I have never seen a gravity knife. Thanks for sharing.
@zackworrell Жыл бұрын
I have one of those German gravity knives my grandfather gave me from when he caught German spies who landed in NJ in U-boats to destroy oil refineries in Trenton and Newark. He was an FBI agent durring WWII and also acted like a student to observe and monitor Albert Einstein. Crazy story but true.
@Chungustav7 ай бұрын
OSS
@jjcahill89345 жыл бұрын
Very nice group of rigging knives! My first encounter with the "Marlin Spike'" was also around the age of 8. My friend, who's father was an avid sports fisher, convinced me that the "spike" was for dispatching marlin (and other large fish ) when they were landed! A couple years later I began sailing and found out his "spike" explanation was "fishy." :) Your German "jump" knife is certainly in museum condition, quite a beauty. Thanks for sharing!
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
Ironically, the fish was named after the fish rather than the other way round! ‘Marlin’ is a type of tarred rope used to bind the ends of ropes.
@BigRedEDC5 жыл бұрын
Great selection of marlin spike knives! As a former sailor, I only have one...lol! Love the gravity knife! Thanks for sharing my friend!
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
BigRedEDC I only had one from my own service, though I’d bout it as a child. By the time I served, they’d been withdrawn from issue. I suppose a 1938 pattern was a little long in the tooth. The army one was on loan from my brother and the other two were inherited. It’s just a shame that I can’t keep the gravity knife😞😢
@ConorMakesАй бұрын
Nice, I'm on the look out for one to replace mine that I lost early in my RN career. This was early 90s and it did have a can opener on it. Was stamped with my Rate, name, initials and service number. We where told to be carful with them as they where sharp as hell and you WILL cut yourself with it, think it only took me about 3 days to complete that challenge lol Thanks for sharing
@skcamerican3 жыл бұрын
Nice collection of marlin spike knives! I’d like to have one, especially a heavy-duty antique one. Since I’m a landlubber, a modern Rough Ryder would probably do the trick. Thanks for another glimpse into your collection.
@slick_slicers3 жыл бұрын
The Royal Navy ones show up quite a bit for around thirty quid. They were issued for almost fifty years, so they’re not exactly rare. The Luftwaffe ones on the other hand are very valuable, especially this one, but also very illegal in the U.K. 😢
@chrisosh95745 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid there was a place called the Swap Shop in Croydon, in the sixties we used to buy the army version with the hard rubber scales for 2/6(12.5p). That was a week's pocket money in those days. I actually managed to break the can opener on one of them, generally being 'soldier proof' they were pretty much indestructable, I still have one from 1943 made by WM Slater. I don't know what steel they used but it takes and holds a wicked edge.
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
chris osh sorry, I missed this comment! That makes the 78 new pence I paid in 1974 sound really expensive!
@drxym5 ай бұрын
My dad was in the paras and I have his knife he was issued with which is a British army clasp knife like the 3rd example you have - knife, spike, can opener and flat head screwdriver. His is dated 1984 but the writing is sideways to the above and the knife blade is in better nick. He said most soldiers got a knife without the spike but paras obviously needed to open knots. I haven't put it to use - it's in great condition but I do sail and I'm tempted to use it for that purpose.
@slick_slicers4 ай бұрын
They are good knives, if a little hard to open sometimes. In my sailing days (dinghies in my childhood and RNR as an adult) most people who used a knife carried a blunt ended sheath knife and a separate spike.
@rhino54195 жыл бұрын
Hello. I have two modern versions in the shape of the army knife. One has yellow g10 handle scales and the other has polished wood scales. Instead of a can/bottle opener they have a shackle opener. I use the large flat scewdriver for opening oysters. Good health and stay safe.
@chrisboyd20344 жыл бұрын
Great video, and that Luftwaffe knife is something special!
@slick_slicers4 жыл бұрын
it was very sad to see it go, but it’s gone to a good home and avoided the Police shredder!
@DisabledPrepper5 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal. Thank you very much for sharing! I absolutely love tools with Marlin Spikes. So useful. I always wonder why the RN Jack Knife was never issued with a serrated blade? It would have made cutting ropes a lot easier. I have a Victorinox Skipper in my Field Kit, which I take sailing too. I do keep the British Army one from Sheffield Steel in my Washbag. Very helpful to me as a disabled person/ Engineer. Thank you for your lovely video. Subscribed. Warm regards D/P
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
DisabledPrepper thank you for your kind words. If you like these knives check out Tobias Gibson/Knife Chats With Tobias. He has a few videos and a fairly lengthy article on them. The serrated vs plain edge, I assume comes down to ease of maintenance. Also, you can use the sheep’s foot by placing it on a rope and striking the back with a mallet or a heavy belay pin.
@cubehire36535 жыл бұрын
I just bought one these knifes at a Flea Sale for 10 bucks. I said to myself " what is this?" i like its spike claw like tool. Nice inexpensive unusual blade for my collection. Its in good shape by has no markings.
@UnstoppableTramp5 жыл бұрын
hat gravity knife is a beauty, they go for quite a bit of money now. I had never seen one with a marlin spike on it! V nice
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
Unstoppable Tramp both the first and second pattern and the British SOE copy had spikes. I’ve never handled the later plastic, German army version so I don’t know about them.
@UnstoppableTramp5 жыл бұрын
@@slick_slicers glad I have finally seen an original!!
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
Unstoppable Tramp well from 11 June, this one will be in the Royal Armouries in Leeds England for all to see.
@JohnSwampthingRae5 жыл бұрын
Most o' the German gravity Knives have Marlinespikes... Including the Postwar Bundeswehr ones...
