“It came with the original sheathe and the sharpening stone too. Pohl’s passion for knives was clear talking about the knife, and he remembers the moment he first got to hold and examine his newly-acquired treasure.

“All the materials he was using, the special features he put into the knife like the sawback, the screwdriver, the hollow handle, the nylon cord that you could probably use for fishing - it was an early multi-tool. “It was so unusual for its time, and looking back 40 years, Jimmy Lile was way ahead of his time,” he said. Lile actually created 13 knives for First Blood, and in 1993 Pohl obtained knife No. The knife that so inspired Pohl was designed by a guy named Jimmy Lile, an Arkansas knifesmith described by Pohl and many others as a legend. From a young age, he was drawn to knives and other things military.

While Rambo: First Blood fully ignited Pohl’s love of knives, the spark came from his brother, who was a German paratrooper. Hope was different and coming there for the 40th anniversary, it’s really something.” Nobody would go to Israel or the Nevada desert to see parts of Rambo 3, or the fourth part that was made in Thailand. Nobody would go to Mexico to see something from Rambo 2. “No other movie set is so important to the Rambo movie franchise like Hope. “Just thinking about it makes the hairs on my arm stand up,” he said.

Now 52 years old, he’s coming from Germany to Hope, the home of Rambo: First Blood. In 2019 he would be asked to design the knife for Rambo: Last Blood and he would work face to face with Stallone. The next day he went down to the basement, and using a round metal file, carved out the same sawback notches he’d just seen on the back of Rambo’s knife.Īnd so it began, the first steps on a journey that would see him become a world-renowned knife designer, eventually creating his own company called Pohl Force Movie Knives. The teenager left the theatre on that day in 1982, and went home shaking with excitement. 30, 2022 e-Edition.ĭietmar Pohl was 16-years-old when he saw Rambo: First Blood, and from the moment he saw Sylvester Stallone holding his survival knife, he knew what he wanted to do. One of the people coming to town is Dietmar Pohl, who was so inspired seeing the survival knife from First Blood that he made a career out of it.Ĭheck out three more stories in the Hope Standard’s Rambo special section, which you can find on pages B1 to 8 of the Sept. Hope welcomes people from around the world when Rambo: First Blood 40th anniversary celebrations take place over the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend.

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