Finally! A can opener that is a bevelled blade! All the Scout Knives I've seen lately are unsharpened.

Great info, much enjoyed! Thanks as always Tobias 👍

It has nice curb appeal. I like the profile of the handle. I don't remember any issue knives looking like that but I do remember the camp knife with steel handle and US in the middle. I was issued a Camillus automatic opening knife with my flight gear. I remember thinking I have a nicer switchblade than this but not one with a bail to tie the cord to attaching it to my flight suit. I kept it in my A bag incase there was a deployment inspection but don't remember ever using it for anything other than that. Jumping out of a KC 135 was never going to happen anyway. Thinking back, if I had bought knives rather than alcohol with my money I could open a knife museum today.

Excellent review, and good ending music.

Always enjoy the history you give about knives. I think G I Jack would have been better if they left out can opener and just had single blade.

Love to hear you talk.

I like the MIL-J knife, very similar to the Swiss Army Soldier 1961-2008 (Pioneer is the civilian equivalent still in production), I reckon someone in the Swiss military, or at Wenger or Victorinox, saw the US version and copied it...but I'm glad they did as now we can get the Pioneer range new at reasonable prices. I saw the Marbles ''GI Jack'' knife on Heinnie Haynes here in the UK, it appeared there about a month ago. It's a very reasonable price at just £13, and according to reviews on that site it's well made and robust. Might add one to my next order with them. As to British Army issue clasp knives like the Burma knife, when I served in the late 80s/early 90s they weren't generally issued, at least not in Infantry or Royal Signals, except for to Combat Linemen in the Royal Signals, as they needed to work with rope as well as cables. I was a Radio Operator and didn't get any knife issued although we did have machetes on our Landrovers (for clearing brush in locations), so I bought a Victorinox GAK old-style in Germany and carried it for a few years during and after my service, unfortunately I lost it in Berlin in the late 90s. Nowadays I tote my Farmer if I want something similar as an EDC, or take my new Vic Soldier if I'm going into the wilds.

Always interesting , thanks for the video.

Like the knife, even if not historically accurate. Thanks for the video.

Great review of the GI Jack. I thought they were getting confused with the British knives. Whatever they call it, I like it. Marbles also make a hawkbill in the diamond pattern with a US stamp in the handle. I don't think the US military had an issue hawkbill with the diamond pattern handle.

The pattern is the same as a Teardrop Jack I had from QCCC. THAT one looks outstanding. Neat series of knives, I have an Imperial GI knife and a camillus version

Killer blades&killer vid knife bro!! I like that ya showed a bunch of real military issued blades in comparison.

The GI jack seems like a neat little knife for the money. But I gotta say, that WW2 navy jack knife you showed is absolutely amazing. It totally stole the show for me. Thanks, buddy.

It's modelled on the Camillus Jack, which is supposedly the knife synonymous with WW2.

I really like my GI Jack. I was impressed by such quality in a $7 knife.

Like your Cats meow! That Marble is next for me.

Tobias, Funny enough, I have a Greece Army 2 blade jack knife. It has on one scale "E.(the letter for epsilon). 1980" with fiber like scales, and a wide flare type bale. The knife blade and the can opener and bottle opener look just like the one one the WW2 Burma knife. An no screw driver blade extension.

i bought a marbles rigging - sailors knife same scales as this g.i. jack knife but the liner lock was thin as paper and any amount of back pressure to test it would slide it back across the uneven grind and catastrophic failure would shut the blade on anyone's hand that was holding it. or when you opened it the liner lock would travel to far and end up on the other side stuck the only good thing about that knife was the marlin spike and it didn't even lock so i ground off the rivets took it apart tossed the scales in the scrap metal bucket and still have the spike and blade for some unforeseen future project. needless to say this one first purchase soured me on any new marbles product for good. i think in the end i will stick with my 1977 camillus version of the knife in hand today or my utica boy scout ir my h.y.kaufmann german version of the ww2 issue with the marlin spike instead of the punch

As always really like seeing and hearing about the older more rare knives. It obviously isn't the knife it claims to be. Yet it does resemble sort of the Burma knife of that period. Might be an interesting pick up.

Marbles did a good take on the Burma knife, they just named it wrong. It pairs nice to the Marbles utillity knife. For an edc it sure will serve you right and i allways found my Marbles knives well built and pretty sturdy. Thank you for the review and the context where to place this knife with the correct historical information on the GI Jack.

