Howdy ho, bladerinos! Man, lotta knives being sold on the exchange in the past few days...anyone have any money left? Because I gots two more to move today, so it's time for another installment of...uh...CraigMang's Cnife Corner? Huh. Well, let's put a pin in that and come back to it.
As always, my prices include priority shipping for FREE, as well as all PP fees (pay as goods with no markup). If you buy from me you are agreeing that you are an adult, that these are legal where you live, and you would never hit on a soft 18. That's some damn good advice for both blackjack AND dating! Also, if I don't wanna sell it to you then I don't hafta, because Mommy said, so nanny nanny boo boo.
All pictures are stored in the form of ones and zeroes at the following link: http://s1098.photobucket.com/user/craigswoosh/library/BF062815
On with the show!
KERSHAW DAMASCUS SKYLINE (black G10, Alabama Damascus blade): Knife people just can NOT shut up about the Skyline. "EDC classic"..."lightweight carry all-star"..."the greatest lover I've ever had"...oh wait, that last one is from my Tinder reviews. Ladies?
*crickets*
*ahem* Point being, it's got a great rep, but for whatever reason it just doesn't resonate with me. I decided to give it a try (and wanted to check out some Damascus in person), so I picked this up, and after being with it for a short while I think one of you guys will provide a more loving environment. Jesus, listen to me...sounds like some Sarah McLachlan music is about to start playing. GRRRRR REAL MEN HAVE NO EMOTIONS *breaks 2x4 with scrotum*
Anyway, about that Damascus...we all know it's not "true" wootz steel, but it's pretty cool to look at and has a great edge. Now my understanding is that it's from Alabama, which makes me wonder why the manufacturers haven't had some fun naming it. Below are some ideas, all of which are COPYRIGHT, BITCHES, but available for use given appropriate licensing fees:
Okay, time to pack all the useful info into this paragraph...GO! Received, disassembled, cleaned, oiled, reassembled, flipped a few times and promptly posted here. Detent is strong; push-button style flip works every time and folding it is a treat to hear and feel. Sharp as hell, clean and without marks, stock in every way...pretty much LNIB (arriba!). Comes with box and the ceremonial enchantment of an elder Satanic shaman. Well, one of those, anyway.
If your Skyline collection is missing a somewhat rare Damalabamacus model (really just stumbles drunkenly off your tongue, doesn't it?), then this is the one for you...and at just $65SOLDSOLDSOLD! it's BETTER than when I got it, but costing YOU less, so you OWE me, dammit. *spits*
ALAMASCUS MANNNN!
BOKER KWAIKEN FLIPPER (titanium/carbon fiber scales, VG-10 blade): This one kinda hurts. The Kwaiken was my first true drool-worthy knife, one that I just kept looking at a picture of while it was on its way to my mailbox, as though I was in a long distance relationship with it or something. Pining like a teenager, eyeing its curves, frantically palm-heeling down raging boners whenever my jorts rubbed just so...
WHOOOOOOOA sorry, that one went off the rails. I'm just saying this was my first real knifey love, not some dog-eared issue of Blade or an awkward make-out sesh with a Gerber in the woods behind the gym. But, c'est la vie; nothing lasts forever, and to quote the poet Andre 3000: "Then what makes, then what makes, then what makes, loooooove the exceeeeption?" Bigger and better things await, and as Leo DiCaprio's high school girlfriend must be painfully aware, your first is almost never your best or your last.
Let's talk deets. This is a dreamy flipper with a seemingly reversed flipper tab, but when you realize it's meant to be push-buttoned more than light-switched, you'll start to fully appreciate the genius of its design. Tolerances are super tight, a testament to how Boker really nailed this one with designer Lucas Burnley, and the IKBS means smooth, fast flipping and a blade that damn near closes under its own insubstantial weight into a feathery detent.
The way everything tucks in so perfectly makes this a really amazing visual and tactile treat, as well as a minimalist final product that I consider to be an incredible collaboration of design and engineering. Hot damn, that's three whole sentences without something funny! I TOLD you I could be serious, DAD! Just because I got fired from that summer job at the office for making fart noises with my armpits doesn't mean I can't be an ADULT! *slams door*
Kidding, of course...I CAN'T be an adult! POOPIE. But honestly: this is a great piece that I've babied and flipped mindlessly (so it's broken in wonderfully) and that's pretty much it. No real cutting, no marks on the super stabby blade, nothing but a tiny visual imperfection in the carbon fiber scale on the lock side that you can't even feel. I consider it a beauty mark, like Cindy Crawford's mole, or that birthmark in the shape of Cookie Monster on Kate Upton's butt. What, you've never seen it? Go take a look, I'll wait.
*three weeks later*
I may have made that Kate Upton thing up, but I'll bet you enjoyed researching it. So in closing: give my first sweetie a good new hand to squeeze her, won't you? I'll try to find the box (giggity), but no promises, and you can have the Kwaiken for only $125SOLDSOLDSOLD! Don't tell her I'll write or call or anything though...that would just make things weird. CLEAN BREAK, DAMMIT.
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Offers will be considered, but given my prices and what's included, they'd better be amazing for me to be interested. NO TRADES this time around, gang...trying to get up some scratch to place a Spyderco Positron preorder! So, the first person to claim these with those three magic words AND follow up with a PM or email (craigforhire AT gmail DOT seriously?) takes precedent! Good luck!
