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Just got a few new Bucks the other day and I'm very pleased with them. I picked up the Odyssey, the Lightning and the Big Sky.
I gave the Lightning to my wife, kept the other two. She likes the anodized red/black scales a lot. This looks to be a good non threatening utility tool for her. The Odyssey is really turning out to be one heck of a knife, to be honest, I had not really looked very close at these before. The blade is ATS34 and is very pointy and hair popping sharp out of the box. I took it to work on Friday and cut everything in sight. I was impressed with the handle design, feels very comfortable and is not hard on the hand during repeated hard cutting (I sliced up a bunch of 1/4" thick cardboard). After it was still very sharp but not shaving; a couple swipes on my Sharpmaker fixed it right up.
The liner lock consistently moves to a center position on the tang and passed the spine whack test every time. The one thing that does bother me is the pivot adjustment takes some sort of two prong pin tool if you want to adjust it. Otherwise I think that this knife is up to the standards that Benchmade and Spyderco have set for this kind of folder. Oh, the handle is thermoplastic, but it's textured and mine feels very much like G10, also, the oval opening hole works well, even with gloves on. I like it.
I have not done any serious work with the Big Sky fixed blade yet, but it is one sweet looking knife, came extremely sharp. Can't wait to get out and put this guy through it's paces. I'm going to do a seperate post on that one.
I gave the Lightning to my wife, kept the other two. She likes the anodized red/black scales a lot. This looks to be a good non threatening utility tool for her. The Odyssey is really turning out to be one heck of a knife, to be honest, I had not really looked very close at these before. The blade is ATS34 and is very pointy and hair popping sharp out of the box. I took it to work on Friday and cut everything in sight. I was impressed with the handle design, feels very comfortable and is not hard on the hand during repeated hard cutting (I sliced up a bunch of 1/4" thick cardboard). After it was still very sharp but not shaving; a couple swipes on my Sharpmaker fixed it right up.
The liner lock consistently moves to a center position on the tang and passed the spine whack test every time. The one thing that does bother me is the pivot adjustment takes some sort of two prong pin tool if you want to adjust it. Otherwise I think that this knife is up to the standards that Benchmade and Spyderco have set for this kind of folder. Oh, the handle is thermoplastic, but it's textured and mine feels very much like G10, also, the oval opening hole works well, even with gloves on. I like it.
I have not done any serious work with the Big Sky fixed blade yet, but it is one sweet looking knife, came extremely sharp. Can't wait to get out and put this guy through it's paces. I'm going to do a seperate post on that one.