Back From The Dead...

...with - wait for it - another damned knuckle knife.
First, some housekeeping: Someone called "Western" left a comment and request for an exchange of links. I seem to have lost the comment. Please try again and comment on this post.
Back to the matter at hand; in addition to being another of those obsessive KK's (What the hell's wrong with me?), it's also another of the unique and innovative models created by the enigmatic, Great War manufacturing firm of Robbins of Dudley.
Before I go to prattling on and puffing up my bad-ass self, we'll take another detour into the land of the Mall Ninja, again courtesy of BUDK.
If you read the copy - not the most coherent ("Primitive warfare called for primitive tools. This is one you wouldn’t take a trench without, if your were German!") - you would assume that the "Tomahawk Dagger" (???) was a Second War, German knife.
BUDK could have/should have saved themselves the trouble of the "We're not Nazis" disclaimer by simply being accurate.
It makes me wonder how they came up with the idea that it was from Deutschland. There might be an interesting back-story to it. A German soldier using Dad's captured, WW1 blade perhaps.
In the lineup of weird-looking Robbins knives this may be the prize winner.
Of course it's based around the handle casting and knuckle bow of what I call the Robbins punch dagger.
I suppose one could ask the "which came first" question but the answer should be obvious. Whereas the punch dagger has a well thought-out, ergonomic design, one that maximizes the effect of the "punch" this thing is just weird. But, it's certainly no less ergonomic.
In my opinion, the best thing about it is that it settles, in my mind at least, the question of how the Brits of the day actually held onto these raiding knives.
It's quite comfortable if used the "wrong" way as well. However, in that position, the bow bulges, rather incongruously, right over the ring finger. My, completely specious, explanation is that it allows one to wear one's class ring while using the knife. Dumb, I know.
On a more serious note, the roominess of the knuckle-bow allows this knife, unlike other punch-and-stab blades, to actually be used as a knife; sharpening your pencil, cutting your bully-beef, what have you.
Along with the punch dagger, this one one of Robbins' most popular offerings based on surviving examples.
Coming soon to a website near you.