I love the early 1800's "All Purpose" big knife design. It is just kitchen enough, just combat enough, and is a fantastic simple tool.

Awesome video. There was a famous soldier of fortune called Von Tempsky (Prussian I think)who led a special forces type unit (Forest Rangers) during the New Zealand Wars in the 1860’s. We understand he had previously fought in the US somewhere / Mexican wars? And issued all his troops in the Forest Rangers with a very large Bowie and a revolver. Apparently they went into combat with a Bowie in one hand and revolver in the other. The Bowie was not only a back up to the revolver but also used to deflect Tomahawk blows (like you said with the Museo Bowie). Svord make a replica of his knife. He was killed in an ambush and the opponents who killed him buried him with full military honours. He was a serious bad-ass cool dude. The New Zealand Wars were very unfortunate and sadly lots of people on all sides died. But interesting martial history 🇺🇸 🇳🇿

Donnie my man, your best video ever! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Great video Donnie, really enjoyed the information and your collection. Really well presented.👏👍❤

Hey there! I just stumbled upon your channel and have really been enjoying all of your videos! Keep up the good work!

Wow that was awesome! Great video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion.

Great video Donnie!.....Very informative History of fighter knives

What an EXCELLENT VIDEO! A "history" lesson on this country's evolution thru the shape of it's knives! This is a video I would recommend as a must see to my kids and grandkids!!! It explains exactly why "this" old man likes his knives so much cause, it's in our history... Our very DNA! we don't leave or outgrow these tools, they evolve with us!!! Thanks Don, GREAT video...

Fantastic video Mr. Di enjoyed it good job guy

I wish i had teachers at school like D-BAD. I could listen to you all week long give history lessons on knives. Top stuff! If this man doesn't reach 100,000 subs in the next few years then something is very wrong with the world.

Outstanding! I greatly appreciate your video. BTW, you rock your Mohawk!

Great video. Thanks

Great history lesson, love your knife collection you have great taste in knifes,keep up the great videos

Very nice great collection!!

Thanks for another great vid. If you ever make it to Kentucky I'll take ya to meet Gil Hibben.

Good presentation Dbad 👌🏻 The blade style we now call the Bowie is older than most people think . I consider the large American Bowie as a direct descendant of the ancient seax .

Thanks Donnie!!!!

Great video. Man. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.

Badass collection of history right there brother 👌

Awesome vid. Really like D-bad being Mr. history teacher.

Great history lesson and collection , thanks for sharing , God bless brother !

An interesting video. Thank you sir👍🏻🇺🇸

Informative Donnie! Don’t forget Randalls and the Gerber Mk IIs which were very popular in the Vietnam war era.

your collection is awesome Brother no doubt about that, and luckily i got some of them ,i am edicted to big badass Bowie knifes, and your designs are just awesome..love you my godfather of knifes

good teachings bro nice history thanks.

Becker BK 7, big fun as also the Mark 1 from Ka-Bar, beautiful, great design, great handle, great sheath!!

Man I need to get my hands on that D guard Bowie looks bad😎ass great review Donnie

The pinnacle of knife evolution is the DBAD. At least when I am out in the wilderness and can get away with carrying a large bowie I will carry it. Ya designed a great bowie there. When I am in an urban environment I usually carry a Tops Szabo Double Egde in scout carry position or a Spyderco YoJumbo in my pocket.

Been watching your videos lately. They're dope. My son is getting deployed to Iraq in May. I want to send him with the right knife.

Absolute KILLER BLADES&killer vid knife bro!! Always enjoy history especially knife fighting& other blade use history.

Great run down of blades and history

Bro this is Dope 🔥🔥

The M3 trench knife was an all around utility knife mainly used for prying open things and also used for stirring rations when you had the luxury of heating them up.

