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To be perfectly honest, it's not my style.
It does look like a knife that somebody who'd put down some boar would come up with though.
The point's right on the line of force(1), double gaurd that's fat and's got the edges rounded off(2), lanyard hole, a handle material that won't absorb gore.
Over-all not a bad piece if you intend to use it for what it's designed for and can accept the limitations of such a specialized knife.
Now, I don't and wouldn't use a saber grip to put down a boar, but sometimes a reverse grip is needed. I'm not big enough to convince all the critters I wrastle to lie down and get stabbed, sometimes there's a bit of a scuffle. I'm sure it works great for it's maker, as everbody's style is a little different when it comes to our sport.
Additionaly, I have this thing where my folders have to be good for utility and defense, and my fixed blades have to be good for camp, fighting, and pig sticking.
I can admire it as a well designed tool of the trade made by a guy who knows what he's doing.
I would debate the bit about the best brute force stabbing knife. There was the rondel dagger popular in Medieval Europe for it's ability to defeat maille and plate armor.
Charachterized by a long and narrow blade, frequently with a "T" cross section, and two large flat disks, one forming the pommel and the other forming the gaurd. Allowed for more surface area of the hand to brace against the gaurd and pommel, allowing for a more powerful stab or thrust, but limitted you to the hammer or ice pick grip. This is the one that shows up in the daggerwork in Talhoffer's Fechtbuch.
Now, if there was a "greatest power stabber since the rondel dagger", Mr. Harley's knife would be a solid contender. It'd beat out most everything else I've seen.
(1) for all the tanto point is hyped as being an excelent penetrating point, I have yet to see someone actualy use a tanto to do this deed. There is a reason.
(2) this is a design charachteristic necessary to a knife that will be used to thrust. those knives with skinny crossgaurds with square edges, like the Black Cloud series, can and will pinch/cut you when you deliver a powerful thrust or stab. Also note that the BB's gaurds blend into the handle so that you don't get pinched at a 90 degree juncture while delivering a powerful stab, like you would were you to do this trick with a Fairbairn/Sykes dagger. You want the double gaurd so that more of your hand can brace against it, and therefore deliver more engery into the target.
Those features are the marks of somebody who has actualy used a knife for something other cutting 2x4's, free hanging manilla rope, or generaly playing at tactical wonderboy.
It does look like a knife that somebody who'd put down some boar would come up with though.
The point's right on the line of force(1), double gaurd that's fat and's got the edges rounded off(2), lanyard hole, a handle material that won't absorb gore.
Over-all not a bad piece if you intend to use it for what it's designed for and can accept the limitations of such a specialized knife.
Now, I don't and wouldn't use a saber grip to put down a boar, but sometimes a reverse grip is needed. I'm not big enough to convince all the critters I wrastle to lie down and get stabbed, sometimes there's a bit of a scuffle. I'm sure it works great for it's maker, as everbody's style is a little different when it comes to our sport.
Additionaly, I have this thing where my folders have to be good for utility and defense, and my fixed blades have to be good for camp, fighting, and pig sticking.
I can admire it as a well designed tool of the trade made by a guy who knows what he's doing.
I would debate the bit about the best brute force stabbing knife. There was the rondel dagger popular in Medieval Europe for it's ability to defeat maille and plate armor.
Charachterized by a long and narrow blade, frequently with a "T" cross section, and two large flat disks, one forming the pommel and the other forming the gaurd. Allowed for more surface area of the hand to brace against the gaurd and pommel, allowing for a more powerful stab or thrust, but limitted you to the hammer or ice pick grip. This is the one that shows up in the daggerwork in Talhoffer's Fechtbuch.
Now, if there was a "greatest power stabber since the rondel dagger", Mr. Harley's knife would be a solid contender. It'd beat out most everything else I've seen.
(1) for all the tanto point is hyped as being an excelent penetrating point, I have yet to see someone actualy use a tanto to do this deed. There is a reason.
(2) this is a design charachteristic necessary to a knife that will be used to thrust. those knives with skinny crossgaurds with square edges, like the Black Cloud series, can and will pinch/cut you when you deliver a powerful thrust or stab. Also note that the BB's gaurds blend into the handle so that you don't get pinched at a 90 degree juncture while delivering a powerful stab, like you would were you to do this trick with a Fairbairn/Sykes dagger. You want the double gaurd so that more of your hand can brace against it, and therefore deliver more engery into the target.
Those features are the marks of somebody who has actualy used a knife for something other cutting 2x4's, free hanging manilla rope, or generaly playing at tactical wonderboy.
