You Can See Where They Were Heading

Willard stopped by for coffee, bearing gifts!

Remembering a post from five years ago; he got me a genuine, imitation, West Taiwanese made M3 fighting knife!

Considering that a real one is minimum $120 on ebay, and can go over $1,500, we're happy to have the West Taiwanese model.

You can definitely see that the M7 is just an M3 with plastic grips and bayonet attachments.

0.5 lb. naked, 0.8 lb. with scabbard.  It's a good quality small knife in GURPS terms.

Being a whimsical fellow, he also brought a Cold Steel "Chaos"

1.1 lb. bare, 1.3 lb. with scabbard.  I'd call that a fine quality large knife / brass knuckles combo weapon.  It might even be a decent representation of a Traveller Marine "Blade."

By comparison, the M1918 trench knife is a fine quality small knife / brass knuckles combo.  It's 1.1 lb. drawn and unobtanium scabbarded.

Be careful with your 1918, after 105 years it's still sharp as fuck!

The cats assisted when I was trying to walk to the door and I just barely brushed the edge of the blade keeping my balance.  Better than falling on it or dropping it into my foot, I think.