Combat knife for battlefield use by US troops, with approximately 1,058 knives additionally subcontracted to Northampton Cutlery Company in Springfield, Massachusetts to meet wartime demand. In the 1950s Randall would adopt the general pattern of the Bowie knife for several of his fighting knife designs. The majority of military forces today have largely standardized the types of combat knife issued to soldiers. The Chilean Commando forces, for instance, are trained in the use of the Corvo, a traditional Chilean military weapon. The Gurkha regiments favor the Kukri, a broad-bladed, curved general-purpose cutting tool and weapon that more closely resembles a machete or
Cheese knife the form of rosettes that resemble chanterelle mushrooms (also known as "" in French, hence the name of the device). This cheese was traditionally scraped with a knife. The "girolle" was invented in 1982 by Nicolas Crevoisier of the Swiss Jura and is produced by the Métafil-laGirolle company. The cheese plane is a stationary variant of a carpenter's plane. It is used for cutting extra-hard Berner Alpkäse that has been aged for at least two years, also known as Hobelkäse (‘plane cheese’). Cheese knife A cheese knife is a type of kitchen knife specialized for the cutting of cheese. Different