Sly Stallone's knife in Cobra

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Does anyone know what the knife was that Sly used in the film Cobra?

The one handed opener with the Cobra on the white scales that he throws at the bad dude in the supermarket right at the start of the film.

I just happened to be watching it on video the other day and however much I tried I couldn't work out what it was. Please put me out of my misery.

Tony.
 
Don't know...but the best part of that movie is when the bad guy threatens to blow up the supermarket and Stallone says, "Go ahead, I don't shop here."
 
I thought the coolest knife in the movie was the wicked spiked knuckle-duster with evil looking blade that the big villian carried. But i have no idea what either of them were.
 
The only knife I remember from the movie was the one the bad guy used. The design was so 80's :D, though it was one of my dream knives back then when i was a kid.:D The other ones included, of course, those Rambo knives.:D haha. Back to the Cobra knife.. I don't recall the one which Sly used, like I said only the one from the bad guy. Strangely I've been trying to look for a pic of that knife lately so that I can take a look at it again.:)
 
I think the spiky knuckleduster was the "Devil's Right Hand" by Harold Corby.
 
The August 1986 issue of SWAT magazine contains an article about the knives and guns used in the Cobra movie. Fortunately I have 17 year old magazines in my basement Unfortunately it doesn't mention the knife that Sly used.

The knuckle-knife used by the Night Slasher in the film was made by knife maker Herman Schneider. I would guess that he probably also made the knife used by Stallone as well.

Firearms used by Stallone in the movie are a Colt Series 80 Gold Cup with a 9mm conversion unit and custom ivory grips. His submachine gun is a Finnish JATI 9mm submachine gun.
 
The knife that Stallone had was a beauty. It looked like it had pearl inlay handles. Taking a guess, I would say a custom Mel Purdue but that is only a guess.
 
Originally posted by Rugger
I think the spiky knuckleduster was the "Devil's Right Hand" by Harold Corby.
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Here's a Corby

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RL
 
You're welcome!

The one that I posted is "on sale" for $1950....apparently they are worth $2500.

RL
 
Originally posted by Gerard122
I thought the coolest knife in the movie was the wicked spiked knuckle-duster with evil looking blade that the big villian carried. But i have no idea what either of them were.
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Didn't they show someone in the movie sharpening that knife menacingly? As I recall, the guy was stroking the crescent-shaped blade in a crescent, so that the edge rubbed along its length, instead of pushing from edge to spine? I've seen this in several movies and it makes me laugh. Hollywood loves to show things as Hollywood wishes they would be, but hardly ever how it really is. It gets really stupid. Think of the semiauto pistols that no one knows are empty until they click on an empty chamber. (What, no slide stop?) Think of the people who get sucked out of airplanes because a pistol shot goes through a window. (Experts have testified that such a shot would not nearly overwhelm the plane's ability to maintain pressure.) Think of the depictions of first-time skydivers jumping out of a plane completely alone and in freefall. (What, no jumpmaster? No static line? No tandem freefall?)

Movies are a menace because they make idiots and soccermoms think they know real things about real things, but they are filled full of idiotic myth.

I wouldn't be surprised if any knives that appeared in a Stallone film were just cheap crap made in Taiwan, like those improbable "survival knives" we saw in the '80s after Rambo.

---Jeffrey
 
Stallone was/is a big time knife collector.
(Lile, Moran, Schneider, Crain)

Herman Schneider made the original Cobra.
Harold Corby made some with permission, after the movie.

The Jati is a neat gun.....
 
Originally posted by Nash The Slash
The August 1986 issue of SWAT magazine contains an article about the knives and guns used in the Cobra movie.
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Yes yes I remember that issue too! :D It had Sly in Cobra on the cover, right? :) Was in Japan at that time and bought the magazine there... haha lots of memories. :)
 
Well Mr. Stalone if you are on here now and again, please let us know what that knife was and put me out of my misery.

Cheers,

Tony
 
The folder you see in the begining was made by Micheal Walker. It's an early linerlock from the man who who improved and popularised the mechanism. I have seen pictures of it in German magazines.

JD
 
Please stop resurrecting old threads. Neither General Knife nor Custom & Handmade are proper forums for sales questions or information.
 
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