Review The Glock knife

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I just got a Glock knife from a friend of mine as I bought him a knife recently. And he really wanted me to beat the hell out of it together with him.

I know that some of the stuff we did with it isn't really intended use for a knife, and is pretty much abuse. That being said, it is even mild compared to the stuff I did with some other knives.

First impressions:
1. lightly rounded tip and few slight rolls on part of not that sharp edge...
Grind not symmetrical, and is generally bad, but considering the price - I'll cut them some slack.

2. Comfortable handle and nice and functional sheath. Ambidextrous, no complaints here.

3. The knife comes oiled with something that smells awful.


Maintenance:
It's ridiculously time consuming to sharpen for a carbon steel. It is hard to get it sharp.
Coating is rather easy to peel off so you'll need to oil it a lot.

Usage:

1. Handle is comfortable and has no hot spots. It did get slippy when wet.

2. Guard is sometimes getting in the way, but it's still better to have it than not to have it.

3. Terrible for slicing, not much better for chopping.

4. It has nice balance to it so I can see why would army use it.

5. Beer opener does the job well.


Steel performance:

1. Terrible, simply TERRIBLE edge retention.

2. Surprisingly decent for batoning (but that is kinda useless considering you'll probably never need to baton at all) but will also damage your baton.

3. My friend actually bent the tip on an accident. He used it to pry off tree bark for no particular reason. And what shocked me the most is that I was able to straighten it back by stabbing into wood and prying in the other direction?!?!

4. I was throwing it just for fun, solid thrower, tip again got bent, straightened and then bent in another direction. But edge did suffer from some rolls, despite being very obtuse.

5. I did some batoning again just for fun and when I came home I noticed that entire knife has some curve to it.


To sum it up:
That's a bayonet or sharpened pry bar. It sucks as a knife. It's just soft steel.

The best thing about this knife is bottle opener.

Intended use of this is probably just lots of stabbing and sometimes prying, I can't see steel this soft breaking, you don't really need edge retention on something you use to stab.

It is a good bayonet or field knife.
But it performs rather poor as general use or bushcraft knife. It can still do these tasks - just not that good.

We lost it somewhere after that, I think beer has played role in there tho.
 
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Sidehill Gouger said:
The knife came before the pistol by several years so this isn't Glock cashing in on the name. It was also around long before the Becker knives. Glock designed the knife in cooperation with the Austrian army as a combination field tool and bayonet. It was never intended to a toy for American bushcrafters etc.
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That’s fine, so I got the Becker info wrong. I thought we’re talking about the model 81, at least this is what I had.
OP is talking about this model I believe and it was designed as “survival” knife, as much as putting saw teeth on the spine of a blade to make it “survival” looks to me more as marketing gimmick, than actual improvement of the existing model.
‘Gaston was very big on bringing up the fact that he got government contracts, so, yes, he wasn’t cashing on the PISTOL name but on his own company’s name so it’s up to you how you’ll read it.
‘Regardless how it was designed, and other technicalities, the end result doesn’t change a bit my opinion.
 
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NG VI said:
It doesn't take a particularly inspired or high quality piece of kit to stab people though, and that's all this is really for. Aside from cracking crates and bottles.
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Depending on the cloths/gear they wear. Hence the narrow commando dagger.
I tested those wide blades like the Becker BK9 , which has Combat in the name. Easy for pigs. But when people wear tough layers of cloths, not so much.
There was also a Gurkha trying to stab a Taliban with his kukri. It didn't work well. So he resorted to chopping to his hands which made the man withdraw.
So, yeah the Glock is best at stabbing. Not so much at cutting tasks, compared to many other knives that is. But people mentioning Tops Knives. Now there are good examples of them. But many are worse than a Glock knife regarding cutting, and 8 times as expensive. Then the ridiculous thumb ramps that are just a pain for the thumb. Many knives are not exactly deisgned by a genious.
 
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POCEH KOCEB said:
Good review, same observations here. Picked up one used, found out the steel doesn’t hold edge very well,
too thick for cutting food. Lost it somewhere.
‘IMO, existing of the Glock knife is just the company cashing on the name, the knife is very mediocre, hardly good even for a truck knife...
‘It was sort of intended to be as some of the Becker models but the result is far from the intention, those Beckers are much more superior than Glock knife.
‘Some people like it, that’s fine, I wouldn’t spend money on it unless as Marty said - you got lots of G branded stuff and the knife will make nice addition, curio item. This is the way I see it, everything in the review would be same as I would put, if I wasted time with this particular knife.
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Not for stabbing that is. Not even close.
And the BK9 is called The King by the Beckerheads.
Sorry. It's a lousy chopper. It's more of a kitchen knife than anything else. King in what? I can't see it shining in any task.
Batoning maybe?
A Fiskars XA3 outschops that King eyes closed .
You can buy at least 4 for the price of one BK9.
I understand the like for these knives though. I'm there also.
But to claim they are effective? Not as much as the fans tend to claim.
 
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noviomagus said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_knife
Look at the forces that use them.
Btw... slander is not a virtue.
Many people claim the opposite from what you are trying to spread here.
They are all wrong?
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Just because something is approved for use by a military does not make it a good product. Not really a knife, but jut look at the SA80 bayonet - 100% POS. There are many better options, but statements of requirement (often poorly researched or worded), salesmen and contracts often mean that troops have to 'put up' with an inferior product.
 
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Ruari said:
Just because something is approved for use by a military does not make it a good product. Not really a knife, but jut look at the SA80 bayonet - 100% POS. There are many better options, but statements of requirement (often poorly researched or worded), salesmen and contracts often mean that troops have to 'put up' with an inferior product.
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“Mil-spec” means nothing when the contract goes to “lowest cost, technically acceptable”.
 
