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Don Cotyle
Love the steel pix keep em comein!!!
I used to love to walk in the deep woods for 8-10 hours scouting new hunting spots, hunting Morell mushrooms and just for the enjoyment! A close frend is a knife maker and also makes alot of "authentic" style indean items! sureing my walks I would come across the skeletal remains of many animals, bow turtle shells, etc. and I would save these to trade with my friend! I also turtled ponds for folks to get rid of large snapping turtles, which my friend would make turtle soup from(there are 7 kinds of meat from a turtle), he would make large drums from their top shells and a type of shield from the cross shaped bottom plate shell!
I traded for the top 2 knives. The top knife is an Arkansa toothpick over 20" long made from an old sawmill blade with nicklesilver guard and pommel, the handle is made from elk antler! It is one of my favorite blades. It went thru a house fire 16 years ago and all that was left was the blade and the guard and ponnel. He re-tempered the steel and rebuilt it because he saw the article in the news paper about the fire and me talking about the blade I saved, that was one of a few articles I found that might still be usefull.
The second knife down was also traded for and made by the same friend, I call it my T-Rex Tooth made from the same materials 14" in length.
The last is a Cold Steel double edged boot-neck knife, very to disarm this one! It's the same knife as seen in Platoon.
I use all my blades except for one my father brought home from WWII, which I'll show later, it's 68+ years old!
I used to love to walk in the deep woods for 8-10 hours scouting new hunting spots, hunting Morell mushrooms and just for the enjoyment! A close frend is a knife maker and also makes alot of "authentic" style indean items! sureing my walks I would come across the skeletal remains of many animals, bow turtle shells, etc. and I would save these to trade with my friend! I also turtled ponds for folks to get rid of large snapping turtles, which my friend would make turtle soup from(there are 7 kinds of meat from a turtle), he would make large drums from their top shells and a type of shield from the cross shaped bottom plate shell!
I traded for the top 2 knives. The top knife is an Arkansa toothpick over 20" long made from an old sawmill blade with nicklesilver guard and pommel, the handle is made from elk antler! It is one of my favorite blades. It went thru a house fire 16 years ago and all that was left was the blade and the guard and ponnel. He re-tempered the steel and rebuilt it because he saw the article in the news paper about the fire and me talking about the blade I saved, that was one of a few articles I found that might still be usefull.
The second knife down was also traded for and made by the same friend, I call it my T-Rex Tooth made from the same materials 14" in length.
The last is a Cold Steel double edged boot-neck knife, very to disarm this one! It's the same knife as seen in Platoon.
I use all my blades except for one my father brought home from WWII, which I'll show later, it's 68+ years old!
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basilfarmer
Member
the push dagger is a nasty nasty thing considering how little space it takes up, but I feel a lot less agility and loss of wrist movement compared to a regular knife
still, i would never pack a full sized knife, too big.
I don't even like knives as weapons anyway. I would prefer guns, pepper spray, steel collapsing batons.
but, they are beautiful tools and as a last ditch weapon, a fine friend to have.
here's another option to the push dagger:
busse knives are indestructable
here's a few more:
still, i would never pack a full sized knife, too big.
I don't even like knives as weapons anyway. I would prefer guns, pepper spray, steel collapsing batons.
but, they are beautiful tools and as a last ditch weapon, a fine friend to have.
here's another option to the push dagger:
busse knives are indestructable
here's a few more:
EvilRaven1031
Member
are those braided leather handles??? they look tight as hell man! i neglected to mention that for the past 10 years my daily carry has been a plain edged, drop point gerber gator. the grip on it is amazing, and the edge retention is too. i had a cordura sheath wear out and come to find that it was covered under the manufacturers warranty!!
sweet deal
AND!
super sweet pics!
sweet deal
AND!
super sweet pics!
basilfarmer
Member
the handels are linen micarta (i think its linen), after I've held this kind of handel, nothing else so far compares
Busse should make a Gurkha Kukri, their heft & super infi temper would be perfect for that!
Busse should make a Gurkha Kukri, their heft & super infi temper would be perfect for that!
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Don Cotyle
Stoner4Life that Al Mar Snubby is in excellent condition and just beautiful, puts my Cold teel to shame 
metamorf your Kerambit is definatly interesting, I like the pumching hold!!!
basilfarmer that Gurka Kukri is huge!!! I had a smaller model back in the day with black horn handles, I belive the 2 small knives are ceremonial for (takeing ears?) if I was told right!
Here's a Colt Model CT-6 Skinner with gut hook and a razor sharp hollow ground blade! I picked it up in 96 for $40 it's a first production run!!! Made by United Cutlery, USA!!! By a New Colt holding Corp, Inc. and designed by Kit Rae. The secound year production was done in Japan, my original shot right up to $110, don't know the market value now! I originally bought it to use in the field on my many hunting trips, but when the price jumped it turned into a collecter piece! I've never used it or had it on a belt!!! I really like the sheath design!
Hey flubnuts, heres a Colt in the box
In the sheath
Out with sheath
A close up of the (made in) USA!
