BM Snody Activator 210 TK questions

[Greg]

I'm thinking more and more about ordering one of these, and would like to ask a few of questions of the members.
1 How do they feel in the hand and work as a user? I have medium sized hands.
2 How thick is the blade just behind the edge bevel? (Is this a sharpened pry bar, or a thin slicer?)
3 Do they look as good in person as in the pics?
Thanks,
Greg

 

[sir woodley]

Greg, I do not have that model, however I have EDC'ed my BM Snody Activator Plus for a few months now. All I can say is I am totally pleased !! Love it so much I've been thinking 'bout getting the smaller version too. Mid. size hands here too, & don't think that would be a prob. Good luck, M

 

[StretchNM]

Hey Greg,
I wear a BM SNody 210 around my neck EVERY day, and have been doing so since I received it last spring. It's a user, but I can't say I've dressed a deer, killed a bear, or batoned through an oak log with it . It feels good in the hand, but it's too small for long, protracted cutting jobs (such as ....dressing a deer). The Snody 210 is for general purpose cutting - a knife you can have with you when the others are left behind. The handle is small but it's designed as a small knife - a neck knife (TK = tether knife)

The 210TK has an adjustable tension screw on the Kydex sheath. Since I got it right, the knife has never slipped from it's sheath.

The blade is NOT a sharpened prybar. It is just over 1/8" of S30V steel - much better than D2 (in my opinion). Snody designed it and BM ground it just right. My edge came ground at about 18 degrees on one side and 21 on the other. This is not terribly unusual for ANY knife....almost all will come with the edges ground a few degrees from the other. I like the S30V because I can keep a razor fine edge ont he knife with the standard Sharpmaker stones.

The knife looks better in person than in pics. The carbon fiber is beautiful, and the silver G10 is done so nicely I, for one, doubted it was G10, thinking it was carbon fiber instead!

The one complaint I might have about my knife, IF I was paid to complain, would be that on one side of the knife, the fit between the CF and G10 scales is a tad off. I've seen others that looked flawless, so mine was just one that slipped through quality control.

Here:

 

[StretchNM]

Here are a couple more:
In this one, you can see the ill fit between CF and G10: The other side of the knife fits fine.

 

[StretchNM]

Never mind.....

 

[muzzleup]

I have one of the Limited Editions with solid carbon fiber handles and very nice looking "pebble" grain, thick leather sheath. I don't carry it but I have it in the kitchen for cutting off plastic labels from plastic bottles and it has yet to loose its original edge.
I think the reqular one with the kydex sheath would make a great neck knife,however, the handle might be a bit small for you....I have very small hands and it is not a knife I could use for a long time just because of the size of the handle.

ciao,
Ron