Any Winkler fans?

Winkler was never on my radar until I ran across this thread, started getting into EDCing small fixed blades recently and picked up this SD1. Won't be my last and not in a hurry but already planning on picking up a Blue Ridge Hunter in the future.

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I've had my Winkler belt knife for about 3 years now and it is one of my favorite knives. Excellent balance and handle feel. Edge retention is great and it's a workhorse. Also, their leather sheaths are some kind of voodoo. Drawing the knife is easy and smooth, yet it does an incredible job of retaining the knife. Unless you intentionally draw it, it's not coming out of that sheath. I think they're well worth picking up.
 
I can post an update to my post #160 on this thread... I did own two Winklers-an Operator and a Drop Point Crusher, but...

Backstory-my goddaughter's husband joined the Army (a little later in life than some) and is in an MOS that requires them to deploy in either regular kit or plain clothes and non-military pipeline-sourced civilian gear (not combat arms or special operations though). To aid him on getting the best gear he could be sent with, my friend (his father-in-law, who is a just retired 30 year LEO, SWAT, and former 82nd NCO and a huuuge GEAR WHORE 😎) gave him a butt-ton of both late-issue top-line military rucks, and "civilian" gear (Mystery Ranch, etc.), new Salomons, etc., etc. My friend isn't a knife guy though and when he told me about this situation, I told him "Let me take care of that aspect...I GOT this." 😂 I took over a PLETHORA of decent knives that would be excellent military and/or field knives. I first grabbed a NIB Cold Steel SRK, old 90s model Buck Nighthawk in excellent shape (a very underrated/overlooked field knife-I have two!), a Becker, and couple others, but as much as I like my Winklers, my heart told me to throw the Operator in the mix also. I allowed him to handle each one and decide, and he (not a knife guy per se either) picked the Winkler Operator. So I gifted it to him on the spot and it's now with him.
 
rpn said:
I think it’s only at Knife Art. I got a restock email a couple days ago.
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I really like the looks of that one. Didn't see a blade thickness on the dealer site - do you know what the spine thickness is?
 
Daniel L said:
The skeletonising of the tang is a production oriented way of not having to do a tapered tang, which I am sure is vastly more costs to do accurately.
I don't have anything against tangs with cut outs, but when you get a knife with a tapered tang, you know the maker really put some effort into finessing the balance!
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Yeah but it also allows for the woodsman to have that pommel on the end, wouldn't want a pommel on a distal taper. I lot of people make a big deal over skeletonized tangs but I don't think I've ever heard of a knife breaking because its tang was skeletonized, the handle is hardly the portion of the knife that is going the be under the most strain anyways.
 
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