SharpBits
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Sssshhh! People believe the age of beastly ZT knives is over.
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Sssshhh! People believe the age of beastly ZT knives is over.
Yeah, glad I didnโt let the peanut gallery dissuade me from giving this one a chance.Sssshhh! People believe the age of beastly ZT knives is over.![]()
That is quite the capable duo! Also, my local retailer had marked down an orange Rat 1 in D2 recently and I didnโt pull the trigger. I messed up, huh?Off to the back to weed whack today.
SAK farmer and a RAT 1 in D2
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Im jealousยนโฐ!




Very very nice !
Beautiful jobMaddii Puukko
AEB-L 62HRC. Beautiful,Crosscut micarta.
*First time I agreed to make something that wasn't my design. I'm glad I kept it his original.
It's a really good design. I hope he loves it too!
Gone....
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I had a pleasantly surprising mail call today, as my newest was scheduled, quite reasonably, for Monday but arrived this morning at my local PO after leaving Florida Wednesday. I've wanted one of these for a long time, discovering the Rukus post-discontinuance, and it seemed every time I tried to grab one it got sold out from under me it or was way overpriced. Of course I paid a lot more than this knife went for in 2009 or earlier, but adjusted for inflation and given the current market, I did OK. No paper, bag, or box, but knife's in really nice shape and needed just a couple drops of oil and a little pivot loosening to get the action just right.
Now I knew and expected this to be big and heavy, but it's really biiiig and really heavyyyy. I really like it.
Just for comparison's sake, a pic with one of my 710's, which is not a small knife.
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The handle is bidirectionally contoured, similar to my TRM/RJ Martin Machine Flipper, tapering in from flared ends, then broadening again to a nice middle palm-swell.
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Quite the chunk of S30V in a well-resharpened, saber ground blade, finger grooves and pommel downturn that really lock the knife in hand, and just a great looking scale combo of black G10 and brown Micarta. Am I crowing a bit, well yeah, guess so, but I'm pretty pleased with this one--a bit much to carry tomorrow to a day of youth basketball games, but the rest of the week, well....
Keep it next to the Python. For me..