Which knife would the original James Bond have carried with todays current knives?

A dagger like in the briefcase Q gave him in "From Russia with Love" (1963) that Connery used to stab the SPECTRE assassin/villain (a blond Robert Shaw). A cool dagger these days is the ZT 0150: 3.5" dagger blade, full tang, light (3.7 ounces) and contoured G-10.

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Three other knives mentioned fit the bill: Italian Stiletto Switchblade, Benchmade 710 and Al Mar Eagle HD. They're slick with long and narrow blades.

Let's not forget the ultimate: Microtech OTF automatic knives.

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Well, some of us liked Timothy Dalton as Bond, and love Daniel Craig as Bond. How do you find Craig's fight scenes compared to Connery's? Thought so. I see Craig as not carrying a knife for combat, he just takes the knife of whomever he is fighting and kills them with that. So I'd have to go with some kind of small SAK, for utility. I'm not familiar enough with the small models to suggest anything. Dalton as Bond didn't really have any hangups about killing, he would have something, not because he couldn't take your knife and kill you with it, but just because it would be easier and faster to use his own. So I'm going with something smallish and cheap, in case he had throw it out of a car or something, so as not to get caught with a weapon, maybe a RAT 1.
 
numbersman said:
Well, some of us liked Timothy Dalton as Bond, and love Daniel Craig as Bond. How do you find Craig's fight scenes compared to Connery's? Thought so. I see Craig as not carrying a knife for combat, he just takes the knife of whomever he is fighting and kills them with that. So I'd have to go with some kind of small SAK, for utility. I'm not familiar enough with the small models to suggest anything. Dalton as Bond didn't really have any hangups about killing, he would have something, not because he couldn't take your knife and kill you with it, but just because it would be easier and faster to use his own. So I'm going with something smallish and cheap, in case he had throw it out of a car or something, so as not to get caught with a weapon, maybe a RAT 1.
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Fight choreography just improved in films and make Craig look better.



#1 -Sean Connery never used steroids to pump up for a film. He was natural. As Bond should be. He also fought more realistically.



#2 -I think most 160lb guys (boys) could beat up Dalton, Brosnan and Moore in real life. Their physical stature was just not believable to knock men flying all over the place. LOL!


Testosterone and steroids also change the facial features and general overall more muscular appearance:

Daniel Craig off steroid cycle:
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Sean Connery as always:
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Connery in Dr No: 6' 2½"
Craig in CR: 5' 10"

Craig was 3" to short for Flemings Bond.


A picture I found of him next to a Land Rover sport:
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colubrid said:
The new Bond is back with the PPK..but this time he uses the PPK/S which is the .380 caliber instead of the .32 cal.

Walther PPK/S, Bond's newly issued sidearm in Skyfall. Q provides Bond with a signature version that only his palm print can activate to shoot.
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Not much deniability there.

"Yes Mr Bond, we have matched the bullet that killed the ambassador to this pistol...

...how can you say it isn't yours Mr Bond? This gun fires only in your hand."
 
How I envisage a real "James Bond".

A man of medium height, not too tall, nor too short. Dark haired. Face unremarkable, but if you look closely you can see the scars of many plastic surgeries, each in response to becoming known to his enemy SMERSH. Even he doesn't remember the face he was born with. Slim, lithely muscled and lean. Carrying the scars of many battles, his thick strong hands have ended many a life without any other weapons. Sufficiently tanned that a little makeup allows him to pass as a variety of ethnicities.

Clothing nondescript, able to blend into a range of semi-casual social situations.

Weapons? A wire garrotte is coiled into his watch casing, a small throwing dagger sheathed under his left forearm, another in the small of his back. A small 9mm automatic pistol in an in-waistband holster on the left (something cheap and cheerful like a Kal-Tec PF9), if he needs to discard the pistol the holster goes too. Spare clips are dropped into his pockets. The 9mm means that if he needs ammunition the odds are he can simply take it off someone he kills.

