Actually rec. this on Sat but it was stuck way back in the mail box. So I found it today when the wind blew the lid down on my box and saw it pulling in the driveway. Amazed no one took it!
Anyways this is a pure flipper, no other way to open unless you use both hands. Can't say I like that feature totally but we'll see. Screaming ass sharp is all I can say. First impressions are well its pretty big blade wise for a folder. Again like the RB the blade and handle ration to me is excellant. Lots of blade and lots of handle to hang on to. You can see on the blade the welding line for lack of a better word of where the two steels are melded together. Kind of cool looking. Oh yea ground ultra thin at the edge and sharp. Not scientific by any means but seems a helluva sharper out of the box than the RB and that I thought was seriously sharp so the Dog is that much sharper or maybe just ground that much thinner.
Not an overly heavy knife and the pocket clip to me is something out of Star Trek. But I can live with it I suppose. It is slightly bigger length wise and width wise than the RB but lighter in weight which I don't mind either. The blade is kind of an odd shape to me too. Kind of a round nosed ultra thin ground pointy blade. The edge is one continuous curve from back to point so I can see where when drawing the knife through what you are cutting it will tend for the user to draw the tip downwards to finish the cut. Just kind of instinctive I guess.
The frame lock locks up 100% of the face too, like on the RB. The Dog was very gritty out of the box. It would flip open but not really smoothly like the RB. So took it all apart and greased the bushings and channel where the blade runs with tetra. Now what I would have done if I was designing an expensive knife like this is polished the flats of the tang where it rides around the bushing and channel! It has a heavy type of bead blast on it so polishing it now might not be feasable. Man I bummed it isn't polished like that. ONe good thing found when disassembled is that the washers fit with 0 slop around the pivot. So that is a major good thing to me.
All in all not a bad knife, and I think again for what I paid for it it is worth every penny. Might take a bit of getting used to the blade shape but maybe that will come with time. Also like the RB when you drop in on the carpet in with the blade in the closed position it does tend to open. The end: Keepem sharp
PS it is smoothing out alot now after countless openings. Another thing here is that I think the blade should be heavier as in thicker at the spine. Would lend itself to opening even easier.
Anyways this is a pure flipper, no other way to open unless you use both hands. Can't say I like that feature totally but we'll see. Screaming ass sharp is all I can say. First impressions are well its pretty big blade wise for a folder. Again like the RB the blade and handle ration to me is excellant. Lots of blade and lots of handle to hang on to. You can see on the blade the welding line for lack of a better word of where the two steels are melded together. Kind of cool looking. Oh yea ground ultra thin at the edge and sharp. Not scientific by any means but seems a helluva sharper out of the box than the RB and that I thought was seriously sharp so the Dog is that much sharper or maybe just ground that much thinner.
Not an overly heavy knife and the pocket clip to me is something out of Star Trek. But I can live with it I suppose. It is slightly bigger length wise and width wise than the RB but lighter in weight which I don't mind either. The blade is kind of an odd shape to me too. Kind of a round nosed ultra thin ground pointy blade. The edge is one continuous curve from back to point so I can see where when drawing the knife through what you are cutting it will tend for the user to draw the tip downwards to finish the cut. Just kind of instinctive I guess.
The frame lock locks up 100% of the face too, like on the RB. The Dog was very gritty out of the box. It would flip open but not really smoothly like the RB. So took it all apart and greased the bushings and channel where the blade runs with tetra. Now what I would have done if I was designing an expensive knife like this is polished the flats of the tang where it rides around the bushing and channel! It has a heavy type of bead blast on it so polishing it now might not be feasable. Man I bummed it isn't polished like that. ONe good thing found when disassembled is that the washers fit with 0 slop around the pivot. So that is a major good thing to me.
All in all not a bad knife, and I think again for what I paid for it it is worth every penny. Might take a bit of getting used to the blade shape but maybe that will come with time. Also like the RB when you drop in on the carpet in with the blade in the closed position it does tend to open. The end: Keepem sharp
PS it is smoothing out alot now after countless openings. Another thing here is that I think the blade should be heavier as in thicker at the spine. Would lend itself to opening even easier.