While the American knife industry got its start around 1800, the origins of KA-BAR date to a century later. The company first emerged because of a merger between a knife maker and a razor business.

The KA-BAR Snody Administrator knife is a skeleton knife that can be worn as a neck knife or concealed in a pocket or pack. The Administrator is 5.125” in overall length and features a 2” blade.

The KA-BAR Snody Administrator knife is a skeleton knife that can be worn as a neck knife or concealed in a pocket or pack. The Administrator is 5.125” in overall length and features a 2” blade.

Today KA-BAR Knives Inc. is wholly owned by Cutco Corporation, America’s largest manufacturer of kitchen cutlery, which was founded in 1949 as ALCAS, joint venture of Alcoa AA and Case Cutlery.

KA-BAR has been churning out incredible knife after knife since its founding in 1898. The latest film from Common Machine Prod. displays the history of the famous knife company — and done a fine job ...

Few pieces of gear are steeped in as much martial history as the KA-BAR Fighting Utility Knife — from stories of brutal close-quarters combat to myths about the knives being so durable that they ...

Police investigating the slaughter of four University of Idaho students have asked the manager of a local store owner whether he sold a “Rambo”-style knife known as KA-BAR to anyone.