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Sidehill Gouger said:
The knife came before the pistol by several years so this isn't Glock cashing in on the name. It was also around long before the Becker knives. Glock designed the knife in cooperation with the Austrian army as a combination field tool and bayonet. It was never intended to a toy for American bushcrafters etc.
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That sums it up perfectly.
 
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Ruari said:
Just because something is approved for use by a military does not make it a good product. Not really a knife, but jut look at the SA80 bayonet - 100% POS. There are many better options, but statements of requirement (often poorly researched or worded), salesmen and contracts often mean that troops have to 'put up' with an inferior product.
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The fact that it is in use with the military does not mean that it is a bad product. I turn your argument around. Many marines swear by their USMC Ka-bar, also after their time in the army.
The Glock knife is not a SA80 bayonet. Totally different knives.
Mora is in use in the Swedish army. Perfectly fine knife for a low price.
 
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noviomagus said:
The fact that it is in use with the military does not mean that it is a bad product. I turn your argument around. Many marines swear by their USMC Ka-bar, also after their time in the army.
The Glock knife is not a SA80 bayonet. Totally different knives.
Mora is in use in the Swedish army. Perfectly fine knife for a low price.
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Not bad, not good… just mediocre, really. I don’t think “mil-spec” is worth anything outside of marketing. Certainly not objectively. The USMC ka-bar has been around since what, ww2? There is sentimental value in it for a Marine. Would people in the military all like to be issued a custom Marfione fixed blade that costs $2,000? Absolutely. Is it necessary? No. They just need to be issued a knife that does the job. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
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noviomagus said:
The fact that it is in use with the military does not mean that it is a bad product. I turn your argument around. Many marines swear by their USMC Ka-bar, also after their time in the army.
The Glock knife is not a SA80 bayonet. Totally different knives.
Mora is in use in the Swedish army. Perfectly fine knife for a low price.
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I never claimed that just because the military use a certain product it is inferior - there are many examples of leading tech in service with militaries.
The fact remains that the Glock knife is very much a dated design that is built to low cost and does not excel in most spheres.
It is quite light (not great for chopping), it has quite a wedge grind (difficult for finer cutting tasks), it has a decent point for stabbing etc and I'd rather have it than a Mora. But there are much better options out there, quality and function.
It's called evolution, otherwise we'd still be using K98 bayonet knives, they were well made?
 
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No I didn’t. I didn’t comment any Beckers, except I said they are superior out in the elements than this particular G knife.
In regard of stabbing, yeah, Glock will be excellent stabler, especially with the saw teeth pointed to the front…
I bet the BK 5 can’t even get close to it in stabbing… 🤣
 
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Paratrooper06 said:
Not bad, not good… just mediocre, really. I don’t think “mil-spec” is worth anything outside of marketing. Certainly not objectively. The USMC ka-bar has been around since what, ww2? There is sentimental value in it for a Marine. Would people in the military all like to be issued a custom Marfione fixed blade that costs $2,000? Absolutely. Is it necessary? No. They just need to be issued a knife that does the job. Nothing more, nothing less.
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In reality most of these knives are not the best choices anyway.
My experience is that best is having a short 4"blade knife like a Mora or any other of that size, a hatchet and/or machete/ bolo/ parang.
Those 7 inch blade knives are not good at much at all. For stabbing you are best of with the narrow blade ones.
And for kitchen duty. Use a kitchen knife. Most is just gadget knives. For the 'have'.
The reality isn't leading to those thick expensive blades. They are more for the knife 'lovers' than really that useful.
A native in the Amazon does all he needs with simple extremely cheap knives/machete's. The 600 dollar knives will not perform those tasks any better(most often actually worse, due to thick grinds , and awful handle ergo's). Despite what knife lovers want to make themselves believe.
 
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POCEH KOCEB said:
No I didn’t. I didn’t comment any Beckers, except I said they are superior out in the elements than this particular G knife.
In regard of stabbing, yeah, Glock will be excellent stabler, especially with the saw teeth pointed to the front…
I bet the BK 5 can’t even get close to it in stabbing… 🤣
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Then I was right with my response to you.
The BK5 is the best stabber of the Becker line yes. But not as good as the Glock.
Becker's aren't that good as you might think they are. I've had many of these brands. Most are overrated. And overpriced (due to hype).
Most is about looks. Cool factor. But don't confuse that with reality.
 
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Ruari said:
I never claimed that just because the military use a certain product it is inferior - there are many examples of leading tech in service with militaries.
The fact remains that the Glock knife is very much a dated design that is built to low cost and does not excel in most spheres.
It is quite light (not great for chopping), it has quite a wedge grind (difficult for finer cutting tasks), it has a decent point for stabbing etc and I'd rather have it than a Mora. But there are much better options out there, quality and function.
It's called evolution, otherwise we'd still be using K98 bayonet knives, they were well made?
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It is not the best in most tasks. That's for sure. I have seen people chopping with it. It takes patience. I won't even try that. It's really not made for that. Rather pound the blade through the wood with a baton if you need. Or get a real chopper. No, not the BK9 . That's not a real chopper. Even the low priced CS kukri machete outchops most large expensive blades. It's better than the expensive ESEE Junglas as well.

The Glock has been in use with the GSG9 and other special forces. If it's really crap then they wouldn't use that. For sure.
It's far from a great slicer. It's a stabber that can cut , and if you know how to sharpen, it can cut well enough also.
The Glock knife stabbed better than the Fairbairn Sykes in my epxerience, testing it on several materials.
 
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