Yo Mama
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Receive a gift card for the holidays to a big box store so my selection was limited. I also was not going to chip in more money, 40 dollars that's it.
Ended up going with a crkt sketch. It was awful. Detent locked up solid one handed opening was impossible, not to mention design lacks in functionality, and blade profile didn't excell at cutting anything. Couldn't fix with normal remedies and crkt wanted to charge me shipping to them, on a 2 week old knife it got returned to the store instead.
Now, I ended up instead with the Gerber Sumo. Start by saying it's got a janky version of the axis lock, but I'm really digging what you get on this one. Steel is low, 7cr17mov, but had to use the medium sharpmaker stones to start getting a better edge. Through fine and stropping its now razor sharp.
It's got a modified flat grind, very nice as a slicer, and not with an obnoxious belly where blade falls off cutting path towards the tip. Locks solid, and action is free floating after some oil. It's heavy, and the g10 is slick and pattern is not visually even, but whatever.
The pivot lock is rough, oiled and actuated a few hundred times it smoothed right out. It's by far from an axis lock, but the fidget factor is real!
Red ceramic liners are just painted, had a few chips, sharpie touched up nicer.
Like I said I am happy with how the grind works for things like making feather sticks.
So in the end I believe I got the best option available out of the selection they had, and actually quite happy with the Gerber, which I never thought I'd say (wanted to try the fastball, but didn't want to add money to the purchase). I wanted to see if crkt was still that bad, they are, would actually recommend Gerber over at least the folding crkt.
Ended up going with a crkt sketch. It was awful. Detent locked up solid one handed opening was impossible, not to mention design lacks in functionality, and blade profile didn't excell at cutting anything. Couldn't fix with normal remedies and crkt wanted to charge me shipping to them, on a 2 week old knife it got returned to the store instead.
Now, I ended up instead with the Gerber Sumo. Start by saying it's got a janky version of the axis lock, but I'm really digging what you get on this one. Steel is low, 7cr17mov, but had to use the medium sharpmaker stones to start getting a better edge. Through fine and stropping its now razor sharp.
It's got a modified flat grind, very nice as a slicer, and not with an obnoxious belly where blade falls off cutting path towards the tip. Locks solid, and action is free floating after some oil. It's heavy, and the g10 is slick and pattern is not visually even, but whatever.
The pivot lock is rough, oiled and actuated a few hundred times it smoothed right out. It's by far from an axis lock, but the fidget factor is real!
Red ceramic liners are just painted, had a few chips, sharpie touched up nicer.
Like I said I am happy with how the grind works for things like making feather sticks.
So in the end I believe I got the best option available out of the selection they had, and actually quite happy with the Gerber, which I never thought I'd say (wanted to try the fastball, but didn't want to add money to the purchase). I wanted to see if crkt was still that bad, they are, would actually recommend Gerber over at least the folding crkt.
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