Picture history of early CRK's

What a seriously amazing thread!!! WOW, just wow!! THANK YOU for taking the time to do this for us.
 
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Another knife that should be in this thread. A one of a kind show knife which became the inspiration for the limited OPK Freyja knife. As of June 2017 for sale at an eye watering $12500.00

Nick
 
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Lock 45 re-issue.... NOW!!!!! Most of those knives are crazy cool, and would stand the test of time if offered today!
 
So cool! I think I've changed my "Grail Knife" from the River of Fire Sebenza to a Helix Lock because of this thread. Thanks for the glimpse into CRK history!
 
Love this thread. So many I have never seen and never knew existed.

Those Helix Locks are amazing as are the Garter Knives. Outstanding.
 
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Lovely "Garter knife" courtesy of Brian Robinson. Brian I hope you'll get chance to add other knives from your fantastic collection.
This was a bit of a test for me.... the first direct photo image straight off the iPad..... so easy, Yah! Photo bucket can go take a running jump!
 
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Lovely "Garter knife" courtesy of Brian Robinson. Brian I hope you'll get chance to add other knives from your fantastic collection.
This was a bit of a test for me.... the first direct photo image straight off the iPad..... so easy, Yah! Photo bucket can go take a running jump!
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Nick this was the same knife that Chris made for me in the mid 80's. We called it the BEE and they were coated with the same color Kal-Guard as the OPK's. This was a hand finished custom version that he must have made around the same time for a show.
I struggled to sell them at 30 quid. Lol:D
 
£30..... Strewth.
Bee, must keep a look out for one of them.

Ok that makes sense. It looks like an un-handled Garter knife.

Can't believe that £30 :( :( lol
 
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Sword (Chris Reeve)

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Nickpp -- GREAT job compiling all of these photos! I can give a little more information on these knives. I'm the photographer, but not the owner.

The top one is in Chris and Anne's collection, and is called the Mise’ricorde – means in French, putting a person out of misery. Some specs:
13” blade, 17” overall
classic dagger blade with reinforced point. Was designed to pierce chain mail and put a fallen soldier out of his misery on the battlefield.
Elephant ivory and ebony on handle fittings of blued mild steel w/ high lead content fittings and sterling silver.
440B steel
sheath is african blackwood lined with velvet, mild steel & ivory fittings
Chris made this knife in 1986

The next one is one of Chris's customs that has not been named. It's a 3 flute dagger, with a combination flat/hollow grind out of CPM154CM, with Ti and 22 karat gold fittings w/ braided rayon handle wrap. Blade length = 10”, overall length is 17”. Chris originally sold this fine piece to Neil Ostroff.

Feel free to update the original post with this information, and delete this reply.

Best regards, Fooj
 
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