<strong>This knife quickly became my favourite medium size folder, but not outdoors in the winter. I've used it on a daily basis and will go on doing so.</strong>
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It's got a very comfortable handle with nice grooves for the forefinger and thumb while cutting, the blade profile makes for good cutting and it's not especially heavy, so naturally it's seen a lot of use. Opening and closing it feels natural to do, and it's a really good thing the lock is worked the same with both hands.
It's not been used in or around salt water and the like, but when it's gotten wet and not taken care of straight away it's not shown any tendency to rust except when it's rather cold, then it's gotten a few brown stains a couple of times which were easy to get off. It doesn't need sharpening often, nor is it hard to get it sharp.
After three months, a slight blade became apparent, but it was just a matter of tightening the screw a little bit to fix it.
I started out carrying it mostly in a belt sheath, and then the natural way to carry it is tip down, as the grooves at the other end makes it natural to lift it in that end. I don't have any strong opinions regarding tip up or down, as most of the time it doesn't matter at all. When I started carrying it mostly in a pocket instead, I tried out moving the clip to tip up carry, and I liked it for this knife, so I much appreciate you do get the choice.
The mechanism, both opening but especially closing, isn't very easy to operate with gloves, and since the handle is all metal you don't want to use it barehanded when it's cold. This is apparent from the design, so I never planned on using it much outdoors in cold weather.
The Axis lock is somewhat sensitive to snow. If the knife comes from a pocket it's warm enough to partially melt any snow in the mechanism which then freezes. Opening is usually not a problem, either because if you take it out and drop it in the snow there won't have been any time for melt/freeze and you've got good leverage when opening. Even if you leave it in snow for a while, the blade will lock in the open position as the snow gets pushed out of the area where the locking pin wants to go. Closing it, however, can be a slight problem as it's not easy to use a lot of force to pull the locking pin back. If you don't have anything suitably sized to clear the area with, what works is holding the knife in your bare hand so the frozen slush partially melts. I don't like doing that.
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Urban Fredriksson
www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/
Latest updates Moki Hana, Fällkniven WM1 neck sheath, Moki Blossom and Fällkniven S1
"Smooth and serrated blades cut in two entirely different fashions."
- The Teeth of the Tyrannosaurs, Scientific American, Sep 1999
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It's got a very comfortable handle with nice grooves for the forefinger and thumb while cutting, the blade profile makes for good cutting and it's not especially heavy, so naturally it's seen a lot of use. Opening and closing it feels natural to do, and it's a really good thing the lock is worked the same with both hands.
It's not been used in or around salt water and the like, but when it's gotten wet and not taken care of straight away it's not shown any tendency to rust except when it's rather cold, then it's gotten a few brown stains a couple of times which were easy to get off. It doesn't need sharpening often, nor is it hard to get it sharp.
After three months, a slight blade became apparent, but it was just a matter of tightening the screw a little bit to fix it.
I started out carrying it mostly in a belt sheath, and then the natural way to carry it is tip down, as the grooves at the other end makes it natural to lift it in that end. I don't have any strong opinions regarding tip up or down, as most of the time it doesn't matter at all. When I started carrying it mostly in a pocket instead, I tried out moving the clip to tip up carry, and I liked it for this knife, so I much appreciate you do get the choice.
The mechanism, both opening but especially closing, isn't very easy to operate with gloves, and since the handle is all metal you don't want to use it barehanded when it's cold. This is apparent from the design, so I never planned on using it much outdoors in cold weather.
The Axis lock is somewhat sensitive to snow. If the knife comes from a pocket it's warm enough to partially melt any snow in the mechanism which then freezes. Opening is usually not a problem, either because if you take it out and drop it in the snow there won't have been any time for melt/freeze and you've got good leverage when opening. Even if you leave it in snow for a while, the blade will lock in the open position as the snow gets pushed out of the area where the locking pin wants to go. Closing it, however, can be a slight problem as it's not easy to use a lot of force to pull the locking pin back. If you don't have anything suitably sized to clear the area with, what works is holding the knife in your bare hand so the frozen slush partially melts. I don't like doing that.
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Urban Fredriksson
www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/
Latest updates Moki Hana, Fällkniven WM1 neck sheath, Moki Blossom and Fällkniven S1
"Smooth and serrated blades cut in two entirely different fashions."
- The Teeth of the Tyrannosaurs, Scientific American, Sep 1999