EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

Kizer? I dig it!



There are some excellent budget button locks out these days! Grabbed a conspirator after being impressed with the cogent and must say they give my Malibu a run for the money.

Haven't tried an Altus but i did experience some bad button stick with the cogent after getting some oil in there accidentally which i cleaned out to remedy.

If thats not the issue and a return/exchange is not an option, maybe try a long similar diameter spring and cut it down to different lengths to play around with in the button. Did that on a Kershaw Launch once to fix some mushiness, although thats the opposite issue, but might help with button feel assuming theres not a burr or something.


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NKD!

Yep, it's the Pelican Mini by Kmaxrom, it was discontinued recently but it's got a fantastic grind. I loved the swoopiness of it and on closer inspection they did a great job on this design.
 
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There's some similarity here to yesterday's carry which I posted here this morning--fluted, backwashed, frame lock, Ti flippers--but different steels in Elmax and M390 with very dissimilar blade shapes and finishes. The Rexford-designed ZT0801 is all blacked-out and today's CKF SSE sports a nicely blue ano'd pivot and sculpted clip.

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The Trivisa Lynx has been making its rounds on the review channels. People seem to like it. They are around $50 on Amazon but you can get them for less if you order directly from China. The steel is supposedly 14C28N. Having this knife apart for inspection, it seems similar in construction to the recent Sitivien knives, which do seem to use the claimed steels. The bearings appear to be ceramic and the action is pretty good. The blade gets radically thin out near the tip and it slices nicely. (Ask the daisy.)

The only tangible issue here involves a few crisp scale edges and some sharpness at the top of the lock bar ahead of the blade interface. Both were easy to fix between a few grits of sand paper and a steel file.

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