Working sure gets in the way of my posting.
lots of activity while I was slaving . . . COOL . . . I'll have to rename this thread Voyagers Gone Wild.
The other problem I had was the angle of the clip opening. It was straight and too narrow to get over the edge of the pocket in my insulated coveralls. I took some pliers and bent it out a little after the curved part (not from the mounting area which would loosen it) and it works fine
Yah I think I had mine about three hours and I was spreading and tweaking the clip.
So far I haven't sanded and may not. I spread it a fair amount so the texture just catches my thiner pants and fits pretty tight on the thick winter pants . . . I just gave it another pull on the thick ones . . . hmmmmmmm . . . prob'ly do some sanding before this is all over.
Comparison Ritter Grip to Voyager large :
Grip thinner behind the edge so trims better.
M390 in the Grip so no fair comparison there.
Grip really flies open and fun to play with.
Grip has a way of disappearing in your hand as in you forget about it and just use your knife to work.
The blade shape is kind of fat and short, usually I like a more slender spear point kind of blade but the Grip with this steel performs SOOOOO FREEEKING WELL for me I over look the blade shape.
The Voyager has the aluminum liners so the handle sounds less hollow and "cheep" on the Voyager. (I don't mind the light hollow "plasticy" feel of the Grip but it drives some people crazy. In my mind I
know it is reinforced/strong and not cheep (weak) plastic so I just relax and use the knife.
Voyager easy enough to open while working with a bit of wrist swing or can just grip the blade and open sort of like a nail nick slip joint with out all the finger nail damage. Another advantage of the nice wide blade.
The Voyager closes nice . . . just push on the release and the blade will drop (careful to tilt the handle down toward the ground a little so the blade edge doesn't swing and hit the backs of your fingers. Then I kind of swipe the back of the blade on my leg to fully close it. Probably better ways to close it but I haven't learned 'em yet.
Voyager has more reach and kind of pistol grip handle options.
Voyager tends to be very present in your hand you know you have this thing in your hand and it is making it's presents known all the time . . . not hot spots but present in a good way (see comment about this above for the Grip).
The point on the blade is handy for opening packaging and getting into and around stuff.
Voyager decent food prep knife so far.
Edge didn't really want to cut even a very small wire tie but I didn't get western with it . . . no freaking chipping though that's for sure and didn't dull . . . if I had tried that with the ZDP-189 it might have cut it (thinner behind the edge) but probably would have chipped from the effort.
Love ZDP-189 . . . I'm just saying . . .
I could probably find more to compare but I've probably already over done it so enough already.
