I've had this passaround knife for about a week. I haven't had the chance to do much actual "work" with it, but I've carried it for several days and used it as much as possible. I already posted my initial impressions in the passaround post.
The knife is smaller than I expected. It was easy to carry and reminded me that a small fixed blade is a wonderful edc knife. The chisel tip is pretty handy, I did some light scraping with it and the corners of the grinds provide enough "point" to dig into wood easily, if you are worried about not having a point.
It was paper cutting sharp (push cut and slice) when I got it and when I was done with it. I didn't try to sharpen it. I'd be worried sharpening it on the Spyderco Sharpmaker to round off the corners and I don't know how I would sharpen the square tip. It cut up some chicken no problem.
This is overall a very cool design and everyone that saw it recognized it as a utility tool, not as some dangerous knife. I work in an office, but I think if I needed to carry a heavy duty knife as a tool daily, this would be at the top of my list.
There were a couple of cons. For such a small knife, I thought thinner stock could be used to lighten it without worrying about its sturdiness. (I really want to try one of the bigger ones now). The extended tang made it a little hard to use my favored three finger grip with the pinkie wrapped around the end. Those are just personal preferences, though, I wouldn't want to have a thinner stock, lesser tang if that would affect the integrity of the blade. I didn't have any use at all for the sheath, though. (I admit that I do not have any use for kydex though, so I'm sure that soured my thinking). However, the clip let it sit too high for inside the pocket carry. Also, the clip wasn't sturdy enough to clip tightly to my belt; it popped off a couple of times when I was wearing it in the small of the back. The sheath held the knife itself tightly, though. A leather inside the pocket carry would be better, IMHO.
Overall a great little fixed blade carry knife and thanks to the Graham Bros. for providing the knife. I will send it on its way Tuesday, to MadDaddy.
The knife is smaller than I expected. It was easy to carry and reminded me that a small fixed blade is a wonderful edc knife. The chisel tip is pretty handy, I did some light scraping with it and the corners of the grinds provide enough "point" to dig into wood easily, if you are worried about not having a point.
It was paper cutting sharp (push cut and slice) when I got it and when I was done with it. I didn't try to sharpen it. I'd be worried sharpening it on the Spyderco Sharpmaker to round off the corners and I don't know how I would sharpen the square tip. It cut up some chicken no problem.
This is overall a very cool design and everyone that saw it recognized it as a utility tool, not as some dangerous knife. I work in an office, but I think if I needed to carry a heavy duty knife as a tool daily, this would be at the top of my list.
There were a couple of cons. For such a small knife, I thought thinner stock could be used to lighten it without worrying about its sturdiness. (I really want to try one of the bigger ones now). The extended tang made it a little hard to use my favored three finger grip with the pinkie wrapped around the end. Those are just personal preferences, though, I wouldn't want to have a thinner stock, lesser tang if that would affect the integrity of the blade. I didn't have any use at all for the sheath, though. (I admit that I do not have any use for kydex though, so I'm sure that soured my thinking). However, the clip let it sit too high for inside the pocket carry. Also, the clip wasn't sturdy enough to clip tightly to my belt; it popped off a couple of times when I was wearing it in the small of the back. The sheath held the knife itself tightly, though. A leather inside the pocket carry would be better, IMHO.
Overall a great little fixed blade carry knife and thanks to the Graham Bros. for providing the knife. I will send it on its way Tuesday, to MadDaddy.
