Thread: K-Bar 177

Found this on fleabay and figured why not. I have many Ka-Bar knives and love the quality.
This is in fairly good shape, the scales are a bit warped, but the blade itself has no nicks or much pitting.
Got this one more to just have, the best I can find is it was made between 1900-20





Thanks fer lokin in, any other info on these would be great

No info for you but looks like she should clean up really well. Nice find

Thanks!!

There doesn't seem to be a lot of info on these razors. Some general info but that's it.
The scales are a bit warped but I'm going to try to straighten them over steam from a pot of water slowly.

I'll post how that goes

Well if they are anything like a KaBar knife it's utilitarian and no frills but a solid performer. Great find , if you don't shave with it hang it up with those knives my friend, every good soldiers returned should have had a KaBar razor. Tc

Looks like a spike.

Sent from a galaxy far far away...

I will shave with it at least once, it's going to need to be sharpened after I clean it up.But I've got stones (thanks Addison) and have a pretty good handle on honing.
I'll keep this thread updated as I progress

By The Looks Of Things We Gonna Have Us A Meetup In Reading,, Nice Razor,,Ty

Union Cutlery, same who made the Kabar military knives. It looks like a Spike because it IS like a spike, which were also made by Union Cutlery.
These are 'modern grind' wedges. There also is a hollow-ground KaBar razor.
I have one of those.

They started out in Union City Georgia before moving to Olean.
Some good history from Martin beginning with post 78 in this thread; http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ow-conn-3.html

Thanks for the link and the information Tom. Greatly appreciate it

Did a little cleaning and reshaping the scales this afternoon

Here is a before and after on the scales





And a bit of cleaning on the blade

Before



After

My father also used to have those knives.