Talk:Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife

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[edit] Merge Proposal from Fairbairn-Sykes_Knife

Agreed. I can do this mid-May if someone else has not done so already, then set Fairbairn-Sykes_Knife up as a redirect to here. Rorybowman 23:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed'. scot 14:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. MMad 13:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. --Knife Knut 02:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and did this. Dalf | Talk 07:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Old Talk

There were two quotes here before, the second of which I recognized and the first of which I believe is on a proprietary site. If someone can confirm this, that would be terrific.

John F. Murphy Jr., "Secret Weapons of the Secret War," International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Volume 14, Number 2 / April 1, 2001, pp. 262 - 278. [1]

When will the contents fo Get Tough! be in the public domain? A diagram of Fairbairn's cuts would be good to add here, as it would very clearly convey the spirit of Fairbairn's text. Rorybowman 02:28, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, since it dates to after Mickey Mouse, then approximately never. See Micky Mouse Protection Act. scot 23:08, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move from F&S Fighting Knife to FS fighting knife

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The result of the debate was to move this article to Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife --Lox (t,c) 22:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd say move it to "Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife" rather than an abbreviation, and create redirects from the "FS" and "F-S" and "F&S" abbreviated versions. scot 23:00, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Even better! What scot said... - Rorybowman 05:09, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Support per scot's suggestion! --Lox (t,c) 21:02, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Stamp on 3rd Patter Knives

I can't believe that the words "BROAD ARROW" were really stamped on the knives, I think it more likely that the broad arrow symbol (that of the War Department) would have been stamped instead. Could someone correct this if I'm correct.

Cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.69.83.247 (talk) 21:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Interesting aside re the photo

I uploaded the photo of the FS knife. I took this of a knife in the Australian 1 Cdo Regt Q Store and reported that it was from stock originally issued and used by Australian WWII Commandos. I have recently learnt that this knife was actually from a container confiscated by Australia during the infamous "sandline affair" in PNG. WWII stock had long previously dissappeared.Greynurse 13:00, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife

Rename from Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife to Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife

  • The full name of the article should be capitalized, as it is the name of the knife. Chessy999 (talk) 16:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is the knife a stiletto or not

In the first sentence it states that the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a type ofstiletto. Later on it states that the knife isn't a stiletto due to differences in the pommel, grip and blade. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.82.121.38 (talk) 18:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)