umm $700 does that knife have magical powers or something

 

Yep, it's magic alrighty, but it's a bad, dark, kinda magic known as the "Curse of the Grylls" ... it lets you fly anywhere in the world, but once you get there it turns you into a 'plonker'. :

 

Cool TV show. Probably all of us have watched it and know who he is. Too bad I didn't think of it. Well, maybe not. I use to do, for free, what Adam Saddler is paid millions to do. That's what I should have thought of first.

 

No where is the type of material listed, nor is the rockwell hardness posted. [/url]

Hey Kev, Did you check out the technical info page? Here's on blurb taken from it:

The steel I use is always RWL a modern powder metallurgy steel that has a fine grain and carbide structure after a specific heat treatment calculated to get the best overall performance from the steel by An Interrupted quenching and multiple tempering technique to give hardness in the aim of 60rc. As a cost option patterned Damasteel can be offered for something very special both of these steels are specifically made for knife blades, chosen because they sharpen well and hold a strong fine edge.

I can't imagine paying $700 for a knife... no, that's not quite true, what I can't imagine is telling my wife I paid $700 for a knife!

Cheers,
-Per.

 

I have NEVER paid over $150 for a knife. A sword yes, but not a knife. As matter of fact I have a $15 one in my daypack right now. $700? crazy just crazy......

 

Keep well away!
A lot of hype, half the price and it might be fair.
I think the bloke selling them is marketing them at the people who buy
Ray Mears Wilkinson Sword bushcraft knives.
These are collectors knives, usually not bought to be used, but kept to be sold as a profit in years to come.
The Wilkinson Sword knives are excellent British style bushcraft knives with a Scandinavian style blade grind.
Have a look at BritishBlades to see some excellent UK knives.

YB.

 

My Camillus Pilots survival knife looks a lot more practical and even a collector Vietnam one is about $65 US
http://www.shoppingwarehouse.net/pr...=froogle&src1=sw&src2=gbase&utm_source=Froogle&utm_medium=Product+Search+Engine
http://west.loadup.com/military/surplus/755.html
Take that you whimpy teddy bear hollywood over priced former file.

 

I'd love to find out which neophyte idiots bought one....

 

I suspect they are only making a limited number - and wealthy people will buy them for their kids or whoever just so they can say they have his knife.

 

Please, they guys got so much criticism under his belt. His name isn't worth a dime to me.

 

Maybe its just me,but I'd swear I've seen him use at least three different knives,one was a Gerber Gator folder.I have two or three of those,and they ran maybe ?$30? I wonder if ole' Bear films with the Uber knife,but does the work with a $40 clunker.

 

There's a fool born every minute an ol Bear will be there to take his money

 

Maybe the price was for the british pound, which is worth a LOT more than the USD, especially now that the dollar is dieing

 

If that were the case,it would take less,not more,pound units to purchase it.A weak currency means it take many more of any given denomination of currency to purchase a given product. A very good current example is Zimbabwe(Rhodesia) where it literally takes a wheel barrow full of money to buy a nice dinner.

 

Its impossible to buy a nice dinner in Zim now.

 

Here's an example.
http://www.falfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=213704&highlight=zimbabwe

Might have to register.

 

The company that makes Bears knife makes the same exact knife with out the signature for about $350 less same steel same design handle style everything.

 

so, the knife is a celebrety and you pay for signature LOL

Bogdan

 

Two words Rip Off.

 

If you want a knife, buy a SOG.

 

I hear ya! I'll stick with my Becker Crewman $38.99. $700.00 hah, what a farce. Like they always said, " If you have more money than sense, someone is always willing to balance that equation"

 

The knife is almost as much of a gimmick as the show. The only thing positive I can say about the knife is it comes with a nice looking sheath

 

i have a hard time paying that much go for a firearm much less a knife. to me it looks like your paying more for a name than a knife

 

Bear Grylls kinda gets on my nerves at times. sometimes he give some just plain stupid 'advice' (if it can even be called that). It's good television though.

 

A true survivalist doesn't waste resources. Money is a resource and using $700 (or 300 pounds, yen, pesos, whatever) of it for a knife is a ridiculous. It is really more like a $50 knife with a$650 hype and profit margin that you are paying. I would rather have the ability and skill to modify a piece of scrap metal into a useable blade by using my washing machine driven stone. Yeah, I stopped watching this Bear guy too. He was always jumping around like a chicken with his head cut off. The camera man was always the first to get into places that he found nearly impossible to access. All his movements seemed to be staged for entertainment value. Well, it is for TV so who can blame him. Ratings!

 

The info was leaked a while ago that the show was "fake".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6911748.stm

There are more stuff on the net but i just took a minute and gathered some links. I kind of like the show anyways. Although it does take a lot of the fun out of it.

EDIT: I would never pay $700 for a knife, except if it was magical.

 

Oh yeah, I can see a real person in a survival situation free climbing down a waterfall in 30 degree weather, then reverse swan diving from a tree into a swamp. He has some good info- but you have to sort through the junk Discovery wants him to do to liven the show up so that more bored sheep will watch.

Anything that could possibly be attached to the cost of that blade? low production run, autographed copies stuff like that?

The way he uses knives in his episodes- he must go through them really quick.

 

I'm almost 100% he uses a Gerber Gator folding knife. Just saw him close it he is in Africa.