Lenny
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To say that I was blown away by this one is an understatement.
My first thought was that it's too pretty to carry, but I quickly got over it as I buy every knife with the intention of using.
Great color, great jigging, great blade selection, very slim in the hand, perfect length for me, half stops on the 2 smaller blades (can anybody tell me the purpose of half stops?) and on and on.
Spring strengths are as follows (out of 10):
- Wharncliff: 8
- Spear: 6
- Sheepsfoot: 6
This is #20 out of 25.
The most intriguing thig about the knife is that its construction is beautifully symetrical.
If you look at the 2 pics of the springs, you'll see that the 2 small blades each have a separate spring,
separated by a steel spacer.
The steel spacer tapers down to nothing at the other end leaving the 2 springs to both act on the Wharncliff.
The Wharncliff is perfectly centered between the 2 smaller blades.
This construction makes the knife very slim at the Wharncliff end, and just a bit wider at the other end.
This and the length make the knife very comfortable to hold and use.
Each blade is beautifully swedged (is that the right word) to allow them all to fit together as closely as possible.
The 2 smaller blades are swedged on the insides, the Wharncliff is swedged twice on both sides.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good picture of the swedges.
Finally, there is no play in any of the blades
This will be my office carry as it's very non-threatening and should take care of all the mundane day to day tasks I need it to: bagel slicing, mail opening, box cutting, etc
A couple tiny nit pix on the knife (after all no knife is perfect):
- although the knife came very sharp, no knife is sharp enough for me OOTB; I gave the blades a few swipes on the white rods of my Sharpmaker and now they're laser sharp
- I wish the snap on the 2 smaller blades were a little stronger
- there's one tiny gap between the handle scale and outer brass liner in one spot; not visible to the naked eye (you can just make it out in the last pic)
- there's a tiny bit of blade rub on the 2 smaller blades (I don't care as it'll get scratched up with use any way)
Other than that, construction is the best I've seen on any slipjoint.
This is a definite keeper.
Can't wait to start putting a patina on it.
I'd appreciate it if anybody else who owns one of these could post up pix too.
Lenny
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