To be fair, though...<br><br>The first saw-back knife that I was aware of on the market was the Randall model 18. There may have been others, but it was also the first hollow-handled "survival" knife, and I think it's pretty clear that it started the genre.<br><br>However, Randall made it clear from the start that the dramatic-looking sawback was not for wood, but for cutting through the aluminum skin of downed aircraft... and it reportedly worked well for that. Most of the subsequent imitators seemed to have missed that point.