Hi all I just finshed this knife tonight and thought I would see what you guys and gals think.
It is made out of 0-1 steel and has a 6" long by 1/8" thick and is 1.125" wide blade and has a 4.5" handle that has Osage wood with white liners for handle slabs. In the last few weeks I have been thinking ( I can just hear some of you thinking that is not good LOL )about Two knives that I saw and read about First how many of you have seen the movie called Heavan Knows Mr. Allison that stars Robert mitchum? In the movie he plays a Marine that is in WWII and floats to an island in a rubber boat after he and his team are about to make a recon beach landing when there sub takes fire from the Japs
Well after the bombs go off he is the only one that gets into a rubber raft and floats away in the comotion and the subs takes off and dives leaving the Marines on top and on there own. Well he floats to an island where he survives with you got it a knife called the kabar. he hunts, fishes and kills a jap soldier with his knife. meets a nun of all things. I thought it was a neat show. man vs. the wild with just his knife Right LOL
Now to the story how many of you have read the Brian Books by Gary Paulson like Hatchet and Brian's winter and Brian's return and Brian's hunt
Well in the books Brian return and the Hunt it talks about the knife that Gary
Paulson gives the charcater Brian on pg 52 ( of Brian's return) in the paper back version it says that his knife has a 6" long straight back blade and on page 22 of the ( Brian's hunt) it says that his knife had a straight-edge hunting knife and it was always on his belt ----almost a copy of the Second World War Marine Corps - issue knife calle the k-bars.
Hear again just one knife. not a pocket knife and the chopper and all the other combos that we talk about and carry.
ONE KNIFE.
This is what the author has his character using and if you ever read any thing else by Gary he( Gary) lived a life of hunting and trapping in his youth.
But this struck me as kind of odd before Rambo most carried a small knife and hatchet right well not all Jeramiah Johnson carried a 11" bladed knife that was almost 3/8" thick that is a lot of knife.
anyways you get the point.
Now back to the peace maker knife after watching the show and reading the book I thought to my self I am going to make a knife that would work for the soldier and the hunter Being a former Marine and a hunter I have an idea on what I thought would might work and so I started drawing on paper and came up with this, a 6" long by 1/8" thick and by 1.125" wide and with a 4.5" handle ( I made up two one with a 5/32" thick blade every thing else the same.)
Does the one knife sitution have merrit ? I think it does how many people up and just left there homes when the russians attacked Goergia. with what was on ther belts and the clothes on there backs.
I personaly in the first gulf war got tangled in razor ribbon wire and had to leave my pack in there till the shooting was done all I had was the clothes on my back, my rifle, one mag, and you guessed it my fixed blade knife and a small survival pouch that was always on my belt. I was able to go back and get my harness with extra mags and canteens and that stuff.
I was chatting with Jerry Van Cook a few days back and he told me a story of a DEA agent south of the border that he knows who had his gun jam and
had to use his knife to kill the guy. it happens that fast some times.
Now to the pics this is what I came up with for the possible one knife crap hit the fan type thing. What do you think?
In this pic I have the two knives together.
In this pic I have them with there homes LOL
In this pic I have the knife I finished today by it self with the osage handle
In hand shot.
I am planning on making one with a 5" blade for the kitchen and 3 with 4" blades for my survival kits that I have in several places.
This is the pouch that I have my survival kit in
This is what I put in the pouch, as soon as the 3 Peace Maker Knives are made and get the kydex pants from Jeff H I will be replacing the rat-3 with them in the three kits that I have made up,one to keep in the truck,car and right by the door as I leave the house. just to even go for a walk with kelly girl who thinks she is a cow some times. LOL
Several kits
And now to kelly Girl who thinks she is a cow LOL
Well what do you think of the Peace Makers? Also here is how I came up with the name for this knife after I had made the first one I just felt at peace
I know that sounds nutty but that is the way it happened. So hence the name Peace Maker.
