New Reinhardt Kukri

Glad Ethan's designing these things, and not cbear, haha.
 
Svashtar said:
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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mmm, good to see ya Norm!

i coulda sworn the Becker version was also a "combat" model. i'll have to check. i have a couple/few and i think the sheaths are different from one to the each; will compare with the Seki model.
 
Charlie_K said:
I'm almost terrified to find out what the price is going to be.

The real suck of the deal is that I'm going to need to wait at least a year after the official release date to contemplate getting one, just like the BK10. The initial price upon release is gonna be extraordinary.
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i don't recall the street prices on anything much changing all that greatly. MSRP is one thing, street price is another.
 
Chameleonbear said:
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And the OH SWEET JEEBUS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!
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point in for style points

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crimsonfalcon07 said:
I wonder, if I get some longer bolts, if I can attach a BK9 to the bottom of one of these, and then put the handles back on. Or two RBK's per handle set. Then you could have 4 blades going at once!

Maybe I'll have to buy 4.
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I was gonna suggest bat'leth.....
bigghoss said:
Becker bat'leth
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....but....ditto.

or as Cbear has already suggested, the most insanely demented shuriken.....ever.
 
OOHHH, just can`t wait for these to hit the market, my friend over at the Busse forum is bragging so bad about his Killazillas, so I just need to shut him up with one of these.....!!!
 
somehow i was all twitterpated at Blade, i think i didn't eat enough, definitely wasn't dehydrated, but realized i didn't take pictures... of anything. just living!

now, had i been thinking, i might have gotten a shot of the blue-print, but well, i did get to read it. cool. someday i'll get a nice copy, for the archives.

MAYBE i'll get to hold a proto or a pre-prod before actual prod. i'll own a few of these, i'm sure. bound to be a classic and highly sought after.
 
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