Just got my new SmF

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srmd22

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OMG, I LOVE this thing!!! I've read stuff about the F/F being a bit more primitive then other knives in this price range, but I have to say, I am not seeing it. It is a pretty simple design, but there are no tool marks on mine, and the tolerances look pretty darn tight to me. I bought the knife for it's other qualities-- it's brute size and tank-like nature, but what a pleasant surprise to see that it is so very well finished as well! Maybe I just got lucky.

I was thinking about the SnG, to complement the seb 21, but I figured, let's see what a little bigger version looks like. Boy am I glad I went with this one. It just feels so nice and meaty, and looks so refreshingly intimidating when deployed. I love the clunky sound it makes when it locks in place. Sounds like someone closing a steel trap door. "CLONK"

So this completes my little folder collection, the corner pieces being the classic recommendations of the seb 21 and the SmF. A couple of lesser priced pieces fill it out. My fixie is the Kabar USMC. Quite the buying spree, for one month's work.

Now I just need a big chopper. Don't need more folders, although I have been eying a ZT, but it is probably too similar to the SmF. Might look around for a custom at some point, but at the moment I am pretty satisfied. I'll probably go back to just readinge, lurking and posting for awhile.
 
So this completes my little folder collection, the corner pieces being the classic recommendations of the seb 21 and the SmF. A couple of lesser priced pieces fill it out. My fixie is the Kabar USMC. Quite the buying spree, for one month's work.


Definately! It looks like you got a good range on the folders, from the Leeks to the Strider/Sebenza. There are many custom folders out there and get ready for the ride as not many people can buy just one!!:)

Btw, congrats on breaking the Leeks in. Did you ever get a torx set for your knives?
 
One month? Nice work!:)

I just got an SMF recently as well and was surprised that the fit and finish was so good. All of the complaints on the boards had me a little worried. The older gens had the spotty QC apparently.
 
Congrats man, SmF's are awesome blades, I have 3 myself. :D
 
in yrs past some of my SKI's had "iffy" F&F and all had a bad spot somewhere or another even if it was small but the last one i had an SnG of recent manufacture was 100% in that area and had as good a F&F as most anything i have seen, maybe not like a seb but certainly comparable to BM or spyderco, and those 2 are pretty good usually.
 
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