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Just a couple snaps of my Pacific
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This knife is way more comfortable than it looks. That’s what made me hesitate for years as I know enough to know that blisters can be a problem when you have to work with a big knife for a long time. The handle of the Pacific looked like it had too much traction to me. That has not been the case. It’s very comfortable and doesn’t chew up your hand. It’s not as easy on your hand as a nice smooth Bark River handle like one the Bravo, but it’s not a major problem either.
I did have to make one absolutely necessary change to make the Pacific usable as a working knife. As the knife came from the factory, the butt of the Micarta handle has two incredible sharp points that dig right into your palm. The red arrow points to the problem. Both of these photos show the knife after I sanded down these points. If you own this knife you’ll know what I’m talking about. The Micarta takes to sanding really well, and you can’t really tell I made this small mod, but it’s 10000X more comfortable and I am surprised this isn’t part of the process from the factory as it’s pretty easy to do.
I did have to make one absolutely necessary change to make the Pacific usable as a working knife. As the knife came from the factory, the butt of the Micarta handle has two incredible sharp points that dig right into your palm. The red arrow points to the problem. Both of these photos show the knife after I sanded down these points. If you own this knife you’ll know what I’m talking about. The Micarta takes to sanding really well, and you can’t really tell I made this small mod, but it’s 10000X more comfortable and I am surprised this isn’t part of the process from the factory as it’s pretty easy to do.
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Great post. I was just explaining to my wife yesterday that I need to sand down that part of the Micarta. It's weird that the factory leaves such a sharp point on it right where it digs into the palm.
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Yeah, just round it off. You won’t regret it. 1000000X better. The Micarta is the same colour and texture all the way through so it’s not unsightly.
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The Pacific, Nayala, and Green Beret slabs are, in my opinion (and contrary to the CRK sales pitch about amplifying twisting force) an exercise in NOT having to finish or smooth the interface between the knife blade and the Micarta handle slabs for better or worse. By leaving that small ridge they can make the knife 100% machine/CNC produced with the only hand-finishing being sharpening the blade.
If you consider, say a Bark River, the blade handle needs to be sanded, buffed, and polished to eliminate this interface. CRK just makes two handle halves on a CNC, and screws them in place with some 3M hi-bond tape.
The sharp corner of the Pacific handle that I find annoying, likely would require some hand work to correct, which I feel CRK vehemently avoids in all of their fixed-blade offerings.
That all being said, Chris Reeve and Bill Harsey are design geniuses and the resulting product is extremely comfortable and near perfect (sharp corner aside) so I give them full credit for designing a knife I love. I assume their design choices also keep the CRK fixed blades somewhat affordable for what they are.
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Yes the main goal is to make the machines earn the money. If you listen to Tim on the pod casts he talks to this topic but he is the shop foreman
