Freman Knife from Dune

torment · Apr 24, 2003

Does anyone know where I can either buy a replica or get a picture of the knife used by the Freman in Frank Herbert's Dune.

Thanks

flava · Apr 24, 2003

If you read the description in Dune and make a drawing, it will be as close to the "real thing"

as it gets. Any replica will be just another speculation.

baraqyal · Apr 24, 2003

Found a link with a picture of the "chrysknife" from a tv production of dune.

Pretty cool knife.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/career/0011/dune.terms/chrysknife.html

-- Rob

Benjamin Liu · Apr 24, 2003

For a real knife that looks similar, look at:

http://64.227.169.223/newt_livesay_ck.htm

etp777 · Apr 24, 2003

I'd feel it more accurate, least as memory serves from reading the books years ago, would be if someone flaked/knapped one from obsidian. Might find a maker who can do that.

Chris Keller · Apr 26, 2003

It is Gurney Halleck's knife and he is not a Fremen character in this movie.

UnknownVT · Apr 26, 2003

Did you mean the relatively recent TV shows/movie on the SciFi channel called:

"Frank Herbert's Dune" (2000) and
"Frank Herbert's Children of Dune" (2003) ?

in which case check out:

http://www.scifi.com/dune/

one probably can even contact SciFi Channel to ask who made the prop.

At the time of screening of the Children during March/2003 there was an advert about an auction of screen props for charity - I didn't check, but the Crys-Knife may have been one?

There was also an older movie of "Dune" directed by David Lynch which had Sting in it.
I'm pretty sure the Crys-Knife in that movie probably was quite different.......

Benjamin Liu · Apr 26, 2003

For the orignal movie the Atriedes' knives are pretty easy to get. They were Farbairn-Sykes commando daggers.

AKA Knife Knut · Apr 26, 2003

Over on the Spyderco.com forum there is a consensus that the Shabira is rather Fremen-esque.

mikes2501 · Apr 26, 2003

Originally posted by etp777
I'd feel it more accurate, least as memory serves from reading the books years ago, would be if someone flaked/knapped one from obsidian. Might find a maker who can do that.

They were made from the tooth of a sandworm... So maybe fossil ivory or some sort of bone? Not very practical though.

etp777 · Apr 27, 2003

"Slowly, Mapes reached into the neck of her dress, brought out a dark sheath. A black handle with deep finger ridges protruded from it. She took sheath in one hand and handle in the other, withdrew a milk-white blade, held it up. The blade seemed to shine and glitter with a light of its own. It was double-edged like a kindjal and the blade was perhaps twenty centimeters long."

Quoted from Frank Herbert's Dune.

Closest match I'd say would be a dagger made of white jade, or similar stone, with deeply grooved ebony or buffalo horn handles.

Just way I'd picture it though. Knew there was black as part of it somewhere.

Cosmic Superchunk · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by AKA Knife Knut
Over on the Spyderco.com forum there is a consensus that the Shabira is rather Fremen-esque.

I agree. I've watched Dune and Children of Dune on the Sci-Fi channel and those Fremen knives look like Middle Eastern Shabarias.

DEA · Apr 27, 2003

gurney halleck took the crysknife from a dying fremen courier, sanctioned by stilgar
so, yes, it is a fremen crysknife

mikempg4 · Apr 27, 2003

i am now quite impressed with the community of BladeForums. I think that at any other online forum this thread would have decended into barbaric levels of sci-fi arguments and angry nerds very quickly. : )
-mike

Recluse · Apr 27, 2003

I dream of the day when Mad Dog is feeling whimsical and decides to crank out a crysknife made of his Mirage X material (totally white when not coated) with a Mad Dog composite handle.........

Morgoth412 · Apr 27, 2003

Excellent book! I'm up to the part where Duke Leto is captured by Yeuh. I knew it was gonna happen...but I still got pissed off!
-Kevin

Benjamin Liu · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by mikempg4
i am now quite impressed with the community of BladeForums. I think that at any other online forum this thread would have decended into barbaric levels of sci-fi arguments and angry nerds very quickly. : )
-mike

I was looking for some Bablyon 5 info a few years ago and on the newsgroup I was lurking on they were arguing whether the Enterprise or the White Star would win in a fight. I guess if we were another group the argument would be on whether the guys on Dune could beat the ones on Star Trek or Star Wars or whether the Enterprise would bombard the Fremen from orbit.

AKA Knife Knut · Apr 29, 2003

Originally posted by Cosmic Superchunk
I agree. I've watched Dune and Children of Dune on the Sci-Fi channel and those Fremen knives look like Middle Eastern Shabarias.

I meant (almost typed mentat!) the Spyderco model named Shabira.

As for blade material, Milk quartz perhaps?
The Online Dune Encylopedias say the teeth are carbo-silica crystal.
Shai Hulud does have an exceedingly odd biochemistry.

Havent gotten to "God Emperor of Dune" yet.