Look into his eyes and see a sanctioned murderer. Not a soldier, who takes the life of an enemy in the heat of battle, but a killer who takes each target's life personally. A man who drowns his tormented conscience in a stream of alcohol and women.
 
Bond uses his wits more than his gun to beat the bad guys. He is more like John Steed from the Avengers and less like Dirty Harry. He uses his brains, charm and seduction to complete his mission and seldom knives or bullets. Thats why he has a PPK instead of a 44 magnum. All his equipment compliments his image as the archetypical British gentleman and will be of superb quality but never flashy. He wears a bespoke Savile Row suit, a tasteful watch, Dunhill lighter and bespoke shoes. His knife would match his ensemble. It would be small, discrete and tasteful. He will use it to trim his nails. cut string or open an envelope. Any hand to hand fighting will be done with hand to hand, no knives. The only time he used a knife, it was concealed in a briefcase rather than carried on his person. He would carry a single blade Tony Bose issued by Q.
 
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Are we talking about the many fake Bonds portrayed in the films, or the real Bond in the books.

The real Bond drove a second hand Bentley that had been written off and repaired. He could only afford it because of money he had won playing cards when on assignment. His suit was bespoke but it was well worn. He wore a Rolex for reliability compared to the next to useless cheap watches of the 1940s and 50s, not because it said Rolex on it, and because he was a keen skin diver so needed a waterproof watch.

I always think when the Bond character was conceived these objects that have now been turned into luxury goods were the only reliable things available. If you wanted a watch that was at all reliable and waterproof you had to buy a Rolex watch (or an Omega, or similar). If you wanted a car that could drive across Europe without overheating or breaking down you had to buy a Bentley or similar. Bespoke suits were purchased by everyone that could afford them in the UK at that time, people in off the peg clothes were looked down on by anyone that could afford better. Denim jeans hardly existed here - I remember my Grandad used to dig his garden and work on his car in a shirt and slacks with a boiler suit over the top. Bond of the books didn't earn a high salary. He spent everything he had on enjoying himself because he might not live to see another pay day. Also being in a civil service job he would have a very generous pension so didn't need to save for a future that might not exist.

I'm not for a minute suggesting many in the UK lived like Bond did in the books. Most of the country was still impoverished from the war and 95% of the population would never have seen a Rolex or been in a Bentley. I'm just suggesting Bond had a job to do and these tools were all that was reliable at the time. Mazda, Citizen, Casio didn't exist.

Having said that I cant help imagining Bond with that Microtech Halo :D, but then I think would he have an ASP baton instead of a big knife. Better reach and why do you want to get blood on your suit when you don't have to.
 
Many folks are saying bond would want something cheap in case he needed to dispose of it. Incorrect. The more expensive then item the funnier it is when bond returns from the mission
 
Agreed, Connery's the 'real' Bond, even if Ian Fleming didn't like his casting at the time. Moore was a pathetic smarmy joke without a punchline, and the Bond franchise barely survived his miscasting (and the whole campy Adam West self-parody feel the Bond films took on).
Dalton was a great Bond, and he ought to get credit for saving the Franchise and bringing it back from the brink. He was the first real 'action' Bond after Connery. He was gritty and believable (it's a movie, dammit). The cast and scripting around him seemed uneven and still uncertain where the Broccolis wanted to take Bond after the ladyboy years with Moore. Dalton is still my favorite Bond after Connery.
Then they dumped Dalton for Brosnan, who they wanted all along and had already signed but dropped out when Remington Steele was renewed at the last minute. By then Dalton had brought new life back to Bond as an action series, rather than camp farce.
Brosnan was a throwback, a younger Roger Moore all over again, another ex-male-model implausibly put into what was now once again an action series. The casting of Judi Dench helped carry the films but Brosnan was always an empty suit in the middle of the story.. I think most guys could imagine themselves taking Brosnan down in a parking lot if they really had to, and that's not good for Bond.
I'm not a fan of Craig, but he has the Clint Eastwood less-is-more 'stone face' shtick down. He's the most 'pumped up' Bond, which is not Ian Fleming but then the movie scenarios no longer have much connection with Fleming's Bond.
His mother-son undertones with Dench progressed from a nice touch to jumping the shark, and Skyfall was a nonsensical mess of a script.
Bond movies are just another Fast n Furious video game now, a string of fast CGI action sequences with no plot to tie them together. Craig's fight scenes are mostly humanly impossible, all CGI effects.

