Damn, Michael, I thought my T1000 looked cumbersome, but your T5000 makes my T1000 look like a pen knife!
It's my personal tradition to carry new knives that are intended to be users for the first few days after I acquire them in order to see what they're all about. So now I've been carrying this new T1000 for two days, and I'm finding it to be quite impressive. I carry it inside the waistband just above my rear right pocket, and it carries quite nicely. The weight doesn't seem much more than my LCC or Commander which usually ride in the same location, although the scale tells me that the Farid is actually quite heavier than either of these two fave daily carries.
The flats of this T1000 are beadblasted and are therefore suspect to rusting, but it has been hot here for the past two days, and the knife has been subjected to mild perspiration, yet the blade shows no sign of rusting at all. Time will tell. I kind of hope that it DOES rust because I'd like an excuse to sand the writing off of the blade and satin finish the flats to match the bevels. Maybe I'll do this soon anyway.
This knife really cuts well. It sliced through a ton of heavy hemp rope today, along with a bunch of bailing twine. It takes so little effort to cut with this knife due to it's heavy weight. A few dozen feedsacks seemed to nearly open on their own today when approached with this T1000.
The lock is ultra positive and convinces you that it will not fail. It instills the same feeling of confidence that a good fixed blade does.
The blade is a hollow chisel ground T-1 steel blade coated with VASCO MAX C-350 carbide edge technology with an edge hardness of 80RC. This Vasco Max is cool stuff. I've never seen a carbide edge on a knife before that could shave, but this one pops hairs readily, even after the cutting tasks that I subjected it to today.
Bottom line? Keeper! I'll continue to carry it and keep you guys informed of my findings,...at least until my Strider GB and AR custom folders arrive soon.
Who knows, this Farid might prove itself to be so good that I'll have to carry it daily along with one of the Striders.
My Farid came from my buddy Larry @ Blade Art, and he picked it up at the Blade Show for me from Farid. T1000's in this configuration are currently protos, and there are only eight in existance. I'd be willing to bet that Larry still has one or two available at a very reasonable price. You can find it here;
http://www.bladeart.com/artists/one_of_a_kind/one_of_a_kind.htm
Thanks for this great blade, Larry! You never fail to impress.
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Eric - Usual Suspect
"The best toys are the ones that you can put an eye out with."
