Carboquartz Inkosi announced

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Announced on Instagram. A carboquartz-faced Inkosi. The presentation side is made from this crystalline material I am not familiar with. Tri-City Knife Works Exclusive. Looks AMAZING!!!!! CRK keeps surprising us in 2017! Love it.
 
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What about the LE Umnumzaan they also announced? Are they also Tri-City exclusive?
Hope CRK chimes in.
 
Ok I googled but want to know more. What is carboquartz? Looks cool whatever it is.
 
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IMG_4079.jpg A screen capture from Instagram. Does not show the depth and sparkle, but you get the general drift:
 
IMG_4085.jpg Another screen capture "mid sparkle". Note that it has a polished blade. Probably the nicest knife they've ever made......I'm not joking. Hope I can afford one if they are ever commonplace.
 
Cant find it on tri cities website, from the Instagram post it looks like they're only making a total of 2?
 
awd_xtc said:
Cant find it on tri cities website, from the Instagram post it looks like they're only making a total of 2?
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Yes as far as we know. That's all they said were being made at the moment. I could see them using it more just in different configurations/patterns... But that's just my wild imagination talking.
 
I cannot for the life of me figure out why CRK insists on not matching the finish on their lock sides to the front scales on these sorts of models. This one and the cross hatched Sebenza are two recent ones that would have really been great offerings if they had just cared enough to do the whole knife rather than half of it.

I'm sure many people don't care, but it will prevent me from ever owning one. It's just ends up making a beautiful knife look schizophrenic and cheap when it could have been amazing.
 
halden.doerge said:
I cannot for the life of me figure out why CRK insists on not not matching the finish on their lock sides to the front scales on these sorts of models.

I'm sure many people don't care, but it will prevent me from ever owning one. It's just ends up making a beautiful knife look schizophrenic and cheap when it could have been amazing.
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I don't know, I kind of like it. But for a model like this with a synthetic material scale what does it matter what finish the lock side is. It is just like so many other knives with a carbon fibre scale and an arbitrary finish on the other side.
 
Lapedog said:
I don't know, I kind of like it. But for a model like this with a synthetic material scale what does it matter what finish the lock side is. It is just like so many other knives with a carbon fibre scale and an arbitrary finish on the other side.
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To each their own of course. To me it looks bojack and cheap to have two mismatched slabs of titanium that could have been given a matching finish with relative ease (given CRKs capacities).

When you're dealing with a totally different front scale material like CF, I wouldn't have the same expectation.

It just clearly seems to be nothing more than a cost-saving measure, which is kinda annoying on $400-500+ knives.
 
halden.doerge said:
To each their own of course. To me it looks bojack and cheap to have two mismatched slabs of titanium that could have been given a matching finish with relative ease (given CRKs capacities).

When you're dealing with a totally different front scale material like CF, I wouldn't have the same expectation.

It just clearly seems to be nothing more than a cost-saving measure, which is kinda annoying on $400-500+ knives.
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The Carboquartz scale on the model the OP was talking about is not titanium though. Are you talking about a different model?

I do know what you mean though. I've seen tons with a satin front and a blasted lockside.
 
Lapedog said:
The Carboquartz scale on the model the OP was talking about is not titanium though. Are you talking about a different model?

I do know what you mean though. I've seen tons with a satin front and a blasted lockside.
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The carboquartz is not a coating over titanium? I think that hasn't been made clear.

And the fact that there are "tons" that are mismatched in the CRK lineup is my point. I think it's unattractive and a cheap way to go to not fully finish these editions of their knives in a matching, consistent way. Just my opinion.
 
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