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I have 3 bayonets and one has to do double duty on the M1 and A3.  I would appreciate it if you guys would stop making me look at all these pictures.  I keep telling myself that I have enough and then I come here.
For the pikes must be together at the rising of the moon.
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i do have one for my M14 type as well - but no current photos , maybe this spring , 

i have never considered myself a bayonet or knife collector - i have friends that are and trust me my minimal accumulation is nothing at all , 

i do have a few items that were family hand-me-downs from grandparents tho -

the pocket knife my paternal grandfather gave me when i was 10 - 



and the knife i inherited with my maternal grandfathers tool box , 



and the stuff i collected for fun , my grandkids cowboy belt knife , no photos yet of what hangs on my cowboy belt - one day soon , 

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...wow

(that's an understatement)

...amazing
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see , i knew there were lurkers out there looking - you guys need to contribute more , we really have fun and enjoy the participation .... jump right in here 
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...from time to time I think about finding an intact, mil-config LE, but I spend a lot of time in the bush and i prefer a sporterized model hands-down (no offence to the collectors)...I own a good selection of hunting rifles from .223 through .458 - some are custom...but over the past several years they have all come to sit in the safes here...I take my LE no.4's with me everywhere...I'm an oddity but I am just in love with this rifle and calibre...these are built like tanks, accurate, with enough power for anything local...I'll never buy another modern weapon...

...what knife-blade options are there for no.4 mk.1's?  ...a no.9?  ...best place to buy for a canuk?  ...wouldn't mind trading out my hunting knife for a bayonet  ...any upgrades I can do with such a blade?  ...better annealing, etc?  ...think field use here...
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We want pics of the Damascus!!!!!!
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Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Craig,
 
The No 9 generally has a good blade as is, its only problem no handle!
I solved this on mine by making a handle that locks on using the bayonet latch.
That way I have a good hunting knife and a bayonet as well if I wanted one.
 
No 9's can be picked up on fleabay quite readily in Canada or the US.
If I get a minute I'll take a picture of mine, but then posting it here might be a bit of a challenge for me. tried it once before & it woulna' work.
 
Shamu,
Very pretty pattern there!
 
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S - WHAT!? no DAMASCUS BAYONET!? (now I can see that you aren't serious at all! Wink )
PB - I was actually cogitating on the need for the sort of mechanism that you describe...one for the hand and one for the end of a walking stick...and good to know about the steel in it as well...
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I think I am going to call you "Superman", the man of steel!
Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.
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Need a handy-dandy handle for a #9? How about a "Choppa digga" (With apologies to H Beam Piper).
Snag yourself one of these a Pukka Sirhan. British Intrenching tool.
One end is a snap-on pickaxe/shovel the other a replica of the Enfield #4's barrel end & bayo lugs.

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)
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Now thats a nice piece of kit!
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comes with a handy dandy carry case that fits right up with the webb kit 

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My little collection of puncture tools.
Custom blade for playing Cowboy.  Elk Antler with black buffalo horn.
Spike is stamped No.4 Mk2 with a boxed S for Savage.
M1905E1 AFH 1942 with US flaming bomb.  Cut by UFH.
M6 for the M1A. A gift from a good friend and Nam Vet who had it on his M14. Not expensive or rare, but a treasure all the same. 
For the pikes must be together at the rising of the moon.
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nice 1905E1 cutdown and cut down M7 scabbard , almost might have thought you bought mine sam AFH convertedd in mid war to M1 length , your m6 is also a match to the one i keep with my M14 type rifle , 

the no4 mk2 is a savage made bayonet produced here for the commonwealth along with the savage rifles 
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Shamu,
 
The handy handle for the spike/No 9 is allright, but the trouble was, when you put the handle on, it was generally because you'd been told off to go  & poke landmines!......sort of spoil the afternoon if you did it wrong.
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ya , that was kinda what i had been told too , the spike might have been a little better choice ? or so i was told , none were really great - the job sucked , 


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