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Hey guys/gals. This is a review of a custom made by our very own David Mary. It's his Prevail model and he made this one in 8670.
David Mary has a unique style with his knives. He kind of breaks the mold of regular patterns. I'm usually a more spear point kind of guy, my usual ultimate outdoors fixed blade is a Kephart like pattern. However David makes the point very low on this knife and the edge angle is pointing downward, below the handle. At first you might wonder why he does this, but once you get it in your hand and do a little bit of cutting you can see that it pulls whatever you're cutting into the edge. This thing is very ergonomic. The handle is made of a layering of green g10 and rubber. I forget what the materials called but it's pretty awesome. I pictured it having a little give like say an SRK, but it's just as rigid feeling as normal G10, except it has layerings of rubber that give you a good grip. This is cool because you don't need jimping to keep your placement on the handle. I'm not a big fan of jimping at all so this was a big plus for me.
This is my first time playing around with 8670 and I'm pretty impressed. It seems to be pretty tough. I did a decent amount of carving where I was using sideways pressure. I didn't get any sort of edge deformation, no chips or rolls so that was good. I didn't know anything about 8670 really when I got this thing so I didn't know what to expect. I did test to see how quickly it got a patina. I cut some wild cattails or horsetails or whatever they're called and it started patinaing right away.
It comes with a nice secure Kydex sheath that didn't give me any problems. All in all this is an awesome knife and I'm going to keep my eyes peeled on David Mary's works and see what kind of designs he comes out with next. I'd recommend it for people in the outdoors scene that want an ergonomic no-nonsense knife that just works every time you take it out. I did not try sharpening it but I have a feeling it wouldn't be too hard. Peace!
David Mary has a unique style with his knives. He kind of breaks the mold of regular patterns. I'm usually a more spear point kind of guy, my usual ultimate outdoors fixed blade is a Kephart like pattern. However David makes the point very low on this knife and the edge angle is pointing downward, below the handle. At first you might wonder why he does this, but once you get it in your hand and do a little bit of cutting you can see that it pulls whatever you're cutting into the edge. This thing is very ergonomic. The handle is made of a layering of green g10 and rubber. I forget what the materials called but it's pretty awesome. I pictured it having a little give like say an SRK, but it's just as rigid feeling as normal G10, except it has layerings of rubber that give you a good grip. This is cool because you don't need jimping to keep your placement on the handle. I'm not a big fan of jimping at all so this was a big plus for me.
This is my first time playing around with 8670 and I'm pretty impressed. It seems to be pretty tough. I did a decent amount of carving where I was using sideways pressure. I didn't get any sort of edge deformation, no chips or rolls so that was good. I didn't know anything about 8670 really when I got this thing so I didn't know what to expect. I did test to see how quickly it got a patina. I cut some wild cattails or horsetails or whatever they're called and it started patinaing right away.
It comes with a nice secure Kydex sheath that didn't give me any problems. All in all this is an awesome knife and I'm going to keep my eyes peeled on David Mary's works and see what kind of designs he comes out with next. I'd recommend it for people in the outdoors scene that want an ergonomic no-nonsense knife that just works every time you take it out. I did not try sharpening it but I have a feeling it wouldn't be too hard. Peace!
