Gil Hibben Rambo Last Blood Knives

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I found out awhile back on Gil's Face Book page that he made the "original" knives for Stallone to be used in "Last Blood". They were done like Stallone wanted and shipped to him and went to Bulgaria. But for some reason only the part 4 machete was used in the film. I myself feel that the Bowie knives that Hibben made seemed more in place for the movie than the Pohl knives. Any insights? I feel Stallone threw Gil under the bus. But in Gil's words..."Thats show biz"!
 
fancy as those latest pohl rambo knives are.
i've yet to personally come across snyone
who has them for use or collection...
but on the other hand seen a number of
folks who own fake rambo machetes
ugly as those were ?!
gil's rambo moment was imo, the rambo 3
bowie though. and if i recall somewhere in a
pohl video, the new knife was set out to bare a design element of the lile bowie for continuity.
 
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eveled said:
His first choice was a Randall, but they wouldn’t put him to the top of the wait list.
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The Randall story is that Stallone wanted to be moved up the Randall list and comped a few knives. Randall passed on the deal. They were looking at either some of the larger bowies, the #18, or a totally new model based on those knives. The fact they were interested in Randall knives is backed up in an early 1980's Soldier of Fortune article/interview with people from the movie.

Bill Moran was also offered a similar deal. He passed too.

SoF 6 / 1985 -

"Maffatone wanted Stallone to choose another knife as Rambo's trustiest weapon rather than reappear with a Jimmy Lile creation given the situation and terrain of the mission. "I felt it was strictly for the cameras," commented Maffatone.

"I would certainly have carried something different if I expected to be using it on human targets a great deal. But Sly is a genius when it comes to how things look on film." How Jimmy Lile blades look - as anyone who saw First Blood can testify - is huge, intimidating and deadly.

Stallone claims the choice was mostly serendipity.

"I was going to use the Randall knife which is very similar," he recalled.

"Then I ran into Jimmy Lile in a knife store and we decided maybe we could come up with something a little more modern. You know, with the compass and the screwdrivers in both ends? I was also thinking about using a Randall Bowie, but on film the Bowie looks so huge."

No matter. It's Stallone's moves and the way Maffatone taught him to attack an adversary that make the one-on-one encounters with both NVA and Russian advisers easy for genuine combat veterans to swallow."

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Article on Tony Maffatone, Stallone's adviser. it has a good bit on knives, and you can see that they knew about Moran -

https://thomaspluck.com/2008/09/04/a-tribute-to-tony-maffatone/ .
 
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