New Bear Grylls Knife

It is worth mentioning that Mr Grylls did not serve in the full time SAS but the national guard version which is much easier to get into. So the stories are mainly publicity which has caused a lot of upset in the British military community as they feel that Grylls is showing them in a bad light.

Also, in spite of having two local experts to tell him what to do and say he still needs to carry a decent supply of kit and his desire to make exciting TV means that his exploits are laughable at best.

I would say the teeth were added as they would make it easier when hitting the back of the knife to chisel through wood.

I enjoy Bear Grylls television shows and think he does a great job promoting wilderness survival.

Where can I go  to find knives used by the Special Air Service?

I recently purchased the first version of Mr.Bayley's Bear Grylls knife and I am very impressed with the workmanship. I plan to purchase the second version to add to my knife collection. Thanks Rob it worked great in the Middle East!

Mr. Tsunokai, Were you able to get the Bear Grylls edition of the knife without the signature on the blade?

Bear Grylls has got nothing on Les Stroud. Stroud's favorite survival tool is of course the leatherman wave multitool.

Don't get me wrong; Bear Grylls has a lot of interesting and useful stuff, but for survival les has got it better. I'm not paying 700 USD for a knife with some survial guys name on it when I can use a US made buck fixed blade that only runs about 65 USD with a longer blade, better looking and definetly a classic knife.

Maybe the six indentations on the blade are good for sawing oversized twigs. I watch Man vs. Wild and also watch another guy on Survivorman. He's very good and also does all of his own camera work. Survivorman survives completely alone in the wild. I've learned a lot from both programs---but, I think I learn more from you because you explain in more detail. You make everything so simple to understand. And you keep coming up with things most of haven't even thought of.

Just more proof Grylls is a character. $700 knife?

Is this correct? Seven hundred bucks for a no frills knife with a G10 handle and a pedestrian "chunky" design? The reviewer has it right when he says: "and may be of more interest to knife collectors than those seeking the best survival knife." I hope knife collectors turn their noses up at this affront. The dollar hasn't dropped enough that people should pay that much for such muck. Grylls certainly has a high opinion of himself.

The original Bear Grylls knife I received had his name on it. Mr. Bayley was extremely helpful in making sure I would receive my knife before I left for the Middle East. I've currently placed an order for the S4 model.

I like Bear Grylls but I think he's a businessman first and a survivalist second. I'd be scared to take a £350 knife out the house!  I purchased a Bear Grylls T-shirt (not cheap either!) and the stitching ripped open the first time I wore it.

Bear was a member of one of the two TA Special Air Service regiments.  It is not easier to join these two regiments, in fact given the fact that some of the guys are civvies, it is harder. The TA SAS are the worlds' best Combat Rescue and LRRPs and INTEL soldiers.

Even our American cousins who attend the Special Forces LRRPs school in Bavaria alongside our TA are not surprised that the British SAS are always in the top two percent of students, but are extremely surprised to find out that they are part time soldiers.

These guys are also the best hide builders in the world.  Many go on to join the Regular(full time) SAS and make the best soldiers in the regiment.  Bear Grylls was an extremely popular and professional soldier.

Bear Grylls is, first and foremost, an entertainer, and it's good to see his show in that light. If you are entertained, then he's achieved his goal. If you think you're going to learn how to survive anywhere by watching his shows, think again. I feel sorry for the camera man and Bear Grylls crew that follow him into his various adventures. I have no doubt they are the ones carrying all the gear Bear needs that you never see him carrying, including the satellite phone for when it's time to call it quits.

Of any knife I'm surprised that he hasn't yet used the Emerson CQC-8 folder.  Rumor has it that the Emerson CQC folder was designed by SAS operators.

I like man vs wild because survival is very hard work.  Bear Grils and I both enjoy treking and the forest.

This is way too high for a knife.  $700.00 for this knife?  I can purchase a good cold steel knife for less than $100.00 and I guarantee it will do everything that this knife can do.  I  have 2 cold steel knives and have put them to good use.  I think Bear Grylls needs to come down out of the clouds and rejoin the common folk!

I have done some research and this knife is a really good knife. However I would not pay $700 for this blade. A good knife that is similar and $600 cheaper is the SOG NW Ranger which has a full tang and its made by SOG.

You should consider looking at the Tom Brown Jr. Tracker knives. A supposedly made in the field version of his knife was also featured in the movie "The Hunted"

Somehow a $700 knife seems to go against the philosophy of resourcefulness and minimalism that Bear Grylls seems to promote with his survival style. Even though it's clearly a good idea to bring quality tools with you into the wilderness, this seems excessive. I definitely wouldn't pay it, even though it looks like a very good knife, to be sure.

You can use wide notches like that to cut a line around a small diameter sapling to make it cut clean, for example, if you want to make arrows.

Bear Grylls has an educational television show to teach couch potatoes things that may help them survive in the wilderness. It features a professional in his field who was taught woodcraft by experts and has a decent production value associated with it.  I find it far more educational than Les Stroud's "Endureman" show, with Les whizzing and moaning about nothing to eat when a an armadillo is tearing up his camp.

Endureman is entertainment in a laughable way, presented by one man, self taugth- acting as his own cameracrew so he can brag the most when he is not whizzing and moaning about how miserable he is.

