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Membership Required We're sorry. Have dealt with Crystal River Trading Co. When Blackjack took over Ek production knives in Effingham, Il special edition knife production was retained in VA at Ek , quality seemed to remain the same, but I think they were only offering web sheaths. Premium Membership Required Access to this requires a premium membership. I couldn't agree more with you KUTF, biting included. Please wait{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} Thanks for the replys I think im gonna bite the bullet and order one. Dunno if it's true, but it makes the story more interesting than "good knives, bad businessmen". CM Community Member. Manage Follow Preferences Loading Block When you block a person, they can no longer invite you to a private message or post to your profile wall. He still makes some similar styles, and they are top notch classic designs. At the end, they went full-retard on QC and it only got worse. Blackjack can eat a dick, just because of all the trouble they caused the Ek name back in the Effingham, Il days. Anyone have any experience with BlackJack knives? I've just taken possession of one of Bob's new FS2's and it's imo outstanding. Original Post. Note: if you proceed, you will no longer be following. Kletzenklueffer, thanks for the background info on Bark River. They make an excellent copy of a Randall 1. And if it's of interest, the older maker of Blackjack makes Bark River Knives now. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}Picture hosting, Exclusive club forum, Premium recognition, and more website access are only a click away! He was a prior Marine who had more K-bars than anyone that I knew. Don't get me wrong as I like the older EK knives, like the ones from WW2 and a few of the newer models too! I was recently at Smokey Mt Knife works and looked at and handled about every knife they had that seemed to have any quality and the Blackjack appeared to be as well made as anything there. I really like the Bark River Bravo 1 and Bravo 2 knives. Ek Commando Knife Co finally got things straightened out and is now making special edition and regular production knives again to include some very recently introduced new models - and actually have been for several years, but with apparently no marketing team behind the product until recently. So yeah, Blackjack's previous management I forget the name of the guy at the helm back then can bite me. Check into the Model 7, grunt, mini trail guide,and woodsman models if available. Link copied to your clipboard. Many newer BJ knives such as the Halo attack look interesting, but as I'm retired do not need another fighting knife. One of the Rager instructors here in FL had one of the Bravo 1 knives and it was a well made knife. Finally, you'll never receive email notifications about content they create or likes they designate for your content. Sign In or Register. At times in my militay career, I had one of their wasp knives then traded it off to buy another Ka-Bar. Go for it man, tell us how you really feel. The story that I got involving Blackjack's mid-'90's collapse is it had a lot to do with a riverboat casino, massive gambling losses, and white powder dependency. You must be signed in to continue. I've had a thing for the Teddy for some time. How's that for not sugar-coating it? Now, the rest is IIRC Then as BJ hit hard times, everything started to crumble.