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I’ve never owned an Eklipse but I picked up a new full textured Ti, working finish, hollow slicer on the secondary over the weekend.

Do most RHK fans like the Eklipse over a XM 3.5”?

Plans are to send it for a regrind if I like how it feels in the hand when I receive it.
 
adluginb said:
I’ve never owned an Eklipse but I picked up a new full textured Ti, working finish, hollow slicer on the secondary over the weekend.

Do most RHK fans like the Eklipse over a XM 3.5”?

Plans are to send it for a regrind if I like how it feels in the hand when I receive it.
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The eklipse feels much better in hand than the xm in my opinion. Love them both though.
 
adluginb said:
I’ve never owned an Eklipse but I picked up a new full textured Ti, working finish, hollow slicer on the secondary over the weekend.

Do most RHK fans like the Eklipse over a XM 3.5”?

Plans are to send it for a regrind if I like how it feels in the hand when I receive it.
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I like them both. The Eklipse is a bit more fragile due to smaller scale screws, the XM18 is more robust. No-choil XM18 is probably my favorite in that size.

The XM18 / Eklipse Auto are the bees knees. If you can, you should try. Looks expensive, but not more so that Eklipse/XM plus Ti scale.

Make sure whoever regrind does so wet.
 
adluginb said:
I’ve never owned an Eklipse but I picked up a new full textured Ti, working finish, hollow slicer on the secondary over the weekend.

Do most RHK fans like the Eklipse over a XM 3.5”?

Plans are to send it for a regrind if I like how it feels in the hand when I receive it.
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I like both. I don't like one more than the other. If you rest your thumb on the back of the scale, Eklipse might feel a bit more comfortable. But if you hold the knife in a hammer grip, Xm-18 feels better; it also feels more ergo with a reverse hammer grip than Eklipse. I prefer that Eklipse does not have a big (and useless to me mostly) finger choil on the blade, but no-choil XM-18 negates it. Among all the variants of both, no-choil skinny XM-18 3.5" slicer is my most favorite.

By the way, the hardware of XM-18 3.5" and Eklipse 3.5" are interchangeable - obviously one will have to swap the entire set between them. For those of you who got the recent skinny Eklipse, could you please try the skinny XM-18 3.5 hardware set on it and let us know if it works? I only tried on the regular XM-18 3.5" and Eklipse 3.5".
 
The Eklipse feels more lively in my hand and carries a little smaller due to its straighter form factor, but my lizard brain prefers the XM-18. They're both fantastic, no wrong choices there.
 
sharp_edge said:
By the way, the hardware of XM-18 3.5" and Eklipse 3.5" are interchangeable - obviously one will have to swap the entire set between them.
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Not so, only for the XM18 3.5 Sheepsfoot. All other XM have different scale screws and standoffs compared to Eklipse.

Don’t have a skinny Eklipse, but I can see from pictures that the scale screws are T6, which they are not for skinny XM18 3.5.
 
ferider said:
Not so, only for the XM18 3.5 Sheepsfoot. All other XM have different scale screws and standoffs compared to Eklipse.

Don’t have a skinny Eklipse, but I can see from pictures that the scale screws are T6, which they are not for skinny XM18 3.5.
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Right, and that is why I said you'll have to replace the entire set (screws, standoffs, nuts).
 
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