Rekat Knives

[Willieboy]

Just curious, how many of us still enjoy using our REKAT's. I have a Carnivour, special edition SIFU (no finger groves and serial numbered) and a Pocket Hobbit. I can't help myself, I still cherish these pieces.

 

[SpyderJon]

I always wanted one of those, but never got around to getting one. I always liked the Pioneer with the upswept blade in the stonewash finish. Nice knives, too bad about what happened to the company and the Rolling Lock...

-Anthony

 

[Mike Sastre]

I use my Savant w/upswept point everyday. Sometimes still carry one of my Sifus and the Carny Cub also gets some use. Extremely rugged and useful knives.

 

[longbow]

I've got a pretty old Carnivore, that really don't carry much due to the weight of the knife. It is marked a 2nd. Don't know why as I can't detect anything wrong at all with it. Scary sharp too. keepem sharp

 

[500jefferyDK]

Just curious, how many of us still enjoy using our REKAT's. I have a Carnivour, special edition SIFU (no finger groves and serial numbered) and a Pocket Hobbit. I can't help myself, I still cherish these pieces.

I use to have a Rekat hobit warrior knife but thought the blade and handle was to small:grumpy:
Other then that the knife was cool

Cheers,

André

 

[Nick Hyle]

I occasionally still carry my two Rolling Locks, a tip down G10 slab over steel liner hollow ground tanto (Pioneer II?) and a tip up G10 skin over aluminum (Savant?) swedged flat ground drop point. The drop point is a great utility piece, the tanto simply has one of THE best hollow grinds I've ever owned. I beat on the droppie and drool on the tanto.

 

[Big Z]

Had a couple Sifu's back in the day.Both had finger grooves and one had carbon fiber handel.I realy miss those knifes,man they were huge! Anyone remember the Red special addition Bladeforum Sifus?

 

[SIFU1A]

oh the sifus, dont even get me started bashing those lol. while the smaller REKATS semed to do "ok" with the "rolling lock", the sifus sure didnt do well, lotsa lock probs with those, if ya have one and it locks well, be happy and be gentle with it (ie no inertia opening, no hard opening, no gunk in the action, etc) 'cuz if it breaks i dont know of anyone who will fix the thing. and if ya inertia open it, or open it "briskly" ya will have probs............

i have had 3 and all developed lock probs with use, even when i knew not to inertia open it, open it hard, etc. imho its due to the inertia of the big blade and the very close tolerances required for the rolling lock to work correctly. after i saw a schematic of the internals, i could understand the problems with it imho tolerances must be just too close for a production knife, as far as REKATS claims of "the lock of the 21st century", BS i say.

the cheerfull , helpfull, lovely folks at REKAT didnt help matters any, either.

imho if ya want a large folder get a cammilus maxx, i like the stilletto version myself.

 

[Lenny_Goofoff]

can you folks give me link to comparative sizes/blade thickness of GijanWarrior and Hobbit
I've bought resently a chinese ripoff from one of those. Realy cheap, 420 steel, good heft though.
tnx in advanse

 

[500jefferyDK]

I got one of those chineese Warrior knives to and they sure are great compared to the price. Very well made the only thing that is wrong is the sheath, so I made one myself. Here it is:
This knife is way bigger then the Rekat.

Cheers,

André