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<center><font size=4>CRKT Point Guard</font></center>
I received this knife today (6-29-2000) in my post office box. When I pulled it out to examine it, the postal worker behind the desk became rather interested in it and wanted to see it and play with it. A customer also asked to see it and wanted to know where he could buy one, because he said he liked the innovative features of it. We spend a couple minutes talking about how CRKT knives are made in Taiwan, and how Taiwan products are getting pretty good. He was surprised to know that the knife was a Taiwanese manufactured knife (the quality was nice). This shows that us Rebels of the Orient (Confederate States of Taiwan?
Rebelling against the fiendish and evil communists! Southern Taiwan shall rise again!
) can produce some really nice stuff, and that not all Asian manufacturers produce inferior products (the fake China still does though). Us Chinese (there is only one free China, and that is the Republic of China on Taiwan) can produce good stuff if you don't count the communists and their trash as Chinese (which they aren't, because we Chinese are supposed to be capitalist and free). As I left, I showed the knife to a security guard (guarding a construction site) from theft of power tools. I noticed a Cold Steel Voyager/Gunsite on his belt and started talking to him about knives. Without further delay, I shall start the review:
LAWKS: Lake and Walker Knife Safety. This feature is a sliding metal disk connected to a knob that sticks out from the thumb ramp. When the knife is locked open, you can activate this new safety mechanism by pushing the knob forward, which slides the metal disk under the liner, preventing it from accidental unlocks. I was expecting something a little more complex, but I'm not arguing. This thing makes me feel a lot more secure about my knife. One of my friends wanted a knife to stab car tires (I don't know why, nor do I want to know why). I'm going to hook him up with a Point Guard or a Crawford/Kasper from CRKT with this new LAWKS mechanism, so his precious little digits don't get smushed and cut when his knife unlocks as he viciously punctures a car tire. At the moment he is using the Black-T coated Emerson CQC-7B plain edge that I sold to him. A word of advice however, do not trust this new safety to the point where you will clamp your knife into a vise with the edge sticking out and repeatedly try to make it fail until the handle swings down and brings your little fingers onto the edge. If you conduct unsafe tests and get yourself hurt, then you are an idiot. This knife however is pretty solid as far as liner locks (with or without safeties) go. It passed spine whack tests in both activated and inactive LAWKS. Another plus about this knife is that the liner lock is relatively smooth and not tight and uncomfortable to operate.
Handles: The handles consist of Zytel scales over dual stainless steel liners (420J2?). They are partially skeletonized, making this knife fairly lightweight compared to other knives of its size. Rather comfortable shape in my opinion. The spacer appears to be made of 6061 T6 aluminum. There are notches in the thumb ramp, index finger notch, and rear of the knife next to the spacers.
Blade: The blade is made from 6A stainless steel and it is pretty ordinary in terms of blade shape and tip design. The large model, which is what I have, is about 3.5" in length for the blade. It opens via a thumb disk, which is rather comfortable, just like almost everything else in the knife. A couple cosmetic blemishes near the tang of the blade, but nothing serious. You get more than what you pay for with these knives. The knife blade is held in with a size 10 torx screw. The other screws are all size 6 torx screws.
Pocket Clip: As stated earlier, the pocket clip is held in by size 6 torx screws, just like Benchmade knives. The clip is also skeletonized, giving it a sleek high tech look. It is quite long compared to the average pocket clip on a knife of its size, but this makes it more secure. It is tight, but not extremely tight (hoping to himself that Benchmade hears his thoughts and mutters "730" in his mind). Perfect amount of tightness for secure holding on this knife.
Conclusion: A nice using knife. Secure, and probably a good tire popper. Worth every penny I payed for it and more. This knife will end up being a daily carry until either my EDI Genesis II arrives or my BM-910 gets returned from Benchmade (I thought it was perfect with no QC errors at first, but it ends up that there were!). We will see how it holds up to these other two guys in the future.
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Chang the Asian Janitorial Apparatus
President of Changmade Knife Company
Held to a lower standard!
[This message has been edited by Comrade Chang (edited 06-29-2000).]
[This message has been edited by Comrade Chang (edited 06-29-2000).]
I received this knife today (6-29-2000) in my post office box. When I pulled it out to examine it, the postal worker behind the desk became rather interested in it and wanted to see it and play with it. A customer also asked to see it and wanted to know where he could buy one, because he said he liked the innovative features of it. We spend a couple minutes talking about how CRKT knives are made in Taiwan, and how Taiwan products are getting pretty good. He was surprised to know that the knife was a Taiwanese manufactured knife (the quality was nice). This shows that us Rebels of the Orient (Confederate States of Taiwan?
LAWKS: Lake and Walker Knife Safety. This feature is a sliding metal disk connected to a knob that sticks out from the thumb ramp. When the knife is locked open, you can activate this new safety mechanism by pushing the knob forward, which slides the metal disk under the liner, preventing it from accidental unlocks. I was expecting something a little more complex, but I'm not arguing. This thing makes me feel a lot more secure about my knife. One of my friends wanted a knife to stab car tires (I don't know why, nor do I want to know why). I'm going to hook him up with a Point Guard or a Crawford/Kasper from CRKT with this new LAWKS mechanism, so his precious little digits don't get smushed and cut when his knife unlocks as he viciously punctures a car tire. At the moment he is using the Black-T coated Emerson CQC-7B plain edge that I sold to him. A word of advice however, do not trust this new safety to the point where you will clamp your knife into a vise with the edge sticking out and repeatedly try to make it fail until the handle swings down and brings your little fingers onto the edge. If you conduct unsafe tests and get yourself hurt, then you are an idiot. This knife however is pretty solid as far as liner locks (with or without safeties) go. It passed spine whack tests in both activated and inactive LAWKS. Another plus about this knife is that the liner lock is relatively smooth and not tight and uncomfortable to operate.
Handles: The handles consist of Zytel scales over dual stainless steel liners (420J2?). They are partially skeletonized, making this knife fairly lightweight compared to other knives of its size. Rather comfortable shape in my opinion. The spacer appears to be made of 6061 T6 aluminum. There are notches in the thumb ramp, index finger notch, and rear of the knife next to the spacers.
Blade: The blade is made from 6A stainless steel and it is pretty ordinary in terms of blade shape and tip design. The large model, which is what I have, is about 3.5" in length for the blade. It opens via a thumb disk, which is rather comfortable, just like almost everything else in the knife. A couple cosmetic blemishes near the tang of the blade, but nothing serious. You get more than what you pay for with these knives. The knife blade is held in with a size 10 torx screw. The other screws are all size 6 torx screws.
Pocket Clip: As stated earlier, the pocket clip is held in by size 6 torx screws, just like Benchmade knives. The clip is also skeletonized, giving it a sleek high tech look. It is quite long compared to the average pocket clip on a knife of its size, but this makes it more secure. It is tight, but not extremely tight (hoping to himself that Benchmade hears his thoughts and mutters "730" in his mind). Perfect amount of tightness for secure holding on this knife.
Conclusion: A nice using knife. Secure, and probably a good tire popper. Worth every penny I payed for it and more. This knife will end up being a daily carry until either my EDI Genesis II arrives or my BM-910 gets returned from Benchmade (I thought it was perfect with no QC errors at first, but it ends up that there were!). We will see how it holds up to these other two guys in the future.
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Chang the Asian Janitorial Apparatus
President of Changmade Knife Company
Held to a lower standard!
[This message has been edited by Comrade Chang (edited 06-29-2000).]
[This message has been edited by Comrade Chang (edited 06-29-2000).]
