Famous Cutting Knives from History and Fiction

Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions is responsible for several famous cutting knives. These knives are famous for their high quality and durability.

We’ve been making these “tools of the trade” since 1875. So, it’s highly likely that if you go into a workshop, anywhere in America, and pick a knife at random, from any tool box, you’ll find that the tool was manufactured by Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions.

We not only sell a line of quality hand knives, but we can manufacture them too. If your workshop needs a specific type of blade or knife, our custom fabrication shop can manufacture it.

We just don’t offer high quality knives and blades, we offer solutions. And our solutions are delivered on time, every time.

Hyde’s cutting knives aren’t the only knives known worldwide. There are lots of famous knives from history and fiction.

Historical Knives

Knife-like tools have been around for millions of years. Of course, the first knife-life tools weren’t made from high grade steel like Hyde uses, but from rock, bone, or obsidian.

A dagger, a knife with a sharp point and generally used for combat, first appeared about five-thousand years ago. In fact, an ornate dagger was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Two of the most famous types of knives are the Swiss Army Knife and the Bowie Knife.

Swiss Army Knife

The Swiss Army Knife was introduced in 1891 in Ibach, Switzerland. It was named “Swiss Army Knife” by U.S. soldiers in World War II who found it difficult to pronounce its real name, “Offiziersmesser.”

Bowie Knife

The Bowie Knife was designed in 1830, by James Black, for pioneer Jim Bowie. The Bowie Knife has now come to mean just about any large knife with a sheath and cross guard.

Fictional Knives

Perhaps the most famous knife in fiction, is renowned not for what it did, but for the line it inspired.

In the 1986 movie Crocodile Dundee, a hopeful mugger unfurls a switchblade on the titular character. He responds by saying, “That’s not a knife.” Then he reveals his large Bowie Knife and quips, “That’s a knife.”

Another famous knife was found in the shoe of assassin Rosa Klebb. The character tried to use the blade to stab James Bond in the 1963 film, From Russia With Love.

To learn more about our cutting knives, or any of our great products, contact Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions.  We make “tools of the trade.”