I also found it interesting that there are 5 Colt emblems on the knife and sheath. The rampet Colt emblem tooled into the sheath, the Colt Snake emblem on the snap on the sheath. On the knife are a Rampet Colt emblem on the handle which is a hard rubber checkered, a Colt Snake emblem on the blade just above the finger guard and a black Colt Snake design on the main blade body! Another one of my favorites! Locked up in the vault!
Keep em comeing!!! Don
metamorf your Kerambit is definatly interesting, I like the pumching hold!!!
basilfarmer that Gurka Kukri is huge!!! I had a smaller model back in the day with black horn handles, I belive the 2 small knives are ceremonial for (takeing ears?) if I was told right!
Here's a Colt Model CT-6 Skinner with gut hook and a razor sharp hollow ground blade! I picked it up in 96 for $40 it's a first production run!!! Made by United Cutlery, USA!!! By a New Colt holding Corp, Inc. and designed by Kit Rae. The secound year production was done in Japan, my original shot right up to $110, don't know the market value now! I originally bought it to use in the field on my many hunting trips, but when the price jumped it turned into a collecter piece! I've never used it or had it on a belt!!! I really like the sheath design!
Hey flubnuts, heres a Colt
in the box
In the sheath
Out with sheath
A close up of the (made in) USA!
I also found it interesting that there are 5 Colt emblems on the knife and sheath. The rampet Colt emblem tooled into the sheath, the Colt Snake emblem on the snap on the sheath. On the knife are a Rampet Colt emblem on the handle which is a hard rubber checkered, a Colt Snake emblem on the blade just above the finger guard and a black Colt Snake design on the main blade body! Another one of my favorites! Locked up in the vault!
Keep em comeing!!! Don
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basilfarmer
Member
Don, another kind of gory factiod would be the strange notch at the bottom of the blade, so blood doesn't run onto your hand and make your grip slippery.
Those guys were feared all over the world.
I forgot to mention - Stoner4life, you really did get a great deal on that its a beauty.
Those guys were feared all over the world.
I forgot to mention - Stoner4life, you really did get a great deal on that its a beauty.
This might be offtopic, but I'm reading Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" (he also wrote No Country for Old Men, the book that the movie was based on). It's set in a post-apocalyptic world, after the bombs were dropped. Nothing green, everything covered in ash. Brutal, brutal world: most people resorted to cannibalism to survive.
Having a nice sharp piece of steel or two is necessary in a world like that. Even better would be a gun (but we cant talk about such things here
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So you guys with the knife collections would be better prepared than most in the ultimate SHTF scenario. God forbid that ever happens, cause life like that would SUCK: eating canned food - guess all that canned pumpkin would come in handy after all - and dodging roving bands of marauders is not my idea of a fun life, but you gotta do what you gotta do to survive...
Keep those knife pics coming.
Do any of you guys train in knife fighting techniques, like Kali or Escrima (Filipino martial arts), or is that mostly hollywood bs?
Having a nice sharp piece of steel or two is necessary in a world like that. Even better would be a gun (but we cant talk about such things here
). So you guys with the knife collections would be better prepared than most in the ultimate SHTF scenario. God forbid that ever happens, cause life like that would SUCK: eating canned food - guess all that canned pumpkin would come in handy after all - and dodging roving bands of marauders is not my idea of a fun life, but you gotta do what you gotta do to survive...
Keep those knife pics coming.
Do any of you guys train in knife fighting techniques, like Kali or Escrima (Filipino martial arts), or is that mostly hollywood bs?
basilfarmer
Member
a knife fight is the last thing I would want to get into, just from some training years ago, everything can go so wrong so fast
if you have time to pull anything, it's time for that glock
you better have a suit of armour if you are getting into a knife fight
if you have time to pull anything, it's time for that glock
you better have a suit of armour if you are getting into a knife fight
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Don Cotyle
HAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha!!!! Good one basilfarmer!!! Ya don't get out of a knife fight without getting cut, just hope your skills are better than the other guys! Somebody pulls a knife on I'm not going for my blade, I'm going for my .45!!!
basilfarmer
Member
thank you Don & Bababooey
lol
now I'm screwing your thread all up but this one time when I was young I bought a live crab in chinatown in vancouver and took the bus home. the bus is jam packed with people there. this thing was fighting and moving in the shopping bag the whole way home, never in my life have I had elbow room on the bus b4, I think it was pinching people's butts
lol
now I'm screwing your thread all up but this one time when I was young I bought a live crab in chinatown in vancouver and took the bus home. the bus is jam packed with people there. this thing was fighting and moving in the shopping bag the whole way home, never in my life have I had elbow room on the bus b4, I think it was pinching people's butts
basilfarmer
Member
world war II
American knuckle knife
French resistance
England
American knuckle knife
French resistance
England
wow,
that French resistance piece is like more of a beefed up shiv than a knife, very purposeful.
The third one looks like a Fairbairn-Sykes, I think the guys that designed it also wrote manuals/trained troops how to use it, the Cold Steel Taipan is like a modern interpritation, to my eyes.
