REAL fighting (combat, etc) knives

The everyday kitchen knife and steak knife and utility knife. Probably have maimed and injured not to mention killed more people than all the tactical/fighting/service knives put together since time immemorial. keepem sharp
 
longbow said:
The everyday kitchen knife and steak knife and utility knife. Probably have maimed and injured not to mention killed more people than all the tactical/fighting/service knives put together since time immemorial. keepem sharp
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True.
how many of you cops saw the pic of the fbi chick with the pencil stuck through her face that was floating around about 15 years ago.
how quickly we forget. most of the tactically aware guys i worked with started unclipping their pens and letting them lower into their top pockets instead of leaving them clipped and available for snatching by bad guys.

on a final note, use what is available if your not prepared but dont use a paring knife as your edged weapon of choice. if you know enough about the knife culture to practice using them, buy quality.
 
The Cold Steel Laredo Bowie is the fastest, best balanced, factory Bowie that I have handled. Cheness also makes a great fighting knife -- their 9260 O-kissaki tanto is also lightning fast and the sharpened upper clip makes it extremely effective at executing the offensive techniques (but not the disarms) that Jim Keating teaches; the problem with it is that it basically comes dull (the two I own did) and needs a few hours on water-stones to get as sharp as it should be. That said -- I have found 9260 with Cheness' heat treatment to be a pleasure to sharpen. One of the easiest steels to get tree-topping, provided that you keep the original hamiguri edge. Strop it on diamond loaded leather and it just gets sharper and sharper. The CRKT Hisshou is also an awesome blade -- and it is remarkably light for what it is.

For Christmas I made my brother a Japanese style fighter that I'm really very proud of. 1095. Differentially hardened. 60 at the edge, and 53 at the spine. Zero ground convex edge. Slight, subdle recurve. The handle has a home-made micarta core, and it's coated in half a dozen dips of Kevlar-doped truck bed liner. I'm going to make a thread for it when I get back to Baltimore...
 
this is what i have so far.........i got ripped a new one about cleaning up the gerber MK2, 003062 a few years back on here but i figure in a few more years you wont even be ale to tell that i cleaned it ;) lesson learned.... the K98 bayo is matching and i ''did'' have the orriginal frog but i tried to take it off in order to oil the knife and i broke that as well .....dry rot , i just cant win

the first knife i ever bought was that Steyr AUG and then i broke the tip trying to un screw what i though was a screw on an SKS .....turned out not to be a screw (piece that locks down barrel to stock) .. few lessons learned there as well ........a lot of killing done with bayonets over the years and theyre usually not glamorous like other knives, work horses i guess but they get the job done.........


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The bottom knife in the pic is my fathers Geneva Forge MkI USN.
It didn't see much action aboard ship during WWII, but i'm pretty sure it got its fill with my brother in vietnam. Still sharp as a razor and battle ready after all these years.

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Ekdrm2d1 said:
Yay, finally somebody mentioned my future (?) knife.
I held the 7 inch version today. I think the knife is very nice.

How does the CR GB stand against something similar? the Ka-Bar USMC?
Thanks!

Chris Reeve Green Beret,
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I don't think there is a better looking knife out there than the Chris Reeve GB and Pacific .

I've been fighting the urge to buy a Pacific for a while now.
 
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The hissatsu is a very good offensive knife when pair whit the write training.

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The knife in the middle is a Belt Knife made by Daniel Winkler, it’s a similar model to the one he makes for the Naval Special Warfare teams. It goes true Kevlar like butter.
 
If i was back in the military i would for sure go with an ESEE 3 or 4. Anything more is just tacticool imho. Folder i would go with something like a benchmade skirmish. Got the Ti and S30v but not the price of my benza.
 
These are the knives i carried on my LBE and person while deployed.

my camera is broken right now so these are shots found on the web.

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I have recently upgraded to the SEAL Pup elite :)

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