Blades at Work: in Television and the Cinema

Named after the vegetable?

MacGyver original series.

The SAK.

-kBob

Solomonson said:

Yeah, 6 years! Amazing! I was thinking about putting down the required $50.00 down payment and then just forgetting about it, until the bill comes due. As it is now, they can always be sold for more.

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I've got a model 7 set for shipping in January. Ordered 6/23/2016. So just about 4 1/2 years. Looking forward to getting it and then using it!

Boattale said:

I've got a model 7 set for shipping in January. Ordered 6/23/2016. So just about 4 1/2 years. Looking forward to getting it and then using it!

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Nordic Knives, formerly of Solvang California, shows some Randall knives available on their website.

Shanghai McCoy said:

Nordic Knives, formerly of Solvang California, shows some Randall knives available on their website.

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You can find them. A.G. Russell normally has a few. There are other sites too, but you have to take what's available.

Trying not to be negative I find it hard to watch a lot of blade play as its usually pretty gooned up. Errol flyn using 18th century smallsword techniques for every period of history he fought in, braveheart using a two handed handle not due to be seen for another century. Also lack of grappling shown in most blade fights. Check the old knights manuals or even samurai stuff, a chunk of the book is always devoted to grappling, the techniques could read right out of a modern highschool wrestling coaching book. Reason being once people get close, like with boxing or MMA, a clinch can change the game, so you need to have skills covered in that area. One I liked was the original Duellist with Harvey keitel, they made a fair attempt to use Napoleonic cavalry and smallsword duelling techniiques of that era

Just got done watching El Dorado for the umpteenth time. The couple times when Mississippi pulls out that knife from the back of his shirt always makes me grin.

I doubt it's what you're looking for, but I always enjoyed the swordfight between Westley and Inigo from the Princess Bride.

interesting note on a movie knife minute. in "Sniper" with Tom Berenger, watch the scene where he uses the inexperienced sniper as bait for the rogue sniper that Beckett trained that was following them. in the scene where the knife is hanging in the water to make niose you can see its one of those $2 survival knives with the bubble compass on the pommel, then later its puit away & it looks like a regular knife.

Oh, it occurred to me today that no one has mentioned "Highlander",the original movie, yet.