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BM AFCK w/Tanto Blade

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Ronald Reagan

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I was just in a knife store in Santa Fe and saw a mini AFCK with a tanto blade. It looked really cool. Are these new? Are they still available?
 
They're relatively new, last months Knife of the Month. 1000 pieces made, I'd say it is a nice knife, but it was a little to pricey for me to keep. I paid $120 which is a tad too much for another mini afck. Great for a collector, but not for me.
 
I was just in Santa Fe the other day and it is indeed on of Benchmades Knife of the Month. I want to say it was the June knife. Nice little shop there in Santa Fe.
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Thanks for the info guys.

Just a few more questions....

1)Do they make a Large version?

2) Who has them for sale?

Easy rider, it was my first time to NM. My friend just got married and I was quite taken by the beauty of Taos and Santa Fe. I will definitely visit again. I got to see the Santa Fe Arts & Craft show.

When I was in Albuquerque, I saw a sign for a gun and knife show this past weekend. Did you go? How was it?

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You can see tanto AFCK on Darknemesis homepage. There is link in his signature to his BM page(if I remember correctly).
 
R.R., I went to that gun show. It really wasn't anything to write home to Mom about. It seemed every other booth had AR-15's or Sks's. There were a couple of good knife vendors. On the plus side,I was able to handle a BM 730 Ares for the first time. Fit and Finish seemed first rate, but it really didn't feel comfortable in my hand. I have been thinking about getting one, now I know not to.
Next time you are out here take some time and head up to Durango/Silverton CO. area. If you liked Taos, you will love southern CO.
Make sure you stop in Chama to check out the Steam Locomotive. They run several time a day. Great fun.
 
Ronald Reagan:

They do make a large one, it is called the 800SPECIAL. On the backside of the blade it says " 1 of 135 " and " Prototype 1998 "

The Tanto AFCK was originally designed to be the HK special edition to replace the discontinued HK CQC-7 970HK that Benchmade made for the Handgun manufacturer Heckler & Koch. Hk delcined the deal, and went with the actual Emerson CQC-7 instead. There are actually 136 of the 800SPECIALs, and #1 has the HK logo on it, the other 135 have the Balisong/Benchmade logo on them. I have a picture on my website, and so does Dark Nemisis.

I have seen a few of the 800SPECIALs at my local gun shows in Indiana, but I doubt there are many on the market left.

Hope this helps!

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If I remember correctly, late last year, there were some of the 800 specials for sale or on an auction. Again, if my memory is correct, they ended up going for around $200. I like the design, not $200 worth of like.

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Q-Ball,

Thanks for the info. So the large one is not a knife of the month?

I would really love to get a hold of one these.
 
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