Monthly speculation thread - Released! Feb. BOTM

stevekolt said:
Has anyone received their Feb. BOTM yet? Mine is sitting in a PO Box at my local PO, will be picking it up when we go out later today. Has anybody ordered multiples? There are fewer Feb. models left for sale than the Jan. model.
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nope. my couple havent shipped yet.
 
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Got mine. This is a very nice knife. Has some of the same issues as other vantages, of course. My lockup is ~3/4 it's stiff to unlock. Not terrible, but takes more effort than I'd like to move it over.

Action is stiff. Lube may help. Polishing washers may help. Loosening pivot will likely help and probably negatively impact the centering. The good news is that it has the best detent of any Vantage I've owned.

I would trade the detent for a little less stiffness. I like all Vantages, but at this price the action should really be better and more consistent. When it was $27 I could live with these issues. For a $120 knife, not so much. I'm guessing the biggest issue is one of tolerances, but not sure. I know getting the tolerances better costs money.
 
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David Richardson said:
Got mine. This is a very nice knife. Has some of the same issues as other vantages, of course. My lockup is ~3/4 it's stiff to unlock. Not terrible, but takes more effort than I'd like to move it over.

Action is stiff. Lube may help. Polishing washers may help. Loosening pivot will likely help and probably negatively impact the centering. The good news is that it has the best detent of any Vantage I've owned.

I would trade the detent for a little less stiffness. I like all Vantages, but at this price the action should really be better and more consistent. When it was $27 I could live with these issues. For a $120 knife, not so much. I'm guessing the biggest issue is one of tolerances, but not sure. I know getting the tolerances better costs money.
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I totally agree. My $27 large vantage select is flawless.
 
GPyro said:
So I oiled it, and of course oil got on the micarta..... Looked splotchy.

I took the clip off, and oiled the rest of it.
There. Little darker.
I dunno, maybe oil isn't the thing to put on micarta, but it's my knife so.

No more worries about that.
I like the way micarta wears anyway.

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Looks good either way. Once it got spotted your only choice was to keep the leopard look or oil the whole thing.
 
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If there's something better to seal it, maybe folks that have yet to get theirs could be proactive and apply......whatever it is, to the micarta before they oil it.
I look at it this way; it's a knife, it's gonna get stuff on it.
 
GPyro said:
So I oiled it, and of course oil got on the micarta..... Looked splotchy.

I took the clip off, and oiled the rest of it.
There. Little darker.
I dunno, maybe oil isn't the thing to put on micarta, but it's my knife so.

No more worries about that.
I like the way micarta wears anyway.

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looks good either way. you can wash and scrub micarta clean. do it all the time on the scales of my Buck mesa. look like they did before hand dirt and skin oils and other grime and mess and such. either way works though.
 
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