[rcmodel]

I got it in the early 1980’s at a local hardware store.
It is a 3” lock-back stainless blade, Micarta scales.

KA-BAR and Khyber were both owned by the same company, Cole National then.
The Khyber name-play game was a less expensive line imported from Japan.
It is actually a very well made knife.

I carried this one at work for several years, and finally broke the tip off of it trying to pry a bolt out of a fork-lift tire one night!!

Anyway I re-ground the blade tip, and did the 3/32” German-silver wire pin inlays to customize it a little.

In the mean time, it probably cut a thousand semi-trailer steel door seals, field dressed a couple hundred pheasants, quail, & ducks, and just kept coming back for more!

It was a pretty good old knife!
And thats more then you can say about a lot of them!

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j219/rcmodel/Knives/Kyber1.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j219/rcmodel/Knives/Kyber2.jpg

rc

[Bull Nutria]

what kind of factory did you work in to have to cut door seals? very nice work on that handle.

Bull

[rcmodel]

I worked for a very well known, yet unnamed midwest Greeting Card company for 36 years, between stints in the Army.

I started out as a machine maintenance man right out of high school, and later became a tool & die repair specialist for the plastic injection mold division.
Then shift manager of it.

You probably have seen a Hallmark Cards plastic ribbon spool??
I probably had some fingerprints on the 1,000 pound steel mold that made it.

However, like all big companies & the U.S. Army?
Hallmark Cards Inc. decided my 25 years experience in mechanical, welding, & machine tool skills were far more valuable to them running the warehouse & shipping department on 2nd. shift the last 10 years of my carrier!!

Kinda like, if you got a guy in the Army who can drive a bulldozer when you draft him?
Make him a Cook, or Office Clerk!!!

Same strategy in big business!
It broadens your horizons to put you in an uncomfortable position.

And the Blue Suits above you love to watch you squirm and hate your job.
Till you finally give up and retire early, before you die of a heart attack!!

Or they have to give you six weeks vacation!

rc

[JimStC]

Outstanding rehab on that knife!

Jim

[lemaymiami]

very nice work.... and I understand completely about lack of job satisfaction.

I was a pretty good street cop, then a fair sergeant, but when I moved up into management .... to put it mildly - the "thrill is gone" as Mr. B.B. would sing. That's the reason I'm a fishing guide today (and have been for a few years...).

[Striker]

RC,

That knife brings back a lot memories for me.

I purchased one in 1977 at Ranger Joe's, just prior to Ranger school for $19.95. It served me very well in the course and through my first tour in Alaska. Well made, good steel, and locked up tight.

Lost it on a jump in 1983 while on a MTT in South America.

Wish I still had it!