First of all - Hi! Everyone. I am new to this forum.
In response to this posting I have downloaded some photos of LILE beautiful knives - SLY II and RAMBO (The Mission) with a brief description, side by side with Buck 184. i found that sometimes the way these knives are called (Rambo, Sly,...) is somewhat confusing, so I tried to clear this, for people who are interested, based on LILE catalogues info. However all mysteries will be revealed soon when the book on LILE will be published.
...... should be mentioned that LILE knives were offered in 440C and D2, i think that 440C was much favored by Mr. Lile. Particularly SLY II knives (i.e. First Blood part I) style were also offered with wrapped handle or unwrapped,.... the cord was supplied however in case the owner would prefer to do all wrapping himself. These knives were also available in three sizes - 9, 7-1/2 and 6 inch blades. Looks like the smaller sized blades are not common at all, at least you dont see them anywhere all to often. indeed production figures are hard to obtain....