Protech Brend #3 Auto 1322 Black Partial Serrated Blade
Super
fast hard hitting auto drive blade with an insanely sharp edge due to a
fantastic blade design! This latest and greatest from ProTech in
full-auto is served up in the Brend Model #3 with the signature Walter
Brend designed modified dagger blade. The Brend #1 is the large sized
model and the Brend#2 is the small sized model in the Protech Brend line
of knives. The Brend#3 is the medium sized model.
The
Brend fighter style blade, shown above with it's large daggeresque
blade and distinct upswept middle ridge, appears on many of the maker's
custom built fixed and folding designs but hasn't been built anywhere in
full-auto for a long time. Up until 1997 these could be ordered from
Whitewolf Knives in North Carolina and it was the combat auto fighter of
choice of three S/M/L Brend Auto designs built at the time. Many of
these knives were sold at Fort Bragg and through a few dealers most
getting pocketed at the now defunct Solder of Fortune Expo in Las Vegas.
And of course many were shipped out to PVK customers who ordered them
in the 1997 spring catalog. Supplies eventually ran out in early 1998
and the knife was longer produced. Interestingly enough the shop that
was building these Brend Autos focused most of its energy the next year
into developing the Nemesis 3 (a Microtech knife commissioned and
originally delivered only by White Wolf Knives) while at the same time
producing it's other non-brend in house autos designed by Buck Woodard
and Jim Ray. These knives were the fer De Lance and the White Wolf
pocket auto along with one other AFO sized fighter.