Hmm. We started out talking about Bond's knife...
 
Freman Bloodglaive said:
How I envisage a real "James Bond".

A man of medium height, not too tall, nor too short. Dark haired. Face unremarkable, but if you look closely you can see the scars of many plastic surgeries, each in response to becoming known to his enemy SMERSH. Even he doesn't remember the face he was born with. Slim, lithely muscled and lean. Carrying the scars of many battles, his thick strong hands have ended many a life without any other weapons. Sufficiently tanned that a little makeup allows him to pass as a variety of ethnicities.

Clothing nondescript, able to blend into a range of semi-casual social situations.

...do you also envisage him being found by a fishing crew while floating in the adriatic sea unable to remember who he is or how he got there? Cuz you just described jason bourne, not James bond. Ole Jimmy B, was a suave character who lived fast and loose ...much too loose for a real spy i recon. pretty sure a man carrying himself as he did would have been caught and killed by any number of organizations before the credets rolled but whatever. so that being the case, on to the cutlery. I recon he would have a few different options for a few different occasions.

1. out on the town wearing a suit: something with class... high end folder like william henry.
2. sneaking around in a black turtleneck: subdued medium fighting/utility, maybe one of Nick wheeler's fighters (custom of course)
3. out and about in shorts and a polo shirt: something slim and unobtrusive like a spyderco
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Tallahassee said:
Agreed, Connery's the 'real' Bond, even if Ian Fleming didn't like his casting at the time. Moore was a pathetic smarmy joke without a punchline, and the Bond franchise barely survived his miscasting (and the whole campy Adam West self-parody feel the Bond films took on).
Dalton was a great Bond, and he ought to get credit for saving the Franchise and bringing it back from the brink. He was the first real 'action' Bond after Connery. He was gritty and believable (it's a movie, dammit). The cast and scripting around him seemed uneven and still uncertain where the Broccolis wanted to take Bond after the ladyboy years with Moore. Dalton is still my favorite Bond after Connery.
Then they dumped Dalton for Brosnan, who they wanted all along and had already signed but dropped out when Remington Steele was renewed at the last minute. By then Dalton had brought new life back to Bond as an action series, rather than camp farce.
Brosnan was a throwback, a younger Roger Moore all over again, another ex-male-model implausibly put into what was now once again an action series. The casting of Judi Dench helped carry the films but Brosnan was always an empty suit in the middle of the story.. I think most guys could imagine themselves taking Brosnan down in a parking lot if they really had to, and that's not good for Bond.
I'm not a fan of Craig, but he has the Clint Eastwood less-is-more 'stone face' shtick down. He's the most 'pumped up' Bond, which is not Ian Fleming but then the movie scenarios no longer have much connection with Fleming's Bond.
His mother-son undertones with Dench progressed from a nice touch to jumping the shark, and Skyfall was a nonsensical mess of a script.
Bond movies are just another Fast n Furious video game now, a string of fast CGI action sequences with no plot to tie them together. Craig's fight scenes are mostly humanly impossible, all CGI effects.

Hmm. We started out talking about Bond's knife...
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great assessment!

and to keep it on topic

a Benchmade 710
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colubrid said:
Might be.. a very good possibility.

Just , I wonder if this would be good for stabbing or slashing with the slippery grips..

Of course the watch would be a Rolex and not a Seiko:
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Applegate Fairbairn?

 
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