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The 225-Q has been covered here on THR fairly recently.
But as I cleaning up the collection and recording them, I thought maybe it deserved another look.
The Cattaraugus 225 Q Commando was also known as the Quartermaster knife in WWII, and was in fact the strongest utility knife in general use.
(Although Case made a similar model, the 337-Q)
The 6” blade is nearly 3/16" thick, and would serve quite nicely as a pry-bar for opening crates.
Or the nearly ½” thick checkered steel butt cap as a hammer to nail them back shut again.
They all came with a left-handed sheath, one of the few WWII knives I'm aware of that did.
WWII magazine adds:
This one was purchased by my dad in a troop ship’s store on the way to the Philippines in 1943.
He carried it through the rest of the war, and made it back alive with it two years later.
When I was about 7 years old, he spent one evening sharpening it razor sharp on an old whet stone to use to butcher a hog the next morning.
That didn’t turn out so well, as his blood slick hand somehow slipped past the guard, and he cut three fingers clear to the bone!
After that, he put it up and let it be until I was old enough to commandeer it for my growing military knife collection.
This is the second sheath it has worn, as the original succumbed to South Pacific jungle rot when I was still a boy.
I bought & sold a few decent 225 Q’s over the years, until I finally got one with a real good sheath I put dads old knife in.
I sold the other one without a sheath on eBay for more than I paid for it.
rc
But as I cleaning up the collection and recording them, I thought maybe it deserved another look.
The Cattaraugus 225 Q Commando was also known as the Quartermaster knife in WWII, and was in fact the strongest utility knife in general use.
(Although Case made a similar model, the 337-Q)
The 6” blade is nearly 3/16" thick, and would serve quite nicely as a pry-bar for opening crates.
Or the nearly ½” thick checkered steel butt cap as a hammer to nail them back shut again.
They all came with a left-handed sheath, one of the few WWII knives I'm aware of that did.
WWII magazine adds:
This one was purchased by my dad in a troop ship’s store on the way to the Philippines in 1943.
He carried it through the rest of the war, and made it back alive with it two years later.
When I was about 7 years old, he spent one evening sharpening it razor sharp on an old whet stone to use to butcher a hog the next morning.
That didn’t turn out so well, as his blood slick hand somehow slipped past the guard, and he cut three fingers clear to the bone!
After that, he put it up and let it be until I was old enough to commandeer it for my growing military knife collection.
This is the second sheath it has worn, as the original succumbed to South Pacific jungle rot when I was still a boy.
I bought & sold a few decent 225 Q’s over the years, until I finally got one with a real good sheath I put dads old knife in.
I sold the other one without a sheath on eBay for more than I paid for it.
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