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I have seen semi custom ones go for alot less than 6K.
The full custom ones are far rarer and so cost alot more.
lol, i can see $2K or so but $6K is wayyyyyyy outta line thats absurd.
i have seen a couple of them sell thru the yrs and while i dont remember exact prices it wasnt anywhere close to $6K lol & i speak of the custom specwars.
have also seen several commanders mod'ed to look like the rhino (or CQC9 isnt it??).
i suppose they are cool looking, i have no great desire for one, in fact i can think of a lotta things i would buy with a spare $6K but a rhino isnt on the list lol.
FWIW ernie made them for SEAL's to "dispatch sentries" by slashing there throats thus the blade shape.
i have an old tac knives mag that had a sidebar article about the rhinos circa '98 or so.
i dont think ernie made many of them, and also dont know if any were ever in any SEAL's hands or not, probably not.
personally i would prefer a specwar CQC6, '7, or a viper to a rhino anyday, but some folks do like'em.
There are NO Emerson semi custom Rhinos. What you have seen is a commander that has been modified by someone into a rhino conversion. A commander pimpped into a Rhino styled knife would be considerably less expensive but it is not a Rhino.
I haven't seen anything about a Rhino selling in a long time. They were under 6K each when 2 of them sold at a knife show several years back.
That could well have been the case,
I'm pretty sure it had a true satin blade with a logo, I could easily have imagined that though![]()
The Rhinos I saw were black G-10, to me that meant semi custom but you could call them full custom I suppose.
I have seen reground commies and they didnt look quite the same.
I'll try and dig out the pics I saw, I'm pretty sure I saved them on one of my computers.
FWIW ernie made them for SEAL's to "dispatch sentries" by slashing there throats thus the blade shape.