Is there such a thing as zt 0551 BLK ?

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I happen to see this up on a site that there supposedly will be or was a black coated blade version of the zt 0551? Any truth to this or just another late night hallucination on my part?
 
There is/was a prototype with a black blade.

These pictures were originally posted on the forum @ rickhindererknives.com

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You're not hallucinating (;)) -- some dealers did have pre-orders for a ZT 0551BLK up for a while. However, I'm pretty sure that the plans for the 250-piece 0551BLK were scrapped, with ZT ending up just making some more of the stonewashed blade 0551 instead. That's how the total number of stonewashed 0551s ended up at around 1300 (not counting blems), rather than the 1000 that were originally planned.
 
neuron said:
You're not hallucinating (;)) -- some dealers did have pre-orders for a ZT 0551BLK up for a while. However, I'm pretty sure that the plans for the 250-piece 0551BLK were scrapped, with ZT ending up just making some more of the stonewashed blade 0551 instead. That's how the total number of stonewashed 0551s ended up at around 1300 (not counting blems), rather than the 1000 that were originally planned.
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Ah...well that sure does explain it. oh well I guess dreams don't come true in this case. A coated version 0551 would of been quite the hot commodity to come by.
 
Morrow said:
There is/was a prototype with a black blade.

These pictures were originally posted on the forum @ rickhindererknives.com

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0550. :p not the 551. Similar but who knows if this run will even hit the streets, doubtful ?
 
Don't know the policy about posting completed listed links, but I was a bit disappointing for not catching it. I only noticed it when going through the completed listings for 0551s.
 
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