While there he discussed the Rambo project with storeowner Joe Ellithorpe, telling Ellithorpehe wanted Rambo to have a survival knife, “something unique that had never been seen before.”Įllithorpe recommended Lile and Stallone contacted the Arkansas maker. The selection of BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Jimmy Lile as the maker of the knife came about when Stallone was shopping and ran across Pony Express, a sports/hunting store in Los Angeles. The Making of the First Knife Jimmy Lile’s Rambo knife is one of the most influential knives of the past half century. “I love knives and I wanted the character to have one,” Stallone wrote, “almost to make the knife into a character itself.”Ī knife collector in his own right, Stallone wanted Rambo to have a great survival knife that looked good on film. It was Stallone’s idea to give Rambo one.
There is no knife in David Morrell’s novel, First Blood. In this, the 35th anniversary year of the original Rambo movie, First Blood, BLADE® asked me to do a story on Sylvester Stallone and what has become the worldwide phenomenon of Rambo. The impact of the Rambo movies and Rambo knives on both modern culture and the knife industry has been monumental over the past three-and-a-half decades.
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