please help me to authenticate this knife!

Looks real, the seller is reputable. You may want to move this to the Hinderer forum. Knowledgeable folks there that can help.
 
Looks like one of the production version bowies that they introduced at NYCKS.
 
I really have no way of determining if that knife, or the actual one that will be delivered, is an authentic Hinderer. At that price, or at any price for that matter, but especially when one is looking to spend nearly 4 figures for a folder, I would never buy if it's from eBay. Just doing a casual search yielded several reputable online retailers selling this knife, and variations of this knife (blade coatings, different color scales) for an average price of about $650.00.
 
It is a real production Hinderer (which is a new release of the RHK bowie grind so there aren't many production bowies in the wild yet but they are coming later this month in much greater numbers). If you are comparing the price to custom RHK bowies, that is a different animal all together and custom bowies will cost significantly more than a production version.
 
Thanks all. At least I know it is authentic. I still don't know the difference between production and custom. To me the shape of the blade is identical, maybe same steel type? Other than that the scale is different?
But is the price the seller asks for too much for the production knife?
 
Think about the way knife makers grind their blades with a belt grinder. If they grind the blade where the belt is on the wheel there will be a cup (or a concave shape) in the blade. The smaller the wheel the deeper the hollow. If they grind the blade between the wheels with a flat platen behind the belt then the blade grind surface will be flat. Hinderer Knives uses both methods. The production models are flat ground. The custom models are hollow ground. Clear as mud?

And sorry but we don't talk about aftermarket prices in Rick's forum.
 
And to add one more thing to Mike's comments, a custom is hand ground by Rick himself, by hand (free hand actually) on a belt grinder (like Mike explains), a production blade is made by a CNC machine (of Rick's design). You can identify the difference (again, based on Mike's explanation) once you get more familiar Rick's knives (lots of information on this forum).
 
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