Yep read that correctly. Bought if off ebay for less than 30 bucks. IT is called a CTV2 blah blah. Recieved it yesterday and had guests for dinner so couldn't mess around with it. What I did notice right off the bat is that every screw was LOOSE on it, I mean to the point the clip would easily move and if you shook it, it rattled pretty good. What it didn't do though is fail the spine hit test.
I say hit cause I figured what the heck cheap price, beat it and see what happens. Well nothing outside of rattling. Lock is thin looking but didn't move one iota. That is a good thing.
Took it all apart this a.m. and ended up loctiting the blade stop cause I couldn't get it to stay put when reassembling. Tightened everthing down nice and secure and then sharpened the blade. Ya know what everything is still nice and tight and the liner hits left of where it was hitting yesterday, still does not fail the hit test and it doesn't rattle anymore. Sharpened the blade and it sharpened up to hair shaving sharp in about 10min's. on my Lansky. Stropped the blade and it now cuts with little effort. Has a glass breaker on the butt end of the knife, it has very thick alum. scales, not so thick liners but the liner lock seems to work perfectly(very sticky to release, which I like) and the knife is butter smooth. I kid you not when it shows a very decent degree of fit and finish.
The ball detent isn't that strong really but strong enough to where you can't flip the knife open but it shuts nicely with a snick sound. Clip is reversable with extra screws for mounting the clip on the left hand scale. The blade stop is very thick and solid. Just picked up a EKI Blackbird and the bladestop is very thin circumference wise but again it is solid, just to compare the two for that aspect of build.
The top of the blade spine shows alot of tooling marks but they are covered up with the coating so they aren't that obvious but if you look closely you can see the marks and feel them pretty good. The thumb studs are big too so you can use gloves to thumb it open.
Well thats it. I think the build quality is on a parr with the CRKT M series line. Don't know about the steel used in this knife but it sharpened easily and showed good wear resistance when sharpening it and took a very nice non burr type edge, and the edge cantles were identical on both sides of the blade so it is nice and even. keepem sharp and I am going to do some deanimating of an apple at the moment, just for you folks who can't get your head wrapped around Dark Ops the one I have ain't bad at all.
I say hit cause I figured what the heck cheap price, beat it and see what happens. Well nothing outside of rattling. Lock is thin looking but didn't move one iota. That is a good thing.
Took it all apart this a.m. and ended up loctiting the blade stop cause I couldn't get it to stay put when reassembling. Tightened everthing down nice and secure and then sharpened the blade. Ya know what everything is still nice and tight and the liner hits left of where it was hitting yesterday, still does not fail the hit test and it doesn't rattle anymore. Sharpened the blade and it sharpened up to hair shaving sharp in about 10min's. on my Lansky. Stropped the blade and it now cuts with little effort. Has a glass breaker on the butt end of the knife, it has very thick alum. scales, not so thick liners but the liner lock seems to work perfectly(very sticky to release, which I like) and the knife is butter smooth. I kid you not when it shows a very decent degree of fit and finish.
The ball detent isn't that strong really but strong enough to where you can't flip the knife open but it shuts nicely with a snick sound. Clip is reversable with extra screws for mounting the clip on the left hand scale. The blade stop is very thick and solid. Just picked up a EKI Blackbird and the bladestop is very thin circumference wise but again it is solid, just to compare the two for that aspect of build.
The top of the blade spine shows alot of tooling marks but they are covered up with the coating so they aren't that obvious but if you look closely you can see the marks and feel them pretty good. The thumb studs are big too so you can use gloves to thumb it open.
Well thats it. I think the build quality is on a parr with the CRKT M series line. Don't know about the steel used in this knife but it sharpened easily and showed good wear resistance when sharpening it and took a very nice non burr type edge, and the edge cantles were identical on both sides of the blade so it is nice and even. keepem sharp and I am going to do some deanimating of an apple at the moment, just for you folks who can't get your head wrapped around Dark Ops the one I have ain't bad at all.
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