What is so good about the smachet?

[Aaron880]

I have a Boker Smatchet. The handle is a bit thick for my medium sized hand, but I love the thing. For me it’s a bit of a novelty, show piece, Safe Queen. But I also own a great reproduction of the follow-on Fairbairn design, the “Fairsword”. It’s more like the design of the Welsh Trench Swords. A bit longer blade than the Smatchet. A slimmmer sword-like profile and a little lighter Mine was custom made for me , in 1095, by Mineral Mountain Hatchet Works. MMHWs calls it their “ Boot Knife”. Good picture of it in the internet article , “The Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knives”. My correspondence with Lynn Thompson, Fairbairn. Biographer, who wrote the 1992 Combat Knives article on the FairSword, confirms that the MMHW version is a faithful reproduction. This beauty also graces my Safe, along with a letter of authenticity from MMHW. Truly a work of practical beauty.

 

[Triton]

I have a Boker Smatchet. The handle is a bit thick for my medium sized hand, but I love the thing. For me it’s a bit of a novelty, show piece, Safe Queen. But I also own a great reproduction of the follow-on Fairbairn design, the “Fairsword”. It’s more like the design of the Welsh Trench Swords. A bit longer blade than the Smatchet. A slimmmer sword-like profile and a little lighter Mine was custom made for me , in 1095, by Mineral Mountain Hatchet Works. MMHWs calls it their “ Boot Knife”. Good picture of it in the internet article , “The Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knives”. My correspondence with Lynn Thompson, Fairbairn. Biographer, who wrote the 1992 Combat Knives article on the FairSword, confirms that the MMHW version is a faithful reproduction. This beauty also graces my Safe, along with a letter of authenticity from MMHW. Truly a work of practical beauty.

Really neat, got a link to the picture?

 

[Aaron880]

Really neat, got a link to the

https://www.fairbairnsykesfightingknives.com. The section labeled Smatchet,s, Kubrick & Bush Knives. It’s pictured in that part of the website’s article’s 12th. photo/ drawing, next to a commercial Smatchet

 

[elasmonut]

The best thing about the smachet...is that it is the best thing because it is a Smachet.A smachet doesn't even have bad things, it is for bad things.

 

[stabman]

Putting out the signal for stabman and @Bob Denman To weigh in here...

Behold...the MEGA-SMATCHET!!!

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