Here is the 'knife' portion of my collection:
That's my Sher 15" AK along with a Bura 21" GRS which I picked up from Norm.
The other little guy is a machete, I guess. I picked it up years ago for about $25 -made from stainless, a knockoff of a United Cutlery product. It's sort of a straight wakizashi - has a tanto tip. The binding on the handle fell apart about a year after I got it, so I wrapped it back together with some kind of brass picture hanging wire and a strip of orange synthetic fuzz. It's gotten sort of dirty over the years, but I have no complaints about it. I've even used it in conjunction with flippers and a snorkel to trim weeds underwater. I wouldn't use it for any real chopping, though - it's too thin, and might break since it's stainless.
Here's that GRS again -- I'm combining two favorites in this image - Shiny sharp objects and retro technology. I just can't get enough of that older tech - everything metal and built to survive any damn thing. So much more solid and reassuring than the plastic crap you see everywhere nowadays. The GRS is 21", horn handle with some white stripes/feathering, and Norm reported it at 41oz - I don't have a scale myself.
And just for the heck of it, here is everything I own resembling dangerous objects:
The swords at the top are both functional, though the broadsword is not edged. The two wooden swords are from a swordhandling class I took a while back, and most everything else is a wallhanger. The engraved axe came from France, the wooden axe came from indonesia, and the wallhanger bastard sword is some generic thingy which may or may not have come back to me from England.
That's my Sher 15" AK along with a Bura 21" GRS which I picked up from Norm.
The other little guy is a machete, I guess. I picked it up years ago for about $25 -made from stainless, a knockoff of a United Cutlery product. It's sort of a straight wakizashi - has a tanto tip. The binding on the handle fell apart about a year after I got it, so I wrapped it back together with some kind of brass picture hanging wire and a strip of orange synthetic fuzz. It's gotten sort of dirty over the years, but I have no complaints about it. I've even used it in conjunction with flippers and a snorkel to trim weeds underwater. I wouldn't use it for any real chopping, though - it's too thin, and might break since it's stainless.
Here's that GRS again -- I'm combining two favorites in this image - Shiny sharp objects and retro technology. I just can't get enough of that older tech - everything metal and built to survive any damn thing. So much more solid and reassuring than the plastic crap you see everywhere nowadays. The GRS is 21", horn handle with some white stripes/feathering, and Norm reported it at 41oz - I don't have a scale myself.
And just for the heck of it, here is everything I own resembling dangerous objects:
The swords at the top are both functional, though the broadsword is not edged. The two wooden swords are from a swordhandling class I took a while back, and most everything else is a wallhanger. The engraved axe came from France, the wooden axe came from indonesia, and the wallhanger bastard sword is some generic thingy which may or may not have come back to me from England.
