Ultimate Survival Knife!!!!!!

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Ok so this has probably already been done; but I want to give it a try. I have been looking online for the most ridiculous Survival Knife Set-up. Knives that have a 8" blade, hollow handle with a "survival Kit" inside. Stuff like that. I was wondering in all of our travels on the interweb if we could single out one that is the worse and if it is not to much I will buy it and give it a test compared to a nice knife and a basic Altoids PSK.

Looking forward to the responses.
 
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phaserrifle said:
I think that one is supposed to be an aviators escape knife, designed mainly for getting out of the plane, not surviving once your out of it.
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That's exactly what it is for. I doubt that precludes it. The whole medication poked up a hollow handle and the saw back business spewed forth from exactly that with helis. I don't think survival knives as such existed before the triangle of 1] combat loses in the 70s, 2] a dodgy movie about those loses, 3] imagination run amok. Hence the huge survival knife fad in the 80s. I think these sorts of things are more true to the spirit of the survival knife commonly frowned on than any others. When General Curtis LeMay [SAC] rejected the Randall Model 14 for being too heavy he looked to Boker to equip bomber crews with a life preserving knife he came away with some very mundane looking tools to be the USAF survival knife. I think it took nuts sometime later to develop the survival knife abominations as commonly thought of. This one to me is true the flavor of those survival knife in name abominations.
 
You can buy it for about $60

Just wanted to add, I really like my Ontario Air Force Pilots survival knife. It has served me well for several years now.

Carl-
 
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PrimitiveMan said:
You can buy it for about $60

Just wanted to add, I really like my Ontario Air Force Pilots survival knife. It has served me well for several years now.

Carl-
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Between the two so would I. I really like a lot of Boker stuff but some I can't abide. That one looks cheap and nasty rather than just cheap.
 
baldtaco-II said:
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If you study this one from the perspective it is "purpose-designed" from it's not nearly as mall-nija as it first appears. I think it's one of the best designed ASEKs I have seen. and in the right hands would still function well on the ground....though I would only want one if I was flying to begin with. Would love to have had one on all of the Tampa to Dallas and back flights I took in my early teens.

Try one of those ABS handled Aitors...I always wanted to know how well they would hold up....still thinking about buying one just to find out. Or...if you want to spend the money get a Marto Explora, the knife is actually well thought out and comes with a "novel" for a manual/
 
Can't wait to check out your findings,these cheap knives often suprise us !

See if it lasts longer than the Chris reeve ones did on that famous knife destruction site that so many love to hate......not that it would take much to beat them as they didn't last very long anyway !!!
 
mistwalker said:
If you study this one from the perspective it is "purpose-designed" from it's not nearly as mall-nija as it first appears. I think it's one of the best designed ASEKs I have seen. and in the right hands would still function well on the ground....though I would only want one if I was flying to begin with. Would love to have had one on all of the Tampa to Dallas and back flights I took in my early teens.
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While I wouldn't accuse it of being mall-ninja[ry] I do think it is a lousy bit of design. For starters I can find absolutely no point to that dirty great integral guard. To me that looks like someone has had a squint at some old bowie with a ridiculously thick brass guard and bolster all in one and tried to incorporate that into the molding. Here's an issue escape knife with a design that goes back decades - why would one need a guard any more hulking than that?
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For all my revulsion at that thing Todd A just put up I'd have to say that even the guard on that piece seems a more appropriate thickness.
 
baldtaco-II said:
While I wouldn't accuse it of being mall-ninja[ry] I do think it is a lousy bit of design. For starters I can find absolutely no point to that dirty great integral guard. To me that looks like someone has had a squint at some old bowie with a ridiculously thick brass guard and bolster all in one and tried to incorporate that into the molding. Here's an issue escape knife with a design that goes back decades - why would one need a guard any more hulking than that?
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For all my revulsion at that thing Todd A just put up I'd have to say that even the guard on that piece seems a more appropriate thickness.
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Well..that depends on what you intend to do with it.

From what I have seen looking at pictures of their products... sadly the only Eickhorn design I've had a chance to check out in person was a Taylor made copy of their KM2000...all their guards seem to be heavily built for stength in combat (these arent exactly designed for bushcraft), but for this one I can see another real purpose, as wounds can get infected and in a survival or prison camp situation infections are a bad thing. aAlso apparently N.A.T.O. likes it.

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Horn Dog said:
Don't forget the Schrade! Well, maybe it is pretty good for a knock-off. :D
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Knock-off or not it did hold up well. Even after I just knew I was about to kill it when it got hung up halfway through a six inch section of Sweet Gum limb. I couldn't budge it at all by hand at all and the hard taps weren't budging it either... so I just started wailing on it. It split the wood and the only thing it did was remove a good bit of the coating but the 1070 steel help up fine and it still shaves with the still factory edge.
 
mistwalker said:
Knock-off or not it did hold up well. Even after I just knew I was about to kill it when it got hung up halfway through a six inch section of Sweet Gum limb. I couldn't budge it at all by hand at all and the hard taps weren't budging it either... so I just started wailing on it. It split the wood and the only thing it did was remove a good bit of the coating but the 1070 steel help up fine and it still shaves with the still factory edge.
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I got mine stuck in hard maple. Same story. I guess it is too good to make this thread, but it's the only hollow handle "Survival Knife" I own.
 
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