Take care all,
Bryan
It is made out of 0-1 steel and has a 6" long by 1/8" thick and is 1.125" wide blade and has a 4.5" handle that has Osage wood with white liners for handle slabs. In the last few weeks I have been thinking ( I can just hear some of you thinking that is not good LOL )about Two knives that I saw and read about First how many of you have seen the movie called Heavan Knows Mr. Allison that stars Robert mitchum? In the movie he plays a Marine that is in WWII and floats to an island in a rubber boat after he and his team are about to make a recon beach landing when there sub takes fire from the Japs
Well after the bombs go off he is the only one that gets into a rubber raft and floats away in the comotion and the subs takes off and dives leaving the Marines on top and on there own. Well he floats to an island where he survives with you got it a knife called the kabar. he hunts, fishes and kills a jap soldier with his knife. meets a nun of all things. I thought it was a neat show. man vs. the wild with just his knife Right LOL
Now to the story how many of you have read the Brian Books by Gary Paulson like Hatchet and Brian's winter and Brian's return and Brian's hunt
Well in the books Brian return and the Hunt it talks about the knife that Gary
Paulson gives the charcater Brian on pg 52 ( of Brian's return) in the paper back version it says that his knife has a 6" long straight back blade and on page 22 of the ( Brian's hunt) it says that his knife had a straight-edge hunting knife and it was always on his belt ----almost a copy of the Second World War Marine Corps - issue knife calle the k-bars.
Hear again just one knife. not a pocket knife and the chopper and all the other combos that we talk about and carry.
ONE KNIFE.
This is what the author has his character using and if you ever read any thing else by Gary he( Gary) lived a life of hunting and trapping in his youth.
But this struck me as kind of odd before Rambo most carried a small knife and hatchet right well not all Jeramiah Johnson carried a 11" bladed knife that was almost 3/8" thick that is a lot of knife.
anyways you get the point.
Now back to the peace maker knife after watching the show and reading the book I thought to my self I am going to make a knife that would work for the soldier and the hunter Being a former Marine and a hunter I have an idea on what I thought would might work and so I started drawing on paper and came up with this, a 6" long by 1/8" thick and by 1.125" wide and with a 4.5" handle ( I made up two one with a 5/32" thick blade every thing else the same.)
Does the one knife sitution have merrit ? I think it does how many people up and just left there homes when the russians attacked Goergia. with what was on ther belts and the clothes on there backs.
I personaly in the first gulf war got tangled in razor ribbon wire and had to leave my pack in there till the shooting was done all I had was the clothes on my back, my rifle, one mag, and you guessed it my fixed blade knife and a small survival pouch that was always on my belt. I was able to go back and get my harness with extra mags and canteens and that stuff.
I was chatting with Jerry Van Cook a few days back and he told me a story of a DEA agent south of the border that he knows who had his gun jam and
had to use his knife to kill the guy. it happens that fast some times.
Now to the pics this is what I came up with for the possible one knife crap hit the fan type thing. What do you think?
In this pic I have the two knives together.
In this pic I have them with there homes LOL
In this pic I have the knife I finished today by it self with the osage handle
In hand shot.
I am planning on making one with a 5" blade for the kitchen and 3 with 4" blades for my survival kits that I have in several places.
This is the pouch that I have my survival kit in
This is what I put in the pouch, as soon as the 3 Peace Maker Knives are made and get the kydex pants from Jeff H I will be replacing the rat-3 with them in the three kits that I have made up,one to keep in the truck,car and right by the door as I leave the house. just to even go for a walk with kelly girl who thinks she is a cow some times. LOL
Several kits
And now to kelly Girl who thinks she is a cow LOL
Well what do you think of the Peace Makers? Also here is how I came up with the name for this knife after I had made the first one I just felt at peace
I know that sounds nutty but that is the way it happened. So hence the name Peace Maker.
Take care all,
Bryan
