A quick overview of the famous Fairbairn-Sykes or F-S dagger of WW2! Check out The Knife Life on TH-cam for the full story! • The World War 2 Fairba...
One of the prettiest designs ever I know its a modern version of an old dagger but still very pretty knife they where made to kill not do camp chores lol
The FS was designed as a fighting knife, nothing else...its beauty is only surpassed by its lethality in the hands of a trained soldier...usually a soldier had a second knife, like a ka - bar, for example, for everything else....I would not round the tip & would always have it razor-sharp....beautiful specimen, btw...😊
Like through history, this blade style has been around for hundreds of years. If the tip broke, they didn't carry two. They knew the tips snapped, so they rounded the tips, and they still pierced very well! Some men, like today, did carry two. They rounded the tips, on these and other makes of daggers!
A lot of the tips were ground down deliberately, the needle tips had a tendancy to get stuck in the bones of the ribcage and vertebrae. My Grandfather told me this and he was part of a Commando unit which specialized in going behind Japanese lines.
So there are still reproductions that are made today but to my knowledge there isn't a large scale production of new F-s daggers. There are still a lot of them floating around and they have largely been phased out by improved blades.
I seen one for $75 30 years ago in an antique shop in south east Kansas, but didn’t buy it. Wish I’d have blown a seventy-five dollar bill out of my ass and run with it.
Wow a fighting knife not making a good camp/field knife? Shocker! I get it tho as soldiers they probably had very little justification for carry two blades at the time.
Tosh they never carried two, the tips are only know to have broken when being used for prizes open cans for food, as for breaking at the ricasso I’ve never heard of that one, and I’ve been collecting for 50 years
Thanks for the info. It seems essentially like a rat tail. Honestly the kabar has the same weakness. If you make the whole handle out of metal anyway why tf would you not make it a true width full tang? Then just out 2 sides on and it would look exactly the same.
Pretty much. They didn't hold up well in camp life and other situations. Feedback from the Marine Stiletto (essential a copycat of the F-S) was taken into account during the creation of the USMC Combat Utility knife.
That's exactly why i use it. I have a can opener and tools. My F-S sleeps until the moment we hope never will happen. Its only purpose is to arrange an appointment with Allah, if my beautiful syrian or afghan brothers make another bad decision. Its pretty much perfect, next to the Gerber Mark 2
@thescatologistcopromancer3936 lol, no, I don't visit muslim countries at all. The F-S is to outrange the knifes used by our beloved immigrants. You don't need to travel, just to be threatened by a bunch of them.
One of the first knives i ever got, i think it was for Christmas when i was 8. I still have it today.
Very cool!
One of the prettiest designs ever I know its a modern version of an old dagger but still very pretty knife they where made to kill not do camp chores lol
They are very beautiful knives!
When properly used it is almost guaranteed to make your opponent take a dirt nap
But is that the knife or the technique?
@@Thoroughly_Wetboth but mostly the knife
Technique, you can substitute a pencil or barbecue skewer and achieve the same results if you have the technique down.
Imh.
@@Thoroughly_Wet the gutterfighting techniques were used with all manners of weapons. Not just the FS dagger. 🗡️
@@QueensStandUprhetorical question
The FS was designed as a fighting knife, nothing else...its beauty is only surpassed by its lethality in the hands of a trained soldier...usually a soldier had a second knife, like a ka - bar, for example, for everything else....I would not round the tip & would always have it razor-sharp....beautiful specimen, btw...😊
It’s as synonymous with commando as the Kabar is with United States Marine
Like through history, this blade style has been around for hundreds of years. If the tip broke, they didn't carry two. They knew the tips snapped, so they rounded the tips, and they still pierced very well! Some men, like today, did carry two. They rounded the tips, on these and other makes of daggers!
A lot of the tips were ground down deliberately, the needle tips had a tendancy to get stuck in the bones of the ribcage and vertebrae. My Grandfather told me this and he was part of a Commando unit which specialized in going behind Japanese lines.
This is so awesome! I don't need one! But after this video I want one! 😂
Are these still made today either by the original company or a quality repro?
So there are still reproductions that are made today but to my knowledge there isn't a large scale production of new F-s daggers. There are still a lot of them floating around and they have largely been phased out by improved blades.
@@TheKnifeLifeChannelFS still makes them but only sells them to military and police in large orders
Thanks for the short video. I hope you might make a full video. I brought this particular knife up just recently in another one of your videos.
The full video has been up for quite a while and you can go watch it now on the channel
@@TheKnifeLifeChannel Thank you very much for the information.
@@TheKnifeLifeChannelaaaand I'm off...
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I seen one for $75 30 years ago in an antique shop in south east Kansas, but didn’t buy it. Wish I’d have blown a seventy-five dollar bill out of my ass and run with it.
Wow a fighting knife not making a good camp/field knife? Shocker!
I get it tho as soldiers they probably had very little justification for carry two blades at the time.
Right? The next historical video will actually be on the Ka-Bar which is one of the few knives that is decently respected in both applications though.
@@TheKnifeLifeChanneli own the Ka-Bar too, and a KM 2000.
If shit goes down, the first and only right choice is the F-S.
Tosh they never carried two, the tips are only know to have broken when being used for prizes open cans for food, as for breaking at the ricasso I’ve never heard of that one, and I’ve been collecting for 50 years
Thanks for the info. It seems essentially like a rat tail. Honestly the kabar has the same weakness.
If you make the whole handle out of metal anyway why tf would you not make it a true width full tang? Then just out 2 sides on and it would look exactly the same.
It's not meant for batoning, Einstein. No one cares
@@ryantogo8359 when did i ever use the word "baton"? Einstein?
Infact no one cares
nice little twirl dance move there, looks 100% applicable to todays fighting forces.
The man who did the twirl had been in hundreds of real knife fights. Unlike most modern soldiers.
Dagger making
Iconic and useless for anything other than what they were designed for and opening letters.
Pretty much. They didn't hold up well in camp life and other situations. Feedback from the Marine Stiletto (essential a copycat of the F-S) was taken into account during the creation of the USMC Combat Utility knife.
That's exactly why i use it. I have a can opener and tools.
My F-S sleeps until the moment we hope never will happen.
Its only purpose is to arrange an appointment with Allah, if my beautiful syrian or afghan brothers make another bad decision.
Its pretty much perfect, next to the Gerber Mark 2
@@mr.t9886you're going to Afghanistan with a dagger?
@thescatologistcopromancer3936 lol, no, I don't visit muslim countries at all.
The F-S is to outrange the knifes used by our beloved immigrants. You don't need to travel, just to be threatened by a bunch of them.
Valor
FS is SF when flipped.
SF means Special Forces 🤯