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D@amn he makes 'em sharp! I picked this Avenger recurve up last week, thanks to a very generous Artsig1, who sadly needed to sell off a few pieces for personal reasons. Thanks Art, your pricing was more than reasonable.
This one was delivered to Art by RJ just in the last couple of weeks. The Avenger has a 4 1/4" blade of S30V. That's HUGE for my collection. Until now, the Lochsa was the largest I owned with a 3.6" blade. I tend to collect primarily framelocks and this one is one of the better examples in the genre. to quote Chieh Allen Lee at the USN forums, it looks like something out of an HR Giger nightmare. It just looks alive with those half scales of G-10. Sharp is an understatement, draw the blade an 1/8th of an inch above the arm, and hair starts dropping to the floor. You don't even have to touch the skin. It actually shaves the top of the hair off the arm!
A few other unique items include the thumbdisc, which you need to leverage the massive blade from beneath its shell. Speaking of the blade, you can't help but to notice those machined grooves on the blade. They add to that alive feeling when you see the Avenger. It's skin-like in appearance. The last thing I notice is that the blade just doesn't seem like it will fit within those handles. I don't know how he did it, but RJ managed to stuff this massive 4 1/4" blade into the 5 3/8" handles.
With my collection, I found myself drawn to ti framelocks. That's not exactly unique around these parts and fortunately, there are many 'good' ones from which to choose. Like my Lochsa and Obenauf framelocks that came before it, I think I've added another one of the 'great' ones to my collection once again!
Anyway...onto the photos.
This one was delivered to Art by RJ just in the last couple of weeks. The Avenger has a 4 1/4" blade of S30V. That's HUGE for my collection. Until now, the Lochsa was the largest I owned with a 3.6" blade. I tend to collect primarily framelocks and this one is one of the better examples in the genre. to quote Chieh Allen Lee at the USN forums, it looks like something out of an HR Giger nightmare. It just looks alive with those half scales of G-10. Sharp is an understatement, draw the blade an 1/8th of an inch above the arm, and hair starts dropping to the floor. You don't even have to touch the skin. It actually shaves the top of the hair off the arm!
A few other unique items include the thumbdisc, which you need to leverage the massive blade from beneath its shell. Speaking of the blade, you can't help but to notice those machined grooves on the blade. They add to that alive feeling when you see the Avenger. It's skin-like in appearance. The last thing I notice is that the blade just doesn't seem like it will fit within those handles. I don't know how he did it, but RJ managed to stuff this massive 4 1/4" blade into the 5 3/8" handles.
With my collection, I found myself drawn to ti framelocks. That's not exactly unique around these parts and fortunately, there are many 'good' ones from which to choose. Like my Lochsa and Obenauf framelocks that came before it, I think I've added another one of the 'great' ones to my collection once again!
Anyway...onto the photos.
