Benchmade Nimravus 140M2HS

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Hi all,

I came upon an interesting blade.

It's an oldie and i would like to hear some opinions on it.

The blade has an 'Elishewitz" logo on the right side of the blade, and a type of sheath I've never seen with a Nimravus.

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Any idea how old this knife might be, and it's approximate cost?

Thanks for helping a nubby everybody :)
 
I gotta say that those handle slabs are way better than the aluminum ones. I'd keep that.
 
That's a classic Benchmade. A plain edged Nimravus is M2 High Speed. I have the smaller Cub variant and it has the same style of sheath, with carbon-fibre style weave.

Rare and highly sought after. :thumbup:

Don't sell it.
 
I've got the latest Nimravus with aluminum handles (cold to the touch) and the Nim Cub II. I prefer the plastic handles on the cub. Both are really good knives, although they do have a few tacticool features about them. Decent.
 
I was asking because I took a chance and bought it from craigslist. The description was minimal and pictures were very small, so I really didn't know what i was getting. It did come in a blue factory box, it has an additional label which says "TAC - technically advanced cutlery".

The edge will have to be reground; it looks like somebody was scratching away at it with a sharpening steel.

The reason I picked it up is because of the M2 steel. I have a 710 in D2 but originally I wanted it in M2. To this day I could not find a 710 in M2 so when I was searching for M2 steel this Nimravus popped up.

When I received it I was a bit surprised because it looks different from the pictures I found on the net. It has a much less pronounced finger guard and a different handle, that's why I was curious if anybody knew if this could be an earlier production and how old it actually is.

Thanks for the replies everybody!
 
did you get a good deal,those are good fixed blades the steel is hard to sharpen :rolleyes:,plus you got the good sheath..
 
Voron I got my 710 M2 HS before 6-7 years. This steel has CPM S30V edge retention and I guess it is carbon steel like tough. I would offer to sharpen it for you on my Edge Pro but I'm in the other side of the ocean. If you keep it you will do wisely but if you don't then lot's of people will want it me included
 
they have ground/sharpened it on a bench grinder.......send it back to bm they will sharpen it for you for free.............
 
I'm OK with what I payed for it, especially considering that it's in M2. For me it's a definite keeper. The edge is actually in better shape then it looks in the pictures. The BT coating is stripped by what looks like a rough attempt to re-sharpen the original edge. The edge angle is uniform, no folding, no nicks.

I want to try and sharpen it my self. I have a Lansky kit and while it worked OK on softer steel on D2/M2 it just not grabbing much. If I knew about the DMT kit before I would have ordered it instead of Lansky.

I had my 710 for over 3 years, I bought it right about the time when the last stock of M2 models melted away, and since then I really could not let it go :)

Over the weekend I'll try the Lansky kit again on this Mimravus , if it wont grab I'll order the DMT kit.
 
Heres a bit of info I found that might be of some assistance, I have a 140m2hs that came in a black box but theres no date on the box or the knife itself. This link says he purchased one in 2000 though.

M2 and M4 are my 2 favorite steels right now and I dont find either of them hard to sharpen, to me m2 sharpens like 1095 but you can tell that it is harder. I use an edge pro though and it seems to work well on just about everything.

http://zknives.com/knives/fixed/prod/nimravus.shtml
 
Blownnova said:
Heres a bit of info I found that might be of some assistance, I have a 140m2hs that came in a black box but theres no date on the box or the knife itself. This link says he purchased one in 2000 though.

M2 and M4 are my 2 favorite steels right now and I dont find either of them hard to sharpen, to me m2 sharpens like 1095 but you can tell that it is harder. I use an edge pro though and it seems to work well on just about everything.

http://zknives.com/knives/fixed/prod/nimravus.shtml
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Thanks for the link, actually it's the page where i first read about the 710 4 years ago :)

What is the difference between black and blue boxes from bm? My 710 also came in a blue box.

D2 is hard for me to sharpen with the Lansky because i cant' feel the burr at all, and hones don't seem to grab evenly. Also I'm completely confused with the sapphire polishing home which is supposed to be 2000 grit, but in actually it's a lot coarser then the yellow 1000 grit super fine hone. I tested it on my Spyderco Manix CPM S30V, super fine hone finished it up OK, but going to sapphire literally scratched and dulled it regardless of how lightly I was brushing the edge, so I have no idea what this "polishing" stone is supposed to do. I emailed Lansky with the same question some time ago and never received an answer.

I had a three sided diamond sharpener about 5 years ago but it wore out really quickly so I stayed away from consumer diamond hones and went with Lansky, which I now regret. I should have done more research.
 
nevermind35 said:
how much did you pay for this bad boy? Everyone is wondering...
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The listing was for $100 or best offer. It was already more then a week old, the description was very short; " Used, M2 steel, been sharpened." Pictures were so small I could not make anything out. I never bought a used knife before so I was a bit weary.

I got it for $90 shipped after making a low offer. To be honest if the seller would of accepted my low offer I most likely would have passed on the purchase since the pics and description were so, minimalistic. At the same time I never knew how much the new M2s were selling for when they were around.

That's the very reason I got so curios about the age of the blade; the BT coating is barely scratched while the edge is all scratched up with what looks like a botched sharpening attempt. When I got the knife and looked at the edge closer the heel of the blade looks pretty fresh and does not show that much of the metal was actually taken off, same with the tip.

Generally it looks like the knife seen very little use and the scratches on BT coating are from the sheath wear. At first I was thinking of sending it for a re-coating but I think I'll keep it as is but with a re-grind to a 40 degree edge. The sheath has absolutely no signs of any kind of wear, no scratches of any kind, no belt marks, nothing. The sheath has never been on a belt; I checked out the belt loop with the flashlight and the inside is completely untouched. So all in all this knife is a complete mystery to me and the only thing I can think of is that it was a "shelf knife" that only been toyed around with, or maybe a display knife, I don't know.
 
Sounds like you made a nice score. I would of loved to grab one of these at that price. Let me know if you're thinking about selling it as I'm curious about this thing.

On a side note I saw a stag handled nimravus at my local knife shop and was curious if anyone knew anything about it. I think he wanted $200 for it. It was bead blasted, the benchmade logo was on the opposite side as normal and the tang extended out past the scales a little bit like the Spyderco Gayle Bradley. The fit and finish on this thing was exceptional for a production knife and the stag was absolutely beautiful. Anyone?
 
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