The SOCFK. The real story!!

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Derek

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There seems to have been some confusion around regarding this knife. I will try to run it all down for you now.

Steve Sidarius of Extreme Outfitters in Va. Beach, man store extrordinaire and outfitters to the stars, team guys, and boat guys, contacted Ernie about a knife. Guys wanted a knife with the blade of a CQC-7 and the handle of a SpecWar. They wanted a Wave and for the price to be the same as the Benchmades that they were settling for. Thusly, the Special Operations Combat Folding Knife, or SOCFK was born.

This knife is an exclusive arrangement, only available through EO for the next year. With a precious few exceptions, the knives are sold to active duty military only.

Here is the breakdown of the knives.

(8) handground, serial numbered, marked prototypes. These knive sold for $3000.00. ernie is carrying #001, Oliver in Hong Kong has #4, I have # 5. Not sure what # Steve and or Chad has.

Small # (3-4) roughly finished spearpoint knives marked "test and evaluation only, not for sale" no serial #'s. No price.

Serial #'s 002-010, SOCFK-1B, available at Blade Show. Sold for $600.00

Serial #'s 011-200, only available through EO, $149.95. Sold to active duty military only (at Steves discretion).

Spearpoints, not available at this time.

The only knives in this series that are hand ground are the marked prototype, satin finished, tantos.

The Prototype spearpoints are handground also and may be available shortly.

The knives offered by Arizona Custom Knives are a few of the single digit serial #'ed knives. These are regular production knives but are the very first of a brand new, exclusive Emerson design.

I hope this anwers some questions that you all might have.

See you in a week.

Take care,
Derek

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Derek - thank you for clearing that up!!

Does anybody have a SOCFK - if so what do you think of it?

Regards,

Ed
 
So, Derek, when are you gonna swing that bad boy by Grossmont Center and let me play with it for a minute? Do you like it as much as that Commander with the nickeled blade?

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Well, I had one for a week or so. Seems to be a very well made . .possible production knife. I really can't compare as I only own custom knives, and have no production Emersons to compare it to.

It does feel good, and has lots of eye appeal, but comparing it to my other Customs it just doesn't quite measure up. The marking on the blade that I had is not the same as what Derek mentioned and I remain puzzled as well as to just exactly where this fits into the lineup.
 
Sniper308,

Any chance of posting a photo of the blade markings?

I have just spoken to Steve at Extreme Outfiters and put my order in for a Tanto and a Spear point. I will post an optinion in the next week when I get them. (Two for $300 seems like a better deal than one for $750 when they are production knives).

Regards,

Ed
 
Here is a picture of the Tanto bladed prototype and SOFCK #5 (of the Tanto style blade):

John
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John:

Thanks for posting the great photo of the SOCFK.

What's interesting is the information mentioned by Derek that the handground knives Serial #'s 002-010 SOCFK-1-B were sold at the Bladeshow for $600.00.

The black tanto blade shown in the photo is marked 1-A, as was the one that I had.
 
Sniper308

Actually the SOFCKs sold at the show were not hand ground. They were production knives, but they went for a premium due to the extremely low (002 - 010) serial numbers, as Derek mentioned here:

The knives offered by Arizona Custom Knives are a few of the single digit serial #'ed knives. These are regular production knives but are the very first of a brand new, exclusive Emerson design.
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As I understand it, and Derek pointed out, there are eight hand ground SOFCKs that went for several thousand dollars.

The only curious thing I found was that Derek mentioned:
The only knives in this series that are hand ground are the marked prototype, satin finished, tantos.
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Was the prototype I got a picture of at the Blade Show (above) hand ground or production? It's marked "EKI". Just curious.

Derek mentioned:
Small # (3-4) roughly finished spearpoint knives marked "test and evaluation only, not for sale" no serial #'s. No price.
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I assume from the first quote that these are production blades, just marked "prototype". Perhaps the Tanto I took a picture of was one of these.

In the over all picture, it doesn't mean much, but it was a tad confusing.

I do appreciate Derek filling in the hazy spots.

Take care

John
 
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