My grandmother refers to the two programs as "the english guy who knows what he is doing in the woods show" and the dumb guy who whines in the wilderness show.

I particularly loved it when Les Stroud was eating snow in the arctic and my grandmother said, "he'll get hypothermia" and Stroud got hypothermia.

Be careful when you go choosing your role models.

I also loved it when Les was whizzing and moaning about mosquitos, but didn't rub mud on his face to keep them off. That was the same episode where he complained about microbes in water, burnt his water sack then wound up eating undercooked fish right out of the same stream.

Now you know what Les Stroud is expert in surviving. Dissentery!

Survival Topics - we can learn alot from other people, and have a laugh too.  Something very valuable these survival television shows give us is the cause to think.  Our minds are our best survival tools.  We can watch what Les and Bear do in the wilderness, both their successes and their failures, and then go on to use and modify to our own advantage.  This is the way of the best survivors.

$700? Wow.  If you want Bear's autograph there is are cheaper ways to get it.  If you think this knife is worth $700 (look at comparable Cold Steel or Benchmade knives) then I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.

Wow, guy who rips on Les Stroud, I'm pretty sure I've seen Bear eat raw fish too.

And the episode with the mosquitos, yes he does rub mud on his face later in the show.

Les is a very knowledgable and experienced survival instructor who actually knows how to use a bow drill, unlike some British people. The fact that he has survived the places he has survived with no assistance proves that he is successful at, oh I don't know... surviving!

Anyways, you can get a similar knife made of quality steel for under $200.00

That is way too much money.

The dented portion of the blade can be used (if the teeth are not very large) to scrap sparks out of a flint and also to make good tinder out of a tree limb or small log.

Anyone who thinks Bear Grylls is better than Les Stroud in any way, especially when it comes to survival, should shell out $700 for his knife (probably has already) because they've already bought the rest of the survival gear Bear sells. The only thing that is a bigger joke than Bear Grylls is the price of his knife. Of course I think it's safe to say that anyone who gets survival advice from their grandmother might not know much about the subject themselves. It does prove that when it comes to con men, few can compare to the skill demonstrated by Bear Grylls; how else would he dare to ask that much for a knife when you can get one that's just as good or better for one tenth the cost.

I enjoy watching both Man vs. Wild and Survivorman. I have been a Bear Grylls fan longer though. Both guys have their pros and cons. The simple fact is that they are skilled more than the average person. I have tried some techniques shown by each of them, and it is not easy. Have you ever tried starting a fire with a firesteel? As for the knife, I think it is overpriced.

Just received the second version of Bear Grylls knife from Mr. Rob Bayley and I am very impressed with the workmanship. I plan to take it with me to Australia and see how it performs. P.S. Hope you get well soon, Bear. You are just as tough as the knife that was named after you.

The "interrupted" edge is just a type of serration. Think of it as a hybrid between "tooth" type serrations (ie. the most common type) and "scallop" type serrations (found on many Kershaw pocket knives). The advantage of this type of serration is that the flat edge can be easily (partially) sharpened with the main blade on any flat sharpener, unlike the tooth type serrations.

Your kidding, right? 700 bucks for that? I've had my US Airforce pilot's survival knife for 25 years. I've split logs with it. I've hammered nails with it. I've sawn through branches with it. I've opened cans with it. It's still rock solid and indestructible. It's weighted for log splitting and turning into a spear head, with a giant hexagonal striking butt, a clipped point and a saw back. I'll likely own it until the day I die.

$700 for a knife? Don't think so. I'll stick with my RAT Cutlery RC-4. I think it is safe to say that anyone drinking his own urine or the juice squeezed from dung has a way to go in educating people about survival. Pure entertainment. Besides, there is Bear's Hotel escapade when everyone watching thought he was spending the night in the wilderness. I'll stick to watching Les Stroud, at least he's honest about what he is doing and admits to mistakes.

Someone mentioned the horrific price of Bear's knife. I agree with this totally. You don't need to spend that kind of money to have an exellant survival blade. It's just a status symbol. You can survive with a piece of sheet metal if you had to, But the best tool for every day carry is a multi-tool. I as well as my wife carry a Gerber.

It gives us most of what we need. You can even of course make tools with it. As far as a seven inch knife being too large to carry in a heavily wooded area is bull. It's all in how you adapt. More sheaths are offering different options to carry them i.e. boots, neck knives, horizontally, lower back area, in your pocket if you have to. (in sheath of course).

I've seen many of Bear's shows and it is a good learning tool but shouldn't be used as a carved in stone method of survival in every situation. Some of the actions he takes are too risky for the novice and are checked carefully prior to the shoot. The more uneducated chances you take in the wild, the

quicker your going to injure yourself or have your will read.

I don't see 700 dollors worth of knife in the picture.  If i ever was to shell out $700 for a good hunting knife it would be used hard, so a leatherman and something suitable for gutting game  makes more sense.  I'm sure its bears knife is a  good knife. I just think of Deano's commment and wonder if he would spend 700 dollors for the chisel thaat he wants to turn that blade into.  Thats like taking an 80,000 dollor jeep grand cherokee and go off-roading in it!