Any CKF users here?

Smooooooooth!!!
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I would baby this knife but it feels great to use it. These knives look pretty but they are designed well enough for use.
You can ask CKF for new clip pivot and steel insert and just gotta pay for shipping.
 
This one came today. Wow. The work on the handle slabs, backspacer and clip is amazing. Very cool knife. Reminds me of a Southard Tolk in hand, insomuch as it's very thin and very light for a knife with a large blade (albeit this knife is prettier in every conceivable way than the Tolk). Flips well, but the detent is really stiff, stiff enough to make the knife less smooth than it could be. I may lighten it up a bit at some point.

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Super sexy blade right there Greg!!
Congrats and enjoy it brother!!!
Joe
 
I have a Trekoza at USPS currently

Next payday I might get a S.S.E.

Really want a Muscle, Decepticon 3, Along with a few more models
 
Great looking knife. Enjoy.
evilgreg said:
This one came today. Wow. The work on the handle slabs, backspacer and clip is amazing. Very cool knife. Reminds me of a Southard Tolk in hand, insomuch as it's very thin and very light for a knife with a large blade (albeit this knife is prettier in every conceivable way than the Tolk). Flips well, but the detent is really stiff, stiff enough to make the knife less smooth than it could be. I may lighten it up a bit at some point.

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Sergeua said:
If that's his user, then props to him
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I'm trying to rotate more these days (instead of just carrying a Southard every day), but yes, this knife is going to be carried and used. Love it, the knife looks great and since I dialed back the lock bar pressure a smidge it operates great as well. The action is just about perfect now. I have to tighten the pivot as tight as I can to keep it from falling closed under its own weight (I prefer a little resistance, personally, and I had to crank the pivot pretty damn tight to keep it from being free falling).

When work lets up a bit I'll have to take some better pictures, it's a fantastic knife. I thought the pattern on the blade was going to be too much, but it's actually fairly subtle in person. The light has to be hitting it right to really see it well.
 
Nice enjoy. How do you loosen the lockbar pressure? Just crank it the opposite direction? Or something else?
 
Sergeua said:
Nice enjoy. How do you loosen the lockbar pressure? Just crank it the opposite direction? Or something else?
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Yes, I just bent the lock bar back a tiny bit (after disassembling the knife and removing the lock bar insert, of course--it has a fin that prevents the lock bar from being overextended otherwise). Adding a little more, or a little less tension has fixed almost every knife I've purchased that had too stiff or too light a detent. It's pretty easy to judge how much you've changed it if you not the position of the end lock bar versus the rest of the locking side piece. I usually shoot for about a millimeter in the final changed position (though obviously you have to extend beyond that to alter the bend). Less is more, depending on the knife a tiny change in lock bar tension can make a huge difference in operation.

Here's another shot of the knife last night, taken in my kitchen with no special lighting, so it was pushing the limits of what I can squeeze out of my cell phone's camera:

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I've been carrying my Trekoza for a few weeks now and am in love with it. Still have my dcpt-3 in the safe. I don't want to take it out except to fondle it every once in a while.
 
I had a Trekoza but I just sold it for money. It had a handle that was a little lighter than the blade so it had good balance. The thing that was most impressive was the distal taper of the spine of the blade. It ran from the joint all the way to the tip with no deviation. That and it had three different grinds on the blade. Their paperwork lists two grinds but they apparently leave off the cutting edge which has its own grind.

At first I didn't care for the polycarbonate, "Wings," but once I owned it they quickly grew on me. They give the closed blade a kind of biomorphic cicada look. Almost like an H.R. Geiger piece. Very cool knife.
 
Hello friends!
I want to share with you my joy! Evening the postman brought me a new knife by CKF, model DCPT-4. And I want to tell you, gone are the day, and I still rejoice at him, like a child! Its mechanics, as always great and design is excellent! The knife is very comfortable in the hand, and its blade cuts very well.
Here are some photos my new toy:

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Sizes comparison:

DCPT-3 and DCPT-4

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DCPT-4 and Strider SnG

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CKF PeaceDuke and DCPT-4

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