As always, my prices include priority shipping for FREE, as well as all PP fees (pay as goods with no markup). If you buy from me you are agreeing that you are an adult, that these are legal where you live, and you would never hit on a soft 18. That's some damn good advice for both blackjack AND dating! Also, if I don't wanna sell it to you then I don't hafta, because Mommy said, so nanny nanny boo boo.
All pictures are stored in the form of ones and zeroes at the following link: http://s1098.photobucket.com/user/craigswoosh/library/BF062815
On with the show!
KERSHAW DAMASCUS SKYLINE (black G10, Alabama Damascus blade): Knife people just can NOT shut up about the Skyline. "EDC classic"..."lightweight carry all-star"..."the greatest lover I've ever had"...oh wait, that last one is from my Tinder reviews. Ladies?
*crickets*
*ahem* Point being, it's got a great rep, but for whatever reason it just doesn't resonate with me. I decided to give it a try (and wanted to check out some Damascus in person), so I picked this up, and after being with it for a short while I think one of you guys will provide a more loving environment. Jesus, listen to me...sounds like some Sarah McLachlan music is about to start playing. GRRRRR REAL MEN HAVE NO EMOTIONS *breaks 2x4 with scrotum*
Anyway, about that Damascus...we all know it's not "true" wootz steel, but it's pretty cool to look at and has a great edge. Now my understanding is that it's from Alabama, which makes me wonder why the manufacturers haven't had some fun naming it. Below are some ideas, all of which are COPYRIGHT, BITCHES, but available for use given appropriate licensing fees:
- Alamascus
- Alabamascus
- Damalabamacus
- Abracadabralabamascus
- Superalabamalisticdamacalidascus
Okay, time to pack all the useful info into this paragraph...GO! Received, disassembled, cleaned, oiled, reassembled, flipped a few times and promptly posted here. Detent is strong; push-button style flip works every time and folding it is a treat to hear and feel. Sharp as hell, clean and without marks, stock in every way...pretty much LNIB (arriba!). Comes with box and the ceremonial enchantment of an elder Satanic shaman. Well, one of those, anyway.
If your Skyline collection is missing a somewhat rare Damalabamacus model (really just stumbles drunkenly off your tongue, doesn't it?), then this is the one for you...and at just $65SOLDSOLDSOLD! it's BETTER than when I got it, but costing YOU less, so you OWE me, dammit. *spits*
ALAMASCUS MANNNN!
BOKER KWAIKEN FLIPPER (titanium/carbon fiber scales, VG-10 blade): This one kinda hurts. The Kwaiken was my first true drool-worthy knife, one that I just kept looking at a picture of while it was on its way to my mailbox, as though I was in a long distance relationship with it or something. Pining like a teenager, eyeing its curves, frantically palm-heeling down raging boners whenever my jorts rubbed just so...
WHOOOOOOOA sorry, that one went off the rails. I'm just saying this was my first real knifey love, not some dog-eared issue of Blade or an awkward make-out sesh with a Gerber in the woods behind the gym. But, c'est la vie; nothing lasts forever, and to quote the poet Andre 3000: "Then what makes, then what makes, then what makes, loooooove the exceeeeption?" Bigger and better things await, and as Leo DiCaprio's high school girlfriend must be painfully aware, your first is almost never your best or your last.
Let's talk deets. This is a dreamy flipper with a seemingly reversed flipper tab, but when you realize it's meant to be push-buttoned more than light-switched, you'll start to fully appreciate the genius of its design. Tolerances are super tight, a testament to how Boker really nailed this one with designer Lucas Burnley, and the IKBS means smooth, fast flipping and a blade that damn near closes under its own insubstantial weight into a feathery detent.
The way everything tucks in so perfectly makes this a really amazing visual and tactile treat, as well as a minimalist final product that I consider to be an incredible collaboration of design and engineering. Hot damn, that's three whole sentences without something funny! I TOLD you I could be serious, DAD! Just because I got fired from that summer job at the office for making fart noises with my armpits doesn't mean I can't be an ADULT! *slams door*
Kidding, of course...I CAN'T be an adult! POOPIE. But honestly: this is a great piece that I've babied and flipped mindlessly (so it's broken in wonderfully) and that's pretty much it. No real cutting, no marks on the super stabby blade, nothing but a tiny visual imperfection in the carbon fiber scale on the lock side that you can't even feel. I consider it a beauty mark, like Cindy Crawford's mole, or that birthmark in the shape of Cookie Monster on Kate Upton's butt. What, you've never seen it? Go take a look, I'll wait.
*three weeks later*
I may have made that Kate Upton thing up, but I'll bet you enjoyed researching it. So in closing: give my first sweetie a good new hand to squeeze her, won't you? I'll try to find the box (giggity), but no promises, and you can have the Kwaiken for only $125SOLDSOLDSOLD! Don't tell her I'll write or call or anything though...that would just make things weird. CLEAN BREAK, DAMMIT.
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Offers will be considered, but given my prices and what's included, they'd better be amazing for me to be interested. NO TRADES this time around, gang...trying to get up some scratch to place a Spyderco Positron preorder! So, the first person to claim these with those three magic words AND follow up with a PM or email (craigforhire AT gmail DOT seriously?) takes precedent! Good luck!
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