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
JohnSwampthingRae that’s what I thought, but I’ve never handled the plastic ones, so couldn’t be sure. All the later ones are stripable too. It’s amazing that this 80 year old example has survived so well. If I’d found it as a child, you can bet it would’ve had its share of throwing practice!
@paddyspotatopeelers21545 жыл бұрын
Nice job mate good bit of info. Atb paddy 👍☘️😄
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
paddys potato peelers it’s a strange coincidence that my father was a leading hand and I got a commission; you were a leading hand and your son got a commission! I think I saw the hard work the ratings did and the mahogany wardroom for the officers and knew which I fancied!
@paddyspotatopeelers21545 жыл бұрын
@@slick_slicers lol. Aint that the truth. 🤣🤣🤣☘️👍
@cubehire36535 жыл бұрын
My new Rigging knife has a blade with a knife saw combination, a ring tool and a spike. It looks most like the smallest of the blades in your video. I wish it was stamped with a manufacturer's name and county of origin. I don't know who or where it was made although I suspect China as it was inexpensive. It looks new. I like it.
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
Cube Hire sorry, I only just saw this. Look up Knife Chats with Tobias/Tobias Gibson. He has a lot of information on marlin knives as he collects them. He even has an excellent written article on them.
@KnifeChatswithTobias5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic collection! About the bail... it’s also called a shackle which is especially confusing for a rigging knife! Strangely, I think the more appropriate term is the one you never hear: a clevis! The paratrooper’s knife is beautiful. The condition is amazing. I think the last of the Sheffield you showed were from the 1960’s to present. The paratroopers in America are indeed part of the Army. But all branches have forces that jump. Hard to explain but all of them are trained in the Army’s Airborne school. Also the German SS also had an Airborne unit but it was never used in a major Airborne operation and mostly acted as ground infantry. As for stamping your name on it... you should also want the knife to be quality. Great video! Thanks for the info !
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
Knife Chats with Tobias to me it’s always been a shackle or Lanyard ring, never a bail. In fact I’d never heard the term ‘bail’ till about a year ago, and I didn’t know what it meant. The term clevis to me only gets used as part of the term clevis pin, and I’d never thought of calling the skackle a clevis, but it certainly makes sense. The Luftwaffe knife is absolutely banned here in the UK as it’s a gravity knife. In a test case over the general legislation, this exact pattern was used as a example. This established that there was no legal defence to possessing one, so mine is off to a museum on 11 June 😞, but at least it’ll be appreciated.
@KnifeChatswithTobias5 жыл бұрын
Slick Slicers, I saw the term clevis show up in older industry papers as well as in patents. Bail makes no sense to me either but it’s the term used heavily in America. I used to call it a lanyard ring or lanyard shackle as both of those terms seem more descriptive and accurate.
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
Knife Chats with Tobias me too!
@KnifeChatswithTobias5 жыл бұрын
Stuart Harvey, both terms would be better than a bail! I’m going to try hard to go with “D ring” or “ clevis” for now on!
@sebastianharris-aldred80572 жыл бұрын
The gravity knife I believe is a ww2 german paratroopers knife
@slick_slicers2 жыл бұрын
Quite correct, though it’s still primarily a rigging, rather than a fighting knife!
@kurtsteiner83844 ай бұрын
My gradfather had the second one in ww1 used it everyday for opening tins. He was staff sergent royal engineers sapper france mostly. I served in rn, from 1979 to 1993, and was issued the captain currey captain lokspike. The modern version does not have the tin opener blade. These are not knives but utility tools, issued to sailors and marines, a nd members of british army. Not sure about raf.
@slick_slicers4 ай бұрын
They are tough tools for tough work and generally they hold up very well. Usually, the Army ones bad can openers as Compo came in tins, whilst RN didn’t use Compo, but Compo now comes in plastic/foil bags, so the opener is really necessary.
@kurtsteiner83844 ай бұрын
@@slick_slicers i We did have compo ratio s in rn. I know ive eaten them. Very good video and informative. Tough bit of kit lent mine to my dad, never got it back, had he stolen by civvy airline going to saudi arabia, hsed it to clean his pipe.
@chanabhaji27263 жыл бұрын
A good cause. The Royal Armouries is a great day out.
@slick_slicers3 жыл бұрын
It’s also the only U.K. museum legally allowed to take possession of this WMD! The RAF said they couldn’t, as did everyone else I tried. Gravity knives are absolutely forbidden to own in the U.K. I know it’s ridiculous, but true nonetheless.
@johnmckeag1048 Жыл бұрын
Why are your knuckles calloused?
@johnken81703 жыл бұрын
My British riging knife says 1941 on it.
@slick_slicers2 жыл бұрын
if its dated, its more likely army. the R N ones usually have just the pattern number (21306) and the maker’s name. they ran from 1938 to the early 80’s. the only change being that, prior to 1942, they had a copper coloured lanyard loop.
@dude...are-you-sure27 күн бұрын
I thought carrying a knife on your person is illegal in the UK, no mater size? I once saw a video of a lad pranking a couple of cops in a subway in England somewhere. He pulled out something resembling a butterfly kNife and got tackled to the ground by the cops. Turns out to be a comb blade rather than a real blade. Lol
@garyburns80402 жыл бұрын
I have 4 Case xx rigging knives and you talk like Anthony Hopkins
@slick_slicers2 жыл бұрын
He’s Welsh!
@davids95495 жыл бұрын
Really interesting. I knew nothing of this genre of knife. Ugly and clumpy (to my eye), and utilitarian in the extreme. As usual, the Germans get the better kit...
@slick_slicers5 жыл бұрын
David S as that RN knife was my first knife, back in 1974, it has a sentimental attachment. SOE copied the Luftwaffe knife for British Forces, but with plastic scales.