I made a post about this folder in the Boker subforum but got very little feedback and thought I would post something here in the high traffic area. I got this knife about a week and a half ago. I had been looking at it for around a year and several times came close to ordering it but never did. It kept drawing me back as I loved the overall shape of the knife and felt it would be a very comfortable knife in hand. This is one of Boker's higher dollar knives and that made me hesitate as it was going to be a gamble on whether I would like it or not. But as you can tell I finally bit the bullet and ordered this knife.
It came with some very nice packaging which made me think that it was going to be nice, and upon opening the packaging I found out it was nice, very nice! This is not a large folder as far as blade length goes, and I am usually more fond of a 4" blade or greater, but I have just become intrested in some smaller knives that are built like tanks. The Falkniven PXL is one such folder. The Titan Defender is another. The blade length is just a hair under 3.5", the blade thickness comes in at .140" which is the blade thickness on the PXL. Boker states in the advertisment that the blade is 4mm or .157" thick, but it actually mics out to the .140".
The liners on this knife are advertised to be 2mm thick which would come to .080" which is thick indeed for such a short knife, but when I actually measured them Boker had gotten it wrong again as they actually measured out to be .100" thick. To put that in perspective, the .100" liners are what my Strider AR has!
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The rest of the knife consists of titanium bolsters and G-10 handle slabs, with a stainless backspacer that is raised about .5 mm's above the liners and very nicely grooved to give your palm a bit of purchase on the knife. It also has a glassbreaker at the very end that is held into the backspacer with an allen screw. The oal is 8.0", the weight comes to 6.1 ounces, and the clip is set up for righthand tip up carry only and is a foldover type clip that lets the knife ride very deep in the pocket.....just the way I likes it!
The blade steel is N690BO, BO for Boker, not Body Odor
, and the grinds are excellent and even on both sides. Edge came hair popping sharp out of the box. It rotates on phospher/bronze washers and is extremly smooth with excellent lockup with those thick ti liners. The locking liner is just a hair short of being flush with the left side of the blade tang giving you .080 to .090 lockup, leaving somewhere between .050" to .060" of room for any wear. There is also a little ledge on the top part of the blade, where lockup occurs, that prevents you from pushing the lockbar in a vertical direction. Finally, 5 quick spine TAPS, not whacks showed that the liner did not move in any direction.
So, that is about all there is. I've been edc'ing for the past 12 days and love the way it rides and have found it very easy to get out, but no problem with it coming out on it's own. I did cover the clip with some black 3M Stair Step tape, as I do every clip, and this really helps to get a good hold to remove it from the pocket.
This makes me 1 for 1 on a high dollar Boker, and gives me some indication of what to expect on some of their other knives. I'm looking at the Applegate Folding Dagger, the new version, as my next Boker. But that will probably be in Jan. as I have already got plans for a PXL and a large wood Sebenza to finish out the year.
Anyone else try any of Boker's higher dollar offerings with success?
Can't do pics, but here is a link to the knife at KCl
http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=BO110930
And a link to the AFD I mentioned;
http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=BO112240
It came with some very nice packaging which made me think that it was going to be nice, and upon opening the packaging I found out it was nice, very nice! This is not a large folder as far as blade length goes, and I am usually more fond of a 4" blade or greater, but I have just become intrested in some smaller knives that are built like tanks. The Falkniven PXL is one such folder. The Titan Defender is another. The blade length is just a hair under 3.5", the blade thickness comes in at .140" which is the blade thickness on the PXL. Boker states in the advertisment that the blade is 4mm or .157" thick, but it actually mics out to the .140".
The liners on this knife are advertised to be 2mm thick which would come to .080" which is thick indeed for such a short knife, but when I actually measured them Boker had gotten it wrong again as they actually measured out to be .100" thick. To put that in perspective, the .100" liners are what my Strider AR has!
:thumbup:The rest of the knife consists of titanium bolsters and G-10 handle slabs, with a stainless backspacer that is raised about .5 mm's above the liners and very nicely grooved to give your palm a bit of purchase on the knife. It also has a glassbreaker at the very end that is held into the backspacer with an allen screw. The oal is 8.0", the weight comes to 6.1 ounces, and the clip is set up for righthand tip up carry only and is a foldover type clip that lets the knife ride very deep in the pocket.....just the way I likes it!
The blade steel is N690BO, BO for Boker, not Body Odor
, and the grinds are excellent and even on both sides. Edge came hair popping sharp out of the box. It rotates on phospher/bronze washers and is extremly smooth with excellent lockup with those thick ti liners. The locking liner is just a hair short of being flush with the left side of the blade tang giving you .080 to .090 lockup, leaving somewhere between .050" to .060" of room for any wear. There is also a little ledge on the top part of the blade, where lockup occurs, that prevents you from pushing the lockbar in a vertical direction. Finally, 5 quick spine TAPS, not whacks showed that the liner did not move in any direction. So, that is about all there is. I've been edc'ing for the past 12 days and love the way it rides and have found it very easy to get out, but no problem with it coming out on it's own. I did cover the clip with some black 3M Stair Step tape, as I do every clip, and this really helps to get a good hold to remove it from the pocket.
This makes me 1 for 1 on a high dollar Boker, and gives me some indication of what to expect on some of their other knives. I'm looking at the Applegate Folding Dagger, the new version, as my next Boker. But that will probably be in Jan. as I have already got plans for a PXL and a large wood Sebenza to finish out the year.
Anyone else try any of Boker's higher dollar offerings with success?
Can't do pics, but here is a link to the knife at KCl
http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=BO110930
And a link to the AFD I mentioned;
http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=BO112240
by looking at the link you provided looks like a very stout knife,just your kind of blade.