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Copied from the passaround thread.
I'm sorry, but I really tried to like this knife. So many things just didn't work for me. I'm glad I participated in this passaround, it probably saved me some bucks.
Let's start off with what I liked. F&F were perfect. The texture on the G-10 slab was nice, but it only ran one way. Jimping was good, and I really liked the crenelations on the thumb studs, it improved the opening a lot.
Dislikes are a bit numerous unfortunately. On the top of the list are blade grind and lanyard hole. I removed the lanyard after a couple of minutes. Putting it back on now reminds me of why I took it off. It just doesn't fit with the grip. The lanyard sits right under the edge of my palm, impairing not only the normal full grip, but opening and closing the knife as well.
The spanto grind is a huge turn off for me. It looks cool, and that's all neat and dandy, but the trade off is that the tip is right around the width of the stock and gives zero penetration power. Not a slicer, not a stabber, big on folding pry bar, but I can get more effective ones for less.
The handle is nice, but I'm missing the wide grip of the SMF. The curve just seems to end with no retention on the back end. The forward choil sacrifices ergo's and functionality for looks. The choil is 100% blade cutout and the back is a rounded scale that your finger rolls right off of.
The internal blade stop is innovative, but traps string and gunk when washing it out.
The saving grace of this knife is the looks and the tip down pocket clip. Every edge is rounded or milled to style the knife. Great attention has been paid to the small details, but in the big picture I find it lacking. This knife seems over engineered with parts, not simplistic in the least. Everything can come apart into several different pieces, all of which can get lost or damaged.
I'm sorry, but I really tried to like this knife. So many things just didn't work for me. I'm glad I participated in this passaround, it probably saved me some bucks.
Let's start off with what I liked. F&F were perfect. The texture on the G-10 slab was nice, but it only ran one way. Jimping was good, and I really liked the crenelations on the thumb studs, it improved the opening a lot.
Dislikes are a bit numerous unfortunately. On the top of the list are blade grind and lanyard hole. I removed the lanyard after a couple of minutes. Putting it back on now reminds me of why I took it off. It just doesn't fit with the grip. The lanyard sits right under the edge of my palm, impairing not only the normal full grip, but opening and closing the knife as well.
The spanto grind is a huge turn off for me. It looks cool, and that's all neat and dandy, but the trade off is that the tip is right around the width of the stock and gives zero penetration power. Not a slicer, not a stabber, big on folding pry bar, but I can get more effective ones for less.
The handle is nice, but I'm missing the wide grip of the SMF. The curve just seems to end with no retention on the back end. The forward choil sacrifices ergo's and functionality for looks. The choil is 100% blade cutout and the back is a rounded scale that your finger rolls right off of.
The internal blade stop is innovative, but traps string and gunk when washing it out.
The saving grace of this knife is the looks and the tip down pocket clip. Every edge is rounded or milled to style the knife. Great attention has been paid to the small details, but in the big picture I find it lacking. This knife seems over engineered with parts, not simplistic in the least. Everything can come apart into several different pieces, all of which can get lost or damaged.