Show me your Nice Knife! Vintage BFKs welcome

[aquacat8]

Thanks for the pics! I was thinking about the whole tiny DIR knife thing and wondering where it came from or what the rationale was. Yes, a knife strapped your leg can catch on something, and it is better to wear it inside rather than outside the calf in kelp. But a big knife really can do many things a small one can’t. Finally it occurred to me that like not having a snorkel, the little knife might’ve come from cave diving: not a lot of shells to pry, fish to dispatch, nets or big ropes in caves. I think sometimes people adopt something because it is cool and “technical”, forgetting the origins, which might not apply to their type of diving.

 

[t3chnobrat]

Bungee correctedView attachment 478772

How is this attached to your shoulder webbing?

 

[aquacat8]

How is this attached to your shoulder webbing?

It’s easy, the rigging knife has a hole in it, I tied a bungee loop through with a figure eight knot tying the ends together. The loop is passed behind the harness webbing and snapped forward over the other side of the folded knife, trapping it against the harness. The bungee must be the correct length. The knot is easy to grab and the knife then comes loose and you are holding its bungee.

 

[aquacat8]

A rigging knife is for sailors, made to cut rope, harness and so forth.

 

[aquacat8]

A lot of knives are more for stabbing or cutting on hard surface.

 

[aquacat8]

For a stainless knife it was cheap!
WEST MARINE Stainless Steel Serrated Rigging Knife | West Marine

 

[t3chnobrat]

Perfect, thank you!

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I have to say during night dives at Blue Heron Bridge I have been very happy with the police presence because it can be a bit nerve-racking gearing up there.

Seriously?
What happens there that it’s that bad?

 

[JamesBon92007]

For a stainless knife it was cheap!
WEST MARINE Stainless Steel Serrated Rigging Knife | West Marine

I remember when West Marine only sold boat stuff.

 

[JamesBon92007]

we have one commercial manufacturer, small company, who produce fish hunting equipment. Pelengas their name.
And they have very good relations and feedback with fish hunters over different diving and fish hunting forums.
And after long discussions they put in mass production this knife:
Нож Пеленгас Волга
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it was made specially for fish hunters.

most interesting for this knife is it clamping in the scabbard
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MAGNETS!

Magnets? What's the blade made from? By "fish hunters" do you mean with a fishing pole or a speargun?