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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4282164" data-attributes="member: 26737">Here&#039;s one of the knives I carried on D-Day, well, the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, that is.I give you the Opinel No.08 D-Day 80th Anniversary Comemorative[ATTACH=full]487118[/ATTACH]I actually carried the khaki version on the anniversary.Opinels generally aren&#039;t my thing (nothing against them, they just don&#039;t trip my trigger), but these two knives are cool. Their blades are stainless steel (unspecified variety, just stamped INOX), and both the blade and Virobloc (locking ring) are done in PVD, so it almost looks like they&#039;re blued.Opinel only made 1944 in each of the two colors, and the blades are stamped No.XXXX/1944 to reflect that.God bless the froggies for remembering the Longest Day.ETA: the book in the background is The Story of Knife Steel by Dr. Larrin Thomas (inventor of Magnacut).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4282164, member: 26737"] Here's one of the knives I carried on D-Day, well, the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, that is. I give you the Opinel No.08 D-Day 80th Anniversary Comemorative [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_1016.jpeg"]487118[/ATTACH] I actually carried the khaki version on the anniversary. Opinels generally aren't my thing (nothing against them, they just don't trip my trigger), but these two knives are cool. Their blades are stainless steel (unspecified variety, just stamped INOX), and both the blade and Virobloc (locking ring) are done in PVD, so it almost looks like they're blued. Opinel only made 1944 in each of the two colors, and the blades are stamped No.XXXX/1944 to reflect that. God bless the froggies for remembering the Longest Day. ETA: the book in the background is [I]The Story of Knife Steel[/I] by Dr. Larrin Thomas (inventor of Magnacut). [/QUOTE]

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