**FINAL DROPS** Vero Synapse XL $200 Reate Torrent with Custom Ano

Leo Greer

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I absolutely hate to sell this one, as I just did it up the other day, and received it last week. However, I want the funds for new purchases, and haven’t been able to sell some others. So here it goes…

Milled Ti scales, satin M390 harpoon swedged blade. Ti backspacer, ceramic MRBS, steel lockbar insert/over travel stop, stop pin thumbstuds, Todd Begg style ball bearing pocketclip.

This thing has extremely nice action. It was drop shut when I received it, and upon cleaning, has become absolutely fall shutty with no encouragement needed. The detent is very well tuned.

Let me know and I can send you a video of this action—it’s worth seeing.

Centering is perfect, and lockup is extremely solid. No bladeplay whatsoever.

The anodization has been done by me using amateur electrical methods only. Both scales have been bronzed, but the showside has been bronzed deeper than the lockside. Both pivot collars have also been done to match. For the pocketclip, I made it the same blue as most of the hardware, and then did the pocketclip screws to match the scales. Backspacer is untouched.

No other mods.

For wear, this knife has small scuffs, scrapes, and scratches all around, and a few horizontal scuffs on the blade. As the previous owner said in his listing here; “It has plenty of character.”

Personally, I would rate this in good to very good, but shy of excellent. I.e. the aesthetics are still nice, but it has been used. (We all know the one knife that just looks terrible with that one scratch…)

There is maybe a tiny bit of wear on the screws, but all my disassembly was done with a high quality wiha torx bit, and it doesn’t stand out.

Has been cleaned and lubed about four times in the past two weeks. No issues there.

The edge is not very sharp.

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(One of the pics above was taken before I ano’d the pivot collar)

Price on this beauty is $225 PP F&F preferred, and will include pouch and box, as well as ConUS shipping TYD.

I am willing to do G&S with the fee added in.

If purchased this weekend, will ship out on Monday.

Please feel free to reach out with any requests for more info, pictures, etc!

Only trades would be a Reate Jack, or a Shiro Quantum + other stuff from my end.
 

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I have an interesting one also for sale today.

This is a Vero Synapse XL, but it’s both customized with anodization and a bit of piling on the micarta inlays, and it also needs some real work to be restored to working function.

It’s serial No. 240 from the first run and comes with the taco pouch and card to prove it.

Before I start the description, know that this knife has had the detent socket expanded too far by a micrometer or two, and needs adjustment and reseating of the detent ball in order to function properly. **THIS KNIFE IS BROKEN AND NEEDS WORK**

Aside from that, it’s in pretty good condition. The blades has been used on paper, and one piece of cardboard, and it has been flipped, cleaned and lubed. Unfortunately, there is definitely wear on the screws from my usage of inferior torx buts, before I purchased my current tools.

The action (when functioning properly) is extremely smooth, snaps out great with either the cutout or the flipper, and falls shut with almost no friction. If you’ve ever felt another Vero model, it’s like that, except even smoother.

The micarta scales have been “dyed” and rubbed with food grade avocado oil to achieve the “weathered” look. They were originally tan.

The showside scale has been electrically anodized to blurple, and the lockside has been heat anodized to pink/purple/bronze.

The backspacer has been done in spectrum from blurple to bronze.

The screws were haphazardly flamed to achieve a variety of colors and shades, even going through different colors on a single screw.

The clip has been flamed gold.

All mods done by me.


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I had a hard time picking a starting price for this knife. On one hand, these are darn expensive to find on the secondary, and even more for the first run, and on the other hand this is a non-functioning knife.

Final price is $200 PP F&F TYD ConUS.

If you think it’s worth less but still want it, send me an offer!

Current trades are same as the Torrent: Quantum and Jack.

Let me know if you would like more pics (lockup, centering, info card, etc), or have any other questions or requests!
 
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