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The big brown truck dropped off a package from Tacoma, WA. After 5 months, it's finally in hand...
It's Tim Wegner's fixed blade interpretation of the Pro Hunter/Spyderco C48, 4.25" blade in Rob Simonich talonite.
Spyder Wegner owners know that the C48 is about confidence. Confidence from the solid, comfortable handle. Confidence from the affirmative "clack" of the lockup. Confidence from the easy-to-use blade style. Well, this knife feels like a smooth, river rock. The slabs are satiny smooth linen micarta, and where the folder had to be thinned out and flattened, the fixed handle is wonderful. No hard contact points at
all. With this knife in your hand, you KNOW that you're holding a knife. You know that you've got a solid grip. You know exactly where the point is. You know that the edge will go through ANYTHING.
The balance is in the rear third of the finger well, a little in front of where it would be in an Applegate-Fairbairn. It's the heaviest knife I've held with the balance that far back. Most heavier knives want to
be choppers. But the Wegner semi-skinner blade is designed primarily for up close skinning and utility work, and the balance is appropriate to make the weight easier to handle under tight control. There is a lot of weight! Full tang 3/16" stock talonite makes the knife super-beefy!
We'll see where things go as far as the talonite, this being my first blade of the material. I can say, though, that the knife needed a touch up (a little rough spot on the edge), and the Firestone took care of business, needing no more strokes (if not less) than it would have for ATS-34. The talonite edge is wierd. It doesn't seem to like being "shaving" sharp, but you can feel the structure on the edge, and know that the knife will slice through pretty much anything I would likely want to use it for. Which ain't shaving.
The knife came with a very well made kydex sheath and Blade Tech's Tek-Lok system, which is really a nice piece for making the sheath
universal. Tim's real specialty is tactical kydex, and his talent is obvious. So far I've played with the horizontal small-of-back setup and an angled cross draw. Both work out like it's how the system was born to be.
Overall, I'm very pleased. The fixed blade interpretation is everything that I'd hoped it would be. The knife begs to be used. Hard. The carry system makes it likely that it will be used. Hard. Tim was a joy to talk to, and his desire to make the C48 design the best production folder in the world made for some really fun chats about tweaks to the already magnificent design.
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AKTI Member #A000832
"That which does not kill me just postpones the inevitable."
The big brown truck dropped off a package from Tacoma, WA. After 5 months, it's finally in hand...
It's Tim Wegner's fixed blade interpretation of the Pro Hunter/Spyderco C48, 4.25" blade in Rob Simonich talonite.
Spyder Wegner owners know that the C48 is about confidence. Confidence from the solid, comfortable handle. Confidence from the affirmative "clack" of the lockup. Confidence from the easy-to-use blade style. Well, this knife feels like a smooth, river rock. The slabs are satiny smooth linen micarta, and where the folder had to be thinned out and flattened, the fixed handle is wonderful. No hard contact points at
all. With this knife in your hand, you KNOW that you're holding a knife. You know that you've got a solid grip. You know exactly where the point is. You know that the edge will go through ANYTHING.
The balance is in the rear third of the finger well, a little in front of where it would be in an Applegate-Fairbairn. It's the heaviest knife I've held with the balance that far back. Most heavier knives want to
be choppers. But the Wegner semi-skinner blade is designed primarily for up close skinning and utility work, and the balance is appropriate to make the weight easier to handle under tight control. There is a lot of weight! Full tang 3/16" stock talonite makes the knife super-beefy!
We'll see where things go as far as the talonite, this being my first blade of the material. I can say, though, that the knife needed a touch up (a little rough spot on the edge), and the Firestone took care of business, needing no more strokes (if not less) than it would have for ATS-34. The talonite edge is wierd. It doesn't seem to like being "shaving" sharp, but you can feel the structure on the edge, and know that the knife will slice through pretty much anything I would likely want to use it for. Which ain't shaving.
The knife came with a very well made kydex sheath and Blade Tech's Tek-Lok system, which is really a nice piece for making the sheath
universal. Tim's real specialty is tactical kydex, and his talent is obvious. So far I've played with the horizontal small-of-back setup and an angled cross draw. Both work out like it's how the system was born to be.
Overall, I'm very pleased. The fixed blade interpretation is everything that I'd hoped it would be. The knife begs to be used. Hard. The carry system makes it likely that it will be used. Hard. Tim was a joy to talk to, and his desire to make the C48 design the best production folder in the world made for some really fun chats about tweaks to the already magnificent design.
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AKTI Member #A000832
"That which does not kill me just postpones the inevitable."
