Thanks everyone!
I’d like to hear what you think with it in hand.
I just got mine in today, and it's pretty good. Out of the box, it was dead centered and had flawless lockup. The flipping action was good, but I wasn't getting the super-dumb-smooth drop-shut action I am used to from a knife with ceramic bearings and a ceramic detent ball, so I took it apart and cleaned off all the factory grease. After applying nano-oil and putting it back together, I flipped it, and that is when I realized I forgot to put the stop pin in and it flew open to about a 270 degree angle. After feeling like an idiot and putting the stop pin back in, it came back together with perfect lockup and centering, and flips much better. It doesn't have the ridiculous gliding action that I have seen in some other ceramic-bearing knives, but I am confident it will get there with time.
Some notes:
- Upon disassembly, I discovered that there are steel washers between the bearings and the Ti handles. Unexpected and nice touch.
- The pivot screw is
not held captive by a D-shaped cutout, but I had no trouble taking apart and re-assembling the knife without more than my T8 and T6 bits.
- The knife is fairly well-balanced, with the center of gravity being around the lockface.
- It is reasonably comfortable in the hand, and the finger choil on the blade seems perfectly functional.
- All of the edges of the blade and handle have been chamfered, meaning that there are no sharp edges on the knife except for the cutting part of the blade.
- The hole in the blade can be used to open the knife, I guess. The detent is strong enough that it is not the easiest method.
- The detent is strong enough that the knife will not shake open. At all. I cannot get this thing to shake open, and that's with some fairly violent arm and wrist motions that would make literally every other knife I own fly open.
- The edge is alright. It shaves arm hair, but it's not laser sharp.
13/10 for the price.
