Decided to add one of my favorite knives as a header on the blog.
The Sykes Fairbairn is a beautiful knife with a controversial design, tested in combat, but if you abused it, the blade would fail at the tip.
The tip of the knife would just snap off if it was abused, and yet the WW2 paras and OSS used it throughout the war with good results, but like most things, the newest and latest "obsolesced" this fine blade.
After WW2 there were barrels full of issued Sykes Fairbairn knives exported to America and sold for 3 dollars or so, today they would be worth hundreds of dollars if they had been used in combat.
The lesson is, what is cast away if it has intrinsic design value will always be useful, if not currently sexy...
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