New ZT0550!!!

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Gnarly said:
SPXTrader:

;) That's '40 miles of bad road'; not mph!
And Resume Speed is in the hill country in Western Ky.,so 40 mph is an extravagant speed.Unless it's freefall.:eek:

Sad part is: you folks will all have your ZT 0551's,then your ZT 0550's in 2011,a few days before me.

Here,our mail is delivered bi-weekly,by a Druid priest riding a burro. :mad:

~Gnarly
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Where's "here"? I'm familiar with eastern KY on out to around Grayson.
 
Resume Speed is between Owensboro,KY & Bowling Green,KY...a :rolleyes: wide spot in the road :rolleyes: ,in a quadrangle between Bells Run,Beda,
Whoopee Hill,& Philpot.

~Gnarly

I feces you not!Those are actual communities...all are west of Oklahoma,KY.
 
Kirk_Ferentz said:
Nah, what I want is really good edge retention and toughness for a stainless. In general, I don't want to deal with a non-stainless in a folder, and more specifically, I will often also have my swamp rat on me when I'm out in the sticks, and it will be nice to have a stainless blade to use when I don't want to get the swamp rat wet and have to worry about that.
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I would venture to say that your concerns regarding the "need of stainless" are for the most part misplaced. A SR knife, has a coating, even the most beat up of SR knives is to some extent protected.
Have you ever used/owned/handled a knife made from CPM-M4 steel? I'd bet not. ;)

So, shall we begin an unofficial countdown? I'm thinking 16 days...so 16!
 
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Cool looking knife, gotta have one. But can someone please tell me the difference between the 0550 and 0551? Does either of them have a choil? Will one will have the full titanium backspacer? There i just way to many posts to find out detailed information without wasting 3 hours of my life lol. I just hope I can find one that is stonewashed, with full titanium backspacer, don't care about steel really. Is there going to be a variation like that? Also is this a kershawguy exclusive or will the 0551 begin showing up at all the major online knife stores shortly...
 
Mattman888 said:
Cool looking knife, gotta have one. But can someone please tell me the difference between the 0550 and 0551? Does either of them have a choil? Will one will have the full titanium backspacer? There i just way to many posts to find out detailed information without wasting 3 hours of my life lol. I just hope I can find one that is stonewashed, with full titanium backspacer, don't care about steel really. Is there going to be a variation like that? Also is this a kershawguy exclusive or will the 0551 begin showing up at all the major online knife stores shortly...
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The 0551 is the pre-production model that is available for pre-order now. Sounds like it will be sent out in early October. It will probably be stonewashed. I think that they have said that it will not have a choil, but run a search of this thread up in the upper right corner to see. It is in elmax

The production model will have a black blade. I think it has the choil. It wont be available until late 2010. It sounds like it will be available from many vendors.

I don't know anything about the backspacers.
 
RevDevil said:
I would venture to say that your concerns regarding the "need of stainless" are for the most part misplaced. A SR knife, has a coating, even the most beat up of SR knives is to some extent protected.
Have you ever used/owned/handled a knife made from CPM-M4 steel? I'd bet not. ;)

So, shall we begin an unofficial countdown? I'm thinking 16 days...so 16!
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Wow...only 16 days left...can't wait :D
 
RevDevil said:
I would venture to say that your concerns regarding the "need of stainless" are for the most part misplaced. A SR knife, has a coating, even the most beat up of SR knives is to some extent protected.
Have you ever used/owned/handled a knife made from CPM-M4 steel? I'd bet not. ;)

So, shall we begin an unofficial countdown? I'm thinking 16 days...so 16!
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Well then, in all seriousness, why are you getting this stainless steel knife? Are you tolerating the sub-M4 steel due to other factors?
 
Kirk_Ferentz said:
The 0551 is the pre-production model that is available for pre-order now. Sounds like it will be sent out in early October. It will probably be stonewashed. I think that they have said that it will not have a choil, but run a search of this thread up in the upper right corner to see. It is in elmax

The production model will have a black blade. I think it has the choil. It wont be available until late 2010. It sounds like it will be available from many vendors.

I don't know anything about the backspacers.
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Oh crap! I was hoping the production model wouldn't have a choil! Better go pre-order now! :(
 
Gnarly said:
Resume Speed is between Owensboro,KY & Bowling Green,KY...a :rolleyes: wide spot in the road :rolleyes: ,in a quadrangle between Bells Run,Beda,
Whoopee Hill,& Philpot.

~Gnarly

I feces you not!Those are actual communities...all are west of Oklahoma,KY.
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You're lucky. You're out there in the developed part of the state. I'm talking about Pike County area. Mailman uses a painted up 4-wheeler. :D Coal is the only way of life there. But it is beautiful country.:thumbup:
 
I really think the more information Rick and Thomas give us, the more it is screwed up (the information, not the knife).
Either that or I can't read nor remember what I've read. ;)
 
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I never even heard of Elmax and Vanax steels before this thread here. I know ZT and Rick Hinderer make the toughest and most hard use knives around and are going to use the tuffest steel there is on their knives.
 
euroross said:
this may have already been asked, but qhat is the difference between the 550 and the 551?
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It will have a flipper - spanto grind blade - everything that could have been cooler than the 1st release! That's why you have to buy both! :D :D
 
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