Show me your Nice Knife! Vintage BFKs welcome

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In my world a rigging knife also has a pike. does your have that?
Not this one but they sell one with it, and also you can get a straight edge instead of serrated. I didn't think I'd need the marlinspike underwater, but who knows!
 
The knife on my right is my original BFK, purchased in 1980. I haven’t dove it in a couple of years (one of the straps broke and I never got around to replacing it). The middle knife was purchased as a back-up for the Dacor. The tiny one on the left I found diving in RI a couple of years ago.

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It's fun finding knives, but what do you do for a holster? Whatever it came with didn't work...
 
It's fun finding knives, but what do you do for a holster? Whatever it came with didn't work...
I think most knives are lost because the user doesn’t get it all the way into the sheath. Modern knives click into place. My Dacor has a rubber loop to hold it in, same with the Wenoka. But they both sat pretty loose in the sheath (the Wenoka sheath was a terrible fitand I was expecting it to just fall out).

The one on the left, is probably a much better dive knife. It holds a blade better than the other two and clips into the sheath. The diver that lost it just didn’t push it in far enough.
 
I think most knives are lost because the user doesn’t get it all the way into the sheath. Modern knives click into place

I've found a number of squeeze to release knives, they had debris in them that kept them from locking in place. Most knives I've found are BFK's, a scuba tool, and a Fogcutter. I'll post pictures of the ones I've kept, along with my Healthways BFK, when I return from vacation.


Bob
 
View attachment 480072 My other knife issue... anyone else? I am used to right handed tools but wonder what a lefty knife would feel like.

:rofl3: It's a bread knife. Only 10% of the people can't slice sushi straight with it? Can't be.
 
When I moved to California and great white shark territory, I bought the biggest, baddest BFK I could find to fend them off. After nearly 50 years diving "with" GWS, I've learned all I really need is a small cutting tool for fishing line, etc.

However, I sure find a number of dive knives "abandoned" in our dive park... just no sheathes for them.
 
The Pelengas magnetic knife mentioned earlier is still available.
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anyone got a stash of line cutters and scissors

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or broken steak knives
 
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My BFK.
Found for about $10 in an antique store. Came with a terrible plastic sheath, now it has a probably also terrible 3D printed sheath that I still haven't gotten around to finishing the design of.

One of these days I'll get some tools out and cut a combo line cutter/bottle opener into the back of it.
Other than weight, the bottle opener will be very useful.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/perdix-ai/

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