Hey guys!
I know this may sound odd when you look at the people here with more knives than they know what to do with, but I enjoy using only one knife. In the past 10 years, I've used two modern knives and have used them to the point where they (at least to my discretion) needed replacing.
The first was a Benchmade Northfork. I loved this knife, the quick flipping with the axis lock, plus the Diamondwood was so cool and felt good in hand. I loved how nonthreatening the knife looked. I edc'ed the knife for three years before it needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, the knife developed vertical play, not a lot but a slight tick that bugged me. After sending it back and forth to Benchmade they eventually replaced it and chided me about batoning (which i never did). I think it was the flipping that eventually wore vertical play into the blade.
The next knife I used was a ZT 0620. I LOVED this knife. It was a little heavy but the Elmax and wave feature was beyond cool. It felt like a tank. I used this knife for 7 years. Around year 4 the pocket clip loosened up to the point where it could fall out, I tried to replace it myself but the screws stripped (felt cheap, Literally stripped like butter when using the appropriate tool). I just shrugged it off and threw some tape on the inside of the clip to help with the pocket hold and went about my day. Recently it started to feel a little difficult to sharpen, it is a rather thick blade and I believe I had taken enough off the edge over the past 7 years that it was a little too thick and that affected the sharpening and the edge holding. I sent her in to get the clip switched out and possibly the blade ground and unfortunately, I received a call that when doing maintenance ZT broke my blade. I have no idea how that happened, perhaps it had a fracture, but ZT gave me a voucher for a new knife (nice of them but they literally only have like 4 models in stock). So now I'm on my new long-term edc a Cold Steel Code 4.
I figured that while many of you have tons of wonderful knives you may not ever truly get to see how a modern knife will hold up long-term to use, I don't abuse but I do use these knives. There seems to be the idea that modern knives will hold up forever, but as someone who works with knives daily I think that could be inaccurate, they wear our like everything else and could imagine would need some maintenance every 5 or so years. You should also expect vertical play eventually.
I know this may sound odd when you look at the people here with more knives than they know what to do with, but I enjoy using only one knife. In the past 10 years, I've used two modern knives and have used them to the point where they (at least to my discretion) needed replacing.
The first was a Benchmade Northfork. I loved this knife, the quick flipping with the axis lock, plus the Diamondwood was so cool and felt good in hand. I loved how nonthreatening the knife looked. I edc'ed the knife for three years before it needed to be replaced. Unfortunately, the knife developed vertical play, not a lot but a slight tick that bugged me. After sending it back and forth to Benchmade they eventually replaced it and chided me about batoning (which i never did). I think it was the flipping that eventually wore vertical play into the blade.
The next knife I used was a ZT 0620. I LOVED this knife. It was a little heavy but the Elmax and wave feature was beyond cool. It felt like a tank. I used this knife for 7 years. Around year 4 the pocket clip loosened up to the point where it could fall out, I tried to replace it myself but the screws stripped (felt cheap, Literally stripped like butter when using the appropriate tool). I just shrugged it off and threw some tape on the inside of the clip to help with the pocket hold and went about my day. Recently it started to feel a little difficult to sharpen, it is a rather thick blade and I believe I had taken enough off the edge over the past 7 years that it was a little too thick and that affected the sharpening and the edge holding. I sent her in to get the clip switched out and possibly the blade ground and unfortunately, I received a call that when doing maintenance ZT broke my blade. I have no idea how that happened, perhaps it had a fracture, but ZT gave me a voucher for a new knife (nice of them but they literally only have like 4 models in stock). So now I'm on my new long-term edc a Cold Steel Code 4.
I figured that while many of you have tons of wonderful knives you may not ever truly get to see how a modern knife will hold up long-term to use, I don't abuse but I do use these knives. There seems to be the idea that modern knives will hold up forever, but as someone who works with knives daily I think that could be inaccurate, they wear our like everything else and could imagine would need some maintenance every 5 or so years. You should also expect vertical play eventually.
