TV Knives and Fighting - Question

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Hi,

Just got finished watching Walker, Texas Ranger, and there was a pretty good knife fight.

Including a tomahawk, and 2 fixed blades, nice looking, with seemingly bone V shaped (forked) handles.

Anyone know anything about these, who made them...

Let me know.

Thanks,

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Lundo
 
If you watch that "knife fight" closely, you'll see that Norris and his co-star are simply waving their weapons back and forth very quickly for most of the fight. This, combined with some sound effects, creates the illusion of an interweaving pattern.

It was still a pretty good episode, though. The villain was featured in Norris' film The Hitman, which was one of his last really good movies before he started doing kid's films.

Razor

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Hey I saw that episode too. It was a pretty good one, but as was mentioned the fight scene was kind of strange. I guess they were trying to make it look like a some type of native american hand to hand fighting style they were using( since they were in an old ghost town that was built on one of their ancestors tribe's hunting grounds, and they both claimed indian ancestry) But it was pretty much waving them back and forth. If you were really in fight like that , you wouldn't continually try the same attack over and over and counter with the same move over and over , then just spontaneously tackle the other guy and stab him
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or at least I would try somehting that would be a little less risky
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As for the knives they did look pretty nice. I couldn't figure out what the handle was either, it was white like bone and very coarse looking. But it was also really big around and had a tight Y shape to it. I'm starting to wonder if it wasn't a couple of stick tang bowie blades driven into the crotch section of a small birch or sycamore tree. I guess it could be the large leg bone of a deer or buffalo or something of that nature too.
I have noticed though that they show a variety of knives on that show. Walker always has one when its needed, but you never see him carrying one unless theres some reason for it later in the show.

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It'll feel better when it stops hurting.
 
I have always viewed tv knife fights in about the same light as I have viewed tv gunfights, remember the infamous stalks and face-offs on main streets in the tv westerns in the '50s or all of the ordnance expended with nobody even wounded in "A-Team"? Well, most tv knife fights that I have seen seem like that, very clean and bloodless. I remember an ex-Special Forces type saying that the way to tell the winner in a knife fight was to check out the one in the hospital, the loser was in the morgue, the winner was in the emergency room getting the hamburger made whole again.

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Hugh Fuller
 
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