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BD_01 said:
That’s a VERY nice pattern on your Thuya. Congrats on the score.
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Thank you much!! I passed on a lot of examples before I got lucky with this one! It’s everything I’ve been searching for, a nice dark toned wood with beautiful burl in it. It’s been safe kept and it’s practically lnib. So happy. Flip side is nice too!

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zippifish said:
DocJekl DocJekl I'd be interested on your thoughts of the Reconnaissance Adzin, almost pulled the trigger on one because it fits a sweet spot of the size I like to carry, if it weren't a flipper I'd had jumped on it. Not really into flippers and sold my last one which was a ZT 0470 but it carried well and I kind of miss it.
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DocJekl said:
After playing with it a bit it's very much like the ZT 0470 or even a Shiro - slick action, crisp open and close, smooth bearings. It seems very well made. It kind of depends really on what looks you prefer, and if you want USA made to decide between them.
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DocJekl said:
Then there is the Recon1 Reconnaissance Adzin in Ti and M390 - a brand new in house brand, made by Reate.

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So I have been carrying this Reconnaissance Adzin since Saturday, in my right back pocket in place of the XM-18 or Manix 2, to see how well it performs.

So far everything is great about it, such as being wicked sharpn with an almost fall-shut action; except that if I put any pressure on the lock bar at all, then it becomes a bit harder to deploy. The harder I press on the lock bar, the harder it becomes to deploy.

Usually it's only my middle finger touching the lock bar right above the pocket clip's tip, with my ring finger and pinkie finger on the pocket clip, and my index finger on the flipper. If I move my middle finger off the lock bar and onto the pocket clip with the other 2 fingers the problem goes away. It just takes a little retraining myself from the way I usually hold my XM-18 when I deploy the blade.

I first noticed this when trying to deploy it with my left hand, when my thumb was pressing on the lock bar and I could not open the knife at all. It just wouldn't budge and I thought I'd broken it, but then I switched back to my right hand and it flipped open. This worst-case scenario, where it refuses to open when gripped tightly, does not happen when using it right handed. You'd have to really grip the knife poorly and tightly when right handed to get the lock bar to freeze up the blade; but the wrong grip does definitely increase the force needed to deploy the blade.

This knife is beautiful, has a grippy chalky texture, is extremely sharp, and the jimping on the backspacer really helps hold the knife in place into the heel of my palm when flipping it open. And the knife is slimmer and lighter than the XM-18, so it's easier to carry. I still really like it. I just wanted to warn people, especially lefties, about increased lock bar pressure from a certain grip causing difficult deployment.

EDIT - absolutely NO lock stick, no matter how much pressure was applied to the lock bar nor if opened very aggressively.
 
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This is not actually mine, I ordered it for a friend on behalf of his wife and kids for father's day. He is the chief engineer for five federal buildings in downtown Chicago and therefore must leave his firearm in the car. She wanted him to have something for SD to and from his car, and since he likes knives, we got him a waved Spyderco Endura. My contribution is a deep carry clip from MXG as he also just turned 50. I have some brown canvas micarta scales on order, but it looks like it will be a few weeks. He currently carries a stainless steel Spyderco Police 3 fully serrated.

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