I don’t have anything like these in my collection. Knife collecting is never ending, this rabbit hole I’ve jumped into is mind boggling. I had an ex Australian Army knife which I used a lot when I lived there but it was more like the Burma knife you have. I wish I had kept hold of it now. Great selection. Happy holidays 🎅🏻👍.

Just bought the Marbles G.I. Jack folder. It may not be authentic, but I love the look. Great review 👍 👍

Interesting as always mate.thanks atb paddy

A very interesting video.

Maybe they should be renamed G.I. Giacomo? The Marbles looks like a robust, useful little knife. I like the bail and the blade. Don’t really use can/bottle openers, though. Thanks for the review!

I got one of these knives too. For the price they are great little knives; mine had no gaps and the blade was centered. One thing; I noticed about this knife and other Marbles knives from China, they are cleaner than Rough Rider models. As far as historic correctness goes; Chinese copies of original pattern models are seldom ever correct. They make them the way they think and that is always a little different from the originals. That might not be the case in some; but, is the case in lots of others. You will only notice it when comparing one to the other. Then you can decide if the copy is better than the original. 🎄🎅😺

I just ordered one of these. Dont care about history, it just seems like a a tough little 'rough' or 'beater' knife. Especially at $7, im not afraid to beat the tar out of it. doing the things you shouldnt with a knife. Scraping battery terminals, cutting copper wire, etc. Sharpen on a grinder, and good enough. The can opener/bottle opener is just a bonus. I always carry a pair, or three, knives. A decent large knife, a good pocket knife, and a cheap beater for rough use. Most of those dont last two years.

Fantastic thorough review!

the melting point on the old bakelite knives is almost always in the same spot i have a few with like a double melt across the scale about halfway down towards the bail but every single one of these old ww2 bakelite scaled knives has a melt spot somewhere on them, i wonder why

Thanks Tobias. I think for $8 i'm gonna pick one up.

A good post.

Tobias.. love your channel...but you make me want too many knives...LOL

È someone already noticed it looks very much like my old italian army Pocket knife, except mine had plastic handle with army shield embossed. It replaced our straight copies of ww2 Brit knives like you showed, so i think it's that design too may have been copied from somewhere else.

You know marbles built this knife as a service knife in the Elbonian army! Yes the army I've mentioned is as mythical as the marbles knife 😆😂😆

Tobias, Just found my Italian WW2 pocket knife. Which made me think which pocket knife would you rather carry The US Milk knife or the GAK type 1 or Type 2 (in other words not the new one based on the Victorinox Trekker) ?

I like the REAL ones!

I read the knives marked USMC were actually for civilian sales? Cannot remember where I saw that. Yours says US Marine Corp, which I have not seen before. Mine is in poor condition being marked USMC?? ANYBODY know for sure?????

Another excellent review, Tobias. Can the can opener be used as a box opener? Is it sharp enough to cut packaging tape? Thanks for your thoughts!

Reminds me of HOBO KNIVES...

SO THE BLACK ONES ARE FROM ENGLAND? I PICKED UP THREE OF THEM SOMEWHERE. THEY ARE VERY HARD TO OPEN, BUT IN C+ CONDITION... NEVER KNEW FOR SURE WHERE THEY WERE FROM. YA BAKELITE SCALES.

What's this about KnivesLive TV? Clue me in. Edit: Just saw the announcement. See you there.

Hey, look at it this way. Even you can't top the top you've made a hole for a straw.

I don’t get why every single tool has to have a bottle opener on it (not just pocket knives, but freakin’ everything- rulers, screwdrivers, you name it). There are probably 500 ways to open a bottle without a “cap lifter”- and anyway, how many bottle openers do you need? Maybe tool designers need to cur down on their beer consumption.

There was a particular Marine Unit in the South Pacific during WWII (don’t recall which one) that had received a commendation with a particular badge on the dress uniform that had the letter “V”. When they came to Australia for some R&R, they discovered that a different Marine Unit had told all the prostitutes that the “V” indicated that these men had a venereal disease. They couldn’t get a date to save their lives! 😆

Interesting to me that it has "US" rather than correct and proper U.S.

Please clean the rust off those nice knives

Tobias, Why is the U.S. upside down ?

A very interesting Knife, but it bet it’s heavy. Compared to a Victorinox Spartan, I would go Spartan.