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Sean Riley

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Hi all. How far below the blade does the gaurd on the team Gemini ulb hang down? I can't find all the specs on things anywhere. Thank you for any replies.
 
About half an inch


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Killer choice of blade to ask a question about. If you haven't scored one yet....you will not regret it when ya do.
 
I do understand the use of the choil. And I have owned and traded out many with. I still have a couple with choils. A rat 3 and 2esee 6s. I wish the blades went to a sharpening notch and a substantial guard. Same with the Busse TG almost what I want. About a 5/8 to 13/16 below the blade bottom gaurd depending on handle contour. Thank you for posting the measurements.
 
Does a choil radius relieve stress in blade or breaking points or something? There has to be more than aesthetics? The only knives I need to choke up on are ones with choils. The gaurded blades I have I use the blade right where it ends against the ricasso or sharpening notch gaurd area.
 
Sean Riley said:
Does a choil radius relieve stress in blade or breaking points or something? There has to be more than aesthetics? The only knives I need to choke up on are ones with choils. The gaurded blades I have I use the blade right where it ends against the ricasso or sharpening notch gaurd area.
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Look where the grind actually starts on the TG ~ about half way through the choil. And there is no wasted room there. The ricasso isn't overly large by any means - they can barely fit the logo there without the fuller eating it. A sharpening notch, at least how Busse does them, would take up about a quarter of the choil, and be placed weirdly because of the ricasso and guard situation. We are looking at about 1/4" of 'lost' cutting edge, to simply create an extremely functional finger choil (especially on the TG) and improve the aesthetics dramatically. Draw one up without the finger choil, you'll see what I mean. It is functional for multiple grips and uses, not just choking up and making feathersticks, which IMO is so 'over hyped' for lack of a better word. I've never needed feathersticks for a fire, ever. It looks good, and it feels good. Make sense to me.
 
The double handguard to me serves It's purpose when in reverse grip and stabbing Zombies in the head. Much force is needed and keeps a bloody hand from slipping over when in motion. Hope this helps...from another's perspective.
 
Sean Riley said:
I dislike choils.its wasted blade.I also want a longer bottom gaurd.
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I’m kinda on this side of the fence as well. I had issues with my magnum bear cub catching when i was trying to cut loose fabrics for making some rags an if It keeps gets caught up when I’m in the woods or doing something serious that makes me angry I may take a file to her an make it less catchy or modify it some how 😳🤫 muahahahaha.
 
Good afternoon.
I like a functional choil on knives when it makes sense.
I edc the AMS and the choil does get caught on things quite a bit plus I can’t really use it for grip either.
No shade on the AMS I love it. Actually I might even give up some blade space for a larger choil as I would like to choke up on it every once in a while but again, choils don’t really make sense to me on smaller knives. Not for my use case anyway.
I’m looking for a Magnum Bear Cub to possibly replace the AMS for edc.
 

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