Here's the skinny and tech specs:The 4-1/2" handle is covered with black, deeply textured Zytel® that gives the knife the most secure possible grip. The deep bellied, 3-1/2" modified drop point blade of 420J2 stainless steel at 54-56 Rc., can either cut, slash, or chop. The deep finger notch in the handle gives the most positive of control. This knife has a removable belt clip and large, double thumb studs for positive opening. The LAWKS® safety effectively turns this folder into a fixed blade knife when locked. It assures that the Walker-Lock cannot unlock accidentally. Weighs 5.7 oz. Suggested retail is $59.95. Made in Taiwan
This is our 1st review because quite frankly; we can't afford to destroy knives. Laughing out loud!
We put it thru a little destruction course today. With the serrated handle it hurts your hands when you try to cut anything with it. That is the main reason for our dissaproval. The knife is virtually new with one fine sharpening on a spyderco sharpener. We sharpened it until it shaved hair. We tried to rip up some cardboard like they do in the Cold Steel video. It would only slice thru about 8 inches of cardboard box before getting bound up in the cardboard. And thats really hard slashing. It took a lot of force to actually get that far. Result: It doesn't slash cardboard worth a crap. Next we tried to stab at the cardboard and it's not much of a stabber either. But, with full force it did finally stab up to the frame. Not sure if Cold Steel uses wimpy cardboard, we were using Green Giant peas and corn cardboard. We then took the sharp edge of the blade and chopped into a keystone wall bock. We were surprized that it didn't damage it as much as we thought it would. But you could tell it was distorted a little bit not bad though. It could be touched up quickly. Then with the LAWKS system fully engaged, we hit the back of the blade on a keystone block. On the fourth hit the blade lock was forced between the blade and the LAWKS lock which in turn bent the LAWKS lock out of the way. Also when the standard lock and the Lawks system failed a drastic amount of blade play was encountered. We locked it back and engaged the LAWKS again and it failed on the first hit this time. Now when the knife closes it scrubs the inside of the handle. We stopped there because I still want to use the knife as a battery cable stripper and whatever dirty job I can find for it.
