Pulled for now
Near perfect except one mark on blade on edge of grind line and marks on pocket clip. Just talked to the customer service peeps at benchmade on this one. Story behind the knife: The 860, as rumored was designed original for the Jordanian army. The knife in question, the proto above, is one of the R&D knives that was created to sell the product to the Jordanian army and has seen some travel with Benchmade reps. Surprisingly the knife is in fantastic condition. The customer service rep believes that a gold plated medallion was used in the knife, which makes sense considering that it is a Prototype.
Each knife made had a golden medallion stuck into the handle and arabic script on the blade which roughly translates to arabic army. This Prototype is marked "R&D Knife February 2009" and has another difference than the production knives, the skull crusher is more pronounced and shaped like a guitar pick. Blade is also not sharpened and has not been since I have owned it.
Apparently the R&D knives rarely if ever make it out to general public, so he was very surprised I had it. I got this baby from a guy in Salem funny enough who bought it off a friend who works at Benchmade.
Near perfect except one mark on blade on edge of grind line and marks on pocket clip. Just talked to the customer service peeps at benchmade on this one. Story behind the knife: The 860, as rumored was designed original for the Jordanian army. The knife in question, the proto above, is one of the R&D knives that was created to sell the product to the Jordanian army and has seen some travel with Benchmade reps. Surprisingly the knife is in fantastic condition. The customer service rep believes that a gold plated medallion was used in the knife, which makes sense considering that it is a Prototype.
Each knife made had a golden medallion stuck into the handle and arabic script on the blade which roughly translates to arabic army. This Prototype is marked "R&D Knife February 2009" and has another difference than the production knives, the skull crusher is more pronounced and shaped like a guitar pick. Blade is also not sharpened and has not been since I have owned it.
Apparently the R&D knives rarely if ever make it out to general public, so he was very surprised I had it. I got this baby from a guy in Salem funny enough who bought it off a friend who works at Benchmade.
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