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I now have my knife and will try to answer my own questions I asked in this thread on 3rd May.
Firstly, the sawteeth on Greg Wall’s Sly II are very functional, forward facing and sharp. One unexpected outcome I found with these came up when I fed my dogs. I was in the habit of feeding them an ox heart each night on a regular basis. I would stick my knife in the heart to move it to my cutting board to chop it up. On Greg’s knife, once those sawteeth made contact with the heart I had no fears about dropping the heart on the floor. Those sawteeth acted like grappling hooks and held the heart firmly. This is probably not a design function originally considered for sawteeth but what the heck it works admirably.
Secondly, I partially see why Greg’s First Blood knife is so strong. The tang appears to be relatively long. I love kukries from Nepal and these mostly rely on a stick tang but are fine strong chopping tools. Greg’s knife probably behaves similarly. The only problem with this is that the space in the handle is reduced. As well, Greg’s design is overall much thicker than something like the Hollywood Collectibles replica. There is a good youtube video comparing the two that illustrates this. I am willing to bet there are other reasons that add to its strength but I have no idea of what they might be.
As to my final question, I haven’t found a definitive answer. From what I can work out, the Sly II version has been around for a long time and maybe right from the time of the movie but I couldn’t work out if it was an original Jimmy Lile design modification or was a modification by someone else - but I like it.
There were two things that surprised me once I got to handle this knife. First, I was amazed at how light it is. Second, until I handled this one I never realised how dagger like the design is especially when compared to a classical Bowie.
Firstly, the sawteeth on Greg Wall’s Sly II are very functional, forward facing and sharp. One unexpected outcome I found with these came up when I fed my dogs. I was in the habit of feeding them an ox heart each night on a regular basis. I would stick my knife in the heart to move it to my cutting board to chop it up. On Greg’s knife, once those sawteeth made contact with the heart I had no fears about dropping the heart on the floor. Those sawteeth acted like grappling hooks and held the heart firmly. This is probably not a design function originally considered for sawteeth but what the heck it works admirably.
Secondly, I partially see why Greg’s First Blood knife is so strong. The tang appears to be relatively long. I love kukries from Nepal and these mostly rely on a stick tang but are fine strong chopping tools. Greg’s knife probably behaves similarly. The only problem with this is that the space in the handle is reduced. As well, Greg’s design is overall much thicker than something like the Hollywood Collectibles replica. There is a good youtube video comparing the two that illustrates this. I am willing to bet there are other reasons that add to its strength but I have no idea of what they might be.
As to my final question, I haven’t found a definitive answer. From what I can work out, the Sly II version has been around for a long time and maybe right from the time of the movie but I couldn’t work out if it was an original Jimmy Lile design modification or was a modification by someone else - but I like it.
There were two things that surprised me once I got to handle this knife. First, I was amazed at how light it is. Second, until I handled this one I never realised how dagger like the design is especially when compared to a classical Bowie.
