70’s Hackman of Finland Survival Knife
Designed by Ken Warner and Pete Dickey; this rare knife was made during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is not recorded how many were made by Hackman with a 1/4" blade made in Finland, it could be only 1,000. The designed was than cloned and produced by Garcia in Brazil with a 3/16" blade and the same Brazil sheath. The Original Hackman survival knife was intended for private sale to military personnel bound for Vietnam. The Randall Model 18 had made the hollow handle sawback popular with the troops, but Randall could not keep up with demand. Like the Randall this knife featured a watertight hollow handle and a massive 1/4" thick stainless-steel blade with sawback. From Ken Warner's book "The Practical Book of Knives" circa 1975, Chapter 7-The Sharp Pry Bar: "The Hackman Survival Knife has a 7" blade of spear point design with saw teeth on the back. These are genuine kerf-cutting saw teeth, not mere aluminum ripping serrations. It is possibl