Wowbagger
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I thought about posting this the other day.
These are both Christmas presents to my self. In a way.
The Chef bought herself a painting. Usually she MAKES paintings and sells them but she had to have this and I had to have the Para2 M4 so everybody is happy (no returns / no regrets).
I woke up to this from The Chef so see . . . she’s a knife dude !
Alright enough rambling holiday festivities . . . to the point of the post :
These are two Christmas knives. The Benchmade 710 was 2016 and the Para2 M4 is 2017. I've been carrying the latter so long you guys are tired of me honking on and on about my perfect love affair with it. Had to get it while the getting was good.
It has however made me appreciate the Benchmades even more; think 710 and 940-1.
A little thing but note how the blade lock on the Benchmades “sucks” the blade in when it is still quite a ways open. See photo series. I really enjoy that. I wish the Spyderco Compression lock would do that but can’t have everything and I love the Compression lock for what it does but I figured I would just start a thread on the “Little Things” the subtle things about owning a great knife.
First photo this is where the blade will stay open on it's own. Just beyond that I have to hold the axis lock open to keep the gap in the second photo bellow . . . then the action shot . . . released the axis lock and the blade is "sucked" up into the handle. I LOVE THAT !
Here is the Para2 M4
The blade is pretty much all the way up in the handle before the Axis lock comes into play.
What do you have that turns your crank that maybe at first you didn’t even consciously acknowledge or came to appreciate / miss when you went on to other knives ?
PS: that red sweater is a finely crafted Irish sweater I bought from a little Irish shop here in the states for a hundred dollars back in the early eighties. Probably cost five hundred now. Many other lounging seaters have came, worn out and been tossed. I have two bought just in the last couple of years that just look like hell from all the pilling. Just look at the Irish one. It doesn't know how to pill. The metal zipper is easier to one hand than the YKK plastic ones which you have to use two hands. It is way richer red than the photo makes it look. Just a grand bit of work ! ! !
PPS: I just remembered why my blues look purple and my deep reds look pink : the computer monitor is shining on what I am photographing. No seriously. I'll turn off the monitor and post one more. These others are already sized and up loaded; not going through all that again.
Monitor off. Hmmm . . . maybe it is partly all the blue sky reflecting through this North window. Close but still not as rich a red as it is.
These are both Christmas presents to my self. In a way.
The Chef bought herself a painting. Usually she MAKES paintings and sells them but she had to have this and I had to have the Para2 M4 so everybody is happy (no returns / no regrets).
I woke up to this from The Chef so see . . . she’s a knife dude !
Alright enough rambling holiday festivities . . . to the point of the post :
These are two Christmas knives. The Benchmade 710 was 2016 and the Para2 M4 is 2017. I've been carrying the latter so long you guys are tired of me honking on and on about my perfect love affair with it. Had to get it while the getting was good.
It has however made me appreciate the Benchmades even more; think 710 and 940-1.
A little thing but note how the blade lock on the Benchmades “sucks” the blade in when it is still quite a ways open. See photo series. I really enjoy that. I wish the Spyderco Compression lock would do that but can’t have everything and I love the Compression lock for what it does but I figured I would just start a thread on the “Little Things” the subtle things about owning a great knife.
First photo this is where the blade will stay open on it's own. Just beyond that I have to hold the axis lock open to keep the gap in the second photo bellow . . . then the action shot . . . released the axis lock and the blade is "sucked" up into the handle. I LOVE THAT !
Here is the Para2 M4
The blade is pretty much all the way up in the handle before the Axis lock comes into play.
What do you have that turns your crank that maybe at first you didn’t even consciously acknowledge or came to appreciate / miss when you went on to other knives ?
PS: that red sweater is a finely crafted Irish sweater I bought from a little Irish shop here in the states for a hundred dollars back in the early eighties. Probably cost five hundred now. Many other lounging seaters have came, worn out and been tossed. I have two bought just in the last couple of years that just look like hell from all the pilling. Just look at the Irish one. It doesn't know how to pill. The metal zipper is easier to one hand than the YKK plastic ones which you have to use two hands. It is way richer red than the photo makes it look. Just a grand bit of work ! ! !
PPS: I just remembered why my blues look purple and my deep reds look pink : the computer monitor is shining on what I am photographing. No seriously. I'll turn off the monitor and post one more. These others are already sized and up loaded; not going through all that again.
Monitor off. Hmmm . . . maybe it is partly all the blue sky reflecting through this North window. Close but still not as rich a red as it is.
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) and not be able to feel the transition from scale to handle or back spring to sides, etc. 
That kind of attention to detail is a real turn on (which, at my age, is SPECIAL) 
