EK Commando in S35VN

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Tommy-Chi

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EK has been bought by KA-BAR and they've released EK S35VN knives twice so far.

There is a very limited edition EK/Jarosz knife for sale on their web portal right now.

I bought an EK/Jarosz yesterday but I missed out on the full size Commando in S35VN, the EK/Spartan.

There is an email address at the base of the KA-BAR web site. If we all ask them to manufacture an Extreme Fighting Knife and more full size EK Commandos in S35VN the price is sure to drop, and people will snap them up!

I already own the D2 Extreme Fighting Knife and I'd like to see KA-BAR deliver more performance using the design. I do NOT want a small batch, because there would be too many who would miss out, the prices would be high, and I want everyone to have an opportunity for the best knife that they could produce. I want them to permanently have for sale an S35VN Extreme Fighting Knife and EK Commando.

KA-BAR needs one outstanding knife in their lineup that people can go to and that other manufacturers stand in awe from. I say, give other knives a run for their money in steels. S35VN is not brittle and holds a decent edge if heat treated properly.
 
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I think the market is very limited for the dagger type knives. The Comando bowie is kind of a cool knife, but it had a sharpened "false edge" which pretty much killed any use on my end of things. This is the Ek, not the Kabar version. When Kabar introduced them I was interested, but reality set in and I decided not to bother. The same would apply to a S35VN version versus 1095. There are a lot of fish in the knife sea.
 
The snody big boss is the same length or longer 4.5” and is s35vn. Isn’t D2 steel considered brittle? I’ve got the extreme d2 as well, and it doesn’t seem to be, but this is what I’ve read
 
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Tommy-Chi said:
EK has been bought by KA-BAR and they've released EK S35VN .. If we all ask them to manufacture an Extreme Fighting Knife and more full size EK Commandos in S35VN the price is sure to drop,...
I want them to permanently have for sale an S35VN Extreme Fighting Knife and EK Commando.
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Hold on to that though!
Keep in mind that CUTCO corp owns these brands
And Whilst Ek knives has always been sorta niche market
it must be a tremendous challenge to grow its consumer base.
So Unless greater consumer demands pick up
it's always going to be something of a forsaken stepchild entity
For the brand owners in perpatuality.
As for S35VN being stocked up as standard product inventory steel,
That would probably be something for the CUTCO board to Keep in view...
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...se-be-as-objective-as-possible.1301862/page-6
 
Yonose said:
The snody big boss is the same length or longer 4.5” and is s35vn. Isn’t D2 steel considered brittle? I’ve got the extreme d2 as well, and it doesn’t seem to be, but this is what I’ve read
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I like that snody big boss knife. I bookmarked it and it's a knife I'll be looking at going forward.
 
GIRLYmann said:
Hold on to that though!
Keep in mind that CUTCO corp owns these brands
And Whilst Ek knives has always been sorta niche market
it must be a tremendous challenge to grow its consumer base.
So Unless greater consumer demands pick up
it's always going to be something of a forsaken stepchild entity
For the brand owners in perpatuality.
As for S35VN being stocked up as standard product inventory steel,
That would probably be something for the CUTCO board to Keep in view...
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...se-be-as-objective-as-possible.1301862/page-6
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KA-BAR has already launched and sold out two or three new EK models. If they were a bit savvier they would have made the S35VN models permanent to the EK line, and brought the prices down in line with where they belong. Both KA-BAR and EK need a class leading model with something like S35VN, and they have no permanent solutions.
 
Tommy-Chi said:
If we all ask them to manufacture an Extreme Fighting Knife and more full size EK Commandos in S35VN the price is sure to drop, and people will snap them up!
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I'm no economist, but it seems to me if I am making a product, and people are begging for me to make more, and I do and then people are snapping them up....then I'm not going to lower the price.
 
marcinek said:
I'm no economist, but it seems to me if I am making a product, and people are begging for me to make more, and I do and then people are snapping them up....then I'm not going to lower the price.
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What you said makes sense. Yet I get the feeling that companies will keep churning out their current production line unless nudged toward what we want. So far I've contacted Emerson, CRK, Buck, KA-BAR, EK, Spartan and maybe another one or two to let them know what I'm interested in. I figure that it's better to hammer big companies with reputations that can turn out a product, than seek out a small bladesmith for every whim.

Nonetheless, I am starting to migrate toward custom knives. I've commissioned and will be receiving a Neill Schutte dagger some time in June. I'm moving in to one offs over factory knives but I'll never give up on any segment completely.
 
Tommy-Chi said:
What you said makes sense. Yet I get the feeling that companies will keep churning out their current production line unless nudged toward what we want. So far I've contacted Emerson, CRK, Buck, KA-BAR, EK, Spartan and maybe another one or two to let them know what I'm interested in. I figure that it's better to hammer big companies with reputations that can turn out a product, than seek out a small bladesmith for every whim.
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Of course you can suggest models you would like to see a large manufacturer make.

Won't do any good. 1) They meticulously plan what they are going to make based on what they see people wanting and commit large amounts of many and time to that plan, and 2) if one guy sends them an email saying he wants something, that is not going to do anything. They did their market research. That's what large makers of anything do. It doesn't make them evil or unresponsive. It's how making a lot of something works.

And it is not at all better to hammer big companies for your request. It is infinitely better to seek out a small bladesmith. It's what small makers do. They do exactly what you want.
 
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I like that snody big boss knife. I bookmarked it and it's a knife I'll be looking at going forward.
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The idea to add a guard came to me when I felt the plastic scales it came with. I may remove it now that I’ve replaced the plastic with wood scales. The sheath modification isn’t reversible, though I have a good alternative just in case. Sharpening the top would make this a better stabber but not legal in my state.
 
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