During SHOT Show we broke the story about Greg Medford, head honcho at Medford Knife & Tool receiving the official letter form the Marine Corps making the new MKT USMC EOD-1 Knife is the approved replacement for the legacy knife. Designed in cooperation with EOD techs at 29 Palms, the EOD-1 is a thick, solid tool built to hammer, pry, guide wire, probe and of course cut and saw. It is extremely heavy duty.
Here’s Greg talking about the new knife and explaining its features:
Benchmade Knives has launched a new website with an updated look and feel. They’ve also added a new search function that should help you zoom right in on what you are looking for. Also, for those of you unfamiliar with Benchmade’s site, they run their own forum so it’s a great place to interact with other Benchmade owners. Despite reports that the site is not mobile friendly it opened just fine for us on both iPad and iPhone.
The Escort Carbon Fiber Dagger bundle from Carbon Fiber Gear includes all three knives in the series. These are carbon fiber so they don’t hold a razor edge but can be sharpened with sand paper. The outer surface of the blades are comprised of a 3k 2×2 twill weave fabric, while the inner surfaces are made up of 12 layers of uni-directional fiber. The handles are made up of a total of 36 layers of carbon fiber.
All are 100% carbon fiber and 100% Made in USA!
store.carbonfibergear.com/escort-carbon-fiber-dagger-bundle
This may prove to be the most entertaining 8:46 of your life, or the most terrifying if you consider the Chinese horde all armed to the teeth with these shovels. It slices, it dices, it juliennes. Truth be told, a couple of the features such as the “scissor” and nail puller are pretty cool, but music and effects make this one worth the price of admission. Make sure you stay long enough to see the entrenching tool museum.
This article first appeared on SSD June 9th, 2010.
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Long before he ever built an axe for America’s elite, Master Bladesmith Daniel Winkler developed a reputation for his traditional Native American designs. With the Stealth Axe from Winkler Knives II, Daniel has developed a close quarters alternative to the WK II Combat Axe. I really like the Stealth Axe having had a chance to briefly handle one at SHOT Show. It’s a good fit in the hand and well balanced with the heft of the head so close to the fist. It feels like you can get a good swing going with it.
The Stealth Axe features a 4 3/4″ head made from S-7 steel with an overall length of 9″. It only weighs 1.2 pounds vice the 1.5 pounds of the full-sized WK II Combat Axe. It has a full tang, integral handle and is available with maple, micarta or rubber handle scales. You definitely aren’t going to lose your grip with the rubber handle but Daniel related to me that many users of his knives and axes prefer the wood. He says it gives them a connection with home when they are deployed. They can reach down to their blade and feel the reassurance of a little piece of America. Since Winkler offers KG coating, you might want to consider it to give your Axe a worry free camo finish. Don’t forget, it also comes with a felt lines Kydex sheath.
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We broke the story on the SureFire Push Dagger during our SHOT Show coverage.
Here, Steve Ryan, director of SureFire’s Edged Weapons Division discusses why they designed the Push Dagger with an asymmetric edge. It’s a 7075 aluminum handle paired with a ATS 34 blade to keep weight down. The push dagger design allows for thrusting as well as slashing. He also explains in a round about way that it’s their entry into the latest trend of last ditch fighting knives for our troops. Most are more traditional narrow-blade dagger designs or even spikes. SureFire went a different route.
Coming soon from www.SureFire.com/edgedweapons.
In another case study in unethical behavior and theft, people in China and possibly elsewhere are making cheap, substandard copies of Darrel Ralph Designs Gunhammer. They have been seen on eBay and in some shops in Afghanistan.
A knock-off of DDR's Gunhammer. Be aware they're out there.
DDR says, “We’ve been trying to get these people to stop [but] they don’t care about intellectual property theft and they won’t respond to any communication. We filled out their [eBay’s] ridiculous forms and submitted them, but it was just a waste of time.”
Though the knives look and feel cheap, unless you know what to look for you might be gulled into putting money into one of these thieves’ pockets. First of all, no DDR knife is going to be sold for $10. Second, they look and feel cheaply made (they are typically much lighter than the real thing) and third, there are some cosmetic differences (including the placement of the name and initials). They know some of them are being made in China (having traced the first fakes to one ordered by a customer in Singapore) and possibly also Pakistan.
A beautiful example of a real DDR gunhammer.
DDR went on, “Unfortunately, there is not a thing we can do about it except flip them the bird. The cost of stopping them is extreme [and even then it wouldn’t be a permanent resolution]…there is no protection at all.”
DDR’s genuine work is on his website and Facebook page. Oh, and if you’re interested, DDR now has a knife blog.
-DR
