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just pulled the trigger on a gayle bradley. 

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Street Soldier - Here's a GB with a few others for comparison
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Thanks for the pics. I think I'm gonna pull the trigger on this one.
I have been carrying mine for a couple of months now, thanks to this thread. No regrets, one of my all time favorites, thank you Andrew for posting this! I missed it a couple of years ago, but caught it on a search...
While I'm not a lefty, I find that I can easily close it with my left hand. I'd say almost as easily as right-handed.I like the strong lock on the Gayle Bradley! After a week my hand has gotten use to it. I wonder how lefties handle closing it one handed or any other liner lock?
While I'm not a lefty, I find that I can easily close it with my left hand. I'd say almost as easily as right-handed.
I have a Superleaf, and decided to employ it as a hard user, to be subjected to the same or similar indignities as my GB has been forced to endure.
So far I am not impressed.
Don't get me wrong; there is nothing wrong with the Superleaf, generally. It is a well designed knife made with good materials, and if you need a good strong folder, it's a fine choice.
It's just that it doesn't have M4 steel!
Lots of my Spydies have VG10. It is a decent medium use steel. It will cut cardboard and open bubble packs and that kind of thing just fine. But when exposed to cutting sheet rock for example, it just cannot compete with the M4.
Now I don't have a lot of experience with the other higher end steels which show up in Spyderco knives on occasion. But I have had quite a bit of experience using Spyderco's M4 steel, and I sure wish they would use M4 in some of their other larger knives.
Please?
Andy
:thumbup::thumbup:i would love a para 2 in m4!
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Let me just get paypal first please!
i am NOT with this the para is NOT a "hard use" knife the blade and tip is way to delicate thats why m390 suits it so well i mean if you wanna try using it hard be my guest but an m4 para would be like puttin a m4 millie to hard work and i will save you the 200+ bucks it will end with a busted blade
now the m4 manix 2 sprint AAAWWW YEEEAA
a gold class/ritter griptillian with m4 would be IMHO the best "work" knife second only to a reg grippy with a nice set of handles that way you bust the blade nbd just send it to bm and get a new one for 25 bucks and if 154cm cant cut it (tee hee see what i did there) get the s30 variant with its 4% vanadium and set it to work and if you dont go the ritter route you break it its still only 25 bucks to replace
and you cannot beat the axis lock for fast easy and safe HARD use i can attest to that personally