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

Nice Rolex, CM. There are repro's available now of the exact RAF nylon regimental watch strap Connery wears his Rolex on in the opening of Goldfinger. He looks at it by the flame of his lighter as his explosive charges go off.

Gotta get yourself a gunmetal Zippo lighter (same scene, just as Fleming describes it) to go with that Rolex.
 
Very much a sebenza. Something with an inlay. Q would probably make it carbon fiber on the presentation side and some sort of laser/gas/gadget dispenser on the lock side.
 
I wouldn't even THINK to compare myself to Sean Connery, but I'll go out on a limb and post these pics anyway, cuz I'd like to see him carry a knife of mine. :D Hey, we do have the same hair style... ;) LMAO


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bladefixation2 said:
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.
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The Bond of the novels was basically am Ian Fleming fantasy of what he wanted to be, as well as a balm on the bruised egos of the English. They had lost their empire and had endured years of post-WW2 rationing, and here you have a guy who eats eggs and drinks real coffee for breakfast and flies to exotic locations to save the world (more than a few times, the US). Of course, the Bond movies are quite a bit different...
 
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?
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Blech.
Connery was the same height as me, therefore he's the real Bond. ;)
Therefore, whatever knife I would carry is the correct one. :)

Hence, Bond would carry a CQC-12, or perhaps an Umnumzaan.
Or maybe a Tuff because hey, it's a Tuff, and Bond is Tuff/tough.

Try to argue against logic of that nature (go ahead, I dare you to, nyah nyah nyah!)
 
Charlie Fox said:
In the books, Bond carried two flat throwing knives; one strapped to his left wrist and one carried horizontally across the small of his back.
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This sound very bond-ish, and if not definitely a 940 a lot of blade Ina little handle slim stylish concealable speaks for itself.
 
Tallahassee said:
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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Funnily enough Skyfall was the only Craig Bond film I really enjoyed. I liked the others but Casino Royale had too much emphasis on cards, and Quantum of Solace was a decent action movie, but a horrible Bond movie. I liked the Parkour sequence at the beginning of Casino Royale (which I agree would be pretty much impossible for Craig, but I'd be willing to bet the actor he chased through that sequence was hired for his flexible acrobatic ability).

I liked Dench as M but mostly because I like Dench in a lot of things, most notably As Time Goes By, and I'm hoping Fiennes at the new M is good also.
 
I would never have guessed all of this, that what are now "luxury" items were once the ones you turned to when you wanted reliable functionality. Thank you for the highly informative post.

I'll probably always be an off the peg clothing type fellow, so I think if I get the chance to visit the U.K., I'll just have to be looked down upon. ;)

Speaking seriously I should probably look into tailored clothing... due to my disability and problems with my gait, suit clothing doesn't really hang right on me.

bladefixation2 said:
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.
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Just going off of these pics, I could hire you as my makeshift Jason Statham bodyguard.


NickWheeler said:
I wouldn't even THINK to compare myself to Sean Connery, but I'll go out on a limb and post these pics anyway, cuz I'd like to see him carry a knife of mine. :D Hey, we do have the same hair style... ;) LMAO


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The question is, what would he carry today? With metal detectors everywhere, he would have to carry something that would defeat today's technology. If he carried a dress knife, it would be something innocuous that wouldn't attract any attention. Probably a small SAK. Concealed, he would have a ceramic blade built into something like the sole of his shoe. In the open, he could carry something to use as an impact weapon like an empty sap and a bag of nickels.

I always thought of Bond's primary weapon as his mind.
 
Greetings,
This is a great topic, but...this is Blade forums :cool:
I think Daniel Craig's "Bond" would carry something bordering "tactical" small single edge folder of sorts...maybe speed assist...like the scene where he's removing the depleted titanium shrapnel from his shoulder, that looks like a small folder. If he carried a fixed blade I can see him carrying it like "RedLynx" , after all a nice Seville Row suit, dual side vents...tracker style would be the way to go, but if it were double edged you know at some point he would be throwing it. The days of "more elegant" may have left town with Roger Moore and David Niven. George lazenby would probably carry an OTF, after all he was more "MOD" then any of them...
Off topic,
Theres a Jazz band from NYC called "Sex Mob", they have a cd called "sex Mob does Bond"...they cover some James Bond Movie themes.....there rendition od "Gold Finger" excellent, very subtle, then POW !!
but there verson of "you only live twice".....sheer Brilliance !!!
Cheers
 
I have a memory of him having a diving knife strapped to his leg in thunderball, and I remember there being a dagger in the bottom of a briefcase in one of the early bond films. Honestly, I don't really see bond as the knife fighting type... So some sort of slip joint.
 
gadunz said:
A Sheffield, UK push dagger.
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or as he's a RN Commander, a naval officer's dirk
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Sean Connery is way too old to play the part now and he said so himself about 25 years ago.

These knives or something out of the WWII OSS or the Brit equivalent line of small carry knives like a Lapel dagger and the OSS SPIKE would be what he would have carried.

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Early Bond's Cover was as a salesman for "Universal Exports". As such he had to go places unarmed at times as every hotel room had a secret door behind which was a bad guy/spy waiting to search his belongings, exray him, etc. He was pragmatic and knew a weapon would give him away. At one point he is considering what can be used as an emergency weapon and thinks about his Rolex being stout enough to use as a knuck ( not really practical in truth. It would insure a disabling injury to the hand if used that way strapped on the knuckles and merely piss off the guy hit).

Look for things a salesman/executive would have in his sparse, experienced traveler going light kit. Something from the shaving kit maybe? Being caught with a weapon on some assignments means your cover is blown and death, or just not being effective at best. Imagine a Blofield kind of guy petting his cat saying " he has a what?".

Think boring. No salesman travels the world with weapons. Now, even locking pen knives are a big problem some places.

I say a nice shaving/grooming kit with scissors. Maybe a "paperweight" acrylic snow globe from his "daughter" to hit guys on the head so they fall down passed out first time, every time like in all movies. :)
 
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