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Well....I finally got a knife I have been wanting for years. The Ontario MK3 Navy dive knife. So I am excited...
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Anyway my first impressions are pretty positive with this knife. The sheath is a hard plastic design with with a spring clip in it to hold the knife in place. Locks in pretty good!. The sheath also has a string on the bottom of it for wrapping around your leg and a pistol belt loop at the top. On the sheath it says MK 3 MOD 0 USN.
On to the knife. Its 440A stainless steel. I guess that is what the Navy wanted...makes sense sense they are always around salt water. Comes with a metal handgaurd (I assume its stainless too)...and a solid hard plastic grip which feels really good in my hands.
It appears the blade comes nearly all the way down and the pommel is pressed into the grip and blade tang. The is a small phillips head screw with a riveted style back the appears to be screwed and pressed into the grip to reinforce the pommel.
BTW: This pommel is fairly big and solid. Looks like you could hammer a deck together with it. The blade came with a decent edge...I got something to work with. The false edge (its a double clip knife) is also sharpened. Which I thought was unusual from the factory. Never seen a Ka-bar or a USAF with a sharpened false edge from the factory. The point on the blade is pretty dang sharp....this thing could defiantly penetrate something right out of the box.
No fuller on this one....and the saw is a little peculiar. Its not like the saw on the USAF knife its a bit different and has different grooves in it....wonder if its just for cutting rope or something? Anyone know?
It has the Navy stock number on it right over the hand guard and on the opposite side it says MK 3 MOD 0 on the blade right over the hand guard. Both side of the grip also has USN stamped into it.
One thing that I like about this knife....it's the newer designed blade with a thicker tip. I heard the old ones with the more up swept tip were prone to breakage. Anyway I called Ontario to ask them about the saw and the grooves in the saw blade. They told me that they are not sure what or why the Navy had it designed that way. Then I asked if they still make these for the USN. They said yeah...they still make and sell these blade for the Navy. So I guess that is pretty cool.
Anyway I am really liking it so far.
Not to heavy for its size either.
. Anyway my first impressions are pretty positive with this knife. The sheath is a hard plastic design with with a spring clip in it to hold the knife in place. Locks in pretty good!. The sheath also has a string on the bottom of it for wrapping around your leg and a pistol belt loop at the top. On the sheath it says MK 3 MOD 0 USN.
On to the knife. Its 440A stainless steel. I guess that is what the Navy wanted...makes sense sense they are always around salt water. Comes with a metal handgaurd (I assume its stainless too)...and a solid hard plastic grip which feels really good in my hands.
It appears the blade comes nearly all the way down and the pommel is pressed into the grip and blade tang. The is a small phillips head screw with a riveted style back the appears to be screwed and pressed into the grip to reinforce the pommel.
BTW: This pommel is fairly big and solid. Looks like you could hammer a deck together with it. The blade came with a decent edge...I got something to work with. The false edge (its a double clip knife) is also sharpened. Which I thought was unusual from the factory. Never seen a Ka-bar or a USAF with a sharpened false edge from the factory. The point on the blade is pretty dang sharp....this thing could defiantly penetrate something right out of the box.
No fuller on this one....and the saw is a little peculiar. Its not like the saw on the USAF knife its a bit different and has different grooves in it....wonder if its just for cutting rope or something? Anyone know?
It has the Navy stock number on it right over the hand guard and on the opposite side it says MK 3 MOD 0 on the blade right over the hand guard. Both side of the grip also has USN stamped into it.
One thing that I like about this knife....it's the newer designed blade with a thicker tip. I heard the old ones with the more up swept tip were prone to breakage. Anyway I called Ontario to ask them about the saw and the grooves in the saw blade. They told me that they are not sure what or why the Navy had it designed that way. Then I asked if they still make these for the USN. They said yeah...they still make and sell these blade for the Navy. So I guess that is pretty cool.
Anyway I am really liking it so far.
Not to heavy for its size either.
