My first Emerson, CQC 13 Review

al3xd4gr34t

al3xd4gr34t

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So far, I really like the CQC 13. I’m a small guy and have small hands, and my hands fit the knife’s handle very well. I love the bowie blade shape. Plenty of belly for cutting. Chisel grind was very sharp out of the box, but I prefer V-grinds, so I gave it a V-grind. This is my first knife with the Wave feature. G10 is grippy enough for my use. I added a lanyard to aid the extraction of the knife. I like the fact that the screws are standard flat heads and Philips. Very easy to take down to clean or whatever.

I bought the knife off of the exchange. The blade was offcenter when I got it. Easy fix. The pivot also liked to come loose after flicking and waving the knife open. I Teflon taped the pivot screw and now it is perfect. The black finish shows a little wear, but I don’t care. This is a user.

The knife takes a nice edge. 154cm holds a decent edge for me. I mostly use the knife for cutting tape, paper, taking down cardboard, and cutting paracord. Far from hard use, but the knife works very well in these tasks for me.

Overall, this is a nice knife. Yeah, it had a few of the problems of Emersons out of the box, but nothing you can’t fix yourself. I think I need more Emersons.

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The 13 is definitely one of the best choices in the Emerson line-up. Next you should try the 8. I also hear good things about the 15.
 
Enjoy the beefy liners!
 
My cqc13 liner goes to the middle of the blade tang. I'm kinda anal about it although there's nothiing wrong with it =/
But cqc13 liner is really thick =)
 
Frozy said:
My cqc13 liner goes to the middle of the blade tang. I'm kinda anal about it although there's nothiing wrong with it =/
But cqc13 liner is really thick =)
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My lockup is at about 70%. It's been that way since I've got it and hasn't moved even with all of the flicking and waving I do. Shouldn't be a problem, I don't think.
 
very nice, i'm still an emerson virgin. good choice though, but i'll
be goin with the cqc mini 15. thanks for the incite.
 
Wow a 13 and from what I can tell and attractive woman to model it.

Your life>my life.

Oh I noticed you're in the Bay Area! Lets meet up and have us a good ol' fashioned Emerson knife fight sometime lol.
 
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