Post pictures of your Ontario knife company knives. And tell us what you like or dislike about them. Pictured here is a hefty Bolo knife. The SP-53 10” blade. The picture doesn’t do it justice?. It’s a beast of a blade.

15in and also a beast. I like yours Don.

Nice chopper Randy. I like that they are made in the U.S.A. And decent quality for the money.

Sp-45

Nice knife Tony. I like the no slip grip. This is a 5-99 pilot’s survival knife. I’m not sure if these are still issued to our pilots. But I bet a few of these gutted some deer.

Does this count,I made it from a big circular saw blade,its a keeper

Yes Don they are good quality. Nice sagebrush.

Nice knives! Ontario Bushcraft-Woodsman. 9-1/2” blade. Knife and sheath made in USA. Lance

Yes Jeff that counts! That’s a nice one!

A RAT 3 and machete. Inexpensive as knives go and both seem to be well made. Neither came sharp...the tip of that machete was over 1/16" wide with an unfinished grind but they're in good shape now.

Old Hickory 7" butcher knife.

Joe

Had the quiver / sheath made by DWF Leather Artistry.

Oh sorry that’s an Edmund Davidson “Camp Knife”

Ontario Machete and Fighting knife. Both have seen considerable use in clearing trails and harvesting mushrooms. The fighting knife is the perfect size for reaching under and cutting sheepshead stems. The coating they put on those knives has proven durable. It's a good all around woods knife and reasonably priced.

I would not buy a sawback machete again. The sawback is mostly useless in that regard and a tiny bit cumbersome at times.

Nice pilot knife Don! Here is mine at the top. It’s a 5-94 with a curly maple handle I installed. Some other Ontario’s below

Nice job on that curly maple handle Tony.

I have a Rat 2 that is acually a pretty rugged folder that I use as a chore knife around the homestead. No image - they all look alike.

Thanks Don!

Nice rig geno.

Some serious knives black spot

Have same OKC machete above

hey DON, TONY - - with your pilot's knives what is reference to 5- 99 and 5-94? I have one also I need to clean up. thanks Steve

A couple of mine Bowie /Rambo Last Blood Knife/Alaskan Survival knife

Pretty sure that’s just the model number Steve. Other knife companies have made them too. I think the best one to get is an old WWII Camillus out of N.Y.

Pretty sure that’s just the model number Steve. Other knife companies have made them too. I think the best one to get is an old WWII Camillus out of N.Y.

thanks. Mine's grungy but I oiled the blade and brushed it sort of clean, unless it's under some filth I dont see a number or maker mark.

I's told once mine is a Camillus 2-1971. hey I see on a picture on other forums it's on the pommel. mine's corroded there. will pursue it.

Found this one like Frisky's a couple years ago.

Selstickbow, it could be a date of manufacture?

Tony & Don, were they making the pilot's knives like yours 25 years ago? for all I know maybe they still make them? I was under the impression they were much older. Mine came from a Viet Nam photographer. Steve

I think the pilot knife was a model 499 with various stamp dates in the pommel

Some nice looking knives y’all!

A couple guys (above) were discussing when the pilots knives were made. I do not know if this will help or not but I had an uncle who was in the Air Force in the late 1940s (just after it became a branch of the military on it's own and not the Army Air Force) and he came home about 1950 (to Wisc.) and brought back one of those small pilot knives. He wasn't a pilot, but a mechanic who managed to bring one home. I remember it because he used it as a hunting knife for many years; I have no idea whatever happened to it.

RAT I. Great economical folder.

Cool old flea market find.

Flea market find. The scales were broken and i replaced them with Zebra wood. Makes for a nice skinning knife.

I know this doesn't fit into Don's category but I had to post it. I bought it yesterday at our first Maine gun show for 2023.

Sure didn't need another knife but the scrimshaw etc. blew me away. Yes, I have a knife addiction :^).

Great looking blades. Hope that they come in really handy.

That’s ok Ralph! Us knife guys are very flexible when it comes to knife eye candy! And that’s a beauty! Thanks for posting it.

Yeller - Those 3 are interesting, can you tell us what they are? Thanks...

Zbone. One was my kbar I had in the marines over 50 years ago the other two were my uncles in the marine raiders in the pacific during WWll The Long one was issued to only raiders.

Gary- From left to right Yeller has some nice examples of fighting knives. MK-1 Navy Kabar, World War II, British Sykes dagger, and another Kabar maybe from WWII also need to see the top of the Pummel. Nice collection of fighting knives Yeller:)

Way cool Yeller, very nice, thanks for sharing!

Made from 5/16" D2

yeller.....you made me do some searching, in all my reading I had not heard of the Marine RAIDERs. my Dad was regular Army, demo expert in WW II..... and went across France Belgium and Germany.

BS, nice knife!

Ontario makes the SP10 marine raider bowie

Not Ontario but a WW1 bolo dated 1915.

Selstickbow. The marine raiders were a small group of special forces of marines I believe established in 1942 and disbanded in 1944.I’m pretty sure president Roosevelt’s son was one of the top officers The stiletto knives issued to them are very rare to find and to have one fully intact with the tip is even more rare. It was a killing knife. I have my uncles along with the sheath.

thanks for the notes on Marine raiders, Steve. Appreciated.

Heard that Ontario knives was bought out by Blue ridge knives(?). Anyway if you like Ontario stuff good excuse as any to get the good while you can.

Couldn’t pass this up for some reason. Sp41 has 3.5” blade. 5160 steel

Yep. They just went out of business and closed the factory. Blue Ridge will distribute remaining stock.

Joe

OMGosh, OKC went out of business for real?

Yep.

Very nice all. The last time I was in Alaska I saw many items, including knives, that had some wonderful scrimshaw work. The prices were quite good, but I couldn't get anything on the plane, so I just wandered thru the market.

Rat 3

At one time there were 100’s of American knife companies. Now we are down to only a handful. Sorry to hear Ontario Knives went out of business. Nice knife Tony.

Here’s my Spec Force 10

Was able to grab one of these NS-4’s

This sucks. Another historical American knife company done.

Thats one I don't have. My buddy got one 20 years ago or so and he absolutely loves his. Its a military/utility style knife, like a K Bar.

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