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**I will start with how I came to own this knife.
This is the FIRST knife I have ever recieved as a gift. I am usally the one giving the knives out as gifts! My neighbor, a machanic, has steady access to the Snap-on truck. He got a Mini-Mojo and when he had me sharpen it, I commented how I liked it. Now I have one.
The knife's MSRP is 99.00 and I've seen them on the net for 65.00 + shipping. A little pricey for this knife I think. 440A blade and 5 7/8" overall length. Let me tell you whet you get......
Overall- the knife is solid, smooth, feels strong, and looks over built. F&F is very good on my NIB sample. 3.1 oz. is fairly substantial for this sized knife. Looks small until you use it. Handle shape and finger placement are good and you can use quite a bit of force when cutting. ( I have med. sized hands and wear large sized gloves) The deep recurved blade has lots of angles to cut things with.
Blade-Claimed 2 3/8" (I measured 2 3/8) usable cutting edge of bead blasted 440A. One of the deepest recurved blades i've seen. Opens only with the flipper, there is a lock that keeps the blade from being opened with the thumbstuds. This seems to be very safe from un wanted openings when carried in pocket.One trip to work, and I cut about 10lin.ft. cardboard,some 1/2" plastic tubing, and about 6 lin.ft. of foil-backed insulation. Blade wuold still push-cut 24 lb. ink-jet paper but not cleanly. Loaded the strop and 10/12 strokes and it was shaving again. looks like it's profiled at 40 deg.
Lock- A new thumbstud lock is used on this knife. The spring-loaded studs slide in a slot and when in the opened position, rest in a cutout on the handle. This set-up works nicely and seems to be as strong as an axis lock. With a little practice, I was comfortable with the action. Disenggagement is easy. They even allowed for wear! Lock-up is solid, solid, solid. No blade play of any sort. Blade does not yeild to spline-whack test and I hit it hard! (free knife!) It also rides on PB washers. It has a reasonable sized traction-groved thumb ramp with bonus groves about an inch beyond the ramp. (also aids in closing)
Handle- Cliamed 3 1/2" (I got 3 1/2) of bead blasted 410SS with a nice textured flush fitting insert of G-10. Because of the lock on the flipper,(you depress a lever when firing the blade) your thumb rests on thr G-10 and aids with grip. The pivot pin and bolt heads look overly large and lead to the feeling of being over-built. The lanyard hole stays out of blades reach.
Clip- This knife offers either tip-up or down and is drilled for right-hand only. I always opt for tip-up. (shipped tip-down) When changing to tip-up, I bent the clip to "hold" a little stronger. This clip is wild looking and we (knife nuts) should be able to spot it easily.
Everything about this knife screams WILD! But what would we expect from Ken Onion anyway.
Walter
PS- blade was off-centered but I expected it was a loose pivot. It was! Ok now.
when I said lock "disengagement was easy" I was talking about purposely dis- engaging the lock. I don't feel like the lock will release until I want it to.
Blade is hollow grind and ends with a sharp drop point tip.
This is the FIRST knife I have ever recieved as a gift. I am usally the one giving the knives out as gifts! My neighbor, a machanic, has steady access to the Snap-on truck. He got a Mini-Mojo and when he had me sharpen it, I commented how I liked it. Now I have one.
The knife's MSRP is 99.00 and I've seen them on the net for 65.00 + shipping. A little pricey for this knife I think. 440A blade and 5 7/8" overall length. Let me tell you whet you get......
Overall- the knife is solid, smooth, feels strong, and looks over built. F&F is very good on my NIB sample. 3.1 oz. is fairly substantial for this sized knife. Looks small until you use it. Handle shape and finger placement are good and you can use quite a bit of force when cutting. ( I have med. sized hands and wear large sized gloves) The deep recurved blade has lots of angles to cut things with.
Blade-Claimed 2 3/8" (I measured 2 3/8) usable cutting edge of bead blasted 440A. One of the deepest recurved blades i've seen. Opens only with the flipper, there is a lock that keeps the blade from being opened with the thumbstuds. This seems to be very safe from un wanted openings when carried in pocket.One trip to work, and I cut about 10lin.ft. cardboard,some 1/2" plastic tubing, and about 6 lin.ft. of foil-backed insulation. Blade wuold still push-cut 24 lb. ink-jet paper but not cleanly. Loaded the strop and 10/12 strokes and it was shaving again. looks like it's profiled at 40 deg.
Lock- A new thumbstud lock is used on this knife. The spring-loaded studs slide in a slot and when in the opened position, rest in a cutout on the handle. This set-up works nicely and seems to be as strong as an axis lock. With a little practice, I was comfortable with the action. Disenggagement is easy. They even allowed for wear! Lock-up is solid, solid, solid. No blade play of any sort. Blade does not yeild to spline-whack test and I hit it hard! (free knife!) It also rides on PB washers. It has a reasonable sized traction-groved thumb ramp with bonus groves about an inch beyond the ramp. (also aids in closing)
Handle- Cliamed 3 1/2" (I got 3 1/2) of bead blasted 410SS with a nice textured flush fitting insert of G-10. Because of the lock on the flipper,(you depress a lever when firing the blade) your thumb rests on thr G-10 and aids with grip. The pivot pin and bolt heads look overly large and lead to the feeling of being over-built. The lanyard hole stays out of blades reach.
Clip- This knife offers either tip-up or down and is drilled for right-hand only. I always opt for tip-up. (shipped tip-down) When changing to tip-up, I bent the clip to "hold" a little stronger. This clip is wild looking and we (knife nuts) should be able to spot it easily.
Everything about this knife screams WILD! But what would we expect from Ken Onion anyway.
Walter
PS- blade was off-centered but I expected it was a loose pivot. It was! Ok now.
when I said lock "disengagement was easy" I was talking about purposely dis- engaging the lock. I don't feel like the lock will release until I want it to.
Blade is hollow grind and ends with a sharp drop point tip.
