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Hey all I finally bought myself a Mini Griptilian and have been EDCing it all this week, and I gotta say I am incredibly surprised by this sub 3" knife, I like it so much I thought I'd share it's performance and hopefully recommend it to anyone considering buying it. 
For the price I don't think you can get much more cool! in such a little package, this is from someone who carries a Manix 2 and case Peanut on a daily basis haha So I get the best of both worlds 
I'm not usually the type to buy a knife and immediately be an expert on it and review it, but I've owned so many knives and used them so much that I know when I have a good one and after a little use I know what to expect from it after.
Since buying it I have discovered that 154CM is super easy to sharpen and I am impressed with it's edge holding ability, I have used it to carve into some pretty tough treated wood, cut up a ton of cardboard boxes, constant paper cut tests, slice up fruit, and even trim the screen protector on my iPod Touch, and it has stood up remarkably well to it's initial abuse.
After the wood carving I discovered two tiny nicks in the blade, that very well could have been made by a staple or pieces of metal stuck in the wood, and I touched it up after that on my strop, then later proceeded to cut up a bunch of cardboard with perfect ease and it kept it's beautiful hair-whittling edge after that, then after using the tip to cut into a plastic screen protector over a glass screen all it did was roll the edge a bit, this was all before I did a thing to the edge from the factory other that a strop on either side three times.
And that's after constant Paper Cutting Tests in my state of the art Research and Development lab...or futon whichever comes first, there were some magazines involved too :foot:
Finally I decided to reprofile and polish the edge (the nicks and tiny roll were just bugging me) and it got really screamin sharp! About like it was out of box. Except with a better geometry :thumbup:
Overall I love this little blade, it's smaller than it's big brother the Griptilian, about half the size, and something I noticed is that the Mini Grip has full stainless liners, compared to the Grip that has half stainless liners under it's Noryl GTX handle, I like that fact because it just seems to make it feel more balanced and solid in the hand, the Axis lock is downright addicting! And it's super smooth opening and closing it even after many hundreds of flicks. With smaller blades I prefer thumbstuds but I did handle the thumbhole version and it was super easy to open and close with it.
The only gripe, and yes I mean only, is the durned black painted pocket clip
I might buy a deep carry titanium pocket clip for it later, but for now this one will do.
Well that's my experience so far and I expect many long weeks of use out of this little reptilian cutting machine!
It posed for some photographs (I think the blue is very attractive):
Let me know what you think, and if you've had any critiques from this little blade in your experience!
Thanks for looking,
Zach
For the price I don't think you can get much more cool! in such a little package, this is from someone who carries a Manix 2 and case Peanut on a daily basis haha So I get the best of both worlds I'm not usually the type to buy a knife and immediately be an expert on it and review it, but I've owned so many knives and used them so much that I know when I have a good one and after a little use I know what to expect from it after.
Since buying it I have discovered that 154CM is super easy to sharpen and I am impressed with it's edge holding ability, I have used it to carve into some pretty tough treated wood, cut up a ton of cardboard boxes, constant paper cut tests, slice up fruit, and even trim the screen protector on my iPod Touch, and it has stood up remarkably well to it's initial abuse.
After the wood carving I discovered two tiny nicks in the blade, that very well could have been made by a staple or pieces of metal stuck in the wood, and I touched it up after that on my strop, then later proceeded to cut up a bunch of cardboard with perfect ease and it kept it's beautiful hair-whittling edge after that, then after using the tip to cut into a plastic screen protector over a glass screen all it did was roll the edge a bit, this was all before I did a thing to the edge from the factory other that a strop on either side three times.
And that's after constant Paper Cutting Tests in my state of the art Research and Development lab...or futon whichever comes first, there were some magazines involved too :foot:
Finally I decided to reprofile and polish the edge (the nicks and tiny roll were just bugging me) and it got really screamin sharp! About like it was out of box. Except with a better geometry :thumbup:
Overall I love this little blade, it's smaller than it's big brother the Griptilian, about half the size, and something I noticed is that the Mini Grip has full stainless liners, compared to the Grip that has half stainless liners under it's Noryl GTX handle, I like that fact because it just seems to make it feel more balanced and solid in the hand, the Axis lock is downright addicting! And it's super smooth opening and closing it even after many hundreds of flicks. With smaller blades I prefer thumbstuds but I did handle the thumbhole version and it was super easy to open and close with it.
The only gripe, and yes I mean only, is the durned black painted pocket clip
I might buy a deep carry titanium pocket clip for it later, but for now this one will do.Well that's my experience so far and I expect many long weeks of use out of this little reptilian cutting machine!
It posed for some photographs (I think the blue is very attractive):
Let me know what you think, and if you've had any critiques from this little blade in your experience!
Thanks for looking,
Zach
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