One Year of Carrying Nothing But a Large Plain Insingo....How Did I Get Here?!

[bhyde]

Having received my first CRK yesterday, which happens to be a large plain jane insingo this thread makes me happy. I love this knife. It's a bit bigger than any other knife I've EDC'ed, but for the price I wanted "more" knife than a small at its price point. I bought it new, with the idea that it would be my working knife and one where every mark on it was my own. The blade shape is interesting and at first I didn't like it (looks like a blue whale to me), but was sold on its utility based on reading other people's experiences. However, now I've grown to love the shape. Hopefully I will feel the same way you do after carrying it for a while.

Congrats and Welcome to Bladeforums!
Post some pics and a small review if you don't mind

 

[blanco112]

Congrats and Welcome to Bladeforums!
Post some pics and a small review if you don't mind

Sure, hopefully the photos work. (Edit: OK they didn't, but here is a link.)

In terms of a review: I love the blade shape. So far it's shown a lot of utility. I don't plan to use as a pry bar but the tip seems very strong. Lockup and centering are where I expected them to be. Handle is comfortable despite being only plain titanium. Detent is still a little strong, but I've only had it two days and seems to be getting better already. Motion is incredible smooth otherwise. Factory edge has me a little perplexed. Doesn't feel sharp, I can run of my fingers across and even press with no danger, but cuts paper and shaves my arm hair with no issues. The titanium is a bit more scratch prone than I expected, but not a big deal. I might be a little large to EDC for me, but time will tell. I plan to give it at least a month before deciding if I need to get a small.

 

[bhyde]

Sure, hopefully the photos work. (Edit: OK they didn't, but here is a link.)

In terms of a review: I love the blade shape. So far it's shown a lot of utility. I don't plan to use as a pry bar but the tip seems very strong. Lockup and centering are where I expected them to be. Handle is comfortable despite being only plain titanium. Detent is still a little strong, but I've only had it two days and seems to be getting better already. Motion is incredible smooth otherwise. Factory edge has me a little perplexed. Doesn't feel sharp, I can run of my fingers across and even press with no danger, but cuts paper and shaves my arm hair with no issues. The titanium is a bit more scratch prone than I expected, but not a big deal. I might be a little large to EDC for me, but time will tell. I plan to give it at least a month before deciding if I need to get a small.

I have not been able to get photos from google to post for awhile..If someone wants to chime in on how to do this, that would be appreciated. I usually download them and then upload them to photobucket, then select the IMG tagging on the right and paste that into a box. Photobucket has increasingly become a festering with click-bait ads that are obscured behind other windows..I need to move on from that.

Anyway, the edge is always factory hand sharpened and usually is subject to everything that a human is capable of..A knife on Monday may be sharper than one later in the week. I will usually just run it on either a Spyderco sharpmaker or a 9" stone to get it to desired sharpness.

Thank you for the review and please stick around, check out other areas of the forum and post up!

Again, welcome!

 

[wiredbeans]

Excellent review and write up!
I have a question for you and everyone here, during your year of use, what angle did you sharpen your insingo? Have you experimented with different angle? With or without micro bevel


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[lemmuhj]

Yes^ Bhyde, Photobucket is a NIGHTMARE. I have to figure out something else to use as well.

I've been painfully putting off getting a other Insingo in hopes of seeing it arrive in the Inkosi platform. I may have to just bite the bullet and get one. I miss having one

 

[blanco112]

I have not been able to get photos from google to post for awhile..If someone wants to chime in on how to do this, that would be appreciated. I usually download them and then upload them to photobucket, then select the IMG tagging on the right and paste that into a box. Photobucket has increasingly become a festering with click-bait ads that are obscured behind other windows..I need to move on from that.

Anyway, the edge is always factory hand sharpened and usually is subject to everything that a human is capable of..A knife on Monday may be sharper than one later in the week. I will usually just run it on either a Spyderco sharpmaker or a 9" stone to get it to desired sharpness.

Thank you for the review and please stick around, check out other areas of the forum and post up!

Again, welcome!

Yeah I'm guessing after reading the tech support it's because Google isn't giving you a direct link to the photo file (i.e. a link that ends in .jpg). I will have to look into it further and will let you know if I figure something that works out. Thanks for the welcome!

 

[FordFan]

I've been painfully putting off getting a other Insingo in hopes of seeing it arrive in the Inkosi platform.

Carry a CRK 25 most of the time but have an Large Insingo as well. If the Insingo shows up on the Inkosi platform that would likely be my new EDC. Blade shape is hard to beat for what I need in an EDC but I like more stout platform of the 25 for some reason.

 

[bhyde]

Picture post help moved to new thread in CRK forum.

Sorry for the off topic posts folks

 

[JR88FAN]

Having received my first CRK yesterday, which happens to be a large plain jane insingo this thread makes me happy. I love this knife. It's a bit bigger than any other knife I've EDC'ed, but for the price I wanted "more" knife than a small at its price point. I bought it new, with the idea that it would be my working knife and one where every mark on it was my own. The blade shape is interesting and at first I didn't like it (looks like a blue whale to me), but was sold on its utility based on reading other people's experiences. However, now I've grown to love the shape. Hopefully I will feel the same way you do after carrying it for a while.

This is one of the very few blade designd that I loved more with use.

It just does so many things well.

 

[JR88FAN]

Excellent review and write up!
I have a question for you and everyone here, during your year of use, what angle did you sharpen your insingo? Have you experimented with different angle? With or without micro bevel


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I am a fairly old school hand sharpening guy that knows what he likes and what is sharp to me, so I might have issues answering your question very technically, sorry.

600 grit toothy edge.
First thing I did was to re-profile to a V-edge, just my preference.

The knife is sitting right around 20DPS.
I always work the entire primary bevel not just the cutting edge to get a consistent and smooth V.

Ya, my terminology is really bad, sorry....

 

[Smooth_Operater]

Great story...glad you like the knife!