Ifrit
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More edgy than a double edge sword
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Post by Ifrit on May 2, 2017 22:21:27 GMT
I just purchased a sweet tactical fixed blade (in fact, a few of them), ideal for use at close range when someone is grappling with your gun. It's the Blackhawk Nightedge designed by Allen Elishewitz from the MOD Nightwing, which is identical, but with 1085 instead of S30V steel. This thing is currently like $135 on Knife Center, and is sold on many sites for over $100, though I see it on Amazon at around $50. Why did I purchase a few? Because they are currently on Smokey Mountain Knife Works for under $25! It is a thick blade with a strong tip which can be used for outdoor applications as well. Unholy quality for that price point, though you may wish to touch up the edge to make it a bit sharper, as it is quite a thick 6" spike for the blade width. You find a better blade at its size for the price...your a better man than me. Just looked that up. Looks amazing. A knife like that would be fantastic for a fixed blade fighting knife. Which reminds me that I am still in the market for one. Maybe I will pick one up when finances permit it. |
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Post by howler on May 2, 2017 22:35:03 GMT
I just purchased a sweet tactical fixed blade (in fact, a few of them), ideal for use at close range when someone is grappling with your gun. It's the Blackhawk Nightedge designed by Allen Elishewitz from the MOD Nightwing, which is identical, but with 1085 instead of S30V steel. This thing is currently like $135 on Knife Center, and is sold on many sites for over $100, though I see it on Amazon at around $50. Why did I purchase a few? Because they are currently on Smokey Mountain Knife Works for under $25! It is a thick blade with a strong tip which can be used for outdoor applications as well. Unholy quality for that price point, though you may wish to touch up the edge to make it a bit sharper, as it is quite a thick 6" spike for the blade width. You find a better blade at its size for the price...your a better man than me. Just looked that up. Looks amazing. A knife like that would be fantastic for a fixed blade fighting knife. Which reminds me that I am still in the market for one. Maybe I will pick one up when finances permit it. Feels like an extension of ones hand (ergonomic palm swell) and ideal for standard or reverse grip (icepick style). BEEFY full tang (this sucker would NEVER break) with skull crusher that is weighty (9oz) yet light and incredibly balanced. Elishewitz did a killer job in the design. A Blackhawk blade like this for $25, if one is looking to match it (in it's size class) with some competing blade...FORGET ABOUT IT! Damn, I ordered another one. Why not, at two for around $50. |
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Post by howler on May 3, 2017 3:16:04 GMT
Good find! It reminds me of the Gerber Silver trident. That's also a sick design. I love everything about that Trident...except the near $200 bones it will set you back. Really, these suckers are very similar, except for the Blackhawk Nightedge being 9oz of 1085 vs the Gerber Trident being 11.5oz of 154CM. It's that $25 price tag on the Blackhawk that has me dumbfounded. Shipping at SMKW is less than $5. Buy a couple and use them as steak knives (to the delight/horror of your friends/relatives). Any excuse it takes to...gulp..."scratch da itch", brutha. |
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Post by artfulsteel on Apr 18, 2018 17:53:55 GMT
When it comes to a fighting blade, I hold the same rule as with a handgun. The best blade or handgun that you can handle well and with effectiveness. Outside of the blades I make I prefer the Kislyar Phoenix 1, Phoenix Combat or the Voron 3. I designed my blades to bust through bone and put splinters of bones into the vitals. I've been told by some customers that my blades also do a good job of punching through a wild pigs skull. I will always go for function over art in a blade. If I want to see art I go to an art gallery or a museum. To all, study and learn the 21 foot rule. Knowing that can save your life. And always, if you can avoid a fight do so. |
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Post by howler on Apr 18, 2018 19:51:17 GMT
When it comes to a fighting blade, I hold the same rule as with a handgun. The best blade or handgun that you can handle well and with effectiveness. Outside of the blades I make I prefer the Kislyar Phoenix 1, Phoenix Combat or the Voron 3. I designed my blades to bust through bone and put splinters of bones into the vitals. I've been told by some customers that my blades also do a good job of punching through a wild pigs skull. I will always go for function over art in a blade. If I want to see art I go to an art gallery or a museum. To all, study and learn the 21 foot rule. Knowing that can save your life. And always, if you can avoid a fight do so. Those Kislyar sound great. Tops asked to do and made a copy of the Phoenix 1 (pig sticker, I think). Your designs must be pretty good. The choice of fighting knife does have certain environmental factors involved. Ease of carry, confined spaces (think phone booth), physical limitations can dictate the best choice. In an open field, the largest bowie that can conceivably be labeled a knife (whatever that is) is the clear choice, because it can be used like a short sword. |
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Post by RufusScorpius on May 3, 2018 12:12:07 GMT
i want to get a specifically fighting knife and i was wondering what make a fighting knife different in design. what do look for in a combat knife? if anyone could recomend specific models that are good that would be helpful. i want a fixed blade on the larger side (7" blade or more) if that helps. thanks Ok then. Under what circumstances will you be needing a "fighting" knife? Military deployment? Zombie Apocalypse? How? When? Why? Those questions must be answered first before a knife type can be chosen. So here is my free advice for what it's worth. ANY KNIFE is a "fighting" knife when you find yourself in a fight. So with that in mind, it's best to either learn how to fight with every knife you have, or only carry one knife (impractical since there is no such thing as "one knife to rule them all"). So what then does the Red Scorpion carry in his own pocket as a "fighting" knife? 99% of the time I have a K55K Mercator on my person. If I get into a fight, that is the knife I will most likely have and use because it's impossible within the laws of this universe to retroactively choose a tool after a situation has already started. "Use what you got, not what you wish you had". When I'm out in the woods enjoying nature, I'll have several knives: A Puma White Hunter or Game Warden, probably my Schrade Deerslayer (I always carry on a neck strap), and almost certainly I will have a Camillus military issue stainless steel MIL-K folding knife for general all around use. If a knife fight breaks out in the woods, my White Hunter or Deerslayer then becomes my "fighting" knife. For a military deployment or Zombie Apocalypse -or other situation in which I fully expect to and am prepared for a knife fight in advance of it happening- I would choose a K-bar, Fairbairn-Sykes, or a Kukri. I would not choose a knife that didn't already have it's design tested and proven in real life combat. To each his own, of course. But for me, a "fighting" knife is just like a "survival" knife- both will be whatever knife you have on your person when the situation develops. So whatever poison you choose, spend the money and buy a good quality, brand name, knife. Your life may well depend on it. |
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