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Hi there!
So during these last months, I have been considering what to get as my next folder and was a bit torn
. Reading, documenting myself, educating my taste and even studying a little, I narrowed my wish list down to three candidates and finally, also after listening to the good suggestions and inputs from members here, I have decided for the Lionsteel TiSpine: a gem of a knife!
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1416205-Which-one-of-the-three-as-my-next-folder
It has been months without any new acquisition for me, other priorities sucked in the hobby/gear related budget (mainly refurbishing works at home and the kids rooms new interiors), not that I really suffered for this, but it feels good to get a new sharp toy eventually! I have been really the busy ant, saving one buck here and there each month and, finally, I was able to get this beauty in my pocket! I ended up postponing the purchase of a new axe to upgrade my Fiskars X5 but, since shes still good to go after a good spa and sharpening (I took advantage of my Dads end of the gardening season tools maintenance week ), I think this can wait. Maybe Ill get my hands on one Toporsib I like by this Spring.
I have used this folder every day for the past last three weeks and would like to share some of my own thoughts, personal impressions and some pics about it, as a knives hobbyist and week-end hiker, no expert at all. I have put the TiSpine through my usual EDC tasks, from cutting various kind of packaging materials (cardboards, PP straps, shrink and stretch films, EPS, tapes, twines, etc.) at work to some basic food prep (breakfast and lunch at the office and some sandwiches on the trails), from some wood working (carving a walking stick, notching and pointing some pegs, etc.) to random cutting of plastic sheets, masking tapes, etc. for all those trivial around the house maintenance tasks. To be clear: I havent used this one to build-up a wilderness shelter or to chop wood for the fireplace and this wouldnt be a knife I would want to take on a jungle expedition or chose as primary tool in e.g. a construction site. Its more of a gents folder for me, however, its a fully functional and beautiful (to my eyes) knife for my EDC chores. With this I feel I cut in style, so to say. Its like an Armani jeans, rugged but stylish. Also, having done a good deal of food prep (breakfast and lunch at the office and a couple of sandwiches on the trails and even a pic-nick at the seaside), its fair to say its no comparison on performance to a kitchen knife. Geometry is fine but not designed specifically for kitchen use and the TiSpine edge is a tad thicker and will not perform as well as a good, dedicated paring knife.
This is not a new knife, like it was for the Pohl Force Mike 1, I fell in love with this baby since she appeared on the market, back in 2013. A lot has been said and done already about this knife even though, to tell the truth, I havent found a real users review. Ill try to say and show also something about the use of this knife and try describe how it performed for me, in my normal EDC use. The TiSpine came in an unusual and smart packaging solution, inside a thick Plexiglas tube, with a thin cardboard carrying printed Lionsteel logos wrapped around and a small leaflet inside the tube.
The legends tell the idea of this knife came during a car travel the DPx founder Robert Young Pelton and Lionsteel owner Gianni Pauletta had together, returning to Italy from the 2010 IWA trade show in Nuremberg, Germany. Pelton wanted to create the lightest, strongest, and most elegant pocket knife ever made. He already began sketching his concept while driving through the mountains. Once they arrived back in Maniago, Italy, Pauletta and his crew began to work to try creating a thin, tough folder from a single block of aviation grade titanium alloy. The DPx Aculus and Lionsteel TiSpine were about to born. The rest is history.
So during these last months, I have been considering what to get as my next folder and was a bit torn
. Reading, documenting myself, educating my taste and even studying a little, I narrowed my wish list down to three candidates and finally, also after listening to the good suggestions and inputs from members here, I have decided for the Lionsteel TiSpine: a gem of a knife!http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1416205-Which-one-of-the-three-as-my-next-folder
It has been months without any new acquisition for me, other priorities sucked in the hobby/gear related budget (mainly refurbishing works at home and the kids rooms new interiors), not that I really suffered for this, but it feels good to get a new sharp toy eventually
! I have been really the busy ant, saving one buck here and there each month and, finally, I was able to get this beauty in my pocket! I ended up postponing the purchase of a new axe to upgrade my Fiskars X5 but, since shes still good to go after a good spa and sharpening (I took advantage of my Dads end of the gardening season tools maintenance week ), I think this can wait. Maybe Ill get my hands on one Toporsib I like by this Spring.I have used this folder every day for the past last three weeks and would like to share some of my own thoughts, personal impressions and some pics about it, as a knives hobbyist and week-end hiker, no expert at all
. I have put the TiSpine through my usual EDC tasks, from cutting various kind of packaging materials (cardboards, PP straps, shrink and stretch films, EPS, tapes, twines, etc.) at work to some basic food prep (breakfast and lunch at the office and some sandwiches on the trails), from some wood working (carving a walking stick, notching and pointing some pegs, etc.) to random cutting of plastic sheets, masking tapes, etc. for all those trivial around the house maintenance tasks. To be clear: I havent used this one to build-up a wilderness shelter or to chop wood for the fireplace and this wouldnt be a knife I would want to take on a jungle expedition or chose as primary tool in e.g. a construction site. Its more of a gents folder for me, however, its a fully functional and beautiful (to my eyes) knife for my EDC chores. With this I feel I cut in style, so to say. Its like an Armani jeans, rugged but stylish. Also, having done a good deal of food prep (breakfast and lunch at the office and a couple of sandwiches on the trails and even a pic-nick at the seaside), its fair to say its no comparison on performance to a kitchen knife. Geometry is fine but not designed specifically for kitchen use and the TiSpine edge is a tad thicker and will not perform as well as a good, dedicated paring knife.This is not a new knife, like it was for the Pohl Force Mike 1, I fell in love with this baby since she appeared on the market, back in 2013. A lot has been said and done already about this knife even though, to tell the truth, I havent found a real users review. Ill try to say and show also something about the use of this knife and try describe how it performed for me, in my normal EDC use. The TiSpine came in an unusual and smart packaging solution, inside a thick Plexiglas tube, with a thin cardboard carrying printed Lionsteel logos wrapped around and a small leaflet inside the tube.
The legends tell the idea of this knife came during a car travel the DPx founder Robert Young Pelton and Lionsteel owner Gianni Pauletta had together, returning to Italy from the 2010 IWA trade show in Nuremberg, Germany. Pelton wanted to create the lightest, strongest, and most elegant pocket knife ever made. He already began sketching his concept while driving through the mountains. Once they arrived back in Maniago, Italy, Pauletta and his crew began to work to try creating a thin, tough folder from a single block of aviation grade titanium alloy. The DPx Aculus and Lionsteel TiSpine were about to born. The rest is history.
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I've e-mailed DPX about that question.
