Fixed blades
- chorizotaco
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Fixed blades
I just picked these up (maybe from someone here) and would like some info please. I've searched but nothing. The stag handled one has a super heavy pommel, very unique knife. The other I've seen before but the handle is in excellent shape and the blade is not bad. Thank you.
- Pile Driver
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Re: Fixed blades
I like that knife with the stag, very unique
Re: Fixed blades
Here's an unused "pistol grip" among some other nice KA-BARs. They came in jigged bone or stag and with nickel or steel rear bolster (not really a pommel) and in two blade lengths. They were also available from Union Cut before the KA-BAR mark came to be in 1923. "Pistol Grip" was the name given the knife in the early catalog/brochures. The three odd (really cool) looking knives on the top are called "Robin Hood" in the old brochures and are very very rare KA-BARs. I don't think either of these models were made past the late 1920s.
- zzyzzogeton
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Re: Fixed blades
Gene, those Robin Hoods are neat. I've never seen one before. Now I'll be looking for them.
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Re: Fixed blades
Very Nice KA-Bar's you don't see hardly ever !!!
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Thanks Wayne and Kennedy! The photo isn't that good, blade shine makes the top grind invisible on the Robins. They are rare and they had a super rare sheath only made for that one design. The sheath had a flap that came down over the whole handle and snapped. Maybe I can get a better photo today although I don't wish to hijack Chorizo's thread. These also came in bone or stag and only in one blade size. I have seen them with the name Robin Hood etched on the blade, if you ever see one with the etch for sale I'd be interested in it. I do have one without sheath for sale or trade, I have four of them but only one sheath.zzyzzogeton wrote:Gene, those Robin Hoods are neat. I've never seen one before. Now I'll be looking for them.
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Here's a larger "pistol grip" model number is 659 in bone, 269 in stag. This one has the model number 659-6 stamped into the bolster, the -6 is for 6 inches although they are really 5&1/2" and the smaller ones have 4&1/2" blades and when bolster stamped will have a -5 after the model number. Dang I love this model!!
Re: Fixed blades
Wayne, here's a pic of the Robin Hood sheath and better pics of the blades.
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- chorizotaco
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Re: Fixed blades
Gunsil you can hijack my thread anytime!!! We're all here to learn and I'm sitting back taking it all in.
- zzyzzogeton
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Dang - I saw one of those sheaths along with a non-Kabar MK1-like knife in it about 2 years ago on fleabay - the flap had been cut off and someone had added a guard strap for the snap. It was an obvious mismatch with a frakensheath.