My edc for years was a swiss army knife, cheap-ish & cheerfull & up until recently, could be carried most places without raising an eyebrow, IIRK it had a primary blade, smaller secondary blade, scissors, can opener, bottle opener, corkscrew & reamer plus the usual toothpick, tweezer etc.
Used an Opinel in the kitchen for a time too, sharp as hell, easy to sharpen & stain, but used within its limits & for the money a bargain.
that French resistance piece is like more of a beefed up shiv than a knife, very purposeful.
The third one looks like a Fairbairn-Sykes, I think the guys that designed it also wrote manuals/trained troops how to use it, the Cold Steel Taipan is like a modern interpritation, to my eyes.
My edc for years was a swiss army knife, cheap-ish & cheerfull & up until recently, could be carried most places without raising an eyebrow, IIRK it had a primary blade, smaller secondary blade, scissors, can opener, bottle opener, corkscrew & reamer plus the usual toothpick, tweezer etc.
Used an Opinel in the kitchen for a time too, sharp as hell, easy to sharpen & stain, but used within its limits & for the money a bargain.
basilfarmer
Member
right you are Petal, its a Sykes. hard to believe it was created in 1942 or something, 66 years later it has infuenced hundreds of designs
Badticket, they should post a pic of that guy up on all the city exits to keep irritating yuppies outa the woods.
Asian Kris
Asian Barong Machete
Badticket, they should post a pic of that guy up on all the city exits to keep irritating yuppies outa the woods.
Asian Kris
Asian Barong Machete
bingobango
Active member
Sweet knives everyone.I have a bayonet from a kaleshnikov and a 3ft long indonesian machete.There not as nice as say that aisan barong but are intresting all the same.I will get some pics.I also have a russian milatary night vision scope, i have no idea what gun it attaches to,so i will get pics and you can all take guess's to what it might fit,for a bit of fun.Judging by the knives on the thread there's obviously some millatary intrested people or i could be wrong?upload later
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Don Cotyle
Since there have been some very nice military blades shown, I think it's time to show a few of my own!
The first is an M1-M2 Carbine bayonet and sheath from WWII. It has a nice long slender blade and makes for a nice fighter by itself! Designated as a M4A1 bayonet and M8A1 sheath! Approximate value $80
This is a Navy Fighting Knife, a Mk1 blade and a Mk1 sheath also made by Case! This is not a Ka-Bar! Approximate value $65
The next Dagger was brought back by my father in WWII. A German SA Stormtrooper Dress Dagger, an early issue blade pre-transional RZM. The Manufacturer is Eichorn probably a 1937-38 production. It also has been Groupen Marked SW Suden West "South West" most likely Africa Corp!
Approximate value $875+
The blade inscription is Alles fur Deutfchland, All for the Fatherland!
The above 3 blades are all 68-69 years old! Keep em comeing! Don
The first is an M1-M2 Carbine bayonet and sheath from WWII. It has a nice long slender blade and makes for a nice fighter by itself! Designated as a M4A1 bayonet and M8A1 sheath! Approximate value $80
This is a Navy Fighting Knife, a Mk1 blade and a Mk1 sheath also made by Case! This is not a Ka-Bar! Approximate value $65
The next Dagger was brought back by my father in WWII. A German SA Stormtrooper Dress Dagger, an early issue blade pre-transional RZM. The Manufacturer is Eichorn probably a 1937-38 production. It also has been Groupen Marked SW Suden West "South West" most likely Africa Corp!
Approximate value $875+
The blade inscription is Alles fur Deutfchland, All for the Fatherland!
The above 3 blades are all 68-69 years old! Keep em comeing! Don
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BF: Cool knives. Gotta love that skull on the silver one, makes it look like it belongs in a fantasy realm. The English one is only from the 1940's? Looks like a classic medieval dagger...
Do you own those asian knives or are you just posting those pics. cool knives, anyway...
BT: When i look at that pic, i hear that banjo playing in the distance... Looks like he's gonna turn around, stick that knife in a tree and then chase you, telling you to squeal like a pig... <shudder>
DC: Sweet WWII knives! You got the M1 Garand to go with that M1 bayonet?
I think a favorite souvenir of allied soldiers were enemy knives. A professor i once had served as an aide to an officer in wwII, they captured a villa used by a nazi officer and he found a hitler youth knife. he still uses it as a letter opener to this day.
You keep those things in pretty good condition, considering. i bet they havent aged a day since you got them....
Do you own those asian knives or are you just posting those pics. cool knives, anyway...
BT: When i look at that pic, i hear that banjo playing in the distance... Looks like he's gonna turn around, stick that knife in a tree and then chase you, telling you to squeal like a pig... <shudder>
DC: Sweet WWII knives! You got the M1 Garand to go with that M1 bayonet?
I think a favorite souvenir of allied soldiers were enemy knives. A professor i once had served as an aide to an officer in wwII, they captured a villa used by a nazi officer and he found a hitler youth knife. he still uses it as a letter opener to this day.
You keep those things in pretty good condition, considering. i bet they havent aged a day since you got them....
