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"I read that it (the 2010 catalog) has a Mod #28 "Woodsman" drop point hunter with a full exposed tang handle with border patrol shaped scales. It is of 3/16 stainless stock and costs 385 dollars." Basically a scaled up version of the RKS knife from what I've heard...
I think that is just about the coolest thing RMK that I've ever read; well, except for the part about finding out that VL&A, RMK's largest volume reseller (by far) during WWII, supplied their own sheaths for 97% of the fighting knives they ordered during all of 1943, all of 1944, and most of 1945; but I digress...
Over at KFC, IIRC, back in late 2000 or 2001, a group of us were talking about our 'dream' RMK, and while I think it was Rafal Wasilewski, aka ‘Sufler’ that suggested a BPH to my idea of a full-tang Model #25-5 (or vice versa), I took the idea to GTR both via phone and in letter form. His response at the time was, paraphrased, ‘Nope, that’s not gonna happen’.
So, when the RKS #5 miniature knife was announced in the summer of 2004, I was pretty excited - as I thought this was a miniature version of what I had been asking for, and had hoped would eventually be released in a full-sized version. I espoused this position at the time, and Sufler brought it up again on the RKS forum in 2008.
I believe it was on the RKS forum that my friend Scott Maynard, the current RKS Shop foreman, corrected us (Raf and I), by stating that the project was one that had long been formulated by GTR with shop input, and was actually based on the Dave Griffin designed slab-sided drop point hunter – and that both full and mini-sized versions had been offered to the RKS, with the mini version selected as the club knife.
Further, obviously, no one at RMK needed my input on potential new knife designs. So, I do hereby stand corrected. The slab-sided Griffin drop point hunter, btw, built along the lines of a modern Triathlete utilizing Model #10 type handles; with ~150 copies made between 1977 and 1984, is, hmmm, IMO, quite different than a full-tang BHP handled Model #25-5. So, I’m pretty excited about this latest turn of events.
Funny thing is, when it came up in last eight or so years, on any knife forum, whenever anyone asked what the ‘Model #28’ was going to be, I always said a full-tang Model #25-5 with a BPH would be nice. Looks like I might have gotten lucky, once again.
I think that is just about the coolest thing RMK that I've ever read; well, except for the part about finding out that VL&A, RMK's largest volume reseller (by far) during WWII, supplied their own sheaths for 97% of the fighting knives they ordered during all of 1943, all of 1944, and most of 1945; but I digress...
Over at KFC, IIRC, back in late 2000 or 2001, a group of us were talking about our 'dream' RMK, and while I think it was Rafal Wasilewski, aka ‘Sufler’ that suggested a BPH to my idea of a full-tang Model #25-5 (or vice versa), I took the idea to GTR both via phone and in letter form. His response at the time was, paraphrased, ‘Nope, that’s not gonna happen’.
So, when the RKS #5 miniature knife was announced in the summer of 2004, I was pretty excited - as I thought this was a miniature version of what I had been asking for, and had hoped would eventually be released in a full-sized version. I espoused this position at the time, and Sufler brought it up again on the RKS forum in 2008.
I believe it was on the RKS forum that my friend Scott Maynard, the current RKS Shop foreman, corrected us (Raf and I), by stating that the project was one that had long been formulated by GTR with shop input, and was actually based on the Dave Griffin designed slab-sided drop point hunter – and that both full and mini-sized versions had been offered to the RKS, with the mini version selected as the club knife.
Further, obviously, no one at RMK needed my input on potential new knife designs. So, I do hereby stand corrected. The slab-sided Griffin drop point hunter, btw, built along the lines of a modern Triathlete utilizing Model #10 type handles; with ~150 copies made between 1977 and 1984, is, hmmm, IMO, quite different than a full-tang BHP handled Model #25-5. So, I’m pretty excited about this latest turn of events.
Funny thing is, when it came up in last eight or so years, on any knife forum, whenever anyone asked what the ‘Model #28’ was going to be, I always said a full-tang Model #25-5 with a BPH would be nice. Looks like I might have gotten lucky, once again.