ARtsig1
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I just felt compelled to write this. I had one of the first of the Cuda Maxx's to come out last spring. They were extremely nice and in my estimation upped the bar a bit for production folders. I've had several more over this past year but ended up trading them off. The one I currently have is one I've had for 4 or 5 months. I had ordered a couple of these at the same time and somehow a combo edged one ended up in the wrong box. I thought about sending it back but never did as I had put it up and out of sight is out of mind.
About a month or so ago I got it down and decided to carry it a bit. I'm not wild about combo edges but with a 5.5" blade you wind up with 3.25" of plain edge. I noticed right off the bat that the lock up was extremely good on this one. The locking bar came over to cover about 1/3 of the blade tang and after a few hundred openings on my part it still does. It also has a little "stick" to it so that you have to make a conscious effort to unlock it and that is fine with me. Another plus was the centering of the blade, as it was centered. Even after I have taken it apart a few times it still goes back together with no change in lockup and no change in the centering of the blade.
I have taken it apart to customize it a bit. All my customization consisted of was mirror polishing the pivot, screw heads, and the blade stops. I used my handy dandy Dremel tool to do this and must say it turned out super nice. The blade has been polished countless times as I've sat watching T.V. or as I sat in front of the computer. "Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish" has added an almost mirror finish to the blade and I'm just waiting for Bodycote to reopen it's doors to the GP. Lastly I've tightened the pivot about as tight as I can and the blade still glides open, albeit with enough thumb force it does! That is helped along by the fact I used the Dremel with a polishing wheel and polishing compound to do the inside of the titanium liners and the blade pivot area on the blade. It really does make quite a difference.
As I said I felt compelled to write this because the Cuda MAXX is indeed my favorite production folder. I'm mostly into custom tactical folders and framelocks but the MAXX is almost custom quality and I generally carry it with me safely riding in my vest pocket unnoticed and out of sight. It is sorta fun to pull it out when the father-in-law ask me for a pocket knife to cut some tape!
About a month or so ago I got it down and decided to carry it a bit. I'm not wild about combo edges but with a 5.5" blade you wind up with 3.25" of plain edge. I noticed right off the bat that the lock up was extremely good on this one. The locking bar came over to cover about 1/3 of the blade tang and after a few hundred openings on my part it still does. It also has a little "stick" to it so that you have to make a conscious effort to unlock it and that is fine with me. Another plus was the centering of the blade, as it was centered. Even after I have taken it apart a few times it still goes back together with no change in lockup and no change in the centering of the blade.
I have taken it apart to customize it a bit. All my customization consisted of was mirror polishing the pivot, screw heads, and the blade stops. I used my handy dandy Dremel tool to do this and must say it turned out super nice. The blade has been polished countless times as I've sat watching T.V. or as I sat in front of the computer. "Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish" has added an almost mirror finish to the blade and I'm just waiting for Bodycote to reopen it's doors to the GP. Lastly I've tightened the pivot about as tight as I can and the blade still glides open, albeit with enough thumb force it does! That is helped along by the fact I used the Dremel with a polishing wheel and polishing compound to do the inside of the titanium liners and the blade pivot area on the blade. It really does make quite a difference.
As I said I felt compelled to write this because the Cuda MAXX is indeed my favorite production folder. I'm mostly into custom tactical folders and framelocks but the MAXX is almost custom quality and I generally carry it with me safely riding in my vest pocket unnoticed and out of sight. It is sorta fun to pull it out when the father-in-law ask me for a pocket knife to cut some tape!
