Trip Report Celebrating First Blood 40th Anniversary

[JonathanD]

So would your replicas be the one knife tool you'd take if you were going to be dropped off in a remote forest environment. Honest question - just wondering how usable or misplaced you feel it maybe as a actually useful survival / bushcraft tool.


But it IS a great iconic knife.

Definitely not. It’s very much of its time. It’ll do the job for sure if it was pressed and they’re exceptionally well made. The hollow handle weak tang argument doesn’t hold water as Jimmy excecuted it very well. But it’s not for me. I’d put it more in the combat/survival category too.

 

[Bluebs4]

I must dig mine out , I had a few of Andys knives next level knife engineering , Iv still got a few hillbill knives ( hope your well mate) I also had the your version the Rob Bayley Deval Johnathan,

 

[Nice65]

Cool as…

I’m of an age I can appreciate all that stuff. How me and my best mate next door wanted one of those knives…

 

[JonathanD]

I must dig mine out , I had a few of Andys knives next level knife engineering , Iv still got a few hillbill knives ( hope your well mate) I also had the your version the Rob Bayley Deval Johnathan,

I remember. I saw one of the two I had commissioned come up for sale not so long back for a nuts amount. Although there were only two made.

 

[JonathanD]

Cool as…

I’m of an age I can appreciate all that stuff. How me and my best mate next door wanted one of those knives…

I think we all did. Swooning over the Survival Aids catalogue with the Wilky survival and Buck etc. Then John Fenna burst the bubble by telling everyone it was crap

 

[Chris]

So would your replicas be the one knife tool you'd take if you were going to be dropped off in a remote forest environment. Honest question - just wondering how usable or misplaced you feel it maybe as a actually useful survival / bushcraft tool.


But it IS a great iconic knife.

I think I’d go for Topper Harley’s knife from Hot Shots!:

 

[CLEM]

View attachment 91645View attachment 91646View attachment 91647I did have some pics of the saw results as it was happening. Maybe Clem has them.

I don’t old bean, you know how knackered my old phone is now

 

[John Fenna]

I think we all did. Swooning over the Survival Aids catalogue with the Wilky survival and Buck etc. Then John Fenna burst the bubble by telling everyone it was crap

Sorry!

 

[slingback]

This......is...
..AWESOME!

 

[walker]

Fabulous report, love the out of the box theme .
I also grew up in the 80's and loved camping hiking with all that old kit , never had any bad experiences and was left with loads of great memories