Gary W. Graley
“Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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- Mar 2, 1999
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A friend had his Intrepid routed to me so I could check the edge before he got it, such great lines on this and cuts so well too...some may point out it's big, it's heavy...but I also carry along a nice small Case peanut for the more mundane tasks and find this knife is a pretty good companion to that.
This particular one has a lighter feeling detent than the Gemini has, but it doesn't shake open, so that's good. Due to the lighter detent feel, it doesn't have that SNAP kind of opening, but it will open smoothly on those ceramic bearings.
The contour of the handles is very well done, while you can feel the pocket clip, the rest doesn't come across with any hot spots for me.
The clip is pretty strong, and with the sharp edges of the cutout for the lock bar, your pants pocket material seems trapped into that opening, a lanyard is almost a must in order to get it to come out of the pocket. Silver lining, it won't fall out of your pocket by accident! I like this one so much that I sold off my Kizer Gemini to fund one of these for myself, it's enroute as I type...the wait is always a killer... When it arrives I MAY try to put some softer corners on that lockbar cut out to see if that helps the pocket material not be so strongly trapped, of course it will not have the nice finish on the Ti there, but I'll try to keep it to a very small rounding of the edge.
The handling of this knife, it's hefty and solid feeling and inspires confidence in use, this one arrived quite keen, popping paracord easily and cutting many different materials also equally as well, so I did not have to sharpen it before I sent it off to my friend. While most knives I get need to be sharpened, this one was pretty good, I hate to shorten any blades life with unneeded sharpening.
Here you can see some of the texture in the Ti when they machined it, gives it a very light texture.
My only nit pick with this is the cut out for the lock bar, the edges are too crisp and if you don't have a lanyard to help draw the knife out of the pocket, the pocket clip does a great job of keeping your pants pocket stuck into that cutout.
Again Ray, nice design there, love that there isn't anything to get hooked on material when you go to cut, and with no thumbstuds it makes it easier to sharpen too.
And Kizer, nicely done on this one folks.
G2
This particular one has a lighter feeling detent than the Gemini has, but it doesn't shake open, so that's good. Due to the lighter detent feel, it doesn't have that SNAP kind of opening, but it will open smoothly on those ceramic bearings.
The contour of the handles is very well done, while you can feel the pocket clip, the rest doesn't come across with any hot spots for me.
The clip is pretty strong, and with the sharp edges of the cutout for the lock bar, your pants pocket material seems trapped into that opening, a lanyard is almost a must in order to get it to come out of the pocket. Silver lining, it won't fall out of your pocket by accident! I like this one so much that I sold off my Kizer Gemini to fund one of these for myself, it's enroute as I type...the wait is always a killer... When it arrives I MAY try to put some softer corners on that lockbar cut out to see if that helps the pocket material not be so strongly trapped, of course it will not have the nice finish on the Ti there, but I'll try to keep it to a very small rounding of the edge.
The handling of this knife, it's hefty and solid feeling and inspires confidence in use, this one arrived quite keen, popping paracord easily and cutting many different materials also equally as well, so I did not have to sharpen it before I sent it off to my friend. While most knives I get need to be sharpened, this one was pretty good, I hate to shorten any blades life with unneeded sharpening.
Here you can see some of the texture in the Ti when they machined it, gives it a very light texture.
My only nit pick with this is the cut out for the lock bar, the edges are too crisp and if you don't have a lanyard to help draw the knife out of the pocket, the pocket clip does a great job of keeping your pants pocket stuck into that cutout.
Again Ray, nice design there, love that there isn't anything to get hooked on material when you go to cut, and with no thumbstuds it makes it easier to sharpen too.
And Kizer, nicely done on this one folks.
G2
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while my friends knife arrived a bit keener and I think the blade was ground down slightly thinner, as this one measures about .030" at the top of the bevel, it still cuts well, but would have been better a little thinner. Also his had the pocket clip that wouldn't let go, while mine is the opposite, I almost think this clip is made of thinner material but that couldn't be, so I think his was bent so it was a bit tighter. Which is good news for me and him, I won't need to remove any metal off the lockbar cutout. But I think I will attempt to bend this one so it's a little tighter, as it doesn't grip much at all.
