15 Responses to “Sneak Peek – American Kami Trench Knife”

1. Joe says:

   October 31, 2015 at 06:06

   Talk about gaudy. I think I saw these for $15 on BudK

   • matty says:

     October 31, 2015 at 06:58

     Yeah, not a huge fan of the scales myself. I prefer toned down design aesthetics.

2. Patrick says:

   October 31, 2015 at 13:08

   American Kami needs to take the sales from a single knife and pay a web designer to update his website. It’s atrocious.

   • SSD says:

     October 31, 2015 at 15:22

     Like most custom knife makers, he sells through every run. I understand that the website can be frustrating, it was for me when I first heard about DJ and wanted to learn about his blades, but he doesn’t really need it to make a living.

     • Patrick says:

       October 31, 2015 at 19:34

       Yeah, I get that he sells through his small batch runs really quickly, and doesn’t really NEED the website to help move his (pretty awesome) product. It would just be appreciated if it was a little more user friendly. There are some great looking blades on it, it’s just so damn frustrating to navigate is all.

3. Ajax says:

   October 31, 2015 at 14:22

   IMO, that guard might ought to be swept back-looks like you are looking out on some stabbing capabilities with that design. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me.

4. Bob M says:

   October 31, 2015 at 16:26

   What’s the purpose of the hook?

5. Dellis says:

   October 31, 2015 at 16:32

   Many times “hooks” in a fighting knive, which is a misnomer itself, are used to hook and catch your opponents blade. It’s also a guard of sorts.

   The knife is a neat collector item but I can almost guarantee that if you used this knife in any way to defend yourself and happened to injure or kill your attacker you’re gonna have a hard time explaining yourself before judge and jury!

   • Bill says:

     October 31, 2015 at 18:43

     Wasn’t the theory also that a twist of the knife could supposedly break an opponent’s blade if it was captured in the guard?

     I really doubt that these are going into the field. I can’t even think of a practical way to carry it without interfering with other kit. And it’s a unitasker – I don’t think it’s what you want for shaving fuzz sticks or prying open filing cabinets.

     • "Bob" says:

       October 31, 2015 at 18:56

       In theory, yeah. In practice, it’s damn hard if not impossible.

     • "Bob" says:

       October 31, 2015 at 18:59

       Snapping a blade worked a lot better back in the day when the swords were very thin and light, and the style of fighting meant catching the blade in a nock (usually located on the guard or the base of the blade) was a real possibility.

       With thick, short knives it would be extremely difficult, as well as impractical.

     • Dellis says:

       October 31, 2015 at 19:09

       As Bob noted, yea that was the “thought” or idea but in a “knife fight”, which is up close and in your face, putting that into application is another story.

6. Chris K. says:

   October 31, 2015 at 16:36

   Awesome design, really captures the spirit of WWI trench knives. Amazing to think they used to issue stuff like that back in the day.

7. DJ Urbanovsky says:

   November 1, 2015 at 02:00

   Thanks for sharing these, E. I am extremely excited about them.

   Jeez… Tough crowd! A guy could get his feeling hurt. LOL!

   All I can say about these is that they are going to be badass when they are finished, and either you get where I’m going with them or you don’t.

   Now if you will excuse me, I do believe that these handles should have a big fat bowie blade option before I start cutting steel for them this coming week… 😉

8. Matt says:

   November 1, 2015 at 03:42

   I like it. I like it a lot.