Just some food for thought.
Besides the pictures side by side, don't forget that there are many new collectors that you’re not going to get a higher bid from unless you educate them on your auction site. Plus with all the scams going on if you don't sell on ebay enough to either be known or if your feed back is low you'll need to get someone else to sell for you or you won't get any bids!!

See Ya, Chief

What Ron said.

By the way, when Rick was talking about the guys who know what's what in Randalls, he, Ron (Bo Blade) and Mitch (Tunefink) are way up the top of that list on knowledge and ethics. Steer clear of the guys who want to buy it from you before you expose it for sale to the real secondary market. I call them sharks but other people have more colorful names for them.

Regards, DOug

Neil,

As a follow up, and getting back to the original question; since my last post I've spoken with two advanced collectors with over 50 years combined RMK collecting between them...

Collector A 'has' a Model #14 heavy, and stated that while roughly 100 blades were made as you alluded to, he thinks that the number shipped was actually closer to 35. As to value, he 'guesstimated' maybe $1000, but doesn't know, as he has never sold a Randall knife once purchased...

Collector B collects Model #14's almost exclusively, and doesn't own a Model #14 'heavy'...when I asked about the $1000 price given, he simply said (paraphrased) "No, I wouldn't pay that much..."

I stand by my original comment that I don't have a clue as to value, and as you can see from the posts above, others have their own idea of what it's worth...FWIW, if it went to eBay, however, my top bid would likely be in the high six-hundred dollar range...

A cool knife certainly, and fairly rare too. Good luck

Sheldon, roughly when were the "Heavies" shipped?

Were any CDT's?

Dubie Baxter

An item...any item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I stand by my original comment that the only place to get the best price for it is eBay. Since we're all just guessing here, $1500.00 sounds like a nice round number. IAWN

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I stand by my original comment that I don't have a clue as to value, and as you can see from the posts above, others have their own idea of what it's worth...FWIW, if it went to eBay, however, my top bid would likely be in the high six-hundred dollar range...

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http://cgi.ebay.com/Randall-Knives-Model...1QQcmdZViewItem

I guess if a stock 14 would bring near $500.... a rare and special #14 should bring at least $600.

I'll go $602....

I'm going to guess as long as we all are Anyway $667.00

Isn't this revealing, that after all, RMKI is just a custom, hand-made shop.

Another forum is calling RMK a "factory", and putting down it's knive.

Can you imagine a Toyota being made out of steel that is 20% heavier than it was supposed to be?