United Cultery K Bar USMC Clone thoughts

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I OWN a few USMC variants , the K-Bar and a Case XX and the hard to find Buck 119 military leather handle one…All are great knives..

But I am just curious………

I see these china made United Cultery for like $30 bucks. Anyone have one?
are they decent for the money? Looks wise, They do not look that bad…..I know it’s only 420 steel….



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somethings gotta give to be that cheap, but it's cheap enough to buy one and try it out. report back to us on how it did......
 
I've been an Army surplus shopper since a child.

You use to be able to find issued knives. Especially the pilot survival models. Machetes all day long.

Now they've become uncommon. Replaced by China clones.

I had thought I found a M9 bayonet but the lady behind the counter let me know. Before she took it out. It was Chinese.

I don't know where they get them. Maybe they're a dealer. But their display case if filled with China S&W knives. All the models.
 
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United Cutlery is known more for their looks than their quality in use, so their 420 is unlikely to have the same quality of heat treat that Buck's 420 uses. I think they use it mainly in their throwing knives and movie replica swords, so I wouldn't exactly trust it for most things. My wife did get me one of their Hibben Rambo cleaver things, and that was decently made. But it was also 1070 and a quarter inch thick at the spine, not thin 420.
 
For a few bucks more, you could get a Cold Steel Leatherneck which is a much more interesting knife. The United is just a rebranded, and slightly cleaned up BUD K model. Very cheap look and feel compared to the actual knife or the better interpretations (Case, Maserin, Fox, etc....).
 
this knife design is a complicated deal of who what when etc. I'm not gonna get the history correct as I can't remember it all, but I throw a little out there. kabar company back then union cutlery i think it was..... werent the first to make this knife. they had a basic design sort of what we know today, but i seem to remember it was tweaked by others before adoption by the military. its a complicated history with a lot of players in on it. pretty sure it was Camillus who made them first for production. other companies like ontario and pal cutlery made them for the military and a handful of others. I can't remember them all....

those who have this history down, feel free to correct my memory mistakes.....

I'm not sure this chinese made one is any good, the ops asking about......I'm betting no, but no idear. never owned one of these.
 
zippo123 said:
I have a few USMC variants , K-Bar and a Case XX. Both great knives

I see these china made United Cultery on amazon, for like $30 bucks. Anyone have one?
are they decent for the money? Looks wise, They do not look bad…..I know it’s only 420 steel….
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"United Cutlery" "Amazon as a knife purveyor".

That's a double negative.
 
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Sure is something distasteful about a USMC knife from china.....
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I agree, but can’t help but notice.

It is funny ( sad) how things change. My grandfather fought in China against the Japanese before WWII. The Chinese people helped Dolittle’s raiders evade capture, and paid a horrible price for doing it.

Now China is evil and called the forgotten ally and the Japanese are our friends.

Go figure.
 
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eveled said:
I agree, but can’t help but notice.

It us funny ( sad) how things change. My grandfather fought in China against the Japanese before WWII. The Chinese people helped Dolittle’s raiders evade capture, and paid a horrible price for doing it.

Now China is evil and called the forgotten ally and the Japanese are our friends.

Go figure.
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My grandfather was a China Marine as well. Your point is valid.
 
tltt said:
For a few bucks more, you could get a Cold Steel Leatherneck which is a much more interesting knife. The United is just a rebranded, and slightly cleaned up BUD K model. Very cheap look and feel compared to the actual knife or the better interpretations (Case, Maserin, Fox, etc....).
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Ok sold..
getting the cold steel leatherneck….
not interested the the united cultery any more.
 
eveled said:
I agree, but can’t help but notice.

It is funny ( sad) how things change. My grandfather fought in China against the Japanese before WWII. The Chinese people helped Dolittle’s raiders evade capture, and paid a horrible price for doing it.

Now China is evil and called the forgotten ally and the Japanese are our friends.

Go figure.
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Your father fought the Japanese to help the Republic of China. That is now Taiwan, which is allied with both the United States and Japan. Southeast Asian nations that Japan invaded in WWII are all allied with us to protect themselves from "China". The People's Republic of China, which we use to call Communist China/Red China when I was a kid. The PROC was never a US ally, they didn't even exist until 4 years after WWII ended, and they sent 200,000 troops to fight in Korea against the UN Troops in 1950/51. Not trying to turn this political but just clarifying what at first glance seems confusing. I have family (now all gone) who served on both sides in WWII.
 
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