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At the gun show here in south Florida this Independence Day weekend, I saw a table that had three BK&T knives laid out in a case. The middle one was a Combat Utility 7. I had been eying them for a few weeks online, and was considering buying one but really wanted to hold it in my hand first.
I remember having handled a knife a couple of years ago at a show, and I think it was a BK&T, but the one I remember had a sort of greenish-gray paint on the blade, not the rough black coating on the model I got this weekend. Not sure if that had been a BK&T, but it was designed and built very similarly.
The price on the table for the C.U.-7 was $55, and for all the world I could not remember what Knifecenter.com was asking. I couldn't be sure that this was a decent deal or not! I decided to risk it, anyway (no shipping charge, at any rate) and when I realized that the same dealer had a Spyderco sharpening stone that I wanted, I asked him if he'd knock something off on a package deal. He was amenable, and so I got the $55 knife and the $30 sharpener for a combined $80. We both walked away happy, I'm sure.
This C.U.-7 is one helluva a hand-filling knife! I love it. I can't say as it'll get much use -- I'm not the most outdoorsy guy lately, and I don't live in the woods somewhere, I live in Florida. But if and when I ever go camping, or trekking through the woods, you can *bet* that knife will be hanging from my belt with its nylon, kydex-insert sheath. It's also going to be in my flight bag when I take up the Cessna. (There is always the possibility of going down in the Everglades here. If that happens to me, I'm gonna survive it!)
The size of the knife makes it impressive, and the feel of it makes it, well, almost *lovable*. I could have spent over $100 on a Timberline Zambezi, and would not be any more pleased with the purchase than I am with the BK&T.
Anyone else real happy with their Becker knife?
---Jeffrey
I remember having handled a knife a couple of years ago at a show, and I think it was a BK&T, but the one I remember had a sort of greenish-gray paint on the blade, not the rough black coating on the model I got this weekend. Not sure if that had been a BK&T, but it was designed and built very similarly.
The price on the table for the C.U.-7 was $55, and for all the world I could not remember what Knifecenter.com was asking. I couldn't be sure that this was a decent deal or not! I decided to risk it, anyway (no shipping charge, at any rate) and when I realized that the same dealer had a Spyderco sharpening stone that I wanted, I asked him if he'd knock something off on a package deal. He was amenable, and so I got the $55 knife and the $30 sharpener for a combined $80. We both walked away happy, I'm sure.
This C.U.-7 is one helluva a hand-filling knife! I love it. I can't say as it'll get much use -- I'm not the most outdoorsy guy lately, and I don't live in the woods somewhere, I live in Florida. But if and when I ever go camping, or trekking through the woods, you can *bet* that knife will be hanging from my belt with its nylon, kydex-insert sheath. It's also going to be in my flight bag when I take up the Cessna. (There is always the possibility of going down in the Everglades here. If that happens to me, I'm gonna survive it!)
The size of the knife makes it impressive, and the feel of it makes it, well, almost *lovable*. I could have spent over $100 on a Timberline Zambezi, and would not be any more pleased with the purchase than I am with the BK&T.
Anyone else real happy with their Becker knife?
---Jeffrey
