Let's see some knives from your collection.

[mtngunr]

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A VERY nice niche collection you have going on there.

 

[mtngunr]

Own JPK sewn inside vest, a Vietnam contract Mk2 and later Ontario Mk2.

 

[mtngunr]

The Brits always had a far better understanding of what a soldier really needed for survival, even if sheaths were horrid. The Martindale galok machete is about as thick as our old Mk2 at 3/16th" and was (is?) in nearly every heavy vehicle for whatever need, the knives are 1/4" thick and nearly indestructible, dig, pry, hack, split, whatever.

 

[okiebertt]

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Very nice collection!

 

[okiebertt]

A few more

 

[sumoj275]

A few others rarely carried but think I'll carry the shiv tomorrow, it saw some saddle time while playing Army and not as in as nice a shape as photo suggests...used the old bowie in Panama, it looks much worse than photo, have a nicer one around here but not dragging it out.
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Move knives in here, the puukko blades spiked my juices.

 

[sumoj275]

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Wouldn’t mind playing with those balisong.

 

[okiebertt]

Wouldn’t mind playing with those balisong.

Yep, lost a little skin till I learned how to flip them.

 

[sumoj275]

Knives i have many

-- but the important thing is how and how often they get used

I put my De LEon at the top of the list

-- can go from field to table -- from processing a doe to preparing a personal sized charcuterie plate

In have, and use a De Leon stag candle knife my dad gave me 25+ years ago.

 

[sumoj275]

Another member of the free knife club, which they should officially adopt to help lagging recruiting (as well as officially dropping all the PC crap running off the good ones who would serve). I still have a JPK and the demo knife, too...cannot recall name, but had a couple of those cast handle survival knives, too, and suprisingly good blades. Thanks for showing those...

The Japanese Explorer and Explorer 2 from Frost iirc were tough blades.