Went knife shopping, AGAIN. Spent too much, as usual...

[Bigfatts]

So a week ago I lucked into finding a dedicated knife shop, not a common thing around my area- that I know of anyways. So I poked around for quite a while and ended up just getting a sheath but this week went back to pick up a black Adamas I saw or the Southern Grind folder I looked at. Well I started looking around and found out that the Adamas was the auto version. I was a little disappointed because I wanted a manual axis to find out what all the hype is about. Then I handled it and fell in love. I looked at lots of other knives, including a Citadel and several Piranhas including the new model but kept coming back to the Adamas and I'll tell you why: There are a lot of knives I would describe as "beastly"; Ontario Rat-1, Spyderco Valleton, ZT 0200, etc. But- and I am borrowing this from someone on here, can't remember who- the Adamas 2750 is the only auto I have handled that I would take into hell to stab Satan himself with. And since my brother weedled my Doru out of me I don't have an ots... So it was easy to justify.

Now for the bad part. I took my MT Combat Troodon (the one I had up for trade here) to show to the shop owner who said he had not seen a Wharncliffe model in person. Well long story short I ended up trading it for a MT Socom Elite M/A with another customer. Considering the 'user' condition my knife was in and that his knife was a 2006 D2 bladed model (I like D2) in brand new condition I think I did good. So I am down an OTF but came home with an ots and a manual.

Since this would be a bunch of longwinded nonsense without pics:

Adamas


With the Socom


And just for fun, all my edc bases covered: Small, Medium, Monster

[buckmaster96]

whats that top on. that adamas is sweet too

[emopunker2004]

lol nice bro. I just picked up a ZT 0560. Talk about over spending...

[Bigfatts]

The top one is a Fox/Citadel Deimos. Smoothest non-bearing flipper I've ever handled. Ridiculously so, and the tear drop hole is much easier to manipulate than a conventional round Spyderco-esque hole. I actually had it with me last week when I went into the shop for the first time and the owner liked it so much he ordered himself one.

[Blais]

Congrats on the new knife and thanks for supporting the brick-and-mortar guys. I worked at a knife store for a while and it always struck a nerve when a customer would say "This is way cheaper online". As much as I'm all about the amazing variety of knives that can be purchased online, there's something to be said about being able to fall in love with a knife before you buy it while it's actually in your hands. There's a couple of places about an hour from me that stock some very nice stuff and I try to buy something from them every time I visit (which is not often enough). One place has a very good Benchmade auto selection, I'll see if they've got an Adamas the next time I'm over there.

[makechcs]

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[Bigfatts]

I worked at a knife store for a while and it always struck a nerve when a customer would say "This is way cheaper online". As much as I'm all about the amazing variety of knives that can be purchased online, there's something to be said about being able to fall in love with a knife before you buy it while it's actually in your hands.

It really is nice to handle stuff before hand. I got to see a lot of knives I had never seen in person including many BM Gold Class knives and customs from Microtech and Darrel Ralph and a few others. I don't mind spending a little more to get the service you get from a small shop. He's a really nice guy that didn't mind me fondling half of his inventory before I bought something.

[emopunker2004]

You need to go to the ER fast! Your sickness is getting worse

[Bigfatts]

More like rehab... I'm already looking forward to the gunshow in a couple weeks so I can pick up a BM 707 or something else.

[DrunkHippos]

I just got an Adamas last week too! I got extremely lucky and some guy was selling it brand new for $150 on craigslist. #499 out of 500 on the first production run too.

http://www.imgur.com/OthJ0.jpg
http://www.imgur.com/vNSqA.jpg

[Bigfatts]

Nice snag. I'm thinking about picking up a manual version to accompany my auto. I really like this knife.