A fixed blade you probably don't have

rtz

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Question is though; is it worth having? I can see having it as a toy, a curiosity, a conversation piece. But would you trust your life to it?

Walther P99 Tactical Knife:

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DMG said:
They don’t specify the steel but they specify this:
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  • unisex-adult
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Well I'm sure glad it's unisex so my wife can also use it! But...

DMG said:
They don’t specify the steel but they specify this:
Hand Wash
unisex-adult
Synthetic
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... I only buy organic knives! :D

On a serious note, it looks stabby enough to use. I wouldn't want one though.
 
It does look stabby. I bought a SOG Pentagon years ago that looked similarly awesome. I never used it and sold it.
 
rtz said:
Question is though; is it worth having? I can see having it as a toy, a curiosity, a conversation piece. But would you trust your life to it?

Walther P99 Tactical Knife:
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At first glance it looks like a kid's idea of what a survival knife should look like. It looks, well, a bit tacky to me. That's just my subjective response.

Walther, of course, have the cachet of featuring in at least one of Ian Fleming's Bond novels, as the manufacturer of his sidearm. I guess some people will buy it due to that connotation, bless 'em. ;)

Meanwhile, here is a fixed blade that nobody else has, made by a maker here on BF. I would take it in a heartbeat faced with that Walther.... 'thing'. :p

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I had an Applegate/Fairbairn dagger once that was shaped that-a-way.

Since I live in Washington State, a dagger is one of the several knives that our legislature fears more than a guy without a mask.

So I got rid of it. Not sorry I did, but it was a fine piece.

If the State did away with their dagger panic, I wouldn't get one of these. I'd get a Spartan Harsey.
 
Who made that? Looks awesome.
Pilsner said:
At first glance it looks like a kid's idea of what a survival knife should look like. It looks, well, a bit tacky to me. That's just my subjective response.

Walther, of course, have the cachet of featuring in at least one of Ian Fleming's Bond novels, as the manufacturer of his sidearm. I guess some people will buy it due to that connotation, bless 'em. ;)

Meanwhile, here is a fixed blade that nobody else has, made by a maker here on BF. I would take it in a heartbeat faced with that Walther.... 'thing'. :p

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Looks like an homage of the Applegate Fairbairn dagger. It's probably made of very soft steel that won't hold an edge and poorly constructed. I wouldn't go near it, personally.
 
DMG said:
I just checked out his profile page. I may have to talk to him as soon as my current custom is finished and paid for.
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He's a great guy. I have to say it's a beautiful knife. Tony is really humble, but he should really be better known in my view. He has a great eye, and really pays attention to every detail. I saw that knife for sale here and just 'had to have it'! :)
 
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I'd have to examine one before I could judge it. I've been pleasantly surprised by cheap knives with mystery steel before.

As far as trusting my life to a knife, it would depend on the knife and the life-threatening situation. If my life depended on stabbing someone who was on top of me choking me, or cutting a seatbelt if I were trapped in a burning car, I imagine the Walther would work just as well as any expensive custom.

Even if it were made out of recycled auto fenders and had no heat treat, I'm sure it could still cut and pierce. When I was a kid I made blades out of several pieces of scrap steel with no heat treat and they all cut for a little while before the edges dulled.
 
Pilsner said:
At first glance it looks like a kid's idea of what a survival knife should look like. It looks, well, a bit tacky to me. That's just my subjective response.

Walther, of course, have the cachet of featuring in at least one of Ian Fleming's Bond novels, as the manufacturer of his sidearm. I guess some people will buy it due to that connotation, bless 'em. ;)

Meanwhile, here is a fixed blade that nobody else has, made by a maker here on BF. I would take it in a heartbeat faced with that Walther.... 'thing'. :p

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Beautiful blade.

To the OP, as a general rule, I’d stay away from knives offered by non-knife companies. They tend to be made with the cheapest possible materials. Stick with Spyderco, Zero Tolerance, custom knives, etc.
 
Good point about the soft steel.

Also I think Schrade makes the S&W and Walther knives.

Is Schrade and United Cultery really 2 separate companies? They both offer a very similar style of boot knife.
 
Cold Steel Drop Forged Boot Knife or Wasp . :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:

About as tough as daggers get .

Flesh is weak , so for pure SD almost anything will work .

But people end up trying to do other stuff and break the tips off daggers .

Probably nor going to break these 52100 drop forged beauties .

Bet your life on Cold Steel !
 
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