Colonel Rex Applegate and his knives
Colonel Rex Applegate (1914 –1998), member of the American special unit "Office for Strategic Service" (O.S.S.) during WWII, author of several military hand-to-hand combat books and well-known designer of knives, made his revised design of the legendary Applegate-Fairbairn combat knife available to us. This knife reaches the limits of what was humanly possible to manufacturer: Matte-finish blade of 440-C-stainless steel (58HRC), handle of polyamide reinforced with fiberglass, additional integrated weights for balance, a massive brass guard and serial numbering for quality control.

Skillfully reproduced by Boker, these are one of the finest fixed blade knives PremiumKnives.com offers. The A-F combat knife is available either in the COMBAT version with dagger grinding or in the UTILITY version, where only one side of the blade is sharpened. Either version is available with saw-tooth blade and Kydex sheath or with a smooth blade and Cordura sheath. With their circular eyelets, both sheath versions allow a variety of attachments.