New Reinhardt Kukri

Very excited about this. Ethan showed us the drawing at the show - this thing looks like a beast!
 
3/16th, same primary edge profile as the BK9

there will be edge relief on the top like BK5

OAL 18.25

blade edge of 23 fourths?

blade drop: 5.25


this is Hank's original:

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this is a Seki City Blackjack version of the original, i love it: thick, heavy, convexed, bad to the bone, through the bone, and out the other side:

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and of course, the Blackjack Becker Reinhardt Combat Khukri:

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please place your tray tables in their original upright position and commence to salivating
 
Thanks for posting those Bladite. This thing is gonna be a chopping machine.
 
Hmmmm if I start selling my non-Becker knives now I'll definitely be able to afford it when it comes out.
I really can't imagine how great this will be and I can't wait to find out!
 
No sheath design yet..... Yeah it IS going to happen......We should have had blades to fondle this weekend.......Really excited.....Gonna be good, Gonna be good.........Woot, Woot....

E
 
Ethan Becker said:
No sheath design yet..... Yeah it IS going to happen......We should have had blades to fondle this weekend.......Really excited.....Gonna be good, Gonna be good.........Woot, Woot....Thanks Warrior for the fine work on this thread......

E
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You're welcome. Looking forward to this one. :thumbup: Ethan, any idea what the overall weight of this is? Just curious.
 
I am stoked about this. I will be buying one. Have been saving my pennies, and will be prepared. Wonder what steel? 1095CV as usual? D2? I'd kill for a 3V version...
 
Well, I guess that this one will go on the wish list as well. By the time I'm done, yea right, I should have at least one or two of all of them. Time to get a second job I guess. :)

-Ivarr
 
Bill_Mead said:
Here is my early version...

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I sold Moose one just like that. I think that one is carbon steel. Here's my user...

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On a side note, it's fairly amazing to me how many of my knife pics turn up in Google Image searches.
 
Bladite said:
3/16th, same primary edge profile as the BK9

there will be edge relief on the top like BK5

OAL 18.25

blade edge of 23 fourths?

blade drop: 5.25


this is Hank's original:

CA_06081216180825-X3.jpg



this is a Seki City Blackjack version of the original, i love it: thick, heavy, convexed, bad to the bone, through the bone, and out the other side:

blackjack%20combat%20khukri%20000-M.jpg



and of course, the Blackjack Becker Reinhardt Combat Khukri:

IMG_2989-X3.jpg



please place your tray tables in their original upright position and commence to salivating
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Cool, Joe, I have both those, although one correction, your last pic is not the "Combat" model, it is the standard matte finish model, made by Blackjack / BK&T as you say, and I got mine direct from Blackjack back in the day; not sure if BK&T was selling them as well or just going through Mike Stewart at the Effingham plant.

The Blackjack / Seki City "bad to the bone" full-polish heavier model you show was marketed as the Reinhardt "Combat" kukri in 1994, and came with an upgraded quick-deploy leather sheath over the standard Reinhardt BK&T, which is slower to get out of the sheath. Blackjack offered both the Blackjack/BK&T Reinhardt and the Blackjack Reinhardt Combat back then. When Blackjack was going out of business I wrote to them and scored the upgraded quick-deploy combat sheath for the standard BK&T as well, and it fits perfectly. That naming information is reflected on the original boxes as I recall.

Of all the kukris I have and have used the standard BK&T is one of the lightest and strongest and sharpest, and certainly one of the fastest. The new Blackjack knives Ken Warner kukri is a close second, but doesn't have quite the same great natural feel to it.

Specs on both:

Blackjack / BK&T Reinhardt: 18.5" OAL and 17 oz.
Blackjack / Reinhardt Combat: 18.5" OAL and 22 oz.

The BK&T has been used a bit, but the original Reinhardt Combat is still NIB after 20 years I'm happy to say. ;) The nice thing about the standard BK&T is that great finish; even after beating hell out of it just a quick oil and scotch-brite polish makes it look like new.

Norm
 
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So just last week I was eyeing the sticky with all the bk info and i saw this kukri and thought too bad they dont make it anymore. But now I thinks im gonna save up. Never had a kukri before.
 
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