kreole
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Wow! - is all I can say.
I put off getting one because I have a Pacific Salt that seemed to fill the same niche (and a Tasman, as well), but with the nice wharncliffe and choil I wanted to get one eventually. A very nice spyderco.com forumite named Jim had a second he picked up at the factory sale and didn't want, so I scooped it up.
The thumb ramp is more pronounced than my other salts. That's something I hadn't noticed from pictures. It makes it easier to rotate the blade downward pushing with your thumb. Also, even though it's a second, it locks up perfectly, better than any Spyderco knife I have; there's absolutely no play, even the little bit that's common to backlocks.
Using the choil, I find I can get my pinky to rest on the top of the middle peak, which is nice--I hate knives that drop down at the end because I often use my pinky to pivot the blade downward. Because of that, I generally stick to knives with the shape of the Endura or Delica--and I especially like the third generation ones where the butt of the handle is even larger. On the Atlantic, the second indent (after the middle peak, towards the end) is where my pinky sits when not using the choil, but it's wider than the first and flares up at the end, so I can still pivot it well, and the flared end prevents it from slipping when making a pull cut.
I think my favorite part, though, is how it looks closed. It's really a piece of art. The thumb ramp curves smoothly into the part of the handle that functions as the choil when open, and the tip curves smoothly into the butt. Even the hollow grind ends right at the middle peak of the handle. I seriously regret not getting this knife sooner. I think it might end up on my wall rather than in my pocket
I put off getting one because I have a Pacific Salt that seemed to fill the same niche (and a Tasman, as well), but with the nice wharncliffe and choil I wanted to get one eventually. A very nice spyderco.com forumite named Jim had a second he picked up at the factory sale and didn't want, so I scooped it up.
The thumb ramp is more pronounced than my other salts. That's something I hadn't noticed from pictures. It makes it easier to rotate the blade downward pushing with your thumb. Also, even though it's a second, it locks up perfectly, better than any Spyderco knife I have; there's absolutely no play, even the little bit that's common to backlocks.
Using the choil, I find I can get my pinky to rest on the top of the middle peak, which is nice--I hate knives that drop down at the end because I often use my pinky to pivot the blade downward. Because of that, I generally stick to knives with the shape of the Endura or Delica--and I especially like the third generation ones where the butt of the handle is even larger. On the Atlantic, the second indent (after the middle peak, towards the end) is where my pinky sits when not using the choil, but it's wider than the first and flares up at the end, so I can still pivot it well, and the flared end prevents it from slipping when making a pull cut.
I think my favorite part, though, is how it looks closed. It's really a piece of art. The thumb ramp curves smoothly into the part of the handle that functions as the choil when open, and the tip curves smoothly into the butt. Even the hollow grind ends right at the middle peak of the handle. I seriously regret not getting this knife sooner. I think it might end up on my wall rather than in my pocket
