John Elk Limited Edition PG-5W Bowie

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Today for sale is a custom knife that I haven’t really seen sold except for on ebay. Trying to move relatively quickly hence the price.

Here are some pictures
https://m.imgur.com/a/rZgMCHY

John Elk Limited Edition Comando Knives PG-5W Bowie/Fighter- I don’t know much about this other than it’s handmade and built like a tank. Para cord handle and full tang blade. Has a gouge near the Hand Guard, don’t know how it got there. Appears to have been sharpened, and light scratches on both sides of blade possible from going in and out of sheath? Asking only 100 shipped US only. Open to trades also.
 
That is a nice knife at a good price, however Ek knives were bought and produced by the Blackjack knives factory in Effingham, so unless you have paperwork saying this limited edition was made by hand, this is a production knife.
 
That's a production knife. Even most of the originals were production knives. They were WWII field knives designed by John Ek. The originals were made by him and a small shop, kind of akin to Chris Reeve Knives or Randall Made Knives, and indeed he was a contemporary of Bo Randall. The original John Ek commando knife came in several variants of blade and guard combos and had maple handles with cast lead rivets. Ek and his family operated the company until 1993, when Blackjack Knives bought them. The knives here vary in quality a lot - Blackjack had a lot of internal problems and for a while they were stamping the Ek name on a lot of garbage trying to sell it. Mike Stewart (presently of Bark River Knives) owned the Blackjack brand for a while. KA-BAR owns them now and produces co-branded knives with the Ek logo and design.

Yours looks like one from the 1980s in the last days of when the company was owned by John Ek's family. Around that time frame, the handles were either micarta with x-bolt fasteners, checkered walnut, or nylon cord.
 
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