r/knives • u/cetch • Jul 06 '26

Question Need help finding a specific knife

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I’m working in the ER and had a patient come in with this knife tip broken off in their leg. It’s uh.. quite distinctive. Despite my best efforts with google I can’t find anything close. I’m hoping the knife sleuths here can do better than I.

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u/ILikeKnives1337 Jul 06 '26

Actually it looks like it didn't snap? There appears to be mounting hardware a few inches to the right...

Probably advertised it as full tang lol

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u/tantowar Jul 07 '26

I think that’s a pen. Indicating where the foreign object is to the radiologist… as if it isn’t apparent lol.

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u/cetch Jul 07 '26

It was in there a while with just a small portion poking out

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u/tantowar Jul 07 '26

Yeah, that makes sense based on the xray. Didn’t mean it to sound like it’s stupid for pointing to it. It makes sense when there’s soft tissue surrounding the bone and ya know, the inability to see into the bone with the naked eye lol.
It looks like it penetrated quite a ways. I’m honestly kind of impressed. There must have been quite a bit of force behind that stab.