The KA-BAR USSF Fighting Knife (a.k.a. The Space Bar)

[stansdds]

Space-Bar??? Do they serve a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster?

Oh, I certainly hope so!

 

[tops]

But as my Uncle Roy says, "It's good that we all don't like the same things or everyone would want my wife."

I once knew a guy that said that and another guy standing there said if everybody was like me nobody would have her. Larry

 

[mikeruns]

Space…lack of gravity…maybe a lanyard and/or just a long smooth edged pry bar of sort would be more useful lol….don't want to inadvertently ventilate one's suit or other stuff up there…maybe one of those Swiss "my 1st knife" tips is in order lol…love Kabars, have one from my service time in the 80s-90s, and one of the WWII or Korea era n.o.s. knives with hard fiber glass sheath and original cardboard tag on it still. They were issued to most of the services, almost all Marines were armed with one during the island hopping campaigns…so they are associated with jarheads pretty much like they were only exclusive for Marines, but not so…everybody used them. Space knife is purty….

 

[Farmer17]

My dad had a Navy K bar with fiberglass sheath and I wanted it more than anything in his estate when he passed but it somehow disappeared. I bought an Ontario Knife Company clone which I heard issued more U S military knives than K Bar and it has a more water resistant stacked leather coated grip. I use it for very heavy duty chores and don't worry about it getting banged up, it's tough!

 

[CHARLIE699]

Dad's Navy knife (U.S.N. '43-'46). He was an E/M and upgraded the leather grip with that "new" resin. Had the sheath tooled in Oahu while stationed at Iroquois Point.

Many knives out there, but this one is "family"

 

[DCWilson]

Eight of those would make an excellent set of steak knives the next time you get the Wedgwood china out for a small state dinner.

At the moment I can't afford more than one, which I ordered only minutes after learning from the OP that this knife actually exists. I imagine I will use it mostly as a prop in photos which could benefit from a sense of watered-down menace.