Lone Wolf Defender?

[Hammer27]

Does anyone have one of these? I like the handle and blade design and the operating system looks pretty neat but I've never seen anyone post a review or mention it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZBccGE10k

http://newgraham.com/store/product/6065/Paul-Defender-G-10/

 

[jonnymac44]

Looks like a really nice blade. I have 3 or 4 Lone Wolf knives and I've been happy with all of them. I could see that one in my collection:thumbup:

 

[roughedges]

Old thread bumpage, my apologies. Here's mine:

Got it as an early Hannukkah present from my lady and I have to say that it is not the type of knife that I'd normally purchase for myself. I just prefer a more utilitarian blade. That being said, after a few hour warming up to it period, I love this knife and it's hardly left my pocket since I opened the box.

The knife opens incredibly easily, with no more than a light flick of the wrist. Being left handed, I reversed the scales and clip but changed them back as I found, at least for me and my pudgy fingers, that the pocket clip gets in the way of easy opening when the knife is configured for left side carry. Besides, I've become so accustomed to carrying one handed opening knives on my right side that I found myself reaching there more often than not.

As has been reported by others, mine came with a bit of play both side-to-side and vertical. Given the complexity of the lock- especially in a production setting- and the knife's intended purpose, I take less issue with this than most any other poster I've seen comment on the knife.

Side-to-side play: I was easily able to fix this issue in all of 3 seconds. For me it was a simple matter of turning the ring on the button side a negligible, well under a mm I'd guess, amount clockwise. For the vert play, a small torx bit (T-3 I think, not sure as the smallest I have at the moment is T-6) is needed to adjust the stop pin until it tightens up. As I said, I take little issue with this. The tolerances on this type of lock must be insanely small and much handfitting still required. See patent. And it is a non issue as far as I am concerned. This knife, even if more loose than when I originally got it, could easily handle wood carving, for example, in addition to it's intended purpose of defense.

Despite these small issues, the knife is marvelously engineered imo, a real handful, and a great blade to carry in my pocket along with a SAK or slipjoint. For anyone who takes greater issue with blade play than I, or doesn't want to worry about adjusting it themselves, just make sure to order from a reputable dealer and I'd be very surprised if you weren't also happy with the Defender. :thumbup::thumbup:

 

[cutter17]

One thing that has kept me from buying one was the blade play that developed in them. A search should turn up some threads dealing with this. A few people on here who bought one sent it back because it developed horizontal/vertical bladeplay after only a short time. I was under the impression that this could not be fixed due to the nature of the lock. Now it appears it can be fixed! I may have to get one.

 

[roughedges]

One thing that has kept me from buying one was the blade play that developed in them. A search should turn up some threads dealing with this. A few people on here who bought one sent it back because it developed horizontal/vertical bladeplay after only a short time. I was under the impression that this could not be fixed due to the nature of the lock. Now it appears it can be fixed! I may have to get one.

I'm not qualified enough to say for sure but I think that any production knife with a lock like this is likely to require some fine tuning. I'm still carrying and using mine every day (it's awesome for quick and fun destruction of cardboard boxes :thumbup and no horizontal play has developed since I adjusted it. I expect I'll be saying the same about vertical play once I get the micro torx drivers I ordered. That is one area I think that Lone Wolf could improve the knife for, quite likely, very small increase in production cost. I don't believe that the stop pin is sized as precisely as it could be, thus creating small amounts of play.

Be that as it may, this is not a knife designed for throwing, or batoning, or spine whacking, etc. so I honestly don't think that it would ever be an actual issue, though it would be nice.

In other news, I should say that it opens quickly for me, faster than a knife with a thumbstud or hole, but not as fast as a quality flipper. And I have the cuts in the pockets of a few pairs of pants to prove I can open the flipper more quickly. Call it something less than a half second slower to "deploy".