Your Most Expensive Production Knives

hank_rearden said:
No Mad Dog?
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I believe that this knife may be a Mad Dog. I bought it about 10 years ago on the exchange here. My memory was almost completely blank of what it was when I came back to the knife scene last year. All I knew is that it was a custom, it had been quite heavily modified, and that I got it for a good deal because of the modifications. It may have been my first custom.
I posted a pic of it here a few months back and a guy said he thought it was a Mad Dog and then I remembered. I was told that it was a Mad Dog many years ago as well. The micarta handle was slimmed down quite a bit by someone and when I received it it was ugly as sin, all uneven and what not. I cleaned up it's lines on the handle and was going to bead blast the micarta but never did. I also blued the blade.
Any Mad Dog owners here that can give me any insight on it? I looked all through their instagram and there was a model like it. If it is a Mad Dog I wish it wouldn't have been modified haha. Regardless though I love the knife. The micarta wrapping around the whole handle with no exposed tang is really cool to me. The handle used to be longer and had a lanyard hole. It has that wierd sort of coating on the tang before the plunge line and the spine like I've heard they have as well.

Edit: The thing that throws me for a loop is the "B" tang stamp. What I'm kind of thinking is that maybe it is/was a Mad Dog Blem that someone got from them. I don't really know anything about Mad Dog.

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Definitely not a Mad dog made between 1995 and 2005. The blade plunge is conventional, unlike the butterfly type used in said period. The sharpening choil is a bit rounded, instead of a shallow 'v'. Also the the handle may have employed the same 3-piece technique in construction but the style is very different.

Online photo (well this one at least has a rounded choil, which was not common):
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hank_rearden said:
Definitely not a Mad dog made between 1995 and 2005. The blade plunge is conventional, unlike the butterfly type used in said period. The sharpening choil is a bit rounded, instead of a shallow 'v'. Also the the handle may have employed the same 3-piece technique in construction but the style is very different.

Online photo (well this one at least has a rounded choil, which was not common):
mad-dog-voodoo-frog-003.jpg
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Huh.. I really wish I knew for a fact what this thing is. I'm thinking I'll email them and see if it looks familiar at all. But, either way I'll love it just the same.🍻
 
Possibly one of the Damascus or LE Victorinox, if they count (the Hunter Damascus is the most pure knife-style one)
 
Camillus Cuda Maxx; Stiletto profile D2, Titanium Frame Lock
Bought for $125 in 2003. Discontinued now but offered online for $500-$1,000.

Randall #16-1, "Special Fighter". Bought for $250 in 1999. Replacement price today is something over $600 I think.
At times our son carried it on his plate carrier outside the wire for extended periods in Iraq for one deployment.

Chris Reeve "Green Beret", Seven inch S30V. Bought for $350 in 2004. Pre-owned knives of this spec and vintage are offered online at over $500. Like the Randall, this knife was at times, an EDC for extended periods in Iraq during 2004-'05.
 
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