Hi. Here's a cut down M-1. Looks like it was re-blued as well after it was cut down.

Hi. Here's a cut down M-1. Looks like it was re-blued as well after it was cut down.

It might just be the angle at which the photograph was taken, but the blade almost looks like it's a tanto style.

 

Tim

Here is my contribution to the thread. A 1896-dated Krag bayonet converted into a fighting knife that I recently acquired from Frank Trzaska -

 

 

Tim

It might just be the angle at which the photograph was taken, but the blade almost looks like it's a tanto style.

 

Tim

 

Hi. It is the angle. More of a clip point. Thanks.

Haven't posted in a while so I thought I would throw out a couple from collection.

 

Here are a couple of my cut down bayonet knives. A WW1 Mauser bayonet and a Krag. Both are pretty well balanced.

I believe these were made from Japanese bayonets.

A couple of cut down M1 bayonets. A Kutmaster like the ones already shown and a 1943 Wilde Tool. The Kutmaster doesn't have any of the cut outs and the weight difference is significant.

Here are my bayonets made into knives.

From top to bottom, a 1903 Krag bayonet that was crudely shaped and has bakelite grips

A 1897 Krag bayonet that has the release holes filled with lead. The sheath is a converted sheath for the Picket Pin from the early 1900s.

The last is a Wilde Tool M1 bayonet that is really nicely made and feels very solid in the hand.

 

 

Hi. This is one of those '60's Japan made M4 bayonets made into a dagger.

That one from tsellati is awesome...love the sheath.

 

I have always kept a distance from collecting cut down bayonets

 

I think its because I don't have the confidence to know exactly what I am getting....a dinky backyard number or the real deal.

 

But some of those examples are real eye candy

 

The French Foreign Legion supposedly used a cut down Springfield bayonet I think for their issued knife which looks fantastic.

Here's one I found this week: as with the one that opened this thread, it has no marks. It's size is close to another posted here (and measuring knives with curved pommels would account for the difference).

 

 

 

 

 

I've got one almost the same Bob, wonder if the same man or field shop made them

I've got one almost the same Bob, wonder if the same man or field shop made them

 

No - while some of the conversions shown in this thread may have been homemade after the war or even theater-made (less likely), there are too many of this style in the approximate same length with cutdown ears for them to be one-offs.

 

Here's yet another of this style, sold recently on ebay. It looks to be about the same size

 

I don't know but I'm in love with that knife Generallucas!