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Saber 16...?

By the way, I wasn't trying to scrutinize your design in any way Uncle E,and I hope you don't think I was being disrespectful. I just wanted to know if anybody else shared that schoolboy crush feeling when they dreamnt about a sabered 16. Oh and I thought you said you were German, I heard they're good at breakin' stuff !!!
 
C_Tanner said:
I just don't understand why the one people were most excited about (a mini BK2!) was the one chosen to be FFG. Especially when the other two are not.
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Agreed. They show us basically a mini BK2 and then change it on us. Such is life I suppose.
 
I mispoke. Obviously, the 15 is mostly FFG. I mean, that is the right choice for it. As for the FFG being slicier....granted, I concede that I am not the knife making expert by a LOOOONG shot....but I have 3 LARGE sabre ground Beckers that have no problem whatsoever slicing anything. I can't see that the difference could have been that much.

Please not that I'm not trying to disrespect Ethan. It's his baby, and functionally, a top shelf knife. I'm just one of many who were disappointed in the change. Look at the guys that have the unmarked BK16s...they are envied by many. I was the first to get an order in on the production 16's, probably the first to trade it, but I'd still buy an unmarked sabre ground 16 in a heartbeat if they ever came out. Probably be the first on that, too.

What SMKW did was draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa. They had enough for all the hardcore people that wanted one, and they went and Effed it all up. It pisses me off everytime I see a picture. Heck, you could leave Ethan sig on it and I'd be OK, but that "FIRST PRODUCTION RUN (THAT WE CAN'T SELL OUT OF BECAUSE WE MESSED IT UP)" engraving just boils my bunny. Really, I direct my anger at them and not Ka-Bar or Ethan. Next time just engrave a small number and print up a certificate, you morons!

I'm being a dick. I apologize. I don't feel well at all and it's making me bitchy. Can 30 some mosquito bites make you sick?
 
oXide said:
But seriously, the etching is what killed any and all sales of FPR tweeners, had they just put Ethan's signature on the flats, and skipped entirely on the FPR text, that would have sold a lot better, hell, they would have sold out in under a week if a few more BHs saw it.
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could've been the price. Beckerheads are cheapasses :)

OMG, it costs $50 shipped? omg so much money! oh wait, more than that? never mind...

:D
 
As someone that was dead set against the full flat ground BK16, I have to eat a little crow. Looks wise, the first production model is the bees knees, but ultimately it comes down to performance, and after using a full flat ground version all weekend, I have to admit, it just works better. Actually have been using it to carve a set of liners for itself. It is quite nimble, in ways the saber ground version just isn't.
 
DerekH said:
As someone that was dead set against the full flat ground BK16, I have to eat a little crow. Looks wise, the first production model is the bees knees, but ultimately it comes down to performance, and after using a full flat ground version all weekend, I have to admit, it just works better. Actually have been using it to carve a set of liners for itself. It is quite nimble, in ways the saber ground version just isn't.
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Thats what we have BK14s with zytel for. :D
 
Hey Guys....

You all are entitled to want something a little different......I was gonna be happy with the sabre grind......A little higher maybe but ok with where it ended up.......The full flat just works better for what I intended this blade to do......That's alll......The way I originally drew it way back when it had a flat maybe 1/4 inch wide.......Then we ffg'd the necker and that blade really worked well so when I was offerred the option of the ffg on the 16 I leaped on it.........The blade ffg is very slicy and quick and light in the hand....

I remember hearing Les deAsis at Benchmade talking at one point about a mfg system that would allow a customer within fairly generous parameters to design their own knives......Every knife a one off......Great concept......I wish KaBar could do that but right now and for the forseeable future it is a fantasy..........Gotta think in terms of thousands of blades in order to keep it at a price you guys are willing to pay.......

All Best.....

Ethan
 
Understandable. You forgot more about knives than I'll ever know. I trust your judgement. ;)
 
Got my new BK14 a couple hours ago. That, my BK2, BK7, BK9 keep me happy. I still have more big Beckers to buy.
 
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