Opposites Attract Picture Thread

Charlie_K said:
What the heck kind of little knife is that? I have the SP-10 so I know just how small that is.
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It's just some old key chain / pendant knife that my buddy found it at a antique store many years ago. It is fully functional, as far as the blades and tools opening and closing, and it is actually kind of sharp.
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4mer_FMF said:
My favorite cheep knife and my best small knife.

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CRK small Inkosi and CRKT Drifter.
They’re almost identical in size (and sharpness, for the moment), but they couldn’t be more different. ....other than they both cut stuff.... :)


ETA Details:
Ti Scales vs stainless (I guess)
S35VN vs 8Cr13 (I guess)
Amazing pocket clip vs resembles a clip
Tolerances vs what?
Quality fastners vs screws of some kind
Great ergos vs ...it’s a knife
PB washers vs PB AND Teflon (Hey, it works!)
Perfectly centered vs “Benchmade centered”
Oh, and about $355 other things.

The weight is about the same and I’ve got the Drifter tuned up and flipping great with zero blade play!
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LMAO!!!! "Benchmade Centered" That's absolutely hilarious!! The whole comparison was damn funny man!
 
OK - my BEAR & LION post -

The Shirogorov F3 - Cronidur 30 Evo blade with Black G-10 scales with the Lionsteel Shuffler - M390 blade and stag scales.



The F3 is to me the near perfect EDC and has been used that way for the better part of every day for 9 months of the going on 12 that I have owned it. Look at this knife that has been in nearly daily use. It still looks new. Keeps a great sharp edge with hardly more than a few strokes on the Sharpmaker a couple of times each week.

Carries without effort - deploys beautifully as a one handed work knife flipper.

I consider it a very stylish knife - pretty without being precious. It doesn't need engraved bolsters and a shine on the scales to look great. My very favorite and one that seems destined to be a "to the grave knife".
How's that for hyperbole? :rolleyes: :) I like it!



The Lionsteel Shuffler is a new one - only a few weeks in my hands. It is an old style by my way of recent preference. I really - really like one handed flippers with pocket clips as EDCs. This one has no clip and needs two hands and two motions to open it past the half stop. Not my work knife but it has definitely found favor as my weekend watch pocket carry knife.

It too has a great style and classy look. Sharpened by Gary Graley (who regrets having sold it to me :( :cool:) to be a beautiful little slicer. Look at that cork slice :thumbsup:. This one is so cool to take out for all manner of cutting up and sharing tasty morsels or peeling off the foil on a bottle of wine. Keeps its edge even with that mild abuse.

Good steel - good ergos - good looks - what's not to like about this opposite pair? Says I and ChazzyP :).

Enjoy! Ray
 
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Excellent post RayseM RayseM . Like my pair, two very different knives that each have their particular uses and are greatly valued.
 
ChazzyP said:
Anyway, the point is these knives are very different in so many ways, but I like each a lot and couldn't really say which I like better.
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Cool thread !
You shouldn't encourage me this way . . . :p

I just got these two so not saying they are favorites . . . but then again . . . the 110 is my favorite handle shape / size . . . and the Boker Brad Zinker Urban Trapper . . . well I made one of these into my all time grail ( Ti linered version with scales, not this Ti frame lock version) so I suppose it is a favorite too in a way.

Several days ago I got a large tip from a customer and just blew it frivolously on something I would probably not have bought for my self (who am I kidding; it was just a matter of time). It was only natural that I buy a second Urban Trapper some time.

Similarities include the blade lengths are nearly identical.
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Opposites are obvious; the Urban Trapper has a fairly frail pivot area. I don't need it to be all butch . . . that's what the 110 is good at.
I probably won't carry these together much though this week I am because they both came on the same day and I'm trying them out.
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The two Urban Trappers side by side.
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The Buck 110 LT and my Grail Trapper . . . starting to see a theme here ?
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How about now ? Diamond texture, especially rubberized like the bottom one (my grail) is what I like.
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And finally the Ti handled Trapper showing off. Just when you think it is kind of industrial with the gray Ti and the round holes the light hits it just right and the handle lights up like it is full of diamonds. The light glints off the counter sunk edges on the holes. This photo doesn't do it full justice; it is pretty spectacular.
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Alberta Ed said:
Nice. Now, get off your butt and go for a long walk, every day... I got back on the Harley three weeks after my new hip, and started hiking at four weeks.
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Thanks for the encouragement, Ed. :thumbsup: I've still got quite a bit of swelling, but went for a walk today on day 8 and will be out and about tomorrow. :)
 
Birds of a Different Feather

This morning I have my two Eagles--one the Wilson Combat Les George, the other the Talon model by Al Mar--which are similar only as one is large and the other somewhat larger, in blade length rather than girth. The Les George is a quintessential modern folder--a titanium frame-lock flipper with a newer-age blade steel in CTS-XHP. The Al Mar might be described as transitional or mid-modern. The Eagle, Hawk, and Falcon Classic models of this knife are FFG, have nail nicks, and are two-hand openers/one-hand closers while the Talons feature dagger/saber sorts of blades with swedges and thumb-studs that will sweep or flick open. The Al Mar will one-hand close using it's mid-to-front back lock in much the same manner as a lock back Spydie.

The Les George is all coarse stonewashed Ti while the Al Mar is all polished steel with brass liners and cocobolo scales. The Al Mar also has an older-school blade steel with AUS8, which still gets wicked sharp. The Les George is extremely thin for a largish folder, clips nicely in pocket, and is a favored work carry as evidenced by the shmutz showing on the blade. The Al Mar comes without a clip, unlike the UltraLite versions of the knife, but with a pocket slip, making it sort of a "gentleman's carry" albeit a rather "murdery" one, to borrow Nick Shabazz's term. As such, it doesn't get much carry, as much as I do like it.

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..and just for the heck of it, here's the Al Mar Eagle with its little brother Falcon. These two are more like gentleman's shivs than gentlemanly carries...

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