New Schrades...

[textoothpk]

Some nice news from our favorite company (one of my favorites, anyway). Schrade knives are featured on the cover of Joe Kertzman's annual "2004 Sporting Knives".

Also I just visited the Schrade site. I have posted here how happy I was with the New X-timer folder, the 60TX, got a dozen on the cheap and kept a few different colors, including the very rare red one. Now I see they are offering a 70TX. A slight different blade, looks like a thumb stud, instead of the ambidextrous disc thumb opener. I gotta get one.

I wonder if these new X-Timers are meant to appeal to a whole new generation of knive owners/users, what with the high tech look.

Gotta go... Opening day here in Michigan for firearm deer season. Wish me luck.

 

[steve1701d]

Good luck! It's opening day here, too. So naturaly, I have to work...

I haven't tried an X-timer yet, may have to someday!

 

[Cosmic Superchunk]

Originally posted by textoothpk
I wonder if these new X-Timers are meant to appeal to a whole new generation of knive owners/users, what with the high tech look.

I think that was the intent. I don't know if they've improved yet, but when the X-Timers first came out, I thought: It seems like a good folder for the money, however, upon checking out several samples I was left unimpressed and a bit disappointed. The locking mechanism felt too flimsy and every sample I saw had areas were the anodizing looked worn. There was excessive horizontal/vertical blade wobble and the "black" coating was uneven in certain areas. This made them look used right out of the box.
I realize that most of these flaws are cosmetic in nature, however, I feel that these days there is no excuse for shoddy workmanship.

 

[textoothpk]

Cosmic, good to see you here in the forum, good to see everyone here. Been way too quiet in the Blade forum "Schrade department" lately. Our LT has tried his best, came up with an interesting way to get us involved a few weeks ago.

You might have gone through a worse batch than I bought. I've just been fooling here with a couple of them I kept, and yeah, in one, there is a slight amount of play, tiny amount, up and down and sideways in the blade.

But you are correct; no excuse for shoddyness between one lot of knives and the other.

I wonder, you think we knife guys, or we somewhat older guys, have higher standards than the generation these X-timers were designed to appeal to? Damn, that makes me feel old.