One of a Kind Knives

  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...

  First introduced in 1993 as the Model 14R1 The Cold Steel Military Classic was patterned after the Randall Model 1-7 Fighting Knife and manufactured in Taiwan of 400 Stainless Steel. It came with a classic brown leather sheath featuring a pouch with sharpening stone, a feature which was retained throughout the life of the model. A total of 3 different blade steels were offered until the final version using Sanmai III steel was produced in 2006. I n 2000 Cold Steel shifted production to Seki, Japan to produce the model as the 14R1J using AUS 8 Stainless Steel. The right side of the blade was now marked AUS 8A Stainless, Made in Japan. Finally in 2006 the AUS 8A model was upgraded to a VG1 core called Sanmai III retaining the 14R1J model number designation. Production of this last version ended in 2012 . Cold Steel describes the knife;  ”The Cold Steel was based on the Randall Model 1-7 Fighting Knife. But make no mistake, our R1 Military Classic is not just a showpiece. The b...