I love this. The history, the purpose, the cool factor, and just because I can. Knife collection awesomeness. I can't wait to get my collection as big as yours. Currently I have a condor king kukri and a cold steel recon tanto. I can't wait to get a Bark River Shining Mountain Bowie and a Work Tuff predator hunter in my collection. For pocket knives my go to is microtech socom elite and cold steel voyager vaquero xl fully serrated. My current two grail knives are one stone and one black microtech stitch fully serrated.

Great video, love seeing all these. Big fan of that Highlander by Gil Hibben. Seriously underrated, that knife. My favorite of these designs is the "Wild West" style, like that Case of SZCO Bowie. If I heard correctly, you have a design for one of your own? By KHHI? Can't wait to see that one pop in.

In the 60's early 70's circa NYC best street knife, German MERCADOR K-55. Always had one handy until the BUCK 110 came out.

It’s always cool to see cool American knives. Just as the Japanese have the katana and the Europeans have the longsword, us Americans have the Bowie knife (and its modern successor the Rambo knife, to the point where I hear several languages translate Bowie knife as “Rambo knife”).

Love that blade you made❤️that was sweet

Excellent presentation on the evolution of the knife in our history. I really enjoyed the video. You showed some knives the likes of which I have never seen before. With the examples you showed, you filled in some blanks for me personally. I'm really ill informed as to the blades carried by the different Native Indians. I have seen some in movies is all. I always have to remind myself that I'm watching a video because everything is in reverse. All the knives look like they are left hand carry. Hope you do more videos with this kind of content. It was great, Thanks.

A Dbad version of the Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife or the V-42 stiletto would be cool.

Buen video amigo👍,saludos del canal de cuchillería artesanal Alvaro Brat 🤠🔪

Beautiful knives

Thanks for the info brother, I really like that native style knife. I have Chichameca and Kiowa blood in me and I want to show you what I did with the Kubey I recently won from you. I’ll send you pictures! I also like those western style knives and the OTF. It’s amazing the evolution of blades 😎🤙

I think the WWI knife is just a bayonet, which is a classic European hunting knife, for sticking pigs and deer. Originally a bayonet was just plugged into the muzzle if you wanted more reach.

Donny, the Buck Ground Combat is great, but I don't see them for sale anymore. I think forging my own knives meets my needs the best! Just ask my fingers!

Love your history lesson Professor Donnie. I was going to ask you in the comments about doing a video about the history of Bowie knives through your perspective, but you have covered it. Would you do a video about Mountain knives or machetes? Love to hear your thoughts on those.

Glad I'm not the only Bay Stater with a stiletto😂

hey, nice package of knowledge :) can i ask did the Condor Hudson Bay has a proper point of balance to be used like a fighting knife?

Condor Atrox is my all time favourite knife

Hi Donnie, any idea when the DBad Arkansas Toothpick will be reviewed?

No, the D Guard Bowie, did not show up until the Civil War. That one with the brass strip on the back. That was more or less the incarnation of the "Bowie" knife, and came first. Now if I am not mistaken, you had both of those made by a maker in Nepal?

Is that bayonet one by Rite Edge? I bought one cause I thought it looked cool a while back but I've used it more than I ever thought I would

You should design a shooting knife like in the one punisher movie

Too good of a video, to see only once...

dope vid. haircut reminds me of travis bickle from taxi driver.

I've grown an obsession with WW1 and the trench knife.

I always liked that condor but wait it freaking. Comes in kydex sheath?? What?? Let's go baby

I might have missed it so i apologize id i did but how is the shaved down bowie with the big clipoint called? Also I'm interested in modifying one of my bowies to look like that, but not for ill intent, i just think it looks cool. Would it be possible to do with something like a hacksaw and a hand file? Thank youbin advance. Sorry for the long text.

I never realised how massive you were, your taller than the refrigerator 😳

bowie knives were designed in a way that makes them particularly effective in a Frontier context

That M16 bayonet you have there, is that one by Rite Edge? I see it from time to time around $30 and always wondered if it was worth it or just a cheap piece.

