Got this knife from a pawnshop today.They thought it was an old slaughter house knife due to the solid aluminum handle. It’s stamped with a 4 digit number on the blade that seems like a rack number or something to that effect. Closest I can find image searching is a wwii Australian paratrooper machete, but this is obviously some kind of Bowie knife or fighting knife in my opinion. It appears to be aluminum but the handle has some real weight to it, some maybe some kind of aluminum alloy.No other markings so I suppose it could be a repurposed blade or just entirely custom. Roughly 11-12”
>>65104241It's just a cheap shit knife.
>>65104241I could be something but it really looks like some retrofitted/repurposed shit that some random modified.
>>65104241The blade is insanely wide for its length. How thick is it? Could it have been a meat cleaver or machete someone had reprofiled?I don't see any combat or fighting knife having a blade that thick, you're looking for something that is going to make it through gaps in ribcages, this thing looks like it would have a high chance of catching bone and not penetrating.
>>65104241its just an old shitty knifeprobably was from a slaughter house, but eventually got chipped & dulled, then was taken and re-profiled into how it is now
>>65104241Machete turned into a bowie Very cool but ultimately worthless
Looks like someone's arts and crafts project.
>>65104241>They thought it was an old slaughter house knife due to the solid aluminum handle.It doesn't look like any sort of usual butcher's or slaughterhouse knife, at least not in its current form. It's possible that it was something like that and was later modified.>>65104332>Could it have been a meat cleaver or machete someone had reprofiled?That's very possible. I think it has been modified from its original form. If it was an old 'working knife' then I'd expect an bunch of dings and dents in the butt end of the handle, yet it looks squared off with relatively clean edges. I can't imagine a knife that was used in an actual slaughterhouse not showing signs of being banged around, dropped, etc....unless that damage was sanded off while someone was modifying it. Now if it were originally a machete that would make more sense, as that wouldn't be used around hard objects where the handle would get dinged up.I don't think it's any sort of improvised trench knife. I've seen loads of those and they are usually more of a dagger or stiletto type of design, not a really wide design like that.
>>65105662I forgot to mention it doesn't look like any standard pattern WWI or WWII knife either. I think >>65105617 nailed it. It's probably some old machete that got reworked into a bowie.
>>65104241looks like a someone's drunk sunday project
>>65104241butcher's quartering knife, rare but also not desirable. It's just a crude industry POS tool that got outdated in like a year.
