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Just over a week ago it was my birthday and I traveled to the next city to buy myself a new Spyderco. Well to cut a long story short they didn't have the one I wanted in stock. But instead I found this little gem for 40% off. The regular price was $310 CAD. ($234usd) Making it $186 CAD ($140.41usd)
I've been wanting a fine Italian made knife for sometime and have been mostly looking at Lionsteel, but honestly Fox for some reason hadn't really crossed my radar. At the regular price I probably would have kept walking to save my cash. So I'm grateful the sale opened the door for me to own a fantastic little knife!
This knife was designed by the famous Danish knife maker Jesper Voxnaes, who has done work for Spyderco, boker, ckrt, and of course Fox.
I'm not sure what the relationship between boker and fox is, but you can purchase the knife directly from boker. In both the premium CF/Elmax/titanium. Or in the more wallet friendly G10/N690Co/steel as shown below (Hopefully the pic works)
(Pic borrowed from Google)
Basic stats:
- Blade Length:2.875"
- Blade Thickness:0.14"
- Blade Material:Elmax
- Handle Material:Carbon Fiber
- Overall Length:7.00"
- Titanium clip & back spacer
Overall impressions:
The action of this knife is smooth as butter. It's running on phosphor bronze washers and IMHO the detente is perfect. I've seen people complain that you can't slow roll open the knife. But for me the detente pops the the knife open with almost no effort and feels clean and crisp so it's actually a selling feature to me.
The knife is in that smaller but not tiny category. As you can see the handle is a little shorter then a PM3 but offers up almost the same amount of cutting edge.
The contours of the handle fit the hand well and it actually feels much larger then it actually is. There is jimping on top of the blade but the scales are flush with them so you don't actually get the best grip on it.
The walker style liner lock is well cut and the lock up is great!
To top it all off the knife comes with it's own hand made Italian leather case. The leather is very soft and it smells great!!!
The BAD!!!!...
As I was editing pics I found a strange line in the scale. Upon further inspection it turned out to be a crack in the CF scale (Might also be a inclusion). I haven't dropped the knife, and when I carried it the knife was in the pouch. I believe it was there when I bought the knife but I didn't notice it. I posted about it on FB and a scale maker who works with CF believes they didn't use enough resin as you can see voids in the scales.
Fortunately Fox is willing to give me a brand new knife!
The only headache is being Canadian and sending something across the boarder is super risky. It's why I buy locally in the first place as I think having a knife seized would be too heart breaking for me.
Warranty issues aside this is a beautifully designed knife. The materials feel premium and Fox customer service has been excellent. I can't wait to get my new one in the mail as it is going to be in my EDC for a long long time.
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