I feel like the best blade style is the smaller Bowie type like buck makes I do a lot of hunting fishing and camping I have always used a 7inch buck Bowie for that and it’s definitely big enough to be used as a fighting knife

Bowie knife is My favorite , now that's a knife !

I love all those knives until i bought Cold steel Loredo bowie in 3v steel.OMG what a knife!Everything is perfect about that bowie for fighting apps.

A Rambo Paradise.

A Legacy Of Badassery!

Ide love to see you do something on the okc3s. Marine corps bayonet.

Haha love the GCK! And in 5160, it be bad! I couldn’t hang with the egg nog color, so I had mine cerakoted in a beautiful flat black and dyed the scales a dark brown. Thing is like a serious ice pick on steroids, with a sharp edge! Buck needs to quit fartin around, and bring at least the GCK spear point back! Got mine in a trade, with a 80 dollar value point and it arrived practically unused!👀 fkin unreal! They go for around $300-$400 now on eBay, if you can find one. Wish I could get my hands on the big talon from the series. I’d jump on one if I could find it.

Hey D.B.A.D, what do you use to sharpen?

I see that M3

If you had to choose one knife for fighting , what would you choose? natchez bowie or gurkha kukri, so which one do you think is better?

The most important rule in a knife fight is never bring one to a gunfight. I can still visualize the Indiana Jones scene. On the other hand I think I'd rather be shot than stabbed by a big old knife. On a more serious note that is a nice collection. Thanks for sharing and beware of my dry humor.

Awesome review! You missed the EDC knife though. Hugely popular the past 20 years or so. Pocket clip, quick deployment. Most veterans I know in civilian life have their EDC knife. Good for everday utility, but also self-defense knife if needed. An EDC knife usually isn't a switchblade because those aren't legal to carry in most states. Most good EDC knives have thumb studs for lightning-fast deployment. EDC isn't obvious either. Fits in your pocket, but also has fast deployment. EDC is more popular than switchblades for legality reasons.

Very cool video on the history. I have to check out that Hibben Highlander. I thought for sure if a Hibben was going to appear, it'd be the Rambo III. His greatest fighting knife, in my opinion, was the Ed Parker Knife. That was first made in the 70s and was specifically made for karate. I found the early knives quite interesting and how they evolved. It'll be interesting to see how they continue to progress.

What is that bowie knife at 8:40?

The knife king

You forgot the Vietnam era the western bowie

Hmmm.....what about the ACTUAL original knife that James Bowie had made before the sandbar? The same specs that were gifted to a certain celebrity?

Ah, but what about the Ames Rifleman's knife of 1849. I know you probably don't have one. Cold Steel has made a very good copy of said knife. Problem is only 1000 where ever made, and they where made for the U.S. Mounted Rifles. A Dragon outfit, sent to southern Oregon after we won the Mexican war. You should look into said knife.

Ya man back in the day if you didn't have good knife you weren't going survive the wilderness

But their hollow ground not forged by a black smith in the 17,18oo

Thank you for a great video very interesting good work

Ka-bar makes a great blade but not the handle.

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looking for a unique fighting knife to buy

I have knife but never fight anyone, accept for chopping trees, cooking and camping.............

How do you entirely skip over the European influence through the fur trade and the French and Indian War. Not to mention the Spanish influence by the Conquistadors ? P.S.- It is well documented that throughout the Mountain man Era they carried several knives. (long knife , patch knife , clasp knife , etc ) they didn't carry just one " do everything" knife AND you also failed to mention THE FIRST fighting knife that was designed and issued by the U.S. Military.........the 1849 Ames Rifleman's Knife .

2 old for the fohawk dbad... cool knives tho

The M3 and the Kabar are from WW2 The M3 was not from WW1......a german trench knife woupd have been a more appropriate example

There were NO PARACHUTES in WW!---FFS!!!!!!!

no Busse Team Gemini? 😢