The new improved version
that will replace the original Livesay RTAK is
the Livesay Adventure Knife Number 5 aka:
LAK5 The Livesay Adventure Knife #5, is from
the "ESSEL SURVIVAL TOOL SERIES" and is a superior knife design to that of the
original RTAK...............PERIOD! Field tested by real user and real
experts not some self proclaimed Sexual Intellectuals. This knife has superior heat
treating, cryo-quenched blade, and design by the maker Newt Livesay.
This photograph shows the original finished, but unsharpened prototype RTAK
(top) made by Newt Livesay in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
The bottom knife is the original Livesay RTAK used to make all knives
ever turned out by the same. The white, and reddish stains are pieces of
the original hand drawn paper pattern that was glued onto the steel bar to make
the knife's pattern. Both of these knives are in my private collection.
This new knife handle design (improvement) has
already been ripped off by a couple of no imagination knife experts.
RIGHT TOP:ORIGINAL LIVESAY
RTAK -
RIGHT BOTTOM: A LIVESAY LAK4 THE LAK4
WHICH HAS A BETTER MORE
SECURE HANDLE DESIGN WITH A PRACTICAL POMMEL. BOTH KNIVES COME STANDARD
WITH FLAT GROUND BLADES, AND ERGONOMIC CONTOURED HANDLES FOR SUPERIOR HANDLING AND
CONTROL.
NOTE: THE IMPROVED BASIC HANDLE DESIGN ON THE
LIVESAY DESIGNED LAK4 LOOKS TO HAVE BEEN APPLIED OR COPIED BY A SO CALLED JUNGLE SURVIVAL
COMPANY ON THEIR "NEW" IMPROVED KNIFE. AS GOMER PYLE SAID, SURPRISE,
SURPRISE, SURPRISE! LMFHO TYPICAL NO IMAGINATION SELF PROCLAIMED
DESIGN EXPERTSMORE SPECIFICATIONS &
HISTORY OF THE LIVESAY RTAK HERE
RIGHT:THE TAPERED HANDLE SCALES SHOWN HERE
ON THE RIGHT ARE A PREMIER ADDITION TO
BOTH THE LIVESAY LAK4, AS WELL AS THE LIVESAY RTAK. THE THINNER TAPERED
AND CONTOURED GRIND ON BOTH OF THESE KNIFE HANDLES ARE EXTREMELY SUPERIOR IN
DESIGN FOR EASE OF USE, MAXIMUM COMFORT, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY . . . . SAFETY.
THESE ERGONOMICALLY DESIGNED HANDLES GIVE FAR MORE CONTROL THAN THE BULKY “TWO
BY FOUR" SLABS ON MOST COMMERCIAL MACHETES, AND SUPPOSEDLY QUOTE "JUNGLE
SURVIVAL KNIVES, OR CAMP KNIVES." UNQUOTE.
JUNK IS JUNK, AND IT IS
YOUR LIFE SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BET YOUR LIFE ON? IF IT DOES NOT HAVE
A PROPER HEAT TREAT THEN YOUR THROWING YOUR MONEY AWAY.
THE STORY OF THE
LIVESAY DROP HANDLE KNIFE: The
bend or drop handle on the LAK series is a throw back to the early LIVESAY
designed machetes such as the WASP Survival Tool, and other prototypes and
production knifes. A very limited RCM Recon Combat Machetes were
produced with drop handle in early 1994. This photo shows three production knives with drop handle
knives, with two of these knives being very early production survival type
knives with this special handles form. Top knife is a production Mdl.
16, originally manufactured in 1995. The Middle knife is a production
Mdl 17 which was originally manufactured in 1997 is Bottom knife is a later
design version of the Original Livesay RTAK manufacture in 2001 thru 2002.
Some one brought up the similarities in the handles of that and a few other
knives on the market today. Well these so called self-proclaimed
"experts" who claim they design and test knives, gear, survival products, and
other items used by the public and military basically in my opinion
just rip off legitimate designers such as Busse Combat Knives, TOPS, Pat
Crawford, Blackie Collins, and myself Livesay Combat Knives, and other hard
working makers.
BELOW: THE
WASP SURVIVAL TOOL WITH
ITS ERGONOMICALLY SUPERIOR DROPPED HANDLE IS THE
BEST DESIGNED MACHETE ON THE MARKET TODAY FOR THE NOVICE AND PROFESSIONAL
USER. YOU CAN BUY MACHETES OF LESSER QUALITY FOR MORE MONEY OR FOR
LESS MONEY, BUT NONE WILL COMPARE WITH THE WASP FOR SUPERIOR HEAT TREATING,
AND HANDLING. THIS IS A TOOL FOR YOUR LIFE.
PURCHASED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FOR FOR SPECIAL OPERATION
PERSONNEL BEING DEPLOYED BY HELICOPTER IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE EVASION
OF AFGHANISTAN. The WASP has sold on
contract to some of the most prestigious and professional military units in
the world.
