Glock Field Knife - Plain Back 18

Griogairach again...make that 20years. Great knife!

Seems like a good all round knife for the money, solid build, quality sheath, well sharp OTB. Heavy blade, but not too much so. Most knives are a compromise, this seems to be one of the better ones for the money.

I removed the blacking and polished to a mirror finish and it looks nice and a lot more expensive! Kitchen steel, diamond rod then razor strop and it cuts like a demon. It's a bit big for skinning game and a slightly light for chopping wood, but nevertheless it can both skin and chop. All knives are a compromise of course, but this one does everything at least adequately. Sorry HH but this is the last fixed blade knife I will ever need. The only minor disappointments are that it won't strike a spark with a firesteel as the spine is too rounded, and that the pommel isn't threaded for easier access to storage in the handle. I've been using and collecting knives for 30 years and nothing has so far matched the Glock for the combination of all-round competence, build quality, ease of sharpening, and honest design. Worth every penny and a bargain.

Can be sharpened like a razor, is thick and sturdy, light for carriage, the sheath is very secure. It is the knife I am carrying if I have to choose "the only knife".

This is what I've been looking for. Sharp out the box nice weight. For the price you can't go wrong.

This knife is the dogs wotsits!!! Buy 1, buy 2, buy a million! It will never let you down. My first buy was a sawback and although it isn't perfect for everything (apart from removing people from their mortal coil) it is INVINCIBLE. I threw this thing over 2000 times at a target (and only resharpened it twice in that time btw) and it just went TWANG and asked me to do it again! I bought a plain backed one after seeing the punishment this one took and i already own several high carbon steel/titanium knives and after 10 seconds on a diamond honing block i shaved with this knife! Buy it! NOW!!!!!!!

There are better fixed blade knives around than the FM78 but not, I'd suggest, at this price. This is a carefully designed and well-engineered working tool that you'll enjoy using. The 4.5mm thick spring steel blade is very strongly mated to the nylon-polymer handle and feels like it'll take years of abuse. Sheath strong, light & discreet for its size. Works well as a woodland knife. Fine for food prep, batoning firewood and, because of its near mid-point balance and robustness, as a thrower too. Non-exotic spring steel means the blade can rust so after before storing I wash, dry, then wipe with WD-40 and no probs. The non super-hard steel may put some buyers off but the upside, apart from its increased strength, is that it's easy to sharpen. Good to have a knife that can be used roughly, with seemingly little risk of breakage, and without worrying that in doing so you're degrading a work of art. Made in Austria. I really like this - so much so I bought another :-)

Some people state that Glocks leave Austria with a basic edge and need to be sharpened. Mine shaves hair for a third of the blade nearest the handle and the rest will easily slice paper. Not bad at all. The clip is strong and needs two hands to operate and is white where it flexes but I cannot find any reports of clip failure.

I had mine x-rayed at work. The tang goes into the handle for about a third of it's length and the metal tube goes in from the pommel for a third too. The middle third of the handle is polymer. This doesn't mean it's weak. If you watch the destruction test on Youtube you'll see why.