I've got the Busse-kin page saved on my phone, I check it regularly during the day just to see what's new. I totally missed it today <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

Probably for the best anyway. I've got a couple now that I need to pay for so they can be on their way home!

Well, I got a 6.5 Regulator in the mail from a fellow dog here. I love the feel in hand, and the camo blade is tops too. Thanks again for hooking me up!

I was just stroking my 6.5 on the ceramic hone and got it sharp enough to slice through some thin and not to sturdy note pad paper. As I was fondling er ah I mean honeing it on the notepad cardboard cover I ran my finger along the spine, from the handle all the way to the tip.

I noticed that there were two HUMPS there! One was just forward of the SYKCO logo mark and the other one was right at 2 inches back from the tip. If you hold the blade flat and look along the spine just right, you can see them. They are not very prominent but they are there. Kind of a two step process to get a long swedge that isn't sharpened. Pretty neat if you ask me, I really like it and think it adds something.

Also if you take a two finger grip on the butt of the handle, it feels like it should make a pretty fair chopper as well!

In my opinion, and it is ONLY mine, I have the following thoughts.

The 6.5 Reg is a Beast of a knife as Jeff so aptly named it. The blade thickness will be proven to be even more resistant to damage because of it's shorter than the Milreg length. It IS NOT a fighter, although it can serve that purpose. It is a COMBAT/SURVIVAL knife without equal. Most uses a military member or a person depending upon it for their survival will put a blade to is not protection/removal, but mundane ABUSIVE tasks.

Prying open crates, doors, windows, digging holes in all sorts of objects. Chopping wood of all types, building materials and trees. Preparing animals for the fire and into bite sized pieces. It needs to be light (but not to light that its integrity, it's toughness could be questioned) so that it will be carried and available when needed. If it is to large or to heavy, guess where it very well could be when it was needed to say cut a firing port into an adobe or hollow brick wall or defend against the chance meeting with an animal that has larger, stronger teeth and claws.

This knife, the SYKCO BEAST is such a knife. It's thickness will foster confidence, confidence that no matter what it is called on to do, it will accomplish the task and laugh telling you it was built for more.

The knife is a weapon, sure. But it is first and foremost a TOOL, a tool that can be used for good or evil. The weilder is the decision maker, the knife is made to only cut and pierce, and in the case of the Scrapyard SYKCO BEAST, to pry open that bank vault door to save those trapped inside by the ones who intend only harm to the masses, those gentle souls, those unable because of age or frailty to protect themselves.

I salute you Scrapyard Knives for bringing such a blade, such a tool to those of us who may one day need them for just such tasks. And also for giving those of us who DO NOT go in harms way to enjoy this most crucial tool.

While I love the Reg handle, I had to pass on the disproportionately small blade. I thought the Reg blade was too small for the handle. Here's hoping the Cupidganzaa will bring some Miloverrun 9-10 inch Magnum Regulators.

I LOVE the colors of the Short Regs.

Personally I wish the 6.5 had a slightly oversized Mudder grip on it. My hands are not overly large, just sort average but fat.

Morning SP!

Mornin' Randy!

I have fat hands too! They call me sausage fingers.

I eagerly await the arrival of an oversized mudder grip.

I think that the 6.5 and the Milreg handle is that way to ensure it can be used hour after hour without producing problems, hotspots and blisters in the using hand. Now it will NOT fit every hand, that is an impossibility. EVERY handle put on a knive, except for those done one at a time by a handle maker, but that particular person will always be a compromise. No way around it. All ANY manufacturer can do is try and fit the most people as comfortably as possible.

The Reg handle is definately the most comfortable I've ever handled, but I like big blades.

I do as well. But at the same time, when I am jsut out walking around and not on a specific mission, I would be MUCH more prone to carry the 6.5 instead of a 12 inch mega chopper on my side.