was on a three-day vacation to our family camp in Bucksport, Maine this weekend. My uncle gave me a lightly rusty, scratched Fury Mini-Paratrooper with a 440 blade and plenty of wobble. It's dull as a butter knife right now, but tomorrow I plan on fixing her up (sanding, hammering the pins, lubrication, bending the warped pieces, sharpening) and possibly supplementing it to my EDC, partly just as a toy and partly as a momento. It's no Sebenza...or Benchmade...and I bet you could find better Frost's, but he carried it as a boot knife when he was an MP and the blade steel is fine and there won't be lock issues. I looked up Fury knives but I can't find this model. It's engraved "Mini Paratrooper" on the blade, and on the tang it's stamped "Fury 10577" and "440 Stainless". It was manafactured in Japan, and he bought it in Germany. Anyone know anything about it? :confused:
 
"Mini Paratrooper" doesn't ring a bell with me but for what it's worth, Fury knives used to be less junky than they are now. They've always been cheap but they used to be more or less usable -- so if it's an old one it might not be too bad. Your description sounds like an old one; I don't think any of them are made in Japan or of 440A any more.
 
These are a copy of the older brass handled German Paratrooper knife, which in its self is a fake meant to fool collectors.

Fury is a importer that was out of New Jersey(I think they might of moved to Florida) that sold copies of established designs, and a few of their own designs.
 
Thanks guys. Here are a few pictures, tomorrow I'll go to work on it.

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Hey Needleremorse,

I never heared about 'fury' knives....but I have a picture of a design just like it somewhere in my Boker catalog from last year......stunning resemblance (my guess is that the name is exactly thesame too....but I'm not 100% sure about it)

Design is kind of 'original', does it really work good? Or it's more cool than is cuts? Easy to open?

Take care, Davy
 
It's easy to open once you get the hang of it, I tried to sand the millions of scratches off the blade last night, no luck. Then I freehand sharpened it up to a utility edge. I at least got off the oxidation, and I cleaned it up. I'm sure that it would be impractical as a lone EDC, but it fit his boot knife needs well. I wouldn't carry it as such, but I might